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Archival description
2009-057/024(33) · File · [ca. 1915]-[between 1990 and 1999]
Part of George Edmonton Arctic Reid fonds

Items in this album include photographs of George Reid; his wife, Olive; his father, Edward; his children, friends and co-workers. These images document Reid's childhood, his military service, his work and his home life. Many photographs have descriptive captions.

Scrapbooks
S00529 · Series · [192-]-[197-]
Part of George Edmonton Arctic Reid fonds

Series consists of thirteen scrapbooks created by George E.A. Reid and his family, which include personal photographs, cards, newspaper clippings, and other material.

Scotia
2009-057/024(12) · File · [between 1947 and 1955]
Part of George Edmonton Arctic Reid fonds

File consists of photographs of George Reid and his family while living on Scotia Avenue in Toronto.

S00526 · Series · 1918-2008
Part of George Edmonton Arctic Reid fonds

Series consists of files related to George E.A. Reid's personal life, including material relevant to his adolescent, teenage and adult years. Material related to Reid's academic life includes classroom lecture notes, yearbooks, and some textbooks used by Reid. Correspondence pertains to Reid's professional activities, as well as the activities of his family including his parents, his brother, his wife, and children.

2009-057/024(34) · File · [ca. 1923]-[ca. 1966]
Part of George Edmonton Arctic Reid fonds

Album includes photographs of George Reid from early childhood to middle age, as well as of his wife, Olive, their children, his brothers, other relatives and friends. These photographs document Reid's family and social life in Quebec and Ontario from the 1920s to the 1960s. Many photographs have descriptive captions.

Photographs
S00576 · Series · [ca. 1915]-[between 1990 and 1999],[ca. 1937]-1967 predominant
Part of George Edmonton Arctic Reid fonds

Series consists of photographs in negative and print formats primarily pertaining to the personal life of George Reid and his family. Photographs in this series document Reid's childhood and adolescence in Shawville, Quebec; his service in the Canadian Forces during World War II; his marriage to Olive Wilson; their family life with children Peter, Dianne and Stephanie Reid; travel and family trips; social gatherings with family and art school friends; and work colleagues from Rous and Mann and C.F. Houghton. Also included in this series are early photographs of Reid's father, Edward Reid.

F0566 · Fonds · [ca. 1915]-2008

Fonds consists of textual records about the life of George E.A. Reid, including birth, baptismal, and death certificates, high school yearbooks, personal correspondence, and personal papers from throughout adolescence and adult life, as well as material relevant to his professional working life. The records also include information about his family, including the diary writings of his mother, Bessie Ellis Reid, and his wife, Olive Reid. Fonds also consists of correspondence sent between family members and received by family members. Also included are 12 large scrapbooks containing cards, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other material created by, collected and arranged by George E.A. Reid and family. Also included in the fonds are Reid's personal and family photographs and various forms of Reid's artwork and music, including drawings, sketches, paintings, graphic print artwork, and some original musical compositions. The fonds also contains 35mm and large-format colour transparencies taken by George E.A. Reid of the family and flower gardens, as well as a binder containing original animation cells from "Life with Cecil" (1960), a short film animated by Reid, and other artwork including hand-painted cartoon movie title stills, sketches on tracing paper, and other hand-drawn cartoons. Also, there are 18 8mm film reels of home movies and family trips, as well as 2 audio cassettes that include Dianne Reid's interview with George's older brother Ted, and a recorded musical collaboration between George E.A. Reid and his youngest daughter, Stephanie.

A book and pamphlet collected by George E. A. Reid through his schooling and work and donated with the fonds have been added to Special Collections, and are accessible through York University Libraries' catalogue.

Reid, George Edmonton Arctic, 1921-1977
George E.A. Reid : wartime
2009-057/025(03) · File · 1942-1945
Part of George Edmonton Arctic Reid fonds

Photographs in this album depict George Reid during World War II, posing in and out of uniform with friends and other soldiers in various locations around Canada. Included in the album is an autographed photograph of actress June Allyson addressed to Reid.