Collection search - Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto fonds [textual record (some microfilm), graphic material]

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Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto fonds [textual record (some microfilm), graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1871-1971.

Reference:

R2803-0-5-E, MG28-I44

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

99430

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Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1871-1971.

Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

Israel, United States

Extent:

8.5 m of textual records.
12 microfilm reels.
209 photographs : b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of textual records: minutes of the Toronto Trades Assembly, 1871-1878; the Toronto Trades and Labor Council, 1881-1921; the Toronto District Labor Council, 1902-1926; the Toronto District Trades and Labor Council, 1871-1887, 1950-1956; the National Labour Council of Toronto, 1934-1940; the Toronto Labour Council, 1940-1949; the Toronto and District Labour Council, 1956-1968; predominantly as microfilm copies, but with some originals and typed transcripts. Other series are letterbooks of the Toronto District Labor Council, 1905-1908, and miscellaneous records of the Toronto Labour Council, 1937-1939, 1956-1971.

Microfilm copy of minutes of the Toronto Trades Assembly, 1871-1878, the Toronto Trades and Labour Council, 1881-1893, minutes of the Toronto District Labor Council, 1922-1950, the Toronto District Trades and Labor Council, 1950-1956, the National Labour Council of Toronto, 1934-1940, the Toronto Labour Council, 1940-1951, the Toronto and Lakeshore Labour Council, 1951-1956 and the Toronto and District Labour Council, 1958-1968 are located on microfilm reels M-304 to M-305 and M-2292 to M-2297. Minutes of the Toronto Trades and Labor Council, 1893 to 1902 and minutes of the Toronto District Labour Council, 1904 to 1908 are available on microfilm reels C-4587 to C-4590.

The fonds also contains photographs relating to the activities of the Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto, 1914-1967.

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Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto

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Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto : Municipal Labour Council

The Toronto Trades Assembly, the first central labour organization in Canada, was formed early in 1871. It ceased to function during the depression of the latter part of the decade and was re-organized in 1881 as the Toronto Trades and Labor Council. A second labour council was established in Toronto in 1913 for national unions affiliated with the Canadian Federation of Labour. In 1927, following the formation of the All-Canadian Congress of Labour by the merger of the Federation and the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees, this council was re-named the National Labour Council of Toronto.

When the Canadian Congress of Labour was formed in 1940, the locals of the unions affiliated to the Congress of Industrial Organizations joined this council and the name was changed to Toronto Labour Council. In 1950, the Lakeshore Labour Council (CIO) merged with this council and it was re-named the Toronto and Lakeshore Labour Council. With the 1956 merger of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour, the two Toronto councils amalgamated under the name Toronto and District Labour Council. In 1968, the name was changed to Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto in keeping with the reorganization of municipal government.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a list of the contents on each reel of microfilm and a list of the file titles in the chronological series. MSS0383 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001451.pdf

Photographs (Other) See photographic inventories, indexes, and caption lists arranged by accession number. FA-500 (Restrictions not set)

(Electronic) All or some of the documents described have been digitized and are available at the following address: (90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_99430

(Electronic) Les documents décrits ont été complètement ou en partie numérisés et sont disponibles à l'adresse suivante : (90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_99430?usrlang=fr

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General note:

The minutebooks, 1887-1921, and the letterbook, 1905-1908, of the Toronto District Labor Council were presented in 1970 by the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) through Dr. Eugene Forsey. Other minutes were presented by the CLC in 1981.
The chronological files of the Toronto Labour Council were presented by the Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto in 1973.

Dates of creation note:

The microfilm reels were filmed by the Archives in 1958, 1970 and 1973 from originals held by the Canadian Labour Council and the Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto.

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories: 125th Anniversary of the National Archives. Curator: Martin Tétreault, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1997.05.14-1998.01.
( MG 28 I 44 Vol 1 Toronto Labour Council, 1887)

Related material:

For related materials, see: William Kearns fonds (R3390 / MG31-B14, Mikan catalogue no. 101770.)
Subject heading:

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Trade-unions - Canada, 1871-1971 Toronto Trades and Labor Council, 1887-1921

Toronto District Labour Council - Records and correspondence, 1905-1908 Toronto Trades Assembly, 1871-1878

Toronto (Ont.) - Trade unions, 1871-1971 Toronto District Labor Council, 1902-1926, 1939-1950

Trade-union meetings - Canada, [1871-1971] Toronto District Trades and Labour Council, 1950-1956

National Labour Council of Toronto, 1934-1940

Toronto Labour Council, 1940-1949

Toronto and Lakeshore Labour Council, 1950-1956

Toronto and District Labour Council, 1956-1968

Labour - unions and organizations - archival fonds
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1972-167 NPC
1977-072 NPC
1981/0317
1996-03017-5
1996/0087

Former archival reference no.:

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MG28-I44
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 383] 41

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Textual records: microform

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Microfilm reel

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C-4587--C-4589;

[Consultation 90 Open]

M-2292--M-2297;

[Consultation 90 Open]

M-304--M-305;

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Graphic (photo)

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Photographs: No donor restrictions. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old. Copyright expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.

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