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Scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, papers of the Dafoe, Lloyd and Reid families

  • CA ON00156 2020-022
  • Collection
  • 1785-1964

Papers collected by members of the Dafoe, Lloyd and Reid families of Thurlow and Sidney Townships, Hastings County. The collection includes:

  1. 1899 [solicitor's?] account book used as scrapbook for newspaper clippings about hymns and Methodism (some entries from the account book are still visible), 1940s. Includes an essay from 1921 on the benefits of music for improving society.
  2. Newspaper clippings, 1916-1964
  3. Various receipts and flyers, including advertisements for a Copperstyle washing machine and wringer, and a bagless vacuum cleaner, 1929-1954
  4. Orders of service from various United Churches, including one to be used at the end of hostilities in the Second World War, 1911-1950 and International Plowing Match promotional materials from 1961
  5. Photograph of Keitha Lloyd as a child, c.1910; postcards of Potters Creek camp ground, 1930s; text of a talk by Norma Lloyd Dafoe on the first automobile in Belleville, c.1950
  6. 1940s scrapbook on anniversaries and churches made using an edition of Star Weekly of 27 May 1944
  7. Digital copies of notes on the family history of the Wilmot, Merritt, Chisholm and Wartman families, 1785-1940

Dafoe (family)

Hastings County Historical Society textual records collection

  • CA ON00156 TR
  • Collection
  • 1787-2010

This collection comprises some 4,400 vertical files of materials gathered by the Hastings County Historical Society. They cover a wide range of subjects and were received from a variety of different sources, not always recorded.

The collection includes original materials, newspaper clippings, secondary histories and copies.

Hastings County Historical Society

Map collection

  • CA ON00156 M
  • Collection
  • 1792-2018

Maps collected by the Hastings County Historical Society and added to by the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County. The maps cover locations in Hastings County and extend to all of Canada.

Hastings County Historical Society

Hastings Land Registry materials

  • CA ON00156 2017-43
  • Collection
  • 1800-1947

This collection contains three volumes and a bundle of deeds and mortgages relating to properties in Hastings County. 'Patent Record': volume arranged by township, concession, and lot number, recording the original patent holder and the date of granting for each lot in Hastings County, 1800-1947 'Liber A': the earliest land register book for Hastings County, covering instruments 1-110, 1800-1811
*Printed 'New Topographical Atlas of the Province of Ontario, 1879'

Hastings County Land Registry Office

Hastings County cemetery index

  • Collection
  • c. 1800s-1900s

Index cards with brief information about headstones in Hastings County.

Ashton, Dorothy M.

Thomas Pitman papers

  • CA ON00156 2011-46
  • Collection
  • 1802-1864

Various notes and legal documents relating to Russell and Thomas Pitman of Thurlow Township, Hastings County. Partially transcribed by Lois Foster.

Pitman, Thomas

Deeds for properties in Thurlow Township

  • CA ON00156 2016-78
  • Collection
  • 1811-1925

Deeds and mortgages for land in Thurlow Township, Ontario. The properties are 50 acres of the north half of lot 10 in the fourth concession and 11 acres of the west half of lot 10 in the fifth concession. The lands were owned by members of the Read/Reed and Thrasher families. Includes a reproduction of a parchment deed of 1811 of 100 acres of the north half of lot 10 in the fourth concession, transferred by Samuel Reed to John Thrasher.

Thompson Collection

  • CA ON00156 MG 652
  • Collection
  • 1820-1964

The collection contains materials relating to property on lot 26, concession 7 of Thurlow Township, Ontario first owned by John Latta:

  • History of the house compiled for the Plainfield Women's Institute Tweedsmuir History by Maude Harrison in 1976
  • WIll of Francis Van de Bogart, made 26 Feb 1825
  • House and farm leases, and quit claims c.1898-1912 for Lot 26, Concession 7
  • Agreement and sale of land documents c.1872-1932
  • Deeds and policies c.1874-1932
  • Mortgage and accompanying documents c.1901
  • Mortgages and agreements survey plan for lot 25
  • Fire insurance policies c.1901
  • Discharge of mortgage document c.1872
  • Legal documents for Thurlow Township lots c.1880-1964
  • Mortgages and deeds from Thurlow Township c.1876-1931
  • High Court Justice documents c.1872-1886
  • Commissioner of Agriculture loans and receipts and statements ca. 1940's
  • An original deed from June 22, 1820
  • Bound volumes of The Windsor Magazine, June-November 1911 and June-November 1915

Procer, Cameron Law Firm Collection

  • 2009-08
  • Collection
  • 1826-1949

Approximately 1,800 documents created and or collected by the Procter, Cameron law firm and its predecessors in the course of its daily activities. Includes deeds, mortgages, insurance policies, estate papers, business and personal contacts.

Procter, Cameron law firm

Fidlar-Parker family records

  • CA ON00156 2018-102
  • Collection
  • 1831-2000

Two files including original correspondence from members of the Fidlar family of Stromness, Orkney, and Stirling, Ontario, with transcriptions and genealogical research information compiled by Janet Ross Miller.

Fidlar-Parker (family)

Newspaper and magazine collection

  • Collection
  • 1833-

The Community Archives has an extensive collection of original local newspapers and magazines, as well as microfilm copies of the Intelligencer, the Hastings Chronicle, and the Daily Ontario.

Mortgages

  • CA ON00156 2016-56
  • Collection
  • 1840s-1959

Mortgages for Hastings County properties, found in the house at 1773 Blessington Road, Corbyville, whose former owner was a land registry employee.

Victoria Chronicle and Daily Ontario editorial scrapbooks

  • CA ON00156 2019-067
  • Collection
  • 1845, 1910-1920

Edition of the Victoria Chronicle for 6 March 1845 and 12 volumes of editorial articles published in the Daily Ontario between 1910 and 1920 (the editor at the time was J. O. Herity).

Daily Ontario

Correspondence of William Randall of Lonsdale, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 2017-33
  • Collection
  • 1848-1882

Letters sent to William Randall, a tailor from Lonsdale, Ontario, chiefly from his sons, Herman and Prosper, who were working in the United States. There are several letters relating to Loyal Orange Lodge business (including one from Dr. Oronhyatekha), and others appointing Randall as Returning Officer for elections in Tyendinaga Township. One 1864 letter from Herman Randall mentions the U.S. Civil War, while an1866 letter from Arthur Burley of Big Rapids, Michigan, refers to the Fenian Raids.

Randall, William

Deeds and correspondence relating to James Ross Cole

  • CA ON00156 2017-95
  • Collection
  • 1849-1938

Deeds, legal papers, receipts and insurance policies relating to James Ross Cole (1868-1938) of Tyendinaga Township and Corbyville. Includes receipts from Belleville General Hospital and Bishop's Seeds and a 1901 bank book from the Canadian Bank of Commerce.

Cole, James Ross

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