Mostrar 54 resultados

Diary of a young woman touring the Thousand Islands for the month of August 1883 starting in Hartford, Connecticut on August 1st, 1883 and ending in Montreal on September 1st, 1883. The author spends much of the diary remarking on the beauty of the scenery, the quality of the food and variations in the weather. She recounts day excursions on both American and Canadian islands and towns and mentions Clayton, Alexandria Bay, Gananoque, Brown's Bay, Hay's Island, Whitney Point, Guernsey Point, and Stave, Bluff and Skinner islands. She is traveling with the Redfield family (Mr. and Mrs. Redfield and their children George and Henry) and the "Professor". They encounter a Dr. Norris who is known to the family. When they arrive in Montreal they stay at the Windsor Hotel, which is greatly admired.

There is an additional three page entry at the end of the diary describing a trip to the White Mountains in New Hampshire in September of 1885.

Allows Mr. Sedgewick, Ottawa, Ont. to take one gallon of liquor into the North West Territories.

Item is an index for volumes three and four of a world history.

Unbound copybook with approximately 150 pages. The copybook contains detailed sets of instructions and specifications for all of the various building trades for a number of different buildings in the Kingston and Ottawa area. Includes spcifications for the Bell Telephone building and Cooks Presbyterian Church in Kingston and a number of residences on O'Connor Street in Ottawa.

Photograph album with 3 watercolours of Rideau and St. Lawrence area, unidentified.

Ontario's first macadamized road. This album is comprised of photographs taken in the 1910's of work being done on Highway #2, also known as Kingston Road or York Road.

This album consists of pictures from the Thousand Islands taken during the summer of 1911. Includes views of Ryder cottage, Wilson's Canal, yachts the 'Ramona' and 'Rowena', the 'Parthia', a barge, and engine hoist of the Kingston Salvage Company, and a couple of Steamers.

The item is a programme for the Kingston Industrial Exhibition, held 26-28 September, 1916.

Printed review of Poems and typescript resume of talk given by John Garvin to Poetry Society of Canada.