- CA ON00156 TR/2797
- Item
- 1966
File contains a newspaper article dated 22 June 1966 concerning an exhibition of an early steam engine at Campbellford Fair Grounds.
File contains a newspaper article dated 22 June 1966 concerning an exhibition of an early steam engine at Campbellford Fair Grounds.
File contains a newspaper article titled "A Big Day for Steam On Sunday in Cobourg", steam engine No. 6167
File contains several newspaper articles concerning the history of the Trent-Severn Waterway, including pre- and early contact travel by the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois. Also present is an Intelligencer article , 3 January 1962, regarding plans to substantially renovate the lock system on the Trent Canal.
Trent Valley Police Association
File contains a newspaper clipping regarding meetings of the Trent Valley Police Association with municipal councils in Northumberland and Hastings Counties concerning duties and salaries.
Railway : Grand Junction petition to finish line, 1859
File contains a manuscript petition by the rate payers of the Township of Asphodel, Northumberland County, ca. 1859 to urge the Grand Trunk Railway to complete the proposed Grand Junction Railway line in Hastings County.
Trent Canal : “Report on the Most Eligible Route” 1855 / N. H. Baird
File contains a printed booklet entitled “Report on the most eligible route for a canal between Lake Simcoe ..and Georgian Bay...to the Bay of Quinte...” by N.H. Baird, C.E., published at Belleville in 1855. The report discusses proposed routes for a Trent-Severn Canal project.
File contains a typescript transcript from Smith's Canada, Volume 2, 1851 concerning natural resources and industries at Trent Port, Murray Township, Presqu'isle and various islands in the Bay of Quinte near Belleville.
Robertson, William : deeds and correspondence, 1825-1845
File contains a manuscript deed of land for properties acquired by William Robertson in Belleville from Bleecker Walden Meyers, 26 October, 1842. Also present is correspondence originating from and received by William Robertson concerning the lease and sale of lands in Hastings County, and Northumberland County.
File contains a printed completed oath of allegiance sworn by Mungo Ponton before the Upper Canada Commissioner for the taking of oaths, on 13 August 1841. Also present is a manuscript letter from E.Mahon to Mungo Ponton concerning an application by the latter for land in the Township of Seymour, Northumberland County, 30 August 1831; and a printed, completed deed of land granted on 22 July 1841 to Mungo Ponton for a tract of four hundred acres, at lot number 8, in the 7th concession and lot number 8, 8th concession in the Township of Seymour, Northumberland County.
Ponton (family)
Ponton, Dr. Mungo : will, 1833
File contains a manuscript last will and testament of Mungo Ponton, dated 11 October 1833, in the County of Northumberland.
Ponton (family)
File contains a brief manuscript essay on slaveholding in Upper Canada to 1820, in what later became the Lennox-Addington, and Frontenac Counties. Also present is a typescript transcript of a receipt for the sale of woman and her infant child in 1812 near what is now Colborne, Ontario.