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Crown sale grant of land in Marmora Township

  • 2022-039
  • Item
  • 1867

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

Mining : Marmora Iron Works, 1823

File contains a typescript brief biography of Charles Hayes who was an early promoter of iron ore mining and smelting in Blairton, near Marmora, Ontario.

[This is the text of a plaque erected in Marmora by the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board, Department of Public Records and Archives of Ontario. For more on the location of the plaque, see https://hastingshistoricalplaques.ca/regional-maps/marmora-ironworks-1823/92 .]

Penal Systems : essay on proposed relocation of Kingston penitentiary to the Marmora Iron Works, 1837

File contains a photocopied, typescript essay entitled “ The Report of the Commissioners on the removal of the Penitentiary from Kingston to the Marmora Iron Works...” by Nancy M. Dushaw, Carleton University, 1972. The undergraduate essay examines a government proposal to relocate the prison to Marmora and the reasons for the rejection of the plan.

John Turnbull records

  • Fonds
  • 1823-1897

The fonds contains the papers of John S. Turnbull of Belleville, Ontario. Enclosed in the first file is a description of the property of a Mr. Forrin; a notice instructing Mr. Turnbull to pay Mr. James Anderson eleven pounds, ten shillings by Mr. James Turnbull; and a description of the west side of Front Street. The second file consists of items relating to Turnbull's estate including a list of properties he owned, a list of personal effects, the last will and testament of Margaret Campbell, the first and final wills of John Turnbull, and documents pertaining to a dispute over his estate by his family after his death. The third file is composed of various real estate contracts, the fourth file consists of real estate deeds, while the fifth file is made up of real estate leases.

A plan of lot 40 on the west side of Front Street, Belleville, was also part of this collection but is kept separately.

Turnbull, John

Gerald Belanger collection

  • CA ON00156 2018-084
  • Collection
  • 1877-2014

Newspaper clippings relating to Centre Hastings area families collected by Gerald Belanger and indexed by the Quinte Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society. Four CDs with indexes of the Gerald Belanger collection and the Branch's Canada 150 celebration project.

Belanger, Gerald

Marmora Women's Institute Tweedsmuir histories and scrapbooks

  • CA ON00156 2017-42
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1998

Albums and files of newspaper clippings and photographs compiled by members of the Marmora Women's Institute.
The files cover the following years: File 1 1930-1945 File 2 1943-1951 File 3 1952-1982 File 4 1973-1979 File 5 1975-1977 File 6 1976-1982 File 7 1979-1983 File 8 1979-1984 File 9 1979-1984 File 10 1974-1994 File 11 1980 File 12 1983-1984 File 13 1984 File 14 1986 File 15 1986-1988 File 16 1989-1994 File 17 1989-1994 File 18 1995-1996
*File 19 1996-1998

Marmora Women's Institute

Map of Marmora Township

Map showing concessions, traveled roads and lots of Marmora Township, Hastings County. Areas of gold mines are also charted. Scale: 1 mile : 1 inch. Published by MacLeod & Carre Engineers and Surveyors in Belleville, Ontario (Canada West). Local advertisements surround map.

Received from the Public Archives of Canada on 3 May 1971.

MacLeod and Carre, P.L.S.

Map of Hastings with the Principal Villages and the City of Belleville

A map of Hastings County including the Town of Belleville and other principal villages:

Trenton, Madoc, Marmora, Tweed, Bridgewater, Stirling, Wicklow, Bangor, Herschel, Monteagle, Carl, Dungannon, Wollaston, Limerick, Cashel, Tudor, Grimsthorpe, Elzevir; Rawdon, Huntingdon, Hungerford, Sidney, Thurlow, Tyendinaga.

Scale: 3 miles =1 inch. Published by Evans & Bolger, P. L. Surveyors, P.L.S. in 1879-1880.

Evans and Bolger

Plan of Lots 7-9 in the village of Marmora

A certified reproduction of the Plan of Marmora Village - part of Lots # 7,8 & 9 in the 4th Concession of Marmora Township. The Marmora Foundry Company by Robert Symes, lawful agent, declares that this plan contains a true description. Depicted are; Coal houses; Grist Mill; Forge Store; and Mill dam. Surveyed by J. J. Haslett, P.L.S. and signed September 1855.

This copy was made in 1972 of plan #70, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.

Donated by Walter I. Watson, O.L.S.

Haslett, John James, P.L.S. & D.P.S.

Plan of the village of Marmora in 1849

A certified reproduction of the "Plan of Marmora Village, part of Lots # 7, 8 & 9 in 4th Concession Township of Marmora." Along the Crow River are buildings: forge, furnaces, coal house, grist mill, sawmill, store. Nelson G. Reynolds, President of the Marmora Foundry Co. incorporated by parliament approved this plan. Surveyed by John J. Haslett, P.L.S. in September of 1849.

This copy was made in 1972 of plan #5, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.

Donated by Walter I. Watson, O.L.S.

Haslett, John James, P.L.S. & D.P.S.

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