Mississauga Library System

Local Archives:
FIX, MARY

  1. Envelope: invitations, Christmas cards - 11 items
  2. Manuscript by M. Fix: By-laws
  3. Minutes Cooksville November 29-1951, manuscript by M. Fix
  4. Mr. Reeve and Council . . .paper presented to council January 25, 1960, by Mary Fix
  5. Typescript: The Councils of the Town of Port Credit . . ., budget presentation, January 4, 1965
  6. Letter to Mary Fix from Augusta Adamson, dated December 30th [1955?], photocopy
  7. Acclamations fill most posts: Mrs. Mary Fix Earns Title As Township's "Rightful First Lady". Port Credit Weekly, December 2, 1954
  8. Head Twp. Brain Trust. Toronto Telegram, January 10, 1953
  9. Mary Fix is dead. Mississauga Review, May 3, 1972
  10. Envelope - 6 black-and-white 10x13cm photographs
  11. Speech - Mississauga Public Library, n.d.
  12. New interchange to encroach on park. The Booster, November 26, 2003
  13. The Mississauga Heritage Foundation presents The 2003 Mary Fix Memorial Lecture. Program, November 18, 2003
  14. Profile : Mary Fix : a woman for all seasons. First in a series of articles by William Barber in Heritage News, Fall 1997, vol. 10, issue 4
  15. Profile : Mary Fix : the Cinderella Township. Second in a series of articles by William Barber in Heritage News, Winter 1998, vol. 11, issue 2
  16. Profile : Mary Fix : the Cinderella Township. Third in a series of articles by William Barber in Heritage News, Spring 1998, vol. 11, issue 2
  17. Profile : Mary Fix : the Cinderella Township. Fourth in a series of articles by William Barber in Heritage News, Summer 1998, vol. 11, issue 3
  18. Mary Fix’s personal copy of the Ontario Municipal Board’s Decisions and Recommendations, dated January 20, 1953, in the matter of sections 20 and 22 of “The Municipal Act” (R.S.O., 1950, Chap. 243), annotated by Mary Fix
  19. Merchandise reports: small 9” x 11” 3-ring binder containing reports dating from August 12, 1929 to November 4, 1929, also two letters dated September 18, 1926 and September 26, 1926, from J. G. Clark of the Robert Simpson Company to Miss Mary McNulty. These reports deal with fashion news of the time period probably compiled for her then employer, the T. Eaton Company
  20. Miss M. McNulty’s file: reports, 1930. Nine typescripts as follows: -- Enough rope to hang me (2 copies) -- Subdivision control (2 copies) -- That telephone again (2 copies) -- Foreword from Mary Fix “So you think you’d like to go into politics” -- So you think you’d like to go into politics (“dedication to my colleagues on all Township of Toronto Councils 1952-4-5 and 1957-8-9 and to the Township departmental heads and staff with friendly memories.”) -- 1954 – Industrial promotion, or Great oaks from little acorns grow -- A wild, wet New Year’s Eve -- A telephone interruption -- Social doings and stomach trouble -- Garbage disposal
  21. Mary Fix’s personal copy of the Credit Valley Conservation Report, 1957
  22. Letter from Robert S. Holmes, clerk, Township of Chinguacousy, dated September 22, 1966, to Mary Fix
  23. Cartoon of the Fix house at the cloverleaf of the Queen Elizabeth Way and Highway 10
  24. Invitation from the Corporation of the Township of Toronto to a special showing of its industrial film [Cinderella Township] at the Thomas L. Kennedy High School, October 25, 1957
  25. Invitation from the Township of Toronto Historical Foundation Incorporated to the Centennial opening of the Lewis Bradley Pioneer Museum, June 11, 1867
  26. Sundry handwritten notes by Mary Fix on the history of Peel County, undated. (These may have been for the Centennial publication, A history of Peel County, 1967)
  27. Certificate of Life Membership in the Daschund Club of Canada presented to the Right Honourable Lord Tweedsmuir, G.C.M.G., C.H., by Foundation members, 1938. [Albert A. Fix is listed also Mrs. Albert A. Fix, Secretary-Treasurer]
  28. Two sets of photocopies from newspapers, the Utica (N.Y.) Globe, April 26 and 28, 1900, and the New York Times, 28 April 1900, with a cover letter from Alice Cynthia Dodge, Librarian, Utica Public Library, Utica, N. Y, dated 3 July 1964, re the great fire of Ottawa-Hull. [Mary Fix’s mother, Anna O’Reilly McNulty, had been the Canadian correspondent for the Utica Globe.]
  29. Section of The Saturday Globe, March 9, 1895, “Toronto’s Third Great Fire”, 4 p
  30. Letter dated September 17, 1962, from Erik J. Spicer, Parliamentary Librarian, to Mary Fix, re location of pictures
  31. Letter dated September 19, 1962 from Dr. W. Kaye Lamb, Dominion Archivist, to Mary Fix re a collection of photographs originally belonging to Anna O’Reilly McNulty (Mary Fix’s mother) and given to the Ottawa Citizen by her father after her mother’s death
  32. Township of Toronto building report, December 1965 (1 sheet)
  33. Programme – Official opening Peel County Courthouse, Saturday, June 17th, 1967, 7755 Hurontario Street
  34. Invitation to attend the official opening of the Peel County Courthouse, Saturday June 17th, 1967, addressed to “Mrs. Mary Fix and Gentleman”, with handwritten note by Mary Fix at bottom left “with the Barnickes”
  35. Centennial information kit – Township of Toronto
  36. Report of the Township of Toronto Centennial Committee to General Committee, September 29, 1964
  37. “Attempted hijacking” – Fix, as Centennial battle starts. News-Review, August 12, 1964, with annotations by Mary Fix
  38. Centennial programme committee
  39. Clipping from Toronto Star, August 1964, “A consultant needs a consultant”, describing Mary Fix’s aversion to hiring the newly formed public relations firm, Centennial Celebration Consultants Ltd., with her annotations
  40. Local plans for ’67 are well received: Govt. Re. lauds Twp. Centennial plans. News-Review, September 30, 1960
  41. Proposed programme ’67 Centennial, with Mary Fix’s handwritten annotations
  42. Mississauga City Centre: the McLaughlin Group
  43. Christmas card, signed “Love and kindest wishes, Anna & Margaret”, picture of Erindale, Ontario, 1912 on front.
  44. Plan of the Town of Toronto, scale 4 chs to an Inch, York 21st 1830. Copy from a linen on record in the office of Speight, Van Nostrand, Ward & Anderson, Ontario Land Surveyors, September 3, 1963. Township of Toronto, Engineering Department, Cooksville, Ontario
  45. Plan, Dixie Industrial Area, December 1956, with Mary Fix’s handwritten annotations
  46. Envelope containing lists of the following with names and addresses: Credit Valley Neighbours; Lorne Park Senior Citizens; Lakeview Senior Citizens; Cooksville Senior Citizens
  47. Envelope containing three typescripts: Incurring municipal debt, by J. W. P. Carter, dated September 15, 1954; The workable unit of government – what is it? … a short address delivered on CHWO on Sunday, September 20, 1958, by Reeve Mary Fix; Salmon fishing on the Credit, by Mary Fix
  48. Envelope containing miscellaneous items: invitations from Dr. Bernard Ulrich, general manager, St. Lawrence Cement Co., to a ground-breaking ceremony to mark the start of construction of a new cement plant, September 22, 1955; invitation from Bernard Ulrich to the official opening of the St. Lawrence Cement Co. Clarkson Plant, June 12, 1957; program of official opening Huron Park Recreation Centre, September 21, 1967; program official opening Township of Toronto Public Library, November 13, 1963; program County of Peel Warden’s Banquet, Mississauga Golf & Country Club, November 19, 1959 [Mary Fix, Warden]; business card of Paul Chapdelaine, Sec.-Tres., St. Lawrence Cement Co; name tag, Mrs. Mary Fix; 3 typescript pages, itinerary and program, Toronto Township Council trip to Quebec City, to St. Lawrence Cement Company Ltd., May 27-28, 1955; constitution and by-laws of the Daschund Club of Canada, adopted 1938, with handwritten annotations by Mary Fix
  49. Envelope containing miscellaneous correspondence; letter dated July 12, 1955 from Harold A. Clarke, President, South Peel Real Estate Board to the Reeve and Council, Township of Toronto; letter dated July 13, 1955 from W. C. Coupland, secretary-treasurer, Argo Block Company to Mary Fix, Reeve, Toronto Township; letter dated April 18, 1957 from Bernard Ulrich, general manager, St. Lawrence Cement Co., to Mary Fix, Reeve, Township of Toronto; letter dated December 23, 1959 from John W. Argo, Gore and Storrie, Consulting Engineers, to Reeve Mary Fix; correspondence between Mary Fix and Henry S. Gooderham re history of Gooderham & Worts; pamphlet dated 1962 on the Glenbow Foundation, Calgary, with handwritten annotations by Mary Fix
  50. File folder: on cover: “Jan 13/63 -- This contains my own notes on various points of local history, M. Fix”. Contents, typescripts: copy of memo for Mr. C. V. Charters & Mr. A. McKinney, Aug. 1, 1966 [re essays for the centennial publication, A History of Peel County]; History of the Township of Toronto’s first industrial boom, from Mrs. A (Mary) Fix; handwritten notes on Brampton (1 sheet); County of Peel, from Mary Fix with suggested illustrations; Early history of Sydenham later named Dixie, Ontario, Township of Toronto, County of Peel, by Margaret F. Gildner, January 1967; Meadowvale-on-the-Credit, by Marg. Gildner, June 8, 1966; Pioneer life in the County of Peel, by Margaret F. Gildner, September 8, 1966; History of the Township of Toronto, from the Historical Atlas of Peel County, with handwritten annotations by Mary Fix; Early history of the village of Streetsville, Ontario; Local happenings in the villages in and around the Township of Toronto the week of March 19, 1896 [from a copy of the Streetsville Review, Thursday March 19, 1896, donated by John Rogers of the Clerk’s Department to the Bradley House Museum
  51. First Lady of Mississauga [Mary Fix]. The Booster, January 21, 2009
  52. Profile … Mary Fix: a woman for all seasons. Heritage News, Fall 1997, vol. 10, issue 4
  53. Profile … Mary Fix: the Cinderella Township, part 2. Heritage News, Winter 1998, vol. 11, issue 1