Fonds 08-022 - Harley R. Cummings fonds. 2008 additions

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Harley R. Cummings fonds. 2008 additions

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08-022

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  • 1865-1963 (Creation)
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    Cummings, Harley R.

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15 photographs : 13 negatives.
19 cm of textual records.

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Harley Richard Cummings was born in 1909 in Bond Head, Ontario, the son of Dr. James A. and Mildred Cummings. In 1933, after obtaining an Honours BA from the University of Toronto and graduating from the Ontario College of Education, he began teaching at the Boys' Vocational School and the Glashan Intermediate School and York Street School in Ottawa. In 1942, he was a volunteer education officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force and later became a flight lieutenant. At the conclusion of World War II, Cummings returned to Ottawa and, over the next twenty years, was school principal at a number of schools. Of significant importance is Cummings' book, Early Days in Haliburton, which he wrote in 1962. It includes an introduction by Ontario Premier Leslie Frost. Cummings married Shirley Stotesbury in 1964. He died at the age of 90 on May 10, 1999.

Custodial history

Fonds was in the custody of Mrs. Shirley Cummings before it was donated to Trent University Archives.

Scope and content

Fonds consists of Harley Cummings' research material for Early Days in Haliburton, published in 1963. Included are original wage lists, letters, receipts, accounting records, and agreements of the Ottawa logging company, Bronsons and Weston, with several documents relating to their York Branch operation. Documents relating to business transactions with the Boyd lumbering company of Bobcaygeon, and with individuals along the Peterson Road and Bobcaygeon Road who provided supplies and lodging for the workers comprise a part of the holdings. Mentioned are the Egan Farm in Dungannon Township, Hastings County, and the Bruton Farm on the Peterson Road in Haliburton County. There are references, too, to the operation of cadges between locations (commercial carriers which transported supplies by horses and sleigh/buggy). Also included are copy maps; photographs; notes; handwritten transcriptions of diaries of Alexander Niven and of Mrs. C.R. Stewart; and photographs of Lillian de Grassi Boyd, the Blomfield [Blumfield] family of Lakefield, and the Strickland homestead in Lakefield.

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The Bronsons and Weston documents (1869-1885) which are located in Box 1 contain mould. Although each document is encapsulated in mylar, some multi-page documents need to be removed from the mylar in order to turn the pages. Researchers are requested to wear masks and gloves.

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Fonds acquired in 2008 from Mrs. Shirley Cummings.

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This fonds along with 01-009, 02-009, and 04-006 is an addition to 00-001.

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