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HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1500 to 1999 With digital objects
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Deserontyou, Captain John

File contains a printed bulletin of the Departments of History and Political and Economic Science, Queen's University, entitled "Captain John Deserontyou and the Mohawk Settlement at Deseronto" by M. Eleanor Herrington. The bulletin was published in 1921 and recounts the history of the early settlement of Tyendinaga. Also contains a letter to the editor of the Ontario Intelligencer explaining the origins of Captain John Deseronto [Deserontyou's] name.

Herrington, Margaret Eleanor

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.

Kerr v Mcguinnes

Court filings regarding William Kerr v. Hugh Mcguinnes, containing a summons document signed by John A. Macdonald, asking for Hugh Mcguinnes to be brought to a Toronto court, as well as a manuscript by J. Dunbar Moodie, sheriff of Victoria District, stating that he served Mcguinnes his summons.

Macdonald, Sir John A.

Kilties souvenirs

File contains two copies of “The Kilties: Souvenir Route Book” from 1910 when the Kilties toured the world, a postcard of the Kilties on tour, and paper with the Kilties of Belleville, Ontario letter head. There is also a newspaper article written in 2010 about the history of the Kilties and their tour.

Kilties

Ku Klux Klan Charter

File contents:

  • Ku Klux Klan of Canada Charter - Invisible Empire Knights and Ladies asking for a Klan of this Order in the Canton of Belleville, with list of names of citizens petitioning
  • newpaper photo of class of new members of a Ku Klux Klan
  • clipping from The telegram, October 26, 1965 - "Gone and Well forgotten - The Klan's Canadian Flop"
  • photocopy of the above item including missing part
  • A card with threat from KKK High Chief with skull and crossbones drawing sent to a Tweed resident, Tom Meraw
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