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Oscar Styffe fonds
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Oscar Styffe fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1929 - 1969

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

Ledgers 1-3: Time Books

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

Ledgers 10-15: Check Registers

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).

Ledgers 4-9: Wood Deliveries

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).

Ledgers 16-20: Wood Contracts

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).

Ledgers 21-23: Umfreville Car Wood Shipments

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).

Ledger 31: Wood Scales

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.

Ledgers 24-26: Contract Payment Records

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).

Ledgers 27-29: Payroll Accounts

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).

Ledger 30: Payroll, Contracts, Farmers' Scales

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.

Ledger 34: Township Plans

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.

Ledger 35: Newspaper Clippings

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.

1-1 Camp #5 Ancliff

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

1-2 Camp #5 Ancliff Payroll

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

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