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Levisconte papers

File contains manuscript probate documents relating to the estate of Henry Le Vesiconte [Levisconte], Captain in the Royal Navy and later gentleman farmer, and a manuscript last will and testament of Sarah Le Vesiconte, widow of Henry Le Vesiconte, 1856. Also contains a typescript excerpts from the Diary of Captain Le Visconte recounting his voyage to Belleville from England and describing conditions in Belleville upon his arrival in 1835.

Mayo Township : history

File contains a photocopied typescript history of Mayo Township from its settlement in 1858 to ca. 1906. Also contains an excerpt from the 1889 Hastings County Directory, listings Mayo and Carlow Township land owners by concession. Also contains a newspaper clipping concerning the history of McArthur's Mill to 1934.

Hastings County: House of Refuge and Industrial Farm

File contains motions from Hastings County Council meetings from 1869-1870 regarding the establishment of an Industrial Farm and Poor House in Belleville. There is also a copy of the “Second Annual Report of the Inspector of the House of Industry & Refuge for the County of Waterloo, 1869” that may have been used in the discussions.

Smith family photographs

  • CA ON00156 2014-49
  • Fonds
  • 1872-2000

The fonds consists of 633 photographs, 23 negatives, letters, sympathy cards, business cards, newspaper clippings, genealogy and family history and a few business papers belonging to the Smith family, primarily Frank Smith of Madoc. The photographs found in this fonds mainly depict the area around Madoc, with some from Bancroft, Maynooth and other places in Hastings County. A large number of the photographs were taken on vacation or while travelling through Canada and the United States. The photographs were taken in Florida, Atlantic City, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Healy Falls, Shaw Falls, Coppercliffe, Ottawa, Port Carling, Gaspe, Napanee, Madoc, Bancroft, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick.

The families primarily depicted in the photographs are the Smith family, McCaw family, Swayne family and Cassidy family. Many of the photographs have names and places written on the back of them. Other people mentioned on the photographs include: Jean Phillips Thompson, Mary Smith Barton, Aunt Vera, Muriel Smith, George Wright, Hugh Pepper, Frank Smith, Frank and Jane Packer Ingersoll, Elizabeth Baker, Martin Porter, Kay Seaton, Helen Whycock, Bessie Woods, Tom Ross, Jack and Ann Yonkers.

There are 3 letters from Henry and Eliza Smith between 1872 and 1874; a birth certificate for Frank Smith, news clippings on the Smith and McCaw families and events in Madoc. There are also family trees and other genealogical information connecting the Smith, McCaw and other families. Much of the information appears to have been gathered by Mary Elizabeth Barton (born Smith: lived from 1921 to 2017).

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