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Gordon White was a nature photographer. He was both a fellow of the Photographic Society of America and an associate of the Royal Photographic Society. This is designated by the abbreviations F.P.S.A. and A.R.P.S. which appear on his photographs. He lived in Port Colborne, Ontario. His photographs of birds and plants were exhibited in both the United States and Canada in various venues, including at the American Ornithologists’ Union.

Daniel Wilcox and his descendents resided in Hagersville and Caistorville, Ontario, and other nearby towns and villages, from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.

The Bradley-Garretson Company Limited originated in Philadephia, and was involved in subscription book publishing. The Canadian branch was established in Brantford in 1876 by D.R. Wilson. Some time before 1879, Thomas Samuel Linscott, who was born in Devonshire, England in 1846 and had emigrated to America for health reasons, became the company's manager. Ordained in 1875 as a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Linscott retired from the ministry in 1879 and bought the Canadian interests of the company.

Based in Toronto and Brantford, Ontario, Bradley-Garretson ("The Book and Bible House") published books between 1879 and 1920. According to Warner and Beer's History of Brant County (1883), it employed at Brantford "from fifteen to twenty" clerks and assistants, using "all the modern appliances" and appointed "over one thousand agents" in 1882. The company was not officially incorporated until 1895, by which time Linscott's son, Thomas Henry Linscott, had become the main owner. In 1896 the company opened the Toronto office at 155 Bay Street. (A related operation, Linscott Publishing Co., was established in 1897). Many of Bradley-Garretson's publications were religious in nature, although the company also issued books related to politics and the domestic sciences. Several imprints of the company are life and work anthologies written about individuals such as Sir John Thompson, Dwight L. Moody and Rev. Charles Spurgeon.

The Canadian School of Musketry was authorized by the government in 1903. The troops trained at the Rockcliffe Rifle Range and were part of a permanent force in the Canadian Army. D.H.C. Mason is credited with founding the School and overseeing the Battalion. Names of individuals in the photograph are listed in ink on the reverse. The names include: C.E. Kelly, 73 Melrose Ave Hamilton, [Mr.] Munro, Capt. H.F.G. Woodbridge 71st Regt Fredericton, N.B., M.T. Graham C.I. 356 Cambria St. Strafford, J.W. Kirckconnell, Lindsay, Ontario, J. Harold Keer, 44th Regt Welland, Ontario, D.W. Clarkson, Stanley, New Bruns., J Edwards RMS, Kingston, Ontario, A.S. [S-Marie] St. 4th FCE, Montreal.

Members of Local 794 are employees of Hamilton Civic Hospitals. For the history of its separation from Local 5 in 1960, see Local 5 fonds, Box 43, F.22.

Members of the Laundry Workers Union of Hamilton, Ont. were formerly represented by American Federation of Labor. On 29 January 1953 they formed their own local (Local 37) assisted by the Canadian Congress of Labour. By 1957 they were represented by the National Union of Public Service Employees, which joined with the National Union of Public Employees in 1963 to form the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

The members of Local 2940 are employees of Canron Ltd., Foundry Division

Le comité québécois provisoire de solidarité avec le peuple palestinien was an ad hoc comittee which organized a series of meetings, 2-12 March 1970, concerning the Palestinian national liberation struggle and imperialism throughout the world. Members of the ad hoc committee included Michel Chartrand (CSN) and Stanley Grey (FLP). The week was known as "Semaine Québécoise de solidarité avec la Palestine; Quebec-Palestine solidarity week". The meetings were held at various universities and CEGEPs in Montreal and concluded with demonstrations at the American and Israeli consulates.

Members of Local 2950 are employees of Greening Industries Ltd., Hamilton Division.

The City of Hamilton's Act of Incorporation in 1847 allowed for the appointment of a Chief Constable and an unlimited number of sub-constables. Three were initially appointed. Over the years as the population grew, so did the police force. In 1872 responsibility for the force was transferred to a Board of Police Commissioners. In 1973 the Hamilton Police Force was replaced by the Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police.

The Real Estate Board in Hamilton, Ont. received its official letters patent in 1921. It is a non-profit organization, responsible to its members who are brokers and realtors. There is a voluntary board of directors. The main service that the Board provides to its members is to provide a listing service of properties for sale.

Members of Local 8179 are employees of Hammant Car.

The Hamilton Pressman's and Assistants Union Local 176 was organized on November 5, 1904. Its history can be traced back to the parent company of the International Typographical Union which came to Canada in 1865, and its affiliate, the Toronto union which became Local 91 on May 23, 1866. In 1895 the local turned down a Montreal proposal for a district union. It told the Trades and Labour Council that if the Pressman were allowed to join, Local 91 would leave the parent union (which it did in July, although it came back in October after the ITU had arrived at an agreement with the Pressman). The International Printing Pressman's Union of North America began as an affiliate of the International Typographical Union and changed its name to International Printing Pressman's and Assistants Union in 1896.

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a major international union that represents a wide spectrum of service employees, health care workers forming the largest component of its membership. After abortive attempts at organizing in 1941, the Building Service Employees International Union (BSEIU) granted its first Canadian charter to Vancouver office cleaners in 1943 (Local 244). The Union made its appearance in Eastern Canada on July 6, 1944 when Toronto department store workers, elevator operators, and package handlers were chartered as Local 204. This local quickly became a leader in the union's Canadian expansion. The BSEIU grew rapidly throughout the next two decades and by 1970 was arguably the largest service workers' union in Canada. In 1968, the BSEIU dropped "Building" from its name and became the SEIU.

The Socialist Labor Party of Canada was founded on a national basis in the early 1930s with its head office in Toronto. It rejects capitalism in its entirety. It is affiliated with the Socialist Labor Party of America. The party seems to have dissolved after the death of its National Secretary, Doug Irving, in 2005.

St. John's Anglican Church closed in 1954.

A brief history of St. Peter's, Barton, Ont. can be found in the finding aid. St. Peter's closed in 1908. It was succeded by Holy Trinity Church, Barton, Ont. Barton, Ont. is now part of Hamilton, Ont.

Alan O'Connor was a Ph.D. student in Sociology at York University who had an interest in folklore and the study of social history. He undertook a research project on the occupational culture of printers in the Toronto area. His project involved interviewing approximately twenty memebers of the Toronto Typographical Union. This union was the first trade union in Canada, formed in 1832 by printers in York (later Toronto).

The first Society of Friends Preparative Meeting in Upper Canada was held at Yonge Street, 6 June 1804, authorized by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The first Yonge Street Monthly Meeting was held in September 1806. In 1812 Yonge Street Monthly Meeting allowed an indulged meeting to be held at the house of John Haight which was situated near Pickering. In 1819 a Preparative Meeting was established at Pickering in the newly built meeting house which was used until 1833-34 when a new meeting house was built. There was a split in 1828 between Orthodox members and a Hicksite faction with the Hicksites forced to establish a new meeting house about two miles away. This split was not unique to Pickering but reflective of a wider movement both in British North America and the United States which is often referred to as the Great Separation. Friends who were followers of Elias Hicks separated from the existing body of Friends.