- CA ON00156 TR/3721/01
- Item
- 4, March, 1887
Photocopied advertisement offering passage from England to Canada, targeted at emigrating farmers, domestic workers, and tradespeople.
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Photocopied advertisement offering passage from England to Canada, targeted at emigrating farmers, domestic workers, and tradespeople.
Family history of John McIntosh (1865 – 1925) and Henrietta Calder (1867 – 1950), immigrants from Scotland to Canada who settled in Belleville, Ontario.
Saylor, Randy
File contains a history of the ancestors of John M. Parrott of Belleville and of his farm at 590 Dundas Street East, written by Lois Foster
Foster, Lois
Belleville – An outline history
An outline of the history of Belleville, Ontario, published by the Hastings County Historical Society in 1962.
Boyce, Gerry
Belleville – Early settlers – Meyer's Creek
File contains a history of the early settlers of Meyer's Creek written by Allan Dempsey.
Dempsey, Allan
Rocco Campoli discusses his immigration to Canada and working for the Grand Trunk Railway, at farming and at the Canada Cement company.
Campoli, Rocco
Carlow Township – 1866 field notes re crown lands & letter
File contains 1866 field notes of the Township of Carlow by Surveyor C.F. Aylsworth.
Carlow Township – history by Mrs. Marian Lavoy 1947
File contains a history of Carlow Township compiled by Mrs. Marian La Voy for the Carlow Women's Institute (W.I.) in 1947.
Carlow Township – pioneer land owners
File contains information of pioneer land owners and their families in Carlow Township.
Clippings relating to refugees from Southeast Asia
Clippings on the topic of people from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia who were resettled in the Quinte region in 1979-1980.
Crown sale grant of land in Marmora Township
Province of Canada sale of Crown Lands (lot 15 in the fifth concession of Marmora Township) to John Fidlar, yeoman, of Marmora Township for $300.
Government of Canada
Culbertson Tract Land Claim collection
This collection comprises documents received in response to an Access to Information request addressed to Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) by the Corporation of the Town of Deseronto, Ontario, in 2008. The request asked for copies of documentation submitted as part of the Culbertson Tract land claim of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and upon which the decision to allow the claim had been based.
The documents in this collection are all photocopies of materials located in public archives in Canada. The materials range in date from 1779 to 1959 and record the interactions between the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and the British and Canadian governments, in relation to lands, from the time of their departure from the Mohawk Valley to the mid-twentieth century.
File contains a printed bulletin of the Departments of History and Political and Economic Science, Queen's University, entitled "Captain John Deserontyou and the Mohawk Settlement at Deseronto" by M. Eleanor Herrington. The bulletin was published in 1921 and recounts the history of the early settlement of Tyendinaga. Also contains a letter to the editor of the Ontario Intelligencer explaining the origins of Captain John Deseronto [Deserontyou's] name.
Herrington, Margaret Eleanor
Dungannon Township : Turriff history
File contains original and photocopied typescript notes prepared by Mrs. Alex McGibbon, L'Amable, concerning the history of the southern section of Dungannon Township and the settlement of Turriff, with additional notes by Mrs Herbert Hawkins on the history of Bronson Settlement, Dungannon Township, Hastings.
File contains a written history of settlement and development of Elzevir and Grimsthorpe community, compiled in 1964 in response to a call for contributions to a history of Hastings County by the Hastings County Historical Society and the County of Hastings (Historic Hastings).
Elzevir Township Actinolite History
File contains a copy of a written history of Actinolite (Bridgewater) written by Lloyd 'Bud' Price and obtained by Gerry Boyce in 1964.
Price, Lloyd 'Bud'
File of copies of documents relating to Stirling-Rawdon history
Part of Lewis Zandbergen collection
File of items relating to the founding of Stirling, Ontario, and to education in Stirling and Rawdon, copied from the holdings of the Hastings County Historical Society and the Archives of Ontario. These items were sent to Stirling Public Library by Gerry Boyce.
Boyce, Gerry
Hanna, Edith Charlotte/McGuire, Ethel Mildred
Edith Hanna and Ethel McGuire discuss politics in Belleville, Marsh Engineering company, entertainment in Belleville and their life in Wales before coming to Canada.
Hanna, Edith Charlotte
Herschel Township : draft history
File contains a typescript copy of notes on the early settlement of Monteagle and Herschel Townships including information on settlement, education, railways and resources. The information was provided by children from Herschel school. Also contains two photocopy pages from the 1889 Monteagle and Herschel Directory listing landowners with surnames A-G.
Huntingdon Township History of Fuller
File contains a history of Fuller, in Huntingdon Township, by Mabel and Charles Irvine written in 1965.