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Fonds consists of the records created and collected by Alvin D. McCurdy. Fonds includes the personal correspondence and a genealogy of the McCurdy family. Fonds also includes material collected by McCurdy relating to: Amherstburg planning and conservation (1953-1983), Amerherstburg schools (1881-1987), Black churches (1852-1988), the Joiners and Carpenters Union (1950- 1989), and various black organisations such as the Amherstburg Citizen's Advancement Association (1887-1983). Fonds also contains 12 scrapbooks, compiled between 1880-1989, of newspaper clippings regarding Amherstberg peoples and events. Fonds also contains ca. 3000 photographs, 1850's-1989. Subjects include: Amherstberg church activities, Masons, newspaper clippings and soldiers. Families represented include: McCurdy, Adams, Banks, Holten, Kirtley, King, Munroe, Saunders, Thomas and Thompson families. Fonds also includes 181 postcards, ca. 1905-1987, depicting scenes of southern Ontario and the northern
United States. Fonds also includes two oral history interviews, 1974-1976, regarding Ontario black settlers. Interviewees are: Sarah Estella Stokes and Charlie Duncan. Fonds has been arranged in to 16 series: McCurdy Family Papers; Scholarly and Literary Works; Resource Files; Geneological Files; Prince Hall Freemasonry; Carpenters and Joiners Unions; Local Planning and Conservation; Conveyancer Papers; Black Organisations; Churches; Schools; George D. McCurdy Papers; Stokes Family Papers; Scrapbooks; Book Collection; Photographs; and Oral History Sound Recordings.
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