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Country: Canada
Holding Institution: Library and Archives Canada

  4. Cobourg Registrar of Shipping [textual record]

    Sub-series consists of ship registration records compiled by the Registrar of Shipping in Cobourg, Ontario, and includes first registers, registers of subsequent transactions and mortgage registers. The registers contain information describing the type, size, dimension and means of propulsion for each vessel registered at this port as well as ownership details and ultimate disposition.

  6. [Beaverlodge mining operation at Uranium City, Saskatchewan] [cartographic material]

    Accession consists of maps, geological data and engineering plans pertaining to the Beaverlodge mining operation, Uranium City, Saskatchewan, one of the first major uranium mining operations to be established outside the Northwest Territories. The records for the Beaverlodge operation span from 1947 to June 1982 when it closed.

  7. Gertrude Katz fonds [multiple media]

    Fonds consists of personal papers of Gertrude Katz, consisting of personal correspondence with prison inmates in the Quebec penitentiary system and other materials which she collected for her book, The Time gatherers, including draft manuscripts of the book as well as book reviews along with political and abortion campaign buttons. Also included are Gertrude Katz's files relating to her involvement with the Committee for Neutral Schools based in Quebec in the 1960s; her role as campaign manager of Dr. Henry Morgentaler's 1972 Quebec election campaign bid; and correspondence, briefs and othe...

  8. Herbert Steinhouse fonds [textual record, graphic material]

    The fonds consists of the personal papers and photographs of Herbert Steinhouse, documenting his life and work as a journalist, broadcaster, novelist and CBC producer and executive. It includes material relating to his service with the RCAF; education at McGill University and the New School for Social Research; involvement with the Oskar Schindler story; work as a freelance correspondent in Paris in the 1940s and 1950s; participation in the United Nations' special publicity mission to Southeast Asia in 1952; employment by Unesco as the editor-producer of its "World Review" weekly radio prog...

  9. Oskar Schindler [textual record, graphic material]

    This series documents Steinhouse's involvement with the Oskar Schindler saga from 1948-1949 when he researched and wrote the first story about Schindler to 1993-1995 when his research confirmed the "fictional" accounts told in the novel by Keneally and the film by Spielberg. It includes Steinhouse's original manuscript of "The German who Saved a Thousand Lives"; a transcript of his interview with Oskar Schindler and Itzhak Stern, 1948; copies of documents given to him by Schindler; a signed thank-you letter from Schindler; testimonies by Jewish survivors to the veracity of his story, 1948; ...

  11. Photographs and illustrations [graphic material]

    Series consists of photographs relating to Rabbi Bulka's life and career and depict views of his work with the Jewish community in Ottawa; Rabbi Bulka's first group tour of Israel, May 1979; his visit to the Star of David Hebrew School, Israel, October 1986; Karen and Ian Zunder's wedding, 1986; Yosef Meier's Bar Mitzvah, Los Angeles, 1988; Charithon Softball Marathon for the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, 1990; Rabbi Bulka metting Mayor Jim Durrell and Mrs. Durrell, Ottawa, n.d.; attendance at Citizenship Court; a protest rally for Soviet Jewry; Inaugural North American Or...

  12. Posters, banner, and other oversize documents [textual record]

    Series consists of posters produced by the Jewish Labour Committee and other organizations, concerning educational campaigns, commemoration of the Holocaust and of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and other topics; a banner concerning a memorial of the Holocaust; and other oversize documents concerning human rights matters.

  13. Rosalie Bertell fonds [textual record]

  16. Fundamental freedoms [textual record]

    Series consists of case files, research materials, briefs, articles, research papers and theses related to issues surrounding fundamental freedoms. These subjects include: Censorship including pornography, obscenity, Fraser Committee on Pornography and Prostitution, Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner and customs seizures; contempt of court including R v. Murphy and Harry Kopyto; Freedom of Assembly including picketing in labour disputes at the Eaton Centre, soliciting in malls, Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America, Litton Rexdale Plant anti-nuclear demonstration, parade p...

  17. Wandering Tulip Productions fonds [moving images]

    Fonds consists of a trilogy of short films, Zyklon portrait, Walnut tree and Silent song, produced by Wandering Tulip Productions and directed by Elida Schogt. The films examine the Holocaust and Ms. Schogt's family's experiences. Ms. Schogt's maternal grandparents lived in Holland where they were discovered in hiding by the Nazis. They were sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp where they were murdered in the gas chambers. Their children were not captured and survived. One of their children, Elida Schogt's mother, is featured in the films.

  19. William Kurelek fonds [graphic material]

    Accession comprises works by William Kurelek dating primarily from his teenage years and containing as well one sketchbook with drawings relating to the Holocaust and the prison camp in Dachau and two later finished drawings from his 1969 travels to Hong Kong and South Africa. Also included were one photograph and three postcards depicting threshing scenes in Western Canada.

  20. Sessional Papers