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Fonds consists of records relating to the personal life, and legal and business career, of Cyril F.H. Carson. Records in the fonds document his association with the Law Society of Upper Canada as Treasurer and later a life bencher, his work as a partner in the law firm of Tilley, Carson and Findlay, and his role as a director for a number of Canadian companies. Records also relate to his service as a lecturer in the Bar Admission Course, various Law Society matters, and the organization of personal and business trips. The fonds includes correspondence, invoices, case materials, docket ledgers, memoranda, lecture notes, notices, minutes of meetings, reports, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, a draft memoir written by Carson, and other textual material. Also included are photographs depicting Carson at various events, his trips by boat to England, Osgoode Hall Law School class of 1921 reunions, Canadian Bar Association dinners, business meetings and corporate dinners, and with friends during social gatherings. Several artifacts relating to Carson are also included with the fonds. The fonds also includes newspaper clippings, a photograph, a case notebook, and a sketch relating to William Norman Tilley, a senior partner at the firm of Tilley & Carson.