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County of Frontenac fonds Series
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Canadian Patriotic Fund

Series contains a valuable collection of records and documents relating to the work of this fund. In addition to correspondence, there are financial records, visitor's records cards and printed material relating to the work of the fund.

Correspondence

Series consists of 1 metre of chronologically arranged files. Most of this correspondence is of a routine nature. In addition there are .5 metres of subject correspondence with files on such topics as utilities, winter works programmes, the St. John Ambulance and Women's Institutes. Correspondence on specific subjects such as "Roads and Bridges" and "Elections" are arranged in Roads and Bridges series and Elections series respectively.

County of Frontenac

County Bylaws

Series consists of bylaws created for the County of Frontenac. The bylaws are arranged chronologically. In addition there are bound volumes of bylaws in the Oversize series.

County Council Minutes

Series consists of printed minutes for the County of Frontenac. This section contains an incomplete set of minutes from 1909 to 1955. Bound volumes of minutes (1842-1967) are filed in the Oversize Series.

Education

Series consists of documents relating to the development of education in the county. Most of these files are arranged chronologically. In addition there are files on Collins Bay High School, Sharbot Lake High School and Sydenham High School. Files include early lists of students teachers in various townships.

Elections

Series consists of records relating to country elections from 1850 to 1965. This series contains results of individual elections, clerk's certificates relating to the election of reeves and deputy reeves and signed declarations by incoming wardens. An important section of this series contains voters' lists for many townships for the 1970s.

Financial Records

Series documents sorted into several sub-series including budgets, auditors' reports, taxes and Finance Committee reports. Several bound volumes of financial records are filed in Oversize Volumes series.

Oversize - Financial (bound assessment rolls)

Series contains assessment rolls for fifteen townships (1880 to 1928), reports on the Agriculture Society (1852 to 1950), Auditor's reports (1888 to 1913), Bylaws (1842 to 1880), Minutes (1842-1967), punishment and inspector's reports from the jail (1872 to 1884), Old Age Pension Board Minutes (1931 to 1948), maps, blueprints for bridges, census of Portsmouth (1858), toll road leases and miscellaneous voter's lists (1853 to 1966).

Roads and Bridges

Series contains files relating to individual roads and bridges throughout the County. In addition there are files of correspondence and bylaws relating to these subjects. An interesting section relates to toll roads (1850 to 1907). Another important section contains studies and documents relating to the proposed International Bridge from Cape Vincent to Kingston. This series also contains a substantial collection of Roads and Bridges Committee Reports for the period from 1853 to 1972. Other files relate to the closure of roads, claims against the county for roads in disrepair, the purchasing of machinery for road work, ferries and waterways (including the Wolfe Island Ferry, 1850 to 1860), traffic laws and snow removal. Occasionally maps are attached to documents.

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