- CA MUA MG 1022-10-02-018-0002
- Item
- 31 October 1952
Part of Dawson-Harrington Families Fonds
Letter from Clare Harrington to Phyllis Davis, written from Montreal.
Harrington, Clare Margaret, 1880-1967
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Part of Dawson-Harrington Families Fonds
Letter from Clare Harrington to Phyllis Davis, written from Montreal.
Harrington, Clare Margaret, 1880-1967
Part of Dawson-Harrington Families Fonds
Letter from Alice J. Turnham to Clare Harrington, written from Redpath Museum.
The fonds contains the company's business correspondence related to the importation of food products, essences, and spices from international manufacturers, and other business expenditures, as well as some correspondence with government regulators regarding food labeling and quality. In addition, some letters are from charitable and cultural organizations to which the company donated. Some personal correspondence of Henri Jonas is included, as well as numerous restaurant bills and and menus, including for the Montreal Hunt Club.
Chiefly found is incoming correspondence with product suppliers and invoices for various services, including car repair, advertising, stationary, funeral arrangements, and photography. Suppliers include companies from France, Germany, Norway, UK, Italy, Sicily, Hungary, China, India, and Spain. Products include essential oils, soaps and luxury food products such as sardines, truffles, preserves, jam, Hungarian paprika, Chinese tea, olive oil, caviar, liqueurs, foie gras, sardines, and ketchup. Two Montreal-area manufacturers are represented, with a catalogue from Couvrette Sauriol Limitée (1937) and a brochure for the Stuart Brothers. Included is one letter from postwar France soliciting renewed a commercial relationship following the allied victory (Royal Champignon). There are also bulletins from and correspondence with, including one outgoing letter, the Canadian Department of Agriculture regarding quality and labelling of canned fruits and vegetables.
A few letters are personal in nature and addressed to Henri Jonas himself. There are also telegrams and letters from Canadian organizations such as the Pacific Railway Company, and Canadian societies and organizations to which the company donated money (Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Montreal Orchestra, Hospital for Sick Children London, Salvation Army, McGill University Centennial Endowment).
Some of the company's advertising materials are also found, as well as food labels for products including mushrooms, wine, truffles, olive oil, sardines, and lemonade).
Henri Jonas & Co.
Proposals of X Block Housing [and] First Model Housing Estate Montreal
Part of Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds
File consists of architectural drawings for urban housing (basement, 3 floors, 2-1 bedroom apartments, 7-2 bedroom apartments, 7-3 bedroom apartments, 2-4 bedroom apartments; brick; composite), including:
4 presentation drawings: bird's-eye view, block plan, plans, elevations
10 development drawings: floor plans, roof plan, elevations, sections
7 working drawings: floor plans, roof plan, elevations, sections
Proposed Experimental Housing Estate, Montreal
Part of Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds
File consists of architectural drawings for urban housing, including 5 presentation drawings and 1 development drawing of floor plans.
Proposed Experimental Housing Estate, Montreal
Part of Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds
File consists of architectural drawings for urban housing, including 1 presentation drawing (block plan) and 8 development drawings (legend, key map, city maps and planning).
Dinner menu from the Mount Royal Hotel
Part of Menu Collection
Proposals of X Block Housing Early Schemes and Supplementary Material
Part of Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds
File consists of architectural drawings for urban housing, including:
3 presentation drawings: block plans, X block housing elevation
14 development drawings: road schemes, block layouts, subdivisions of land, floor plans, elevations, perspectives
1 detail drawing: structure
Part of Dawson-Harrington Families Fonds
Letter from Lois to Edward Winslow, written at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, where she was undergoing an operation.
Harrington, Lois Sybil, 1889-1978
Part of Dawson-Harrington Families Fonds
Letter from Edward to Lois, written from Montreal. On letterhead of Canadian Ingersoll-Rand Company.
Winslow-Spragge, Edward, 1886-1953