- CA ON00156 TR/1718
- File
- 1940-1969
File contains three newspaper articles regarding the terms of a lease of Mohawk lands by flour milling interests in Shannonville.
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File contains three newspaper articles regarding the terms of a lease of Mohawk lands by flour milling interests in Shannonville.
Madoc Township : history of Bannockburn
File contains original and photocopied manuscript histories of the settlement and early development of Bannockburn including the lumbering and sawmilling industries. Includes a printout of a webpage on Maitland House (available on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20010805101431/http://casa-de.vrx.net/buildings/) and an article from the Fall 2019 Country Roads magazine about the conversion of St. Bartholomew Anglican Church in Bannockburn into a private home.
Limerick Township : surveyors field notes, 1857-1865
File contains micro-copied manuscript field notes by Quentin Johnston, Provincial Land Surveyor, ca. 1857, concerning concessions and boundaries of Limerick Township. Also contains field notes on a survey of the residue of Limerick Township by H.A. McLeod, P.L.S., 1862.
Hastings County Tourist brochure 1923
File contains two copies of a tourist brochure from 1923, “Over the Hills of Hastings: To the Haunts of the Gamey Black Bass, the Elusive Speckled Trout and the Fighting Maskinonge, Treasure House of Gold, Copper, Iron, Talc, Marble and Many Other Minerals, Beauties and Resources”.
Marmora Township North : history
File contains a photocopied manuscript memoir by Gertrude Hay Caverly, relating her experiences as an early settler in northern Marmora Township and describing conditions in the township ca. 1850-1857. Submitted to Gerry Boyce for his book, Historic Hastings.
Caverly, Gertrude Hay
Limerick Township : history / Mrs. Violet Carrol, St. Ola
File contains photocopies of typescript notes by Mrs. Violet Carrol, St. Ola concerning the geography, natural resources, settlement and agricultural and logging in Limerick Township (in response to a survey by Gerry Boyce for his book, Historic Hastings.. Also contains a manuscript letter from Violet Carrol to Carl Bateman, Clerk-Treasurer, Hastings County, concerning the history of Limerick Township.
Limerick Township : history since 1888 / Mrs. Thomas Ham
File contains a photocopy of a printed by law concerning animal control in Limerick Township, 1887. Also contains a photocopy of a printed article entitled History of Limerick Township since 1888, by Mrs. Thomas Ham, Steenburg, Ontario. First published in The North Hastings Review ca. 1955.
File contains newspaper articles concerning legends surrounding Meyers' and Bleecker's Cave in Hastings County.
Herschel Township : draft history
File contains a typescript copy of notes on the early settlement of Monteagle and Herschel Townships including information on settlement, education, railways and resources. The information was provided by children from Herschel school. Also contains two photocopy pages from the 1889 Monteagle and Herschel Directory listing landowners with surnames A-G.
Hastings County Tourist brochure 1967
File contains copies of tourist brochures from 1967, "Highland of Hastings", "Quinte's Isle".
Hastings County Tourist brochure 1966
File contains copies of tourist brochures from 1966, "Highland of Hastings", Scenic Lakes Abound", "Hastings and Land O' Lakes", "County of Hastings and The City of Belleville".
File contains several original printed and manuscript stock certificates issued to members of the Johnston family for shares in the Melrose Oil Syndicate, in 1903.
File contains a newspaper article concerning exploratory drilling for natural gas and oil in Trenton and Melrose, Ontario in 1964.
File contains a photocopied typescript history of Mayo Township from its settlement in 1858 to ca. 1906. Also contains an excerpt from the 1889 Hastings County Directory, listings Mayo and Carlow Township land owners by concession. Also contains a newspaper clipping concerning the history of McArthur's Mill to 1934.
Bon Echo, Mazinaw Lake : its story
File contains several newspaper articles concerning the history and opening of Bon Echo Park on Mazinaw Lake in 1965. Also present is a newspaper article concerning Aboriginal pictograph paintings ca. 1500s at Great Rock, Bon Echo Park.
Mayo Township : history /Marjorie Slater
File contains a photocopied typescript history of Mayo Township from 1858-ca. 1964 by Marjorie Slater, McArthur's Mill, Ontario. Also contains a printed brochure ca. 1960s, of YMCA Camp Wangoma near McArthur's Mills, Mayo Township.
Slater, Margaret
Mayo Township : surveyors' field notes, 1869, 1880
File contains photocopied manuscript field notes of H.O. Wood, Provincial Land Surveyor, 1869, and M.J. Butler, Provincial Land Surveyor, 1880. Provides description of Mayo Township natural resources including timber and soil potential.
File contains miscellaneous newspaper clippings concerning mining, road paving and winter sports in Marmora and district in 1969.
Marmora : a short history / by W.R. Freeman
File contains a typescript letter from W. R. Freeman to Gerry Boyce briefly outlining the history of Marmora from the early 1800s to ca. 1874.
Freeman, W.Ray
Marmora Iron Works : unveiling of plaque, July, 1969
File contains a printed program of events at the unveiling of a historical plaque commemorating the opening of the Marmora Iron Works in Blairton in 1823. Also contains two photocopied engravings of the Blairton Iron Mine.