“Historic Hastings” – Marmora & Lake Township 1960s
- CA ON00156 TR/1661-1C
- File
- 1964-1965
File contains research about the history of Marmora & Lake Township, compiled by Gerry Boyce for the book “Historic Hastings”.
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“Historic Hastings” – Marmora & Lake Township 1960s
File contains research about the history of Marmora & Lake Township, compiled by Gerry Boyce for the book “Historic Hastings”.
Alterations to the Plan of the Village of Marmora
Part of Map collection
A certified reproduction of the "Alterations in Plan of part of Village of Marmora shewing additional lots laid out by T. P. Pearce on Lots # 7 & 8 in Concession 4 Township of Marmora.” Surveyed by C. Fraser Aylsworth Jr. P. L. S., and signed July 18, 1891.
This copy was made in 1972 of plan #285, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.
Donated by Walter I. Watson, P. L. S.
Aylsworth, Charles Fraser Jr., O.L.S.
Bethlehem Steel Company, Marmora
File contains several newspaper articles concerning the explorations and operations of the Bethlehem Steel Company at Marmora, Ontario, including an account of the 1959 strike by the local of the United Steelworkers of America to which the miners belonged. Also contains a photocopied typescript of a draft chapter submitted for review in 1967 by Gerald E. Boyce concerning the history of mining in the Marmora area. Also present are two printed booklets entitled 'Bethlehem in Marmora' concerning the iron mining operations at Marmora and their shipping outlet at Picton Harbor.
Collection contains:
1) Twelve letters from Nicholas Wood Blackburn to his future wife, Fannie Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Bateman and one from Lizzie to Nicholas, 1901-1902. Letters from Nicholas were written from Marmora, Blairton, Rat Portage [Kenora], Macdonald (Manitoba), Millbridge, Coe Hill Mines, L'Amable Station, and Turriff.
2) Colour photocopy of certificate of marriage of Nicholas Wood Blackburn and Fannie E. Bateman, 25 March1903
3) Last will and testament of Nicholas Wood Blackburn of Madoc Township, 1918
4) Photocopied diary entries of Lizzie Blackburn at the time of Nicholas's last illness, 1929-1930
5) Photocopy of a letter from the nurse who tended Nicholas Blackburn before his death, 1 January 1930
Blackburn, Nicholas Wood
Canadian Mining Journal:Centenary Flashback
Photocopies of the Canadian Mining Journal:Centenary Flashback to the year of the birth of Canada 1867. Compiled and edited by J.V. Deragon.
Display panels about the history of Marmora, Ontario.
Crime Marmora mail bag robbery 1956; Bank robbery 1955
File contains information about robberies in Marmora: Police Chief Charles Lockwood charged with stealing money from a mail bag in 1955, and in 1956 Frank Turcotte sentenced for the robbery of the Toronto-Dominion Bank.
Crowe Valley Conservation Authority 1958-65
File contains newspaper clippings about the establishment of the Crowe Valley Conservation Authority and a booklet that compiles the annual reports from 1958-1965.
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
David Bucklin Johns & Sarah Maria Carley
The file contains a copy of a writing titled "A History of the Descendants of David Bucklin Johns, SUE and Sarah Maria Carley, DUE In Hastings County, Ontario". Written August 2006 by Sharon Anne Starkey, UE it is a collection of short biographies and documentation.
Desmond H. D. Lowry photographs of Belleville
Colour photographs of the Norris Whitney bridge under construction between Rossmore and Belleville, Ontario and aerial photographs of Belleville, Wellington, Picton, Tweed, Stirling and the open pit mine at Marmora. Photographs of aircraft, including a replica of the 'Spirit of St. Louis', which visited Belleville in 1977 or 1978.
Lowry, Desmond Herbert Douglas
Digital copies of photographs relating to the lumber industry in Hastings County
Photographs of lumber camps and First World War infantry units in the Marmora area of Hastings County, Ontario.
Education : teacher W.H. Minchin
File contains a typescript transcript of a CBC radio talk by Dr. A. R. Laycock concerning the career of his uncle, W.H. Michin, a pre-Confederation elementary school teacher. Also contains a typescript extract from "The life of W.H. Minchin, 1839-1914."
Three prize lists for the following fairs:
George Bruce Airhart materials
Sunday school attendance register for Marmora Methodist Church, Marmora, Ontario, including a printed page with an image of the late Canon C. M. Harris, 1854-1923, Rector at Marmora. Also banquet invitation and menu for an event held at the Hotel Quinte for Hastings County councillors on 10th December 1926.
Airhart, George Bruce
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
Gladstone Mill Mine : deeds & papers 1877-78, Marmora
File contains completed printed, and manuscript indentures and deeds of sale of lands in Marmora Township between land owners and principals of the Gladstone Mill Mine, and the Hawkeye Gold and Silver Mining Company in 1877-1878.
The file contains a copy of the magazine Harrowsmith Country Life, October 2003 Issue, No. 172 with the caption "Then & Now Photography; A Fond Look at the Changing Rural Landscape. On page 2 there is an article with pictures titled "The More Things Change; A black and white look at the changing character of rural Ontario."
Hastings County Oaths of Qualification 1860 Folder D
File contains affidavits signed in the 1860s for various individuals in Faraday, Madoc, Marmora, Belleville, Dungannon, Hungerford, Hershal, and Huntingdon taking office.
Hastings with Town of Belleville and principal villages
Part of Map collection
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 John P. Evans, P.L.S. in 1869.
Evans, John Dunlop, P.L.S.