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The Bureau of Archives, as it was originally known, was first located in the Ontario Legislative Building, under the leadership of Alexander Fraser (1860–1936), a Scottish-born Toronto journalist, academic and militia officer who held the position of Provincial Archivist from 1903 to 1935. [1]
This is a list of archives in Canada.. These archives, for the purposes of this list, are entities in Canada that work to acquire, preserve, and make available material as documentary evidence about a person, community, business, government, municipality, etc., for future generations. [1]
City of Toronto Archives building, main floor. The present archives building was opened in 1992. It was designed by the architectural firm of Zeidler Roberts, who also designed the Toronto Eaton Centre, as a state-of-the-art purpose-built archives building incorporating a climate controlled records, a central atrium and exhibition area; a 60-seat lecture room and a Research Hall.
David Michael Krueger (March 5, 1939 – March 5, 2010), best known by his birth name Peter Woodcock, was a Canadian serial killer, child rapist and diagnosed psychopath.He gained notoriety for the murders of three young children in Toronto in the late 1950s, as well as for a murder in 1991 on his first day of unsupervised release from the psychiatric institution in which he had been ...
The Ontario Jewish Archives (OJA) is a community archives and the central repository for records related to Ontario's Jewish community. Located in Toronto , Ontario, what is today known as the Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, was founded in 1973. [ 1 ]
The Annual General Meeting of the Ontario Historical Society, held June 2, 1914 in Ottawa, Canada. The Ontario Historical Society, originally called the Pioneer and Historical Association of Ontario, [2] was established on September 4, 1888 largely through the efforts of Reverend Henry Scadding. It initially operated as a federation of local ...
The AAO operates the Archives Advisor Program which provides remote and on-site support regarding archives management and the preservation of archival holdings. [6] Between the 1991, when the program was established, and 2014 the program's staff made more than 1,000 site visits, and answered about 8,000 requests for assistance.
Oliver Mowat (1820–1903), Canada West MLA and cabinet minister, Ontario MPP, cabinet minister and 3rd Premier of Ontario, Ontario Senator and federal cabinet minister, Father of Confederation John Rolph (1793–1870), physician, lawyer and political figure in Upper Canada/Canada West (MLA and cabinet minister), Toronto alderman