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Boyd Brothers fonds [textual record, graphic material, architectural drawing]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1907-1966.

Reference:

R3243-0-3-E, MG28-III71

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Architectural and technical drawings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101172

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Boyd Brothers fonds
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Fonds includes:

19 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1907-1966.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

1.124 m of textual records (116 p.) photocopies.
176 photographs b&w.
46 architectural drawings

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of the company's accounts, 1914-1944, and its correspondence files 1951-1966. There is also a complete list of jobs and locations, 1907-1965. The fonds also includes a company history, supplies and price lists for various years, financial files, 1951-1966, purchase agreements, 1953-1966, estimates for customer, 1958-1964, a small amount of early correspondence, and a limited number of timebooks, bank books, and early cash and memorandum books. Photocopies, 116 pages.

Photographic material depicts residences, schools, churches, and commercial buildings in Ontario constructed with cement blocks manufactured by Boyd Brothers of Osgoode, Cornwall, and Ottawa, Ontario; power boat racing at Osgoode, Ontario, ca. 1950. Photographs are by L. Anderson of Kemptville, Ontario, and Amy Daykin of Osgoode, Ontario.

Fonds consists of 46 architectural drawings for Scobie Memorial Chapel (now All Saints' Anglican Church) 347 Richmond Road, Westboro, and of concrete block construction drawings for customers in eastern Ontario served by Boyd Brothers, concrete product manufacturers.

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Boyd Brothers (Firm)

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Boyd Brothers (Firm) : The Boyd Brothers Company (Osgoode, Cornwall, and Ottawa, Ont.), concrete product manufacturers, started manufacturing concrete building blocks in 1907 and continued to do so for more than fifty years. When they began, the technology was very new and often produced unsatisfactory blocks. Unlike many other companies, the Boyd Bros. learned how to produce quality products, expanded rapidly and prospered. Many houses, churches, schools, and commercial buildings throughout Eastern Ontario were constructed with their blocks.

Although block production was ended in the mid-1960s, this family business continues to manufacture such specialized products as precast concrete septic tanks and silos.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a file list. MSS1275 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002613.pdf

Photographic: (Other) See "Photographic inventories, indexes, and caption lists arranged by accession number." FA-500

Architectural, technical drawings (Paper) Please consult lower level descriptions. Finding aid consists of a detailed itemized listing, indexed by building type and architect. 81203/16. (90: Open)

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General note:

Received in 1981 from Boyd Brothers of Osgoode, Ont.
Subject heading:

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Boyd Brothers - Records and correspondence, 1907-1966

Osgoode (Ont.) - Business enterprises, 1907-1966

Osgoode (Ont.) - Manufacturers, 1907-1966

Concrete - Manufacturers, 1907-1966

Boyd Brothers - History, 1907-1966
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1981-137 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG28-III71
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG28 III 71] 1--10

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1275] 107

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [BOYD BROTHERS 1981-137] SC 0312

[Consultation 90 Open]

Architectural: technical drawings

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: no restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old; copyright expired on items more than 50 years old.
Architectural, technical drawings: There is no restriction on access to or reproduction of this material. Credit Library and Archives Canada.

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