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HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1500 to 1999 Text
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Madoc : Hannah family genealogy

File contains a typescript extract from the Hastings County Court Registry Office concerning the ownership of a piece of land in Madoc Township, granted to C. Gordon Hannah in 1861. The lot is not identified, but information from the land index maintained by the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre suggest that it is lot 24 in the seventh concession of Madoc Township.

Madoc Township : history of Bannockburn

File contains original and photocopied manuscript histories of the settlement and early development of Bannockburn including the lumbering and sawmilling industries. Includes a printout of a webpage on Maitland House (available on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20010805101431/http://casa-de.vrx.net/buildings/) and an article from the Fall 2019 Country Roads magazine about the conversion of St. Bartholomew Anglican Church in Bannockburn into a private home.

Limerick Township : history / Mrs. Violet Carrol, St. Ola

File contains photocopies of typescript notes by Mrs. Violet Carrol, St. Ola concerning the geography, natural resources, settlement and agricultural and logging in Limerick Township (in response to a survey by Gerry Boyce for his book, Historic Hastings.. Also contains a manuscript letter from Violet Carrol to Carl Bateman, Clerk-Treasurer, Hastings County, concerning the history of Limerick Township.

Ku Klux Klan Charter

File contents:

  • Ku Klux Klan of Canada Charter - Invisible Empire Knights and Ladies asking for a Klan of this Order in the Canton of Belleville, with list of names of citizens petitioning
  • newpaper photo of class of new members of a Ku Klux Klan
  • clipping from The telegram, October 26, 1965 - "Gone and Well forgotten - The Klan's Canadian Flop"
  • photocopy of the above item including missing part
  • A card with threat from KKK High Chief with skull and crossbones drawing sent to a Tweed resident, Tom Meraw
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