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Transportation maps featuring Northern Ontario

  • CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS03-0081-11
  • File
  • Photocopied [ca. 1990] (originally created 1921-1929)
  • Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains three photocopied maps titled: Area to be served by Northern Light Railways (Cobalt Daily Nugget, 31 May 1921, p. 5); Map of Central Canada showing transportation and commercial development (Natural Resources Intelligence Service, Department of the Interior, January 1927); Road map of the north eastern portion of the Province of Ontario (Department of Northern Development, 1929).

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.

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.

System maps - 1941, 1971, 1991

  • CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS03-0116-04
  • File
  • Photocopied [199-] (originally created 1941, 1971, 1991)
  • Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains system maps and a timetable of railway and highway services provided by the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway/Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.

Surtees

File contains correspondence, notes, and photocopied excerpts of finding aids and archival records (from the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission Archives?).

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.

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.

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.

Roy Ruttan

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

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.

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).

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.

R. Surtees Coll[ection]

File contains photographs of Ontario Northland employees, facilities, and trains, as well as captions for the photographs.

Potential interviews

File contains notes about interviews, some of which did not take place.

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.

Photos of interviewees

File contains photographs of former Ontario Northland employees that Surtees interviewed, including Mrs. Chivers, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brill. File also contains photographs of a cattle car, a cornerstone, and Ontario Northland staff (?).

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).

Personal files

File contains photocopies of seniority lists of Ontario Northland Railway enginemen and engineers, personnel and discipline records, the Ontario Northland's 1985 timetable, newspaper clippings, list of pamphlets, captions for photographs (not present), and a list of articles from <i>The Daily Nugget</i>.

ONTC photos - Dec. 1986

File contains photographs of Ontario Northland employees, trains, and facilities.

ONTC photos - Dec. 1986

File contains photographs of interviewees and Ontario Northland staff on a research trip taken by Surtees.

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 archives

File documents Surtees' research at the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission Archives. File contains archival descriptive information including printouts of archived drawing plan reports, item-level descriptions of collections, and lists of files and plans.

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.

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').

O'Connell, Terry

File contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about North Bay history collected by Mme. A. Seguin, correspondence, research notes, photocopies of district fur trading reports, and a timeline of Nipissing Central Railway Company dates compiled by Terry O'Connell.

News clippings

File contains newspaper clippings about the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission and Surtees.

News clippings

File contains newspaper clippings about the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.

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.

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).

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.

Interviews - Huntington

File contains photographs of Jack Huntington and his wife (?), and photographs of a coloured illustration signed "Russ" depicting a man clearing snow from a fire hydrant while watched by four dogs.

Interview files

Subseries contains files relating to oral history interviews Surtees conducted with former Ontario Northland Railway employees. Files contain transcripts, interview notes, photographs, and records given to Surtees by the interviewees.

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