Accession consists of documentary films chronicling the history and development of the Quebec and Ontario Paper Company. Titles include: "The House the Wasp Built", featuring the history of paper and wood pulp; "Forest Heritage", a film that looks at the history of logging in Canada; "Forest Forever", a film that looks at the forest as an ever changing entity able to continually regenerate itself; "Building the Manicouagan Power Company", a film about the construction of the McCormick Dam; and "A New Community", featuring the design and construction of Baie Comeau. Also included is a film entitled "Newsprint" which follows the production of newsprint from the felling of trees to the creation of pulp and paper at the Ontario Paper Company Mill; "Big City Newspaper", a film featuring the work that goes into creating The Chicago Tribune, from the production of newsprint to the story; "Manitoulin", featuring a year-round visit to the world's largest fresh water island; and "Buried Treasure", a film that focusses on the depletion of Canadian forestry resources.
Also included are several short instructional films and videos highlighting machinery used by the Ontario Paper Company for logging; several Logging Research Associates processor prototype trials; newsprint operations at Thorold, Ontario; and the creation of newsprint at Quono Corporation.
Accession also consists of a short radio segment from the John Fisher, CBC's "Wandering Reporter", who speaks of the wonders of Baie Comeau., The Québec and Ontario Paper Company, a subsidiary of the Chicago Tribune Company, was established in Thorold, Ontario, in 1912. The Québec and Ontario Paper Company fonds photographic series constitutes a large and important group of industrially related images. They were created by the company primarily for its own internal purposes : as identification documentation on timber limits, equipment, plant, town sites (Baie Comeau, Thorold), construction sites (Baie Comeau, Manicouagan) and for the company's magazine, the Observation Post.
Photographs cover the period from the Company's creation prior to WWI in 1912 and continue until the 1990s, although material before the 1920s and after the 1970s is scarce. There are an estimated 30 050 photographs in the fonds (18 000 prints, 12 000 negatives, 50 transparencies and slides). Most prints and negatives are in black and white with only a few in colour. Transparencies and slides are mostly in colour. The large majority of photographs were taken by professional photographers.
The photography series has been divided into 8 subseries. The first subseries, Arthur Schmon and Robert McCormick, consists of scrapbooks and other photographs created by or arranged for the Ontario Paper Company president (1930 - 1964), Arthur Schmon and the Chicago Tribune president, Robert McCormick. The second subseries, the Observation Post, consists of negatives commissioned or otherwise required by the magazine. The next four subseries: Baie Comeau; Shelter Bay, Franquelin, Thorold, Heron Bay, Manitoulin, Northern Ontario Limits, consist of loose prints showing the mills and towns belonging to the company and their development. The seventh subseries shows the construction and engineering of dams as well as the installation of new machinery and experiments conducted by the Company. The eight sub-series, Miscellaneous, groups various prints and albums that did not fit into any other sub-series., Accession consists of industrial design drawings pertaining to the set-up and day-to-day operations of the Ontario Paper Company in Thorold, Ont. and the QNS Paper Company Ltd. in Baie-Comeau, Quebec (the two divisions came together as the Quebec and Ontario Paper Company in September 1987). Included are technical drawings of machinery used by the paper mills, architectural drawings of various mill buildings that illustrate the growth of the company over a number of decades as well as a smaller number of maps and charts. These drawings also pertain to woodlands and sawmills in northern Ontario and Quebec owned and/or controlled by the company.
