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Kelly Morgan

File contains a variety of photographs depicting: trains crossing a trestle, a steam shovel excavating, railway ties loaded on truck, engineer (?) "Barney" Morgan, the last Ontario Northland passenger train from Timmins (1989), a railway caboose of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway, and a train crew with their locomotive. File also contains permission signed by Kelly Morgan authorizing Surtees to use the photos "of Mr. T. Morgan and others" in his book.

Photographs

Series contains photographs of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway/Ontario Northland Railway (ca. 1910-1953) that were given to Surtees by various donors for use in his book. Some photographs are accompanied by descriptive information and permissions to publish. Series also contains photographs taken by Surtees on research trips around northern Ontario of Ontario Northland Railway infrastructure, staff, and former employees he interviewed (1986-1991).

The Northern Connection

Series documents Surtees' research for his book <i>The Northern Connection: Ontario Northland Since 1902</i> (published 1992), a history of the Ontario Northland Railway/Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway. Series is arranged into four subseries: interview audio recordings, interview files, maps and plans, and photographs. Series also contains other records created or collected by Surtees in the course of his research including correspondence, newspaper clippings, photocopies of archival records, Ontario Northland reports and newsletters, and ephemera.

Resumes, martins + mine

File contains a variety of photographs taken in Timmins, Porcupine City, South Porcupine, and Hayle that depict camps, mines, a sawmill, prospectors in canoes, lakes, rapids, and the visit of the Governor General to Timmins (September 26, 1914).

Bob Surtees fonds

  • CA ON00408 F033
  • Fonds
  • 1910-2001

Fonds documents Surtees' work as a Professor of History at Nipissing University. Fonds contains one series documenting Surtees' research for his book "The Northern Connection: Ontario Northland Since 1902," a history of the Ontario Northland Railway/Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway. Other records in the fonds reflect Surtees' academic activities and research interests, including First Nations and northern Ontario history.

Surtees, Bob

Cochrane townsite

Item is a plan of the Cochrane townsite with two new subdivisions outlined in red.

Maps and plans

Subseries contains maps and technical drawings relating to the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway/Ontario Northland Railway or to transportation in northeastern Ontario. Technical drawings show rail lines, terminals, dikes, mines, and railway infrastructure.

Map of the Kirkland Lake and Swastika gold areas

Item is a map showing geological formations and mineral deposits in the Kirkland Lake and Swastika areas. The map features extensive notes about the area's geology, mineral veins, and mining development.

S. D. Lawlor

File contains an unbound album of photographs that document the work of a (Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway?) surveying team in Northern Ontario from 1914 to around 1918. The album contains photographs (many captioned) depicting: the surveying crew at work and rest; winter travel with sleds and snowshoes; railway construction, including trestle building, laying rail, and construction equipment; railway cars, infrastructure, bridges, stations, and personnel; natural landscapes (such as river rapids and falls) and events (including floods, ice jams, a forest fire, and storm damage to trees); wild animals and pelts; a baseball club and field; transportation including canoes and a horse sled; a Hudson's Bay Company post and dog team; and the Revillon Brothers' schooner and post on James Bay. Locations depicted in the album include Elk Lake, Earlton, Gowanada Road, the Abbitibi River, Cochrane, Moose Factory, Matheson, Black River, New Liskeard, the Matogami River, Madawaska, and Haileybury.

File also contains a Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway Commission baggage notice, and eight loose photographs (some of which appear to have come from the album) with subjects including surveying and transportation of railway ties by rail.

Roll of honour

Item is a design drawing of a roll of honour commemorating Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway employees who served in World War One, including those who were wounded, taken prisoner, or killed in action.

L[orne] J. Fleece [(Curator of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission Archives)] to R. Surtees - Volume II

File contains a collection of items sent by Fleece to Surtees, including a list of railway slang vocabulary with definitions, a map of the Ontario Northland Railway's North Bay shops, and a souvenir folder of North Bay postcards from 1925. The file also includes photocopies of news clippings, an inventory of quarterlies from 1946-1970, a personnel file, an essay entitled "The Contribution of C.C. Farr to the Development of the Lesser Clay Belt - 1872-1905" by Jane Gerrie Barnum (April 1971), and a program from the unveiling of a historical plaque in Swastika, Ontario (September 26, 1976).

Souvenir commemorating the 50th anniversary of Lodge 234. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. 1884-1934

Item is a souvenir booklet from the reunion of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Lodge 234, which took place in North Bay on August 8, 1935. Booklet contains reminiscences of lodge members, membership lists, an account of the reunion, and histories of Lodge 234, North Bay, the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Canadian National Railway. The booklet also contains photographs of members and locomotives, and advertisements for North Bay businesses.

The book of Timmins and the Porcupine

Item is a commemorative booklet published (by the Lions Club of Timmins?) for Timmins' Silver Jubilee, or twenty-fifth anniversary. Booklet contains a history of Timmins and the Porcupine mining district, an account of the anniversary celebrations, and maps, descriptions, and photographs of Timmins and other local communities and mines.

Roy Ruttan

File contains photographs of railway trestle construction, railway workers, and their accommodations.

Bucke - Nipissing District.

  • CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS03-0081-04
  • Item
  • Copied [19--] (originally created 1887)
  • Part of Bob Surtees fonds

Item is a map showing Haileybury and the Bucke area to the west of Lake Temiskaming, including roads, trails, creeks, and the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway.

Seguin

File contains memoirs and autobiographical notes of Clara Fournier Seguin. File also contains technical drawings by the Ontario Northland Railway Engineering Department of roadbed cuttings, embankments, standard tie and rail anchor spacing and ballast sections on branch lines.

News clippings

File contains newspaper clippings about the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.

Clippings

File contains newspaper clippings about the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.

Interview audio recordings

Subseries contains audio recordings of oral history interviews Surtees conducted with former Ontario Northland Railway employees.

Ontario Northland Railway - North Bay terminals

Item is a plan showing the Ontario Northland Railway's North Bay terminals (scale 1 inch = 100 feet) with annotations detailing exclusive ONR trackage, Alderdale Subdivision interchange trackage, and terminal yard trackage. Item also contains two inset plans of an oil separating plant (scale 1'=50'), and the right of way to Nipissing Junction and property owned by Ontario Northland Railway (scale 1" = 200').

Champlain + Brule on Lake Nipissing

File documents the design of a bas relief commemorating the arrival of French explorers Samuel de Champlain and Etienne Brule at Lake Nipissing in 1615. File contains sketches by Hans Wiemer of the relief's design, a map titled "Exodus of Nipissing from Lake Nipissing to Lake Nipigon - 1650-1651," and a photograph of the relief.

Plan of North Bay

  • CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS03-0078-22
  • Item
  • Printed [198-] (originally created 191-?)
  • Part of Bob Surtees fonds

Item is a plan of North Bay.

ONTC photos

File contains photographs of Ontario Northland staff, railway cars, stations, and tracks, as well as photographs of a blacksmith shop and other buildings at a museum or historical site.

ONTC

File contains photographs of former employees of Ontario Northland Railway employees who Surtees interviewed, and Ontario Northland facilities (including stations, rail yards, and the interior of a maintenance shed), staff, and a work crew on a rail line.

Canadian Pacific Railway eastern lines

  • CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS03-0081-03
  • Item
  • Photocopied [198-] (originally created 1919)
  • Part of Bob Surtees fonds

Item is a map showing the Canadian Pacific Railway's railway and steamship lines in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.

Railways in Northeastern Ontario

Item is a map of northeastern Ontario showing rail lines and stations/stops of the Ontario Northland Railway (rail line marked in red), the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Canadian National Railway.

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