Series consists of the records of Laura Belle Hodgins, Kitchener, Ontario, Chairman of the Kitchener-Waterloo Women's Voluntary Services for the Department of National War Services, 1942 to 1946. Final report of the group's activities such as blood donor program, T.B. survey, Russian Relief Committee, Nutrition Committee, Civil Defence Committee, salvage project, national clothing drive. Included in front of box is a minute book, April 16, 1942 to April 25, 1945 and a book of organization strategy for the T.B. canvas.
File includes a diagram of a reflector oven by Carol Hodgins (February 1983).
File also includes following textual records:
- Scripts for Camp Wanapitei musicale (1961-1963)
- Wanapitei square dance calls (1980)
- Camp Wanapitei awards and privileges records
File also includes one “camper’s health certificate” for Leila (Lee) Stewart, dated July 1979.
File includes a handwritten sheet of the number of people in camp.
File includes some of the following documents:
- Correspondence between Mr. W.B. Salkeld and Bruce Hodgins (1962)
- Land titles act
- Summer camp license (1973)
- Corporation income tax return (1977)
File includes the following maps:
- North Shore, Georgian Bay (1930s)
- Shawanaga Bay (1930s)
- Muskoka (1940s)
- Muskoka (1940s)
- Muskoka (1940s)
- Sudbury – Cobalt – Porcupine region (1945)
- Muskoka Lakes (1949)
- Penny Sound (1950s)
- Aston, district of Nipissing (1956)
- Camp Wanapitei (two copies, 1980)
- Camp Wanapitei, Sandy Inlet (four copies)
- Dump closures, Temagami Lake
- Map showing public roads, private roads, and proposed Temagami planning area (3 copies)
File includes the following photographs:
- A group photograph in colour
- A black and white photograph on a beach. Written on the back is “Returning from Chapel – early 1960s”
- A black and white photograph of a house. Written on the back is “Box 455, Ketton Rd., West Grove”
File also includes records relating to the “canoe tripping school” between camp Wanapitei and Trent University for university and high school students (1975-1977).
File also includes the following:
- Canadian nature tours (1976)
- Booklet on wilderness summer outings presented by the national and provincial parks association of Canada (1977)
- Canadian nature tours (1977)
- Check-list of birds in the Lady Evelyn region (1974)
- Lists of canoe trip expenses
File includes the following correspondence:
- A letter from John Hogenkamp to Bruce Hodgins (1975)
- Several letters between Jane Hall and Bruce Hodgins (1975-1976)
- A letter from John Clarke to Rob Grant (1976)
- Two letters between Jeff Miller and Bruce Hodgins (1976)
- A letter from D.H. Sutton to Bruce and Mary Ann
This fonds consists of records of Laura Belle Hodgins who was Chair of the Kitchener, Ontario, Branch of the Women's Voluntary Services from 1942 to 1946; papers and legal documents of Stanley and Laura Belle Hodgins who bought Camp Wanapitei (a wilderness canoe tripping camp) in the mid-1950s; and correspondence, legal records, financial records, and camper, staff and program records of Camp Wanapitei under the directorship of Bruce Hodgins from 1960 to 1985.
Hodgins, StanleySeries consists of records of Camp Wanapitei from 1960 to 1985 under the directorship of Professor Bruce Hodgins (son of Stanley and Laura Belle Hodgins).