Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society
Index of Personal Papers


List of Fonds, H-K




A 21
H. Sydney Hancock Jr. fonds

1920
6 fol. of textual records

Biographical Sketch
H. Sydney Hancock Jr. was born in Cornwall, England, on 10 July 1879. He was educated in England at Cambridge and became an engineer. He arrived in United States in 1901 and worked on the Illinois Central and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroads in heavy construction. From 1906 to 1911 Hancock was Waterworks Engineer for the City of Fort William in which capacity he was mainly responsible for the construction of the Loch Lomond water supply system. He also supervised the construction of street rail lines, paving, sidewalks, fire halls and bridges. He worked from 1911 to 1913 as a consulting engineer in Vancouver in partnership with Mr. John Coates before returning to Fort William in 1913 to develop harbour frontage for Viscount Clifden. He enlisted in the Royal Engineers in England in 1915 and served overseas. When released from service in 1919 Hancock returned to Fort William and continued supervising local construction, including submitting the prize winning design for Fort William's war memorial.

Scope and Content
Series A 21/1/1 - Job application and resume
The application of H. Sydney Hancock Jr. for the position of City Engineer of Vancouver, B.C., March 1920. Includes a resume and a letter of reference. Also includes a letter to F.W. Peters, General Superintendent, C.P.R., Vancouver regarding the application.

Additional Information
Custodial History - Formerly catalogued in museum collection, 980.116.10 a-f

A 57
Ethel May Grover Heald fonds

1909-1926, 1970-1971
2 cm of textual records (photocopies)

Biographical Sketch
Ethel May Grover Heald was born on 25 Aug. 1891 at Badger Mine, and died on17 July 1973 in Thunder Bay. She lived in Fort William until 1917, then moved to Winnipeg and then to Moose Jaw and Prince Albert. She married Wesley Heald in 1920 and they moved back to Fort William in 1933.

Scope and Content
Series A 57/1/1 - Diary - 202 pages - 1909-1926, 1970-1971.
Transcript of what Ethel May Grover Heald wrote in her diary from her 18th birthday in 1909 until she was 35. In it, she describes the events in her life including relationships she had with her family, friends, and co-workers. She also describes how World War I affected life in Fort William and a trip she took to Great Britain in 1970.

Additional Information
Copy/Repository - The original diary is kept by Henry F. Heald

A 17
A.T. Hill fonds

1937-1977
37 cm. of textual records

Languages - English, Finnish

Biographical Sketch
A.T. Hill was born in Finland on 12 Oct. 1898 and died in 1978. He arrived in Port Arthur in 1917. He was a leading young Communist and secretary of the Finnish Organization of Canada from 1921-1924 and 1926-1929. He became secretary of the Young Workers' Party of Canada in 1922 and attended the fifth Comintern Congress in Moscow in 1924. From that point onward he was a Communist Party organizer serving as a liaison between the Party and the Finnish community in Canada.

Scope and Content
The A.T. Hill Papers are composed of manuscripts, files, published material, miscellaneous textual records and photographs dealing primarily with the union and labour movements in Canada and at the Lakehead, and Communist Party activities, as well as Hill's own interest in the U.S.S.R. and other communist countries. Arranged by record type into six series.
Series A 17/1/1-11 - Manuscripts - 114 fol. - 1948-[1974]
1) Rough manuscript of Hill's autobiography from his youth in Finland to the mid-1970s in Thunder Bay. Typewritten with some photocopies. (48 fol.), no date.
2) Shorter typewritten manuscript of autobiography of A.T. Hill intended to include also photos. Covers from Hill's youth to 1923. (7 fol.)
3) "Basic Highlights of Labor History -- Lakehead and Canada", covering the period from around 1910 to 1945. Also includes civic candidates' slates for elections and an anti-nuclear weapons poster from the Communist Party of Canada (12 fol.)
4) "Highlights of Labor History - Lakehead, Canada and the World", which also includes some municipal election information, no date (14 fol.)
5) "Finnish Hall, 316 Bay St.", outlining the purpose and financial status of the hall, incomplete, no date (2 fol.)
6) "All People Should Accept the Truth and Reject Lies and Misrepresentation". A history of the Finnish population in Port Arthur, no date (9 fol.)
7) "Harry Bryan" dealing with the lumber workers organization in Ontario and the recruiting of Harry Bryan as an organizer, no date (1 fol.)
8) "Historic Basis and Development of the Workers Organization and Struggles in Ontario", 1948 (16 fol.)
9) "Our Tasks in the Coming Municipal Elections", a draft resolution for submission to the L.P.P. Ontario Committee, 2-3 Oct. 1954 (3 fol.)
10) "International Labour Councils Convention", Thunder Bay, 1974 (4 fol.)
11) "Lenin in the Leadership of the Communist International", no date (3 fols.)
Series A 17/2/1-16 - Miscellaneous files - 17cm. - [1973-1977]
1) Correspondence between Hill and the Canadian Tribune
2) Letters and reports dealing with the Labour Progressive Party c.1941-1961
3) Letters and reports dealing with the Communist Party of Canada, [1975-1976]
4) File entitled "Education, Research, Assistance and Service", a "New Horizons" program.
5) Finnish Organization of Canada
6) Letters and reports in Finnish, untranslated
7) Reports and submissions regarding labour and lumber workers' unions
8) Personal correspondence of Hill, 1976-1977
9) Rosval and Voutilainen memorial file
10) Senior Citizen Alliance file
11) Tim Buck Centre file
12) Woodworkers' Welfare Assoc. file
13) Two files of reports, minutes and clippings regarding the World Peace Council
14) Note and writings regarding A.T. Hill autobiography
15) File regarding Hill's manuscripts: "Historic basis and development of the Workers' Organization and Struggles in Ontario", "Highlights of Labor History", and "International Labor Councils' Convention"
16) Misc. historical writings and election poster
Series A 17/3/1-11 - Pamphlets, Reports and Magazines - 7cm. - 1944-1948, 1966, 1970, 1974-1977
Pamphlets:
1) "Canada in a Fast Changing World", by William Kashton (1976)
2) "A New Course for Canada", by William Kashton (1966)
3) "For a Liberal Labour Coalition Government", by Tim Buck (1944)
4) "Finns in North America", by E. Engle (1975)
5) "Save the Cyprus Republic" (1974-1975)
6) "Euro-Communism" (1977)
Reports:
7) Trades and Labour Congress reports, 1944-1947
8) Trades and Labour Congress Journal, 1948
Magazines:
9) Rintamaamme Yhtykaa, skp, 1974
10) Karjalan Asnt (Red Flag Magazine), 1970
Series A 17/4/1-6 - Documents - 1cm. - 1944-1950
Misc. documents of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union
1) Dues book, 1944-1947
2) receipt, 1950
3) Business agent authority slip, 1946
4) Master agreement between Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union and Forest Products Industries in Ontario, 1948
5) L.S.W.U. pamphlet, "Prosperity or Austerity? Which Way Canada", 1948
6) Submission of L.S.W.U. to Royal Commission on Forestry, Ontario, no date
Series A 17/5/1-12 - Miscellaneous - 8cm. - 1909, 1912, 1937-1976
1) pocket diary compiled by Hill, 1937
2) Finnish passport belonging to Edwin Lahtinen, 1909
3) Finnish Organization of Canada membership book
4) Finnish Organization of Canada membership book by laws, 1953
5) Communist Party of Canada membership book, 1975
6) Co-op trading Co. by laws, 1912
7) Letter promoting visit by Tim Buck by Hill, 1943
8) Letterhead, Lakehead Communist-Labour Total War Committee, Communist Party of Canada, Northwestern Regional Committee
9) Newsletter, Coalition for Social Justice, 12 May 1976
10) Stock certificate, Toronto Workers Co-op Ltd., 1931
11) Telegram regarding Coalition for Social Justice rally, 28 Apr. 1976
12) Collection of personal greeting cards to Hill
Series A 17/6/1-6 - Photographs - 162 items
1) 63 postcards from USSR
2) 27 postcards mainly from Finland, China, and Canada
3) 19 photographs depicting various scenes from State University in Moscow
4) 6 photographs of lumber industry in USSR
5) 14 photographs of various places and events in USSR
6) 33 misc. photographs, cards, etc.

Additional Information
Custodial History - Formerly catalogued into museum collection, 980.83.1-4, 7-12, 16, 22, 24-5, 27-8, 33, 36, 39-42, 44-47.

A 4
J.T. Horne fonds

1888. 1890, 1904-1910
18 cm of textual records

Biographical Sketch
J.T. Horne (died 1925) was a lumber dealer with Graham, Horne Ltd. (also known as Graham, Horne & Co.) which began in 1883. The company was bought out by the Pigeon River Lumber Co. at the end of the 1800s. He was president of the West Algoma Agricultural Association, secretary of the Fort William Patriotic Society (1915-1917) and was made an honorary life member of the Kaministiquia Club in 1923. He was one of Fort William's biggest boosters at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.

G.R. Duncan was chief engineer of construction for the Canadian Iron and Foundry Co.'s plant in Fort William and formerly chief engineer at the Company's Three Rivers plant. He later became a prominent real estate man at the Lakehead.

Scope and Content
The J.T. Horne papers are arranged into four series, the principal being a letter book (1907-1910) and a note and sketch book (1905-1909). The papers relate primarily to Horne's business activities as a lumber merchant though the sketch book concerns the construction of the Canadian Iron and Foundry Co.'s plant in Fort William in which Horne may have held an interest. This is an excellent source for determining the technical details of iron foundries in this period.
Series A 4/1/1 - Letterbook - 1,000 fol. - 1907-1910
Correspondence between Horne and various parties concerned primarily with buying the selling lumber and timber. Also contains some correspondence on the Kaministiquia Club. Arranged chronologically with an index at the front. Includes also some personal letters.
Series A 4/2/1 - Note and sketch book - 6cm. - 1905-1909
Bound book concerned with the Canadian Iron and Foundry Company's plant on Montreal St., Fort William, completed in 1907. Later known as the Canadian Iron Corp. Ltd.. Produced by G.R. Duncan, engineer responsible for the construction. Included blueprints of motors, fixtures, brackets, molds and numerous sketches for cranes, etc.. Also includes analyses of iron samples, cost estimates for construction, insurance values and information on the Company's Three Rivers plant.
Series A 4/3/1 - Diary - 1cm. - 1888, 1890
Notes of field work in examining lots in Pigeon River area for harvestable timber. Parts of this diary are in a hand other than Horne's. References are made to J.C. Stretch, Horrigan and McConnell.
Series A 4/4/1-2 - Receipts and lists - 1904-1905, 1910
1) receipt for money received from Horne for purchase of land, 1910.
2) list of supplies for lumber camps, 1904-1905.

Additional Information
Custodial History - Formerly catalogued into museum collection 972.45.33, 35-37.

A 38
John M. Kelly fonds

1899, 1916-1926
5 cm of textual records

Biographical Sketch
John Moulton Kelly, steam boiler inspector for the Provincial government from about 1916 to at least 1933. From 1935 to retirement in ca.1956 he was an inspector for the Provincial Department of Labour. He was probably born in England ca.1870-1880 and received his certificate of competency as a first class engineer in 1899 in London.

Scope and Content
Series A 38/1/1-3 - Inspection Books - 5 cm. - 1916-1926
Three volumes containing notes of Mr. Kelly's inspection of various boilers in operation in the cities of Port Arthur and Fort William. Provincial government regulations required periodic boiler inspections for all boilers, especially those used in industry.
1) 19 Sept. 1916 to 26 July 1920
2) 27 July 1920 to 9 Oct. 1923
3) 9 June 1925 to 21 May 1926
Series A 38/2/1 - Certificate - one item - 1899
Certificate of competency for John Moulton Kelly issued in 1899 by the Board of Trade in London, England

Additional Information
Custodial History - Formerly catalogued into museum collection 976.63.1 a-c.

A 37
Dr. Mary Isabel Mackey Kelly Papers

[ca. 1960-1980]
63 cm of textual records

Biographical Sketch
Dr. Mackey Kelly was a teacher at Port Arthur Collegiate Institute from 1922 to 1962 and retired as head of the mathematics department. She was born at Thornbury, Ontario, ca.1898, and was educated at Meaford and the University of Toronto where she graduated in 1919 with a degree in mathematics and physics. She earned her M.A. in those subjects from the U. of T. in 1920 and later received a Ph.D. Lack of opportunities for female physicists led her to become a teacher. She was known as a "strict disciplinarian" in her approach to teaching. She served as a trustee on the Lakehead Board of Education from at least 1968-1970. She married John Kelly in 1961-1962 and died in Sept. 1987. Her principal hobby was collecting material for a history of the Port Arthur school system and, in particular, Port Arthur Collegiate Institute and its forerunners.

Scope and Content
Dr. Kelly compiled this collection of material relating to the Port Arthur school system from 1870 to 1980 with the intention of producing a book on the subject. The book was never published but the collection of notes and manuscripts, almost all of which she transcribed and typed herself from the originals, remains in the form of binders.
Series A 37/1/1-2 - Manuscripts - 46cm. - [ca.1960-1980]
1) Manuscript entitled "The Port Arthur High School" containing mostly typed transcripts of material gathered from newspapers, Board of Education records, and from former students and teachers. Also contains photographs. Two copies, slight variations. Covers the period 1875-ca.1910.
2) Manuscript entitled "Thirty Years A Growing" in two volumes, consisting of transcripts of newspapers, articles, by- laws and reminiscences as well as lists, maps and photographs concerned with the history of Thunder Bay from 1870 and, in particular, the education system in Port Arthur. Vol. 1 covers ca.1870-1890; vol. 2 covers 1891-ca.1903 with some later material included in both. Also duplicates some material contained in A 37/1/1. Two complete copies of this manuscript exist, each with minor variations.
Series A 37/2/1-4 - Notes - 17cm. - [ca.1960-1980]
Four binders of miscellaneous notes, photographs and clippings relating to the history of the Port Arthur school system and to Thunder Bay's early history generally. Much of this material is contained in finished form in the manuscripts A 37/1-2.

Additional Information
Associated Material - See photos 987.49.1+

A 31
Belle Kittredge fonds

1891-1892
1 cm of textual photocopies

Biographical Sketch
Belle Stuart Kittredge was born in 1868 in Strathroy, Ontario , where she was raised and schooled. She also attended school in Toronto. She kept house for her father in Strathroy after age 16 but at age 21, in 1891, left for Port Arthur to work in the office of her uncle, lawyer Frank Keefer. She lived in his house with her cousin, "Birdie", for about seven years after which she took a Master of Arts degree at Trinity College, University of Toronto. She went on to normal school and eventually taught kindergarten for two years. She married in 1904 to Mr. S. Hungerford of London, Ont. and died in 1959.

Scope and Content
Series A 31/1/1 - Diary
The diary of Belle Kittredge, 2 Dec. 1891 to 10 June 1892 concerns her activities in Port Arthur during a period she describes as the most colourful of her life. She was 23 to 24 years of age at the time. The diary includes descriptions of her amusements, such as sailing, camping and dances. An excellent source for understanding the life of a young lady in the 1890s at the Lakehead.

Additional Information
Copy/Repository - Originals are in National Archives of Canada, MG 29 C114

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