Collection search - Pedlar People Limited fonds [textual record, graphic material, architectural drawing]

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Pedlar People Limited fonds [textual record, graphic material, architectural drawing]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1861, 1891-1971.

Reference:

R3076-0-1-E, MG28-III70

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Architectural and technical drawings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102885

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Pedlar People Limited fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1861, 1891-1971.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

12.45 m of textual records.
250 photographs b&w.
622 architectural drawings
90 technical drawings

Language of material:

English

Accession:

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Plans for barn and stable construction [architectural drawing]

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Fonds consists of the business records of Pedlar People Limited consist mostly of trade catalogues, photographs, and advertising material relating to pressed metal roofing, siding, ceilings, and decorative architectural components for a wide range of buildings: residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial, and ecclesiastical. A small amount of material concerns Canadian competitors in the field and includes some of their important catalogues. There are also varying amounts of material relating to other products such as logging flumes, lath and expanded metal, barn and stable equipment. Other records consist of account books of various types, of some correspondence pertaining to shell production contracts during World War II and to Pedlar's business connection with the Quebec Paved Pipe Company, of miscellaneous post war correspondence and of some personal correspondence from the W.R. Gieke family. The amount of correspondence is generally limited, but the earlier correspondence does illustrate why this company, unlike many of its competitors, survived the 1930's Depression, 1861, 1891-1971.

The fonds also contains photographs related to Pedlar People operation and products; views of barns and culverts using galvanized steel, [1900-1960].

Fonds consists of plans and drawings of barns and stables in Ontario and Quebec for which galvanized steel parts were fabricated by the Pedlar People Limited, along with drawings of shell casing and blueprints of ammunition boxes produced by the same company under war contracts.

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Pedlar People (Firm)

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Pedlar People (Firm) : In 1861 Henry Pedlar began making kitchen utensils in his Oshawa hardware store. His son George Henry Pedlar continued this work and in 1892 opened a stamping plant for the manufacture of metal roofing, siding, ceilings and other metal architectural components which were both decorative and functional.

This company, the Pedlar Metal Roofing Company, was incorporated in 1911 as The Pedlar People Limited. Besides the products mentioned, The Pedlar People have also produced a wide range of other metal products including tinsmithing supplies, metal lath and plastering accessories used in fireproof construction, culverts, drainage pipes, prefabricated metal buildings, metal logging flumes, barn and stable equipment, bins, lockers, work benches, and various expanded metal products.

These products were manufactured in Oshawa and sold and installed in Canada, South America, South Africa, Japan, Australia, and probably in other countries as well. They had a major impact on architecture and methods of building as they were both durable and an economical way of achieving the desired ornateness which was becoming prohibitively expensive in labour-intensive wood and plaster products.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a detailed file list. MSS0916 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001763.pdf

Architectural, technical drawings (No finding aid) 80103/41; 84503/25. (99: Closed pending processing)

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General note:

Received in 1977 from the Pedlar People, Oshawa, Ontario.

Custodial history:

Received in 1977 from the Pedlar People, Oshawa, Ontario.

Restrictions on access note:

Architectural, technical drawings: No restrictions.
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Pedlar People Limited - Records and correspondence, 1861,1891-1971 Oshawa (Ont.), 1861, 1891-1971

Business enterprises - Canada - Records and correspondence, 1861, 1891-1971 W.R. Gieke, 1951-1954

Business records - Ontario, 1861, 1891-1971

Photographs - Ontario, 1861, 1891-1971

Building materials industry - Ontario, 1861, 1891-1971

Building, Iron and steel - Ontario, 1861, 1891-1971

Advertising - Building materials - Ontario, 1861, 1891-1971

Catalogs, Commercial, 1861, 1891-1971

Sheet-metal, 1861, 1891-1971

Sheet-metal work, 1861, 1891-1971

Products, Metal, 1861, 1891-1971

Metal-work - Ontario, 1861, 1891-1971

Architectural metal-work - Ontario, 1861, 1891-1971

Decoration and ornament, Architectural, 1861, 1891-1971
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1979-172 NPC
80103/41 CA
MG28-III70

Former archival reference no.:

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MG28-III70
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG28 III 70] 1--125

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 916] 88

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Architectural: technical drawings

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]

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Photographs: No restrictions. Various copyright 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.
Architectural, technical drawings: Credit Library and Archives Canada.

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