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Plan of Survey of the Village of Stirling

A plan of survey of part of Blocks D & E, north of Church Street. Registered Plan 149 & Lots 1,2 & 3 Part of Lot # 4, south of Albert Street.

Miller, Paul A., O.L.S.

Stirling history book

An unbound history of Stirling titled "The Heritage Years: A History of Stirling and District" , edited by Blanche Faulkner and Rosella Clancy, and published by the Stirling Historical Book Committee in 1984. It is 555 pages with photographs and an index. It is placed in three folders. (a,b,c).

Stirling Historical Book Committee

Air Surveys of Stirling, Ontario

All air surveys were completed in 1984 and published in 1985. Scale 1 inch = 2000 feet. By the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Map base by Survey and Mapping Branch, Air Photography.

1) M470-2683. Stirling, Sheet # 1, 02-18-2960-49060 showing areas of; the Village of Stirling, Sidney Township Lot # 20, Concession 9, with Rawdon Creek along the Westerly section of the map.

2) M470-2684. Stirling, Sheet # 2, 02-018-2950-49070 showing areas of; the Village of Stirling, Lots # 18, 19, 20 Concession 9 of Sidney Township and Lots # 14, 13, 12 Concession 1, Rawdon Township.

3) M470-2685. Stirling, Sheet # 3A, 02-18-2960-49070 showing areas of; the Village of Stirling, Lots # 21, 22, 23 Concession 9, Sidney Township, Lot # 12 Concession 1, Rawdon Township. Also, the Mill Pond of Rawdon Creek on Lot # 10 & 11, Concession 1, Rawdon Township.

4) M470-2686. Stirling, Sheet # 3B, 02-18-2960-49070 showing areas of; the Village of Stirling, Lots # 21, 22, 23 Concession 9, Sidney Township, Lot # 12 Concession 1, Rawdon Township. Also, the Mill Pond of Rawdon Creek on Lot # 10 & 11, Concession 1, Rawdon Township.

5) M470-2687. Stirling, Sheet # 4, 02-18-2970-49070 showing areas of; the Village of Stirling and Sidney Township.

6) M470-2688. Stirling, Sheet # 5, 02-18-2960-49080 showing areas of; the Village of Stirling and Rawdon Township; Lots # 12, 11, 10 Concession 1.

7) M470-2689. Stirling, Sheet # 6, 02-18-2970-49080 showing areas of; the Village of Stirling and Rawdon Creek.

Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

Subdivision of Block F in Stirling

A certified reproduction of the "Subdivision of part of Block F, Reg. Plan No. 149 and part of Lot # 14, Reg. Plan No. 326. Village of Stirling.” The area includes; Lots # 1 to 34, Blocks 35 to 40 and Block 45 and Gordon Ave, Weaver Street and Woods Drive, west of Hwy 33- Frankford Road. Owners: Gordon Beatty Woods and M. Alma Woods. Surveyed by Darrell L. Hume, O. L. S. and signed November 14, 1984.

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

Hume, Darrell L., O.L.S.

Anniversary Notice

A letter from Belleville mayor George A. Zegouras to Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Fulford on the occasion of their 60th wedding anniversary.

City of Belleville

Air Surveys of Hastings County, Ontario

All air surveys were published in 1982. Scale 1; 10,000. By the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Map base by Survey and Mapping Branch, Air Photography.

1) M470-2622. Rawdon Township Map # 10-18-2900-49050 showing areas of; the South West area of Rawdon Township, Concession 1 & 2 and Marsh Creek Watershed, Anson (Station) on the C. N. R. and part of Sidney Township, Concession 8.

2) M470-2623. Sidney Township, Map # 10-18-2900-49000 showing areas of; the Northwest area of Sidney Township being Trent River and Canal System including Wilson Island, Glen Ross, Richardson Cove, Heagles Island and South to Concession 6, Township of Sidney.

3) M470-2624. Sidney Township, Map # 10-18-2950-49000 showing areas of; Sidney Township, Concession 6, 7 and 8, Lots # 16 to 26, including part of Rawdon Creek, Oak Lake, Stirling Airfield..

4) M470-2625. Stirling, Map # 10-18-2950-4905 showing areas of; the Village of Stirling and surrounding area of Sidney & Rawdon Townships.

Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

Recording of Duncan brothers talking about life in Deseronto, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 DA 2013.13
  • Item
  • 1967

Recording by Don Duncan, made November 26th, 1990, comprising two older recordings.
(01:16) The first is of Jack and Bill Duncan (Don's father), made in 1967. The two men reminisce about their early days in Canada. Jack [John] was born in 1896 and Bill in 1889. They arrived in Deseronto in late 1906 and worked for the Rathbun Company for a short while, having been brought in to break a strike. They were originally from the Midlands in England and were a family with five children, the youngest being four months old.
Bill recalls arriving in Napanee and waiting for a flat car to take them down the company's railroad track to Deseronto and the poor state of the property they were initially housed in (03:00). Bill thought it was a chicken house – and there were rats in the place.
Bill bought a kettle for 75 cents. His father told him to take it back, as it was three shillings in English money. Bill refused to take it back, so they had tea made in the tin kettle, as they didn't have a teapot.
(04:49)They moved into a house across the street and got hold of furniture and a woodstove. Their father, John, worked at bringing up logs from the water, while Bill worked in the sash and door factory for the Rathbun Company.
(05:54) There had been a strike in Deseronto and the Duncans were being used as strike breakers. The winters were bad – snow piled high so that you couldn't see people walking on the other side of the street.
(07:00) Jack's teacher donated a basket of groceries for the family's first Christmas in Canada.
(08:19) Bill was laid off because he asked for $1.50 a day instead of $1.25. His father was laid off shortly afterwards. He worked at a charcoal-bagging firm for a few weeks. They were both out of work for a few weeks.
(10:45) They walked to Corbyville to the cement works but couldn't get work there. They nearly got run over by a train. They stayed in a boarding house in Belleville and had sausages and fried potatoes for breakfast. They got work on construction sites in Corbyville for $2 a day each.
(13:15) They went home for Christmas with the money they'd saved. It was a good Christmas – two ducks and a Christmas pudding were cooked on the old woodstove, with difficulty. Jack got in trouble for eating the leftover duck while the rest of the family were out.
(14:45) They got the wood for the stove from the Rathbun mill for about a dollar and tried to dry it at the back of the stove.
(15:25) Both the men were out of work after Christmas. Maria worked as a housekeeper for ten cents an hour. A pound of butter was 21 cents, eggs 15 cents a dozen and a whole calf's liver was 5 cents.
(16:40) John and other unemployed men were set to work by the Town breaking rocks with a manual drill. Bill couldn't bear to watch, because he feared his father would be hit with a sledgehammer. John was employed to go out on the frozen Bay in a cutter for a day but didn't get paid.
(19:30) Bill worked at a farm, splitting wood, and was paid with a bag of potatoes worth 50 cents. When he got home his shoelaces were frozen solid.
(21:40) Bill and his father worked at the iron works. John was unloading coke. Bill got a night job there breaking up slag at the furnace and dumping it in the Bay.
(24:13) They walked to Point Anne to see if they needed any workers.
(24:50) The authorities in Deseronto told the family that there was work in Stirling.
(25:57) Memories of Jim Wilson, an East End Cockney. He and Bill would go to the Post Office in Deseronto and stand in front of the radiators there in front of the windows for an hour or two to warm up.
(27:13) Bill rolled his own cigarettes with Betty Blue tobacco.
(28:04) The family stayed in Deseronto until May 1907, then moved to Stirling. Bill and John went to Stirling first to meet the Reeve (Mather), who ran the general store in Stirling. They got to know the Reverend F. A. Robinson in Stirling. John got work almost immediately. Bill got work with the village blacksmith, Burkitt. He and his father were also involved in building a house for a man called Ward in Stirling, for $1.50 a day.
(30:50) They got a house opposite St. Andrew's Church in Stirling. Bill worked for the blacksmith until the following May. The Clydesdale horses used to fall asleep on him when he lifted their hind leg.
(32:29) Memories of people in Stirling: Les Kennedy, Don Burn, Andy Anderson, Jessie Montgomery ("a blonde bomber").
(33:26) John Duncan used a team of horses to clear an old cemetery in Stirling to make way for a park.
(34:20) Jack worked in the General Store, where they operated a barter system for farmers. Bill got interested in joining the ministry.
(36:40) Discussed why they left England: John was a shoemaker who was involved in the trade union movement, which made it hard for him to get work. Bill was the only one working, earning 26 shillings a week. It was their mother, Maria, who was the biggest influence on the family's decision to leave England. Bill thinks it was a good decision, as the family is now professional and better off than they would have been in England.
(41:50) Very quiet discussion about Art [Arthur Duncan, born 1904] who worked in Stirling.
(45:15) Maria Duncan singing 'The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo' in the 1950s.

Duncan, Don

Rodgers Subdivision in the Village of Stirling

A certified reproduction of the "Subdivision of part of the North half of Lot # 24, Concession IX, Township of Sidney, now in [the] village of Stirling.” The area includes; Lots # 1 to 21 and Blocks A, B, C on Rogers Drive and Elizabeth Street being north half Lot # 24, Concession IX, Township of Sidney. Surveyed by Thomas S. Ransom, P. L. S. and signed June 1, 1962.

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

Ransom, Thomas Saunders, P.L.S.

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