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HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 2000 to 2499 Business and commerce
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Point Anne Clippings, 1956-1967

File contains newspaper clippings from The Ontario Intelligencer concerning the opening of Ste. Anne Church and separate school at Point Anne in June, 1956. Also present is an Intelligencer article 30 December 1967 concerning layoffs at The Canada Cement Company, the principal employer in Point Anne.

Ontario broadsides, 1793-1893

File contains a printed booklet entitled “A Century of Ontario Broadsides, 1793-1893,” by the Toronto Public Library, June, 1965. The booklet provides images and texts of several government and commercial proclamations and announcements in Upper Canada and Ontario.

McFee Papers, 1877-1911

File contains completed printed mortgages, indentures of sale and deeds of John A McFee, Belleville for properties in the city of Belleville. Also present is a manuscript indenture of 21 March 1867 relating to a sale of land and mineral rights in Madoc Township from Samuel and Julia Bacon to George Dean Dickson.

Richardson Gold Mining Company, : McFaul & Powell Families

File contains a typescript letter from Thomas Kelso to Robert Gray, 1 October 1884 concerning an offer to sell interests in the lands of the former Richardson Gold Mine. Also contains several photocopied newspaper articles concerning the history of the Richardson Gold Mine. Also present are photocopied stock certificates of the Royal Canadian Mining Company, Madoc ; a typescript history of the Powell and McFaul Families of Marmora Township and a brief biography of Marcus Herbert Powell who discovered gold on the John Richardson property in what became the community of Eldorado.

Gladstone & Sulphuret Goldmining Co., Belleville

File contains manuscript correspondence and corporate reports relating to the Gladstone and Sulphuret Gold Mining Company. Also present are mimeographed copies of a list of lands owned or controlled by W.N. Ponton in north Hastings ca. 1910, and a mimeographed copy of the results of a mineral analysis of Coe Hill, and Madoc area ores

Richardson Mine

File contains manuscript and typescript correspondence relating to potential leases and shareholders' interests in the Richardson Mine, Eldorado, Ontario. Also contains a printed circular to stockholders concerning the termination of the company's operations in 1868.

Postal : letters, 1842-1861

File contains two manuscript letters: a) to Mrs. Dudley [Helen] Baxter, Frampton Township, Quebec, from an unnamed sender, 8 October December 1842, concerning local and family matters in Liverpool, England. b) to L. McCallum, Esq., Stromness,[Ont.] 10 August 1861 from Buchanan Harris & Co. Hamilton concerning an invoice for dry goods.