- CA ON00156 TR/2874
- Item
- 1967
File contains a handwritten copy of the 1851 Census for Thurlow, including an index of "Strays in the 1851 Thurlow Township Census". Produced by Mary Plumpton for her book "The Rambling River", published 1967
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File contains a handwritten copy of the 1851 Census for Thurlow, including an index of "Strays in the 1851 Thurlow Township Census". Produced by Mary Plumpton for her book "The Rambling River", published 1967
Sidney Township - Historic Highlights 1790-1967
File contains two copies of a booklet titled "Historic Highlights The Corporation of the Township of Sidney 1790-1967" written by J.B. Harder, Clerk of Township of Sidney, assisted by Thelma B. Harder.
File contains: a copy of a motion dated 3 May 1791 naming the persons appointed to serve as Town Officers; a copy of the programme from the opening of the "Sidney Township Centennial Hall and Municipal Offices" dated 17 June 1967; a letter addressed to Mr. G. Boyce (Hastings County Centennial) from C.S. Chard with some memos of the area.
Scott, Dr. Russel Lavalee Lake Park Museum
File contains a newspaper article from the Intelligencer dated 25-August-1966 and titled "Early Life in North Hastings Recalled by Private Museum at Scotts' Lavallee Lake Park. It is about pioneer items collected by Dr. J. Russell Scott of Belleville.
File contains a newspaper article dated 28 May 1966 titled "Crown Grant Found In Attic Will Be Presented to Museum"; the file also contains an original "Exemplification of Grant to John Taylor" dated 13 February 1870.
Rawdon Township : History of Springbrook
File contains a handwritten essay by Florence McKeown and Ida Smith both from Springbrook regarding the history of Springbrook community ca. 1838 to 1965. Includes information on roads, local industry, churches, schools and a brief account of the cheese factories and local families
File contains several typed letters from 1964 to 1967 with a brief history on Ontario's early railways and mines in Hastings county. They also include some local family histories for the Chard family.
Prince Edward County - Wellington Daniel Reynolds Founder
File contains a newspaper article titled "Grave of Pioneer Founder of Wellington Located in Old Quaker Burying Ground", dated 13 April 1963.
Thurlow : history / Gerry Boyce
File contains a photocopied typescript chapter with manuscript annotations entitled “Thurlow Township” by Gerry Boyce, which recounts the history of Thurlow Township from its first survey in 1787 to ca. 1963. Also present is an undated manuscript letter from Mary Plumpton to Gerry Boyce concerning her pre-publication review of the chapter, and transcribed notes from a day book of William Bell, concerning the early settlement of Thurlow.
File contains miscellaneous newspaper clippings about citizens of Stirling, Ontario c.1961. Including, but not limited to; John Wesley Morrison, Thomas Allan Eggleton, Thomas Patterson, William James Montgomery, Ewart Samuel Bailey, Waldo E. Rosebush, Ivan Sine, Charles Thompson and, Edmund Allan Carleton.
Thurlow – Map of Survey, Point Anne, 1818
File contains multiple copies of maps and concession surveys; of the Thurlow Township c. 1818.
Prince Edward County - Prinyers Cove
File contains a newspaper article, titled "A Cove Named Prinyer" about the history of Prinyer's Cove.
Reminiscences - Quinte District
File contains newspaper article dated 20 July 1960 from the Ontario Intelligencer recounting an old newspaper clipping headed "Reminiscences of the Early Settlement of the Old Bay of Quinte District" ca. 1812
The file contains a copy of the Hastings Directory 1864-65 for Shannonville, includes a brief history of the village. Also, a copy of a brief history on the Mill in Shannonville situated on the Salmon River.
Intelligencer
Singleton, Capt. G. Belleville's first settler
File contains documents regarding the suggestion of Belleville's first settlers. Singleton, Capt. G; is Belleville's first suspected settler.
The file contains a newspaper article by A. Dempsey dated 30 April 1960, titled "Shannonville in 1830" giving a brief history of the settlement of the area and a clipping from Maclean's Reports about the Shannonville lease.
Intelligencer
Trenton: Bleecker, Squire John R.
File contains a newspaper article dated 2 April 1960 about Squire John R. Bleecker and the settlement of Trenton.
Thurlow – Land Settlement Neg. showing 1836 Mills
File contains a photo negative made c. 1958, of Thurlow Township c. 1836.
Springbrook: Story of United Church 1957
This file contains a photocopy of a booklet titled "The Story of Spring Brook United Church 1882-1957 75th Anniversary Souvenir Booklet"
File contains thirty-two miscellaneous newspaper clippings about Stirling, Ontario c.1956.