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Report on a tour of Western Canada

  • CA ON00156 2023-043
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  • 1920

Report on a tour of Western Canada to study what the author describes as "the Oriental problem in Canada."

Smith, W. G. [William George]

Crown sale grant of land in Marmora Township

  • 2022-039
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  • 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

"Indian Land Sale" Grant of land for Deseronto High School

  • CA ON00156 DA 2020.19
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  • 2 October 1889

Grant of three acres in Deseronto, Ontario, part of the territory of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, to the Board of the Deseronto High School (John Newton, Frederick Sherwood Rathbun, Thomas Roach, Arthur Stanley Valleau, Herbert Burt Rathbun and Thomas Hamlin Nasmith), for the sum of $2,500. A stamp on the reverse of the deed states that it was registered on 12 May 1965.

Government of Canada

Photograph of Mike Stanko and Clare Homan

  • CA ON00156 2020-014
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  • c.1953

Photograph taken at John and Leatha Homan's farm on Harmony Road in Corbyville, Hastings County, Ontario. It shows Mike Stanko, a displaced person from Poland who came to Canada after the Second World War, and the Homan's son, Clare, next to a car.

Part of a deed for land in Hungerford Township

  • CA ON00156 2019-117
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  • 11 December 1829

Lower half of a memorial recording the sale of Lot 17 in Concession 1 of Hungerford Township from David Gardiner of to Thomas Goldsmith Gardiner, all of Whitby, for £50. The deed is instrument 1488 in Book L of the Hastings County Land Registry Office.

Hastings County Land Registry Office

Release from forfeiture

  • CA ON00156 2018-057
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  • 1935

Release from right of forfeiture to Herman Haffner concerning property in the broken front in front of the east half of Lot 13 in the First Concession of Sidney Township, Hastings County, south of the road from Belleville to Trenton. Dated 24 July 1935.

Also includes an unfranked envelope with a 30-cent Terry Fox Marathon of Hope stamp, issued in 1982.

Government of Ontario

An Immigrant Story

  • CA ON00156 2011-29
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  • 2010

Family history of John McIntosh (1865 – 1925) and Henrietta Calder (1867 – 1950), immigrants from Scotland to Canada who settled in Belleville, Ontario.

Saylor, Randy

Sale of land in Northumberland County, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 2018-096
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  • 1846

Bargain and sale of part of lot 17 in the second concession of Percy Township, Northumberland County, Ontario, sold by Joseph Sparrow to Thomas Arthur of Seymour East Township, 5 June 1846.

Sale of land in Durham County, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 2018-095
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  • 1830

1) Letter of attorney from Hugh Davis of Killyshandra, Ireland, to Francis Berry of Toronto, authorizing him to dispose of 100 acres of lot 20 in the third concession of Cavan Township, County of Durham, 18 February 1830
2) Bargain of sale of the said land to Barnard Quinn, 10 December 1830

Grant of land in Leeds County

  • CA ON00156 2018-094
  • Item
  • 1798

Grant from the Crown of 200 acres of land in Yonge Township, Leeds County (Concession 6, Lot 20) to Harriet Sherwood.

Deed relating to land on Bridge Street in Belleville, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 2018-063
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  • 1855

Bargain and sale of part of lot 24 on the west side of Pinnacle Street and north side of Bridge Street in Belleville, Ontario from James Nosworthy, saddler and Harriet Clapham Nosworthy, his wife, to George Taylor of Sidney Township. Dated 7 May 1855.

County of Hastings