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HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 2000 to 2499 Transportation and utilities
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Marmora Iron Works : memorial to the Governor-General re: Belleville to Marmora railway

File contains a manuscript original and copy of a memorial submitted by the Hastings County Council to Sir Edmund Walker Head, Governor-General of British North America, ca. 1857 requesting a railroad connection between the Marmora Iron Works and Belleville to facilitate the shipment of ore and provide a stimulus to mining in Hastings County.

Murray Canal, 1882-1891

File contains printed maps and drawings of the Murray Canal site. Also present is a printed document entitled “A paper on the proposed Murray Canal Between Lake Ontario and the Bay of Quinte...for use of Members of the Senate and House of Commons,” February, 1880; a printed excerpt from the Annual Report of the Public Works Department, 1891 regarding the Murray Canal; and correspondence from the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, to Thomas S. Ransom, Ontario Land Surveyor, dated 11 April 1967 pertaining to the construction and administration of the canal from 1882 to 1967.

Ontario Department of Highways

File contains one booklet sent to E. Denyes of Belleville entitled "Happy Motoring" and fifteen newspaper articles regarding various road construction projects, including Moira River Bridge, Trenton Span Bridge, 401 paving and expansion, bridge over Bay of Quinte (Picton link).

The 'Monck' Road : colonization road, 1863

File contains newspaper articles concerning the history of the Monck Road, a colonization road primarily, but also intended as a less vulnerable military route between the Upper Great Lakes and the Ottawa Valley, passing near Bancroft, Ontario. The road was surveyed in 1864-1865 and named in honour of Governor-General, Lord Monck. Also included is typescript transcript of an article entitled "Was the Monck Road for Military Use?" / by Dr. J. J. Talman, first published in the Orillia Packet and Times, 27 June 1940