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Thousand Islands travel diary

  • F3097
  • Discrete Item
  • 1883,1885

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.

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Walter Dymond Gregory fonds

  • CA ON00239 F763
  • Fonds
  • 1886-1940

The fonds consists of correspondence, articles, notebooks and photographs from the earlier period of Gregory's career, involving the Weekly Sun and the Continental Union Movement, and from his later years having to do with public affairs. There is no correspondence of a purely personal nature. Noted personages who are well represented include Goldwin Smith, Henri Bourassa, Sir Wilfred Laurier and Mackenzie King. There is a large number of pamphlets, addresses and publication, relating specifically to commercial union, continental union, and Canada First; material relating to Goldwin Smith; a typewritten draft of Gregory's projected autobiography, which he never completed; as well as several letter-books, scrapbooks and diaries.

Gregory, Walter Dymond

William Wilfred Campbell fonds

  • CA ON00239 F612
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1923

The fonds consists of: correspondence, both written and received by W.W.Campbell from a variety of family members and friends, including Charles G. D. Roberts, the Earl of Aberdeen, Pauline Johnson, and Archibald Lampman; diaries; manuscripts, typescripts and printed copies of dramatic works, poetry and prose; clippings scrapbooks of reviews, comments and articles; photographs and other personal documents.

Campbell, William Wilfred

Irene Dixon Bamford fonds

  • CA ON00239 F2273
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1922

The fonds consists of 25 diaries detailing the life of Irene Dixon Bamford on Wolfe Island.

Bamford, Irene Dixon

William Lyon Mackenzie King fonds

  • CA ON00239 F1546
  • Fonds
  • 1889-1950

The fonds consists of the following microfilmed series of King Papers: Primary correspondence (J1), 1889-1950; Memoranda and notes (J4), 1887-1950; Speeches (J5), 1899-1950; Family correspondence (J7), 1880-1950; Spiritualism (J9), 1919-1950; and Diaries (J13), 1893-1950. Also included is a series of original press clippings (1935-1951) amassed and retained by Mackenzie King.

King, William Lyon Mackenzie

Alex MacLennan Gordon fonds

  • CA ON00239 F743
  • Fonds
  • 1890-1949

The fonds consists of correspondence, diaries, manuscript sermons and material relating to World War l.

Gordon, Alex MacLennan

Drezile Lawson fonds

  • CA ON00239 F1708
  • Fonds
  • 1892-1941

Three volumes of account books combined with daily diaries on weather and local events; newspapers clippings.

Lawson, Drezile

Ethel Phillips fonds

  • CA ON00239 F931
  • Fonds
  • 1894-1898

The fonds consists of diaries, which describe Ethel Phillips life at Cambridge.

Phillips, Ethel

Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall

Sous-fonds consists of correspondence, diaries, poetry, prose, lyrics, short stories, sketches, news clippings, biographical dates, bibliographies, photographs, scrapbook and business items.

Pickthall, Marjorie Lowry Christie

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