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HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 2000 to 2499
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Pitceathly papers and deeds

File contains manuscript quit claims and deeds concerning the following properties:
i) part of lot number nine, eighth concession, Township of Marmora, purchased by James Madison Tuttle and Laura Maria Tuttle from Richard O. Rothwell, 30 May 1877;
ii)-west half of lot number sixteen in the fifth concession of the Township of Madoc purchased by George Dean Dickson and Marian Ellen Wilson Dickson from Thomas Comerford, 2 December 1882;
iii)-five acres on lot fifteen, fifth concession in the Township of Madoc, purchased by Thomas Comerford from David Pitceathly, Thomas Kelso et al, 11 June 1884;

Plainfield : developmentally challenged children

File contains a printed booklet entitled “Progress Report : Ontario Homes for Mentally Retarded Infants, Plainfield, May 1951-December 1965. Also present is an article from The Intelligencer, 23 March 1970 profiling Leonora Velleman, retiring superintendent of nurses at the Ontario Homes for Mentally Retarded Children at Plainfield.

Plainfield : miscellany

File contains a newspaper clipping from the Ontario Intelligencer, 14 April 1959 concerning the election of officers of the Plainfield Women's Institute. Also includes an obituary of Harry McCreary, Plainfield, telephone pioneer and former owner-operator of the McCreary Telephone Company who created early rural telephone lines in Thurlow and Sidney Townships. Also present is a duplicate copy of a printed booklet entitled “Progress Report : Ontario Homes for Mentally Retarded Infants, Plainfield, May 1951-December 1965. “

Plevna : social news

File contains several newspaper clippings regarding visits and social events in Plevna in January-February, 1968. Also present is a clipping from The Tweed News, 10 July 1968 concerning the history of the Plevna United Church from its founding in 1886 as a Methodist Church.

Ploughing Match

File contains a newspaper article from the Ontario Intelligencer, 8 December 1960 concerning the selection of an area outside of Belleville for the 1961 International Plowing Match, to be held on October 4-7, 1961. Also present are three printed, numbered admission tickets to the Ploughing Match, 1961.

Ploughing Match : planning and programmes

File contains typescript correspondence, reports and planning documents relating to the preparation for the 1961 International Plowing Match in 1961. Includes list of officers and local committee members. Also present are: a printed official programme and prize list, printed pamphlets and a poster for the International Plowing Match which was held at the Farley Vermilyea Farm and neighbouring farms north of Belleville, October 4-7, 1961.

International Plowing Match 1961

File contains printed promotional material for the 1961 International Plowing Match including an official programme of events, and a programme for a banquet held at the Belleville Armouries, 6 October 1961. Also present are three photocopied pages of programmes, badges and entry passes; a silk ribbon bearing the inscription “International Plowing Match, City of Belleville, County of Hastings"; and a silk ribbon badge for International Plowing Match official, T.G. Wrightmeyer.

Ploughing Match : official report, Hastings County, 1961

File contains a typescript Report of the International Plowing Match, 1961 by the local committee of the Hastings County Plowmen's Association. The report provides an overview of the events and reports by various committees involved in the planning and execution of the plowing match. A one-page financial statement of revenues and expenses is included.

Poems

File contains several typescript and manuscript poems including “Chapleau Boys” which recounts shanty life in Renfrew County. Also present is a newspaper reprint of a poem entitled “The Maple and the Beaver,” by Charles Andrew Tupper which appeared in the Cobourg Sentinal-Star, 12 August 1964.

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