This fonds primarily contains records created by the Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts Ltd. corporation in the course of their business activities, 1928-1971. It is divided into four series. Series I contains a short history of entrepreneur Hiram Walker and his company town of Walkerville, 1858-1958. Series II contains directors’ reports and annual reports (1928-1971 with some gaps) produced by Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts. Series III contains photocopies of documents produced in connection with Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts’ 1935-1936 offering of shares on the New York Stock Exchange. Series IV contains a souvenir booklet commemorating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, produced by Gooderham & Worts.

This fonds contains several images of H.L. McPherson, typescripts and correspondence related to his work as a special correspondent for the Montreal Gazette in the late 1950s (commenting on Canadian politics, economy, and society from a Windsor perspective), and correspondence McPherson received in response to his columns in the Windsor Star, which touch on topics including walnut trees, water fluoridation, annexation of other municipalities to Windsor, and the federal government. There are copies of a 2019 essay about McPherson by his daughter Helen Wainman and a 2020 reminiscence by his son-in-law Gord Wainman about Gord’s father Stanley Holmes Wainman (a First World War veteran). Also included is a copy of the 1991 inventory of the complete original McPherson accession. Although the clippings themselves were deaccessioned ca. 1994-95, the inventory serves as a guide to the months and years in which McPherson’s columns appeared in the Windsor Star.

This fonds consists of research notes, manuscript drafts, photocopies of primary sources, correspondence, and a few original documents and photographs acquired by David Roberts in the course of his research for a book about Gordon M. McGregor and the Ford Motor Company of Canada in Windsor, Ontario. The fonds is organized into two series, reflecting the two accessions through which the material was received and arranged. Series I primarily contains draft manuscripts, research correspondence, and research notes relating to McGregor’s personal and professional life, the automobile industry, and McGregor’s contemporaries. Series II principally contains research correspondence, images, and research notes from Windsor newspapers and the Ford of Canada Archives.

This fonds contains records related to the life and work of 19th century Upper Canadian shipwright Shadrach Jenking. The records are primarily original legal documents related to the sale, acquisition, and boundaries of land in the Township of Sandwich, but also included are original papers relating to Jenking’s training as a shipwright and copies of his descendants’ genealogical research. The fonds is arranged into three series. Series I: Labour Agreements contains documents relating to Jenking’s apprenticeship. Series II: Land Agreements includes deeds and assignments of mortgage, as well as one property sketch and one blueprint. Many are tied to families of Jenking or his wife Margaret Maisonville. Series III: Genealogical Research and Fragments contains bits of unidentified original documents and a variety of correspondence, notes, and photocopied resources relating to the family history of Shadrach Jenking and his descendants.

This fonds presents highlights from the working life of Delos Rogest Davis, one of Canada’s first Black lawyers. Series I contains a variety of certificates that recognize his professional qualifications (1871-1912), as well as a program from his funeral in 1915 and accounts of his life and accomplishments in newspaper clippings and the Delos Rogest Davis, K.C. Memorial Fund pamphlet. Series II contains correspondence with legal colleagues regarding his recent appointment as King’s Counsel, from November 1910.

This fonds contains personal, professional, and domestic records from the life of Joan Somers Sullivan in the later-20th and early-21st centuries. Series I (Personal Records) includes reminiscences about Joan, medical information, clippings related to community activitism (including traffic problems in Old Sandwich), and personal journals. Series II (Professional Records) features her resumé and qualifications, as well as administrative records, correspondence, public talks, research material, clippings, and publications connected with her pioneering effort to unionize legal secretaries in Windsor, Ontario during the 1970s. This includes talks for events held by the Faculties of Law at the University of Windsor and the University of Western Ontario, and articles published in the Windsor Woman women’s liberation newspaper and The Oyez Windsor law students’ newspaper. Series III (Domestic Records) contains recipes and household hints used in her later-life personal housekeeping, as well as lists of her annual Christmas baking.

This fonds contains Reno Bertoia’s personal collection of photographs, news clippings, publications, correspondence, scrapbooks, collectibles, and artifacts, concerning his professional baseball career and subsequent honours. Also included are small numbers of personal and family photographs, several items of general Detroit Tigers memorabilia, and a file of biographical information.

This fonds principally contains records connected with the Congregation of St. Basil (Basilian Fathers) whose members administered Assumption College and Assumption University from 1870 onward. Secondarily, it contains varied records that document the history of Assumption and its evolution over time. Included are legal documents, memos, correspondence, ephemera, constitutions and rules, historical narratives and memoirs, reports, and a variety of Basilian publications and formal histories of Assumption. Some items pertain to Catholic education broadly, or to the history of the Catholic Church in Southwestern Ontario. Of special note are Assumption fight songs and a victory song, and the Second World War war diary of Rev. Mike Dalton, a military chaplain.

This fonds contains photocopies and translations of primary and secondary sources, as well as a small body of original notes and research correspondence, accumulated or created by Michael Power in the later 20th century, in the course of preparing three books and an article on aspects of Assumption College history. Series I contains materials documenting the early history of Assumption College and the role of the Basilian Fathers therein, particularly correspondence but also financial records, legal documents and legislation, histories and biographies. Series II contains biographical information and a few photographs related to the winners of the annual Christian Culture Gold Medal awarded by Assumption College as part of its long-running Christian Culture speaker series. Series III contains research material gathered in preparation for a short article about Rev. E.C. LeBel, a former president of Assumption University and first president of the University of Windsor. Some material duplicates original documents found in other AC fonds; some material comes from other archives or published works. It has been retained for its research value as a curated collection.

This fonds consists of photocopies of the papers of Paul Martin Sr., one original manuscript letter, and cartoons depicting him. Martin’s papers encompass daily diaries, draft memoirs, interviews, speeches and broadcasts, news coverage, and a small amount of correspondence, notes, and ephemera. These cover his political and diplomatic career as a Member of Parliament, Cabinet minister for health and welfare and external affairs, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. The records thus reflect his direct experiences of public life as well as (in his memoir drafts and interviews) his reflections on these experiences.

Series 1: THE HON. PAUL MARTIN PAPERS contains records of the public service career and retirement projects of Paul Martin Sr. (1949-1980s). Subseries include:
A. The Diaries, 1974-1979;
B. A Carbon-Copy Transcript of the Norah Story (and Josephine Phelan) Interview of the Hon. Paul Martin, ca. 1968-1973;
C. The Member for Essex-East: A Study of the Career of Paul Martin, by Norah Story, 1975;
D. Different Edited Versions of A Very Public Life, vol. I, Far From Home, 1982-1983;
E. Different Edited Versions of A Very Public Life, vol. II, So Many Worlds, 1984-1985;
F. On Becoming Canada’s Foreign Minister (unpublished mss.), date unknown;
G. Speeches, Addresses, Broadcasts, Magazine Articles, Interviews, 1949-1974;
H. Newspaper Articles, 1928, 1957-1958, 1962, 1964, 1968-1971, 1973-1974, and 1983;
I. Selections from the Memoirs of Brooke Claxton; The Making of the United Nations, 1945-1946: A Memoir, by Escott Reid, 1947, 1958, 1970-1982, and undated;
J. Miscellaneous, various dates.

Series 2: CARTOONS contains 197 editorial cartoons featuring Paul Martin Sr. or issues in which he was involved, collected by him during the course of his career.