Ministry of
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Ministry of
Government and Consumer Services
Fonds C 8
92 albums (ca. 11,000 photographs : black and white and colour)
ca. 2300 aperture cards
Fonds consists of 92 albums containing approximately 11,000 photographs of steam-powered vessels. These vessels were part of the American and Canadian Great Lakes fleet in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Included are photographs of steamships, tugboats, barges, lighters, wreckers, government vessels as well as prints depicting the Welland canal and communities along the canal.
Although the prints in the albums do not necessarily possess identifying captions, Kidd prepared appendices / indexes to the albums themselves, which have been modified by the processing archivist.
Also included are miscellaneous photographs of unidentified individuals.
In addition, the fonds includes donor-created aperture cards, each of which includes an image of a vessel.
Fonds is arranged into eight series.
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James M. Kidd was a Toronto area businessman employed in automotive sales and financing, and a Great Lakes steamship enthusiast.
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Title based on contents of fonds.
The albums were arranged by Kidd into four series: Albums of Canadian-owned vessels (Series 1); Albums of American-owned vessels (Series 2); Albums of the Old Great Lakes Fleet [Steamships], or what Kidd had termed 'has-beens' (Series 3); and Miscellaneous steamships, Albums of Tugs, Barges, Lighters, Wreckers, Government Vessels (Series 4).
Four additional series were added by the processing archivist: Albums of the Welland Canal (Series 5); Albums of Great Lakes steamships (Series 6); James Kidd's unidentified people photographs (Series 7) and Copy negatives of vessels (Series 8).
The original alphabetical / numerical order of the albums and aperture cards established by Kidd has been maintained.
Dates are based on the dates of the original images not necessarily the photographs in this fonds.
Accruals are not anticipated.
Accession Number : 16657
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| Reference Code | Series Title |
| C 8-1 | Albums of Canadian-owned steamships |
| C 8-3 | Albums of old fleet steamships |
| C 8-4 | Albums of tugs, barges, lighters, wreckers, and government vessels |
| C 8-8 | Copy negatives of vessels |