Correspondence between Claude Garton and James Soper with R.J. Vrancort (Director) of Provincial Parks Branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources concerning the protection and preservation of wildlife and plant life in the Ontario Provincial Parks
This file contains blueprints for different kinds of machinery. It also contains handwritten and typed notes about these blueprints and articles on different kinds of machinery.
Correspondence between Joan Crowe with Ross Hastings and Julie Hrapko (Curator of Botany) of the Provincial Museum of Alberta, as well as Claude Garton and Dr. L. Bliss (University of Alberta)
Lakehead Social Planning Council
[Provincial Mining Group Medical Aid/Lost Time/Trends & Fatalities Source: Masha (ONRSA)(MAPAO) Statistics Updated to end of June 1998]
This file contains the correspondence for the 1995 Provincial Lobby with photographs and newspaper research. Also included is a leaked confidential draft document; The Coalition response to funding cuts; regional action letters to the Editor; NWORCCC response to cuts from Thunder Bay Public Rally; Province-Wide Day of Action to Save Child Care, Friday November 24 and Coalition Child Care Letters Campaign information is included in the file as well.
This file contains correspondence between the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care and Janet Ecker; research articles concerning U.S. models of child care with newspaper clippings; strategic initiatives of the Ministry; and the Provincial Child Care Review.
This series consists of records of the relationship between the Northwestern Ontario Regional Child Care Committee and the Ontario Provincial Government, particularly the Ministry of Community and Social Services.
This file contains memos and copies of the ONIWG Provincial Executive Meeting May 1996 and Quarterly Report July 1996.
This file contains correspondence with the Government of Ontario, the Government of Canada, local elected officials, and child care centres regarding the Regional Child Care Forum in Thunder Bay, funding, child care concerns, support, and responses. Letters for advocacy partnerships and electoral campaign riding candidates are included.
Gordon Cleveland, Special Committee on Child Care
This file contains the correspondence for the 1996 lobby efforts in response to provincial funding cuts. Included are documents from the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, Volunteer Leadership Development Program, Thunder Bay District Health Council, Northwestern Ontario Women's Decade Council, Lakehead Social Planning Council, Ontario Women's Directorate, and Ministry of Community Social Services. Also included in the file is the newsletter Exploring Environment; OCBCC Annual Report 1996; the Trillium Foundation 1996 Stakeholder Survey; and briefing documents and research for OCBBC Executive/Council Members.
This file contains information about the provincial cutbacks to child care under the Mike Harris government. Included in the file is the report ""think About the Children: They are the Future" by the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, November 1995 with research on the Provincial Child Care Budget and JobsOntario Child Care fact sheets; news releases with Ministry Reductions from the Office of the Premier; correspondence between OCBCC Executive Council members; and provincial response of child care centre, opposition party representatives, schools and parents. A copy of the brief "Ontario Fiscal Overview and Spending Cuts" by Ernie Eaves Minister of Finance, July 21 1995 is also included in the file.
This file contains a collection of newspaper clippings that cover the response to the provincial Conservatives Child-care report from 1995-1996. Included in the file is research about the child care survey from OCBCC; funding for day care; Northwestern Ontario advocacy efforts; child care voucher plan system; Big Trout Lake Elders Speak; and parental rallies.
Folder containing information from Provincial Council ONIWG 1999 with financial statements, minutes.
ONIWG groups update sheet; financial statement summary, 1996; Cabinet Submission on Workers' Compensation Reform, Ministry of Labour; templates for response letters; CIWA presentation, Steve Mantis; news articles; fact sheets for reform; OFL, It's Your Life Campaign book.
This category relates to Robinson's dual roles in civic and provincial affairs, although material of national significance is sometimes included. The first three files relate to the history of the origins of Lakehead University and the local campaigns to obtain a university or institute of higher learning in Northwest Ontario. Robinson was in the forefront of this campaign, beginning with his election to the Board of Education; he continued to promote the university in the legislature and in government circles. Other folders relate to the ship-building crisis in the Lakehead, and other issues of local and broader concern.