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A prominent businessman who operated a timber firm as well as Gravel and Lake Services Ltd in Port Arthur. The collection consists of correspondence, ledgers, scrapbooks, pamphlets and photographs primarily related to the timber industry.

Records are arranged into the following series:
Camps
Correspondence
Ledgers
Scrapbooks
Photographs

Time Books: list employees name and time worked for: May 1949 - May 1951 (I1); May 1953 - February 1955 (I2); May 1958 - January 1960 (I3).

Check Registers list date, cheque no., name of account (to whom payable), debit & credit in various ledgers, camp payrolls, etc. for - September 30, 1930 - September 30, 1931 (I10); October 1, 1931 - July 23, 1932 (I11); August 2, 1932 - June 1, 1933 (I12); June 1, 1933 - October 1934 (also includes Gravel & Sand sales for April 1935 - March 1936 (I13)); May 1934 - February 1935 (I14); March 1935 - April 1936 (I15).

Wood Deliveries: list contractor, trucker/hauler, dates of delivery, cordage, type of wood hauled, destination for - 1948 (I4), 1949 (I5), 1950 (I6), 1951 (I7), 1955 (I8), 1956 (I9).

Wood Contracts: list contractors (alphabetically), address, date, description of contract or cheque (form payment), folio, debit, credit, balance for: 1944 - 1950 (I16); 1951 - 1955 (I17); 1956 - 1960 (I18); 1961 - 1965 (I19); 1966 - 1969 (I20).

Umfreville Car Wood Shipments (unloaded at Port Arthur, etc) list date of shipment, car no., car initial, town scale, cordage, weight, freight, cheque, unloaded by whirley & hand etc. for: 1948 - 1953 (also includes 'Farmers' ledger with name, date, cordage listed for 1946 - 1948) (I21); 1953 - 1959 (also includes 'Contractors car wood shipments' for 1957 - 1959) (I22); 1961 - 1967 (also includes 'Contractors car wood shipments' for 1959 - 1960) (I23).

Wood Scales, 1934 - 1936; provincial paper scales of rough spruce for 1935; truck scales of wood hauled to #5 dock landing 1934 - 1935; peeled poplar purchased listing date, contractor's name, permit, cordage etc. for 1935 etc.

Camp Weekly Operational Reports 1953 - 1958; lists information on crew, cost and meals, production, horses & equipment hours, statistics.

Contract Payment Records: list contract no. or camp, payroll no., date, name of contractor or employee, record of earnings, record of deductions, balance etc. for: 1937 - 1938 (I24), 1958 - 1959 (I25), 1959 - 1960 (I26).

Payroll Accounts for camps, loaders, tugs, etc.: listing name of empoloyee, occupation, days worked, type work, rate, amount for distribution, total earned, deductions, current month's balance, previous month's balance, total to date, pay offs, etc. for: 1937- 1946 (I27), 1947 - 1955 (I28), 1956 (I29).

Payrolls, Contracts, Farmers Scales 1930 - 1935; payroll accounts for Camp #8, Port Arthur Landing, Nipigon etc listing name of employee, occupation, rate, earnings, deductions for December 1930 - May 1931; lists of pulpwood purchased 1931 - 1935; trail balance of Oscar Styffe Long Lac special account May 1933 - August 1933 & Farmer's ledger August 31, 1932 - September 1, 1933, etc.

Office Accounts (Expenses) January 1960 - December 1960; lists cash, bank, general ledger, accounts received, subscriptions, advertising, telephone, fuel, wages, etc.

Township Plans for various townships drawn to scale with legends showing lots, roads, culverts, bridges, etc.; also map of Kaministikwia (1939); townships included are Blake (No. T 118), Booth (T-108), Conmee (T-124), Crooks (T-126), Dawson Road Lots (T-121), Devon (T-120), Forbes (T-113), Fowler (T-104), Gillies (T-119), Goldie (T-109), Jacques (T-100), Lyon (T-110), MacGregor (T-111), McIntyre (T-112), McTavish (T-102), Marks (T-129), Neebing (T-116), Nipigon (T-99), Paiponge (T-114), Pardee (T-117), Pearson (T-125), Sibley (T-106), Stirling (T-105), Strange (T-122), Upsala (T-123), Ware (T-107), Fraleigh, Hardwick/Robbins, Hartington, Jean/Hardwick, Laurie, Ledger, Lismore, Moss P.A. mining division, Purdom, Scoble.

Newspaper Clippings August 1948; includes 8 Jack Hambleton articles as published in the Timmins Press & samples of the 8 stories as published in other newspapers; articles commissioned during campaign of July 20 to September 9, 1948 covering the period leading up to & including contract negotiations between companies and union; PR articles in support of wood operators; companies featured in the articles were Abitibi Power & Paper Co. Ltd., Great Lakes Paper Co. Ltd., Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment, Oscar Styffe Ltd., Spruce Falls Pulp & Paper Co., Woollings Forest Products.

Work reports for Camp #5 (Ancliff) August 1944-June 1945.

Invoice, accounts, orders and statements of van relating to Camp #5 (Ancliff), food and supplies April 1943-March 1944; several items of correspondence.

Correspondence for Camp #1 (Pigeon River) January 1944- March 1945.

Payroll records for Camp #5 (Ancliff) May 1944-March 1945: settlement sheets, payment receipts for individual employees; payroll account.

Invoices and expense account for food and supplies for Camp #5 (Ancliff) May 1944-February 1945.

Payroll records for Camp #5 (Ancliff) June 1943-April 1944; settlement sheets, advance payment receipts for individual employees; payroll accounts.

Orders for food and supplies for Camp #5 (Ancliff) May 1944-April 1945.

Payroll records for Camp #8 1944-1945: settlement sheets, payroll account, payment receipts for individual employees.

Expense accounts and invoice records for Camp #5 (Ancliff) May-August 1945.