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Members of Local 8483 are employees of Secord Manufacturing, Concar Tool.

Seripress was founded in Toronto by Barbara Caruso, a visual artist and poet, in 1972, although the first series of silkscreen prints created in 1971, was not released until 1973. The last Seripress titles were released in 1979. The press formally ceased operations in 1981. Seripress published poetry by Stephen Scobie, P. K. Page, bp nichol and David Aylward.

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 Social Democratic Party of Canada (SDPC) was a Marxist organization that formed in 1911 as a result of a split from the Socialist Party of Canada over affiliation with the Socialist International. The SDPC was affiliated with the International Socialist Bureau, and had a paper entitled Cotton’s Weekly (1908-1915), continued by the Canadian Forward (1916-1918). Prominent Ontario members of the SDPC included James Simpson, a mayor of Toronto in the 1930s. Most of the SDPC members joined the Communist Party of Canada in 1921 or the CCF in the 1930s.

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.

The Socialist Party of Canada was founded in 1904 when the Socialist Party of British Columbia merged with the Canadian Socialist League. By 1910 the party stretched across Canada. The party's philosophy is revolutionary, holding a view known as "impossibilism", that is that capitalism is not capable of being reformed. Support for the party waned after the collapse of the 1919 general strikes. The Socialist Party of Canada is affiliated with the World Socialist Party of the United States and the Socialist Party of Great Britain.

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.

Specialty Book Concern, an antiquarian book dealership specializing in Canadiana, was founded by Lee Pritsker of Oakville, Ont. in 1937. Craig Fraser of Waterdown, Ont. purchased it in 1967, after retiring from a business career.

The Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company was incorporated under joint ownership of Kimberly-Clark and The New York Times in 1926. The company negotiated two hydro power leases on the Mattagami River at Smoky Falls and Devils Rapids. In the spring of 1926 work to build a paper mill at Kapuskasing, a hydro generating station at Smoky Falls and an 80 kilometer rail and power line connecting the two began. The contractor for the entire project was Morrow and Beatty Ltd. of Peterborough Ontario. In 1997, the plant came under sole ownership of Tembec and is now known as Tembec — Spruce Falls Operations.

St. James' church was closed on 1 Oct. 1951.

St. John's Anglican Church closed in 1954.

St. Mark's Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake, is the oldest Anglican community in the Diocese of Niagara, established by the first resident missionary of Niagara, Rev. Robert Addison in 1792. The church, completed in 1810, was burned during the war of 1812 and rebuilt in 1816.

A brief history of St. Monica's Church can be found in the finding aid. St. Monica's closed on 19 October 1980.

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.