Finding Aid
Series 1. Correspondence. - 1910-1956. - Note: This correspondence consists mainly of attempts to restrict liquor outlets, to revoke hotel licences and to seek heavy penalties for liquor law violations.
Box 1
F.1
-Alderman Ward Six
-Chairman of Board of Licence Commissioners
-The Citizen's League of Toronto Township
-The Conservator
-Country Crown Attorney
-Department of Attorney General
-Department of Lands and Forests
-Department of Planning and Development
-Director General of National Service
-The Liquor Authority Control Board of Ontario
-Mayor of Toronto
-Minister of Agriculture
-Norman, Dan
-Office of the Prime Minister
-Provincial Secretary
-Secretary of the Dominion Alliance
-Secretary of Ontario Prohibition Union
-Speaker's Chambers
-West End Christian Temperance Society
F.2
This file consists of the correspondence of the following individuals:
-Rev. Wm. Cairns Conning, Secretary of the United Church of Canada (13 letters)
-Rev. John Kell, Secretary of Toronto West Presbytery( 4 letters)
-Rev. A.E. Black, Chairman of Toronto West Presbytery (1 letter)
-Mrs. Lynd (1 letter)
-J. Rutherford, Ex-Mayor of Owen Sound (1 letter)
-S.G.E. McKee (1 letter)
-Charles Mc Crea (1 letter)
-[Dafoe] (1 letter)
-unsigned letter dated Sept. 13, 1910
Series 2: News clippings. [1915]-[1951].
F.3 News clippings
Series 3: Newspapers. 1915-1951.
F.4
-The Christian Guardian, Dec. 28 , 1921 (1 issue)
-Globe, March 9, 1916 - Oct. 25,1929 (loose pages)
-Onward, Feb. 2 - April 6, 1929 (loose pages)
-Our Stand, Nov. 15, 1951 (1 issue, 3 copies)
-The Moderationist, October 17, 1924 (1 issue)
-The Pioneer, Feb. 24, 1911 - June 28, 1918 (17 issues)
-The Port Credit News, Dec. 30, 1910 - Jan. 23, 1914 (14 issues)
-Temperance Advocate, Feb. 26, 1929 (1 issue)
-Young Canada, January 1925 (1 issue)
Series 4: Miscellaneous Publications. [1914]-[1951].
Box 1, F.5 and Box 2, F.1
Brochures, leaflets, voters propaganda and statistical reports produced by the following organizations:
-Citizens League
-Citizens Liberty League
-Dominion Alliance
-Methodist Church, Department of Evangelism and Social Services
-Ontario Prohibition Union
-Ontario Referendum Committee
-Ontario Temperance Federation
It also includes Citizens League campaign hymns and programs of the following conventions:
-Annual Convention of the Ontario Branch of the Dominion Alliance for the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic, Toronto, 1914
-Annual Convention of the Ontario Prohibition Union, Toronto, 1929
-International Convention of the World League against Alcoholism, Toronto, 1922
Series 5: Cartoons and Posters. [1920s]
Box 2
F.2
Cartoons depicting evil of drinking and posters announcing public meetings to discuss temperance issues.
Series 6: Ontario Woman's Christian Temperance Union. 1884-1917.
Material produced by Ontario Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
F.3
-Temperance Lesson Leaf, Nov. 26, 1905; May 20 and Nov. 25, 1906 (3 issues)
-Temperance Quarterly, June 30 and Aug 11, 1907 (2 issues)
-program notes of Ontario WCTU Parlor Meeting
-Ontario WCTU Mothers' Meeting Program
-several brochures
F.4
WCTU - Port Credit Branch
-1884-85 treasurer's book
-1894-1905 treasurer's book signed by Mrs.[Tracy]
-1890-94 notebook signed by B. Lynd
-1895 notebook
- 905-17 notebook
-1894-1901 minute book signed by Mrs. I. Lynd
Series 7
F.5
Bound manuscript about John Bartholomew Gough (1817-1886) by R.B. Robertson. The manuscript opens with a note written in August 1853 regarding Gough's visit to Britain. It contains transcripts of Gough's speeches, some taken from newspapers but others not sourced, an extract from Gough's autobiography, and two b&w photographs, presumably of Gough. The manuscript concludes with Roberston's "Remarks", written in Glasgow, December 1893.
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