Historical description of Cobourg/by unknown author, n.d.
- CA ON00239 F381
- Discrete Item
- [1850]
Essay written about 1850.
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Historical description of Cobourg/by unknown author, n.d.
Essay written about 1850.
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Relate to business matters in Lower Canada.
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Contract to hire artisans to build ships at Kingston, 1813, and list of employees. Signed notary J. Belanger.
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Item is a typed handbook for the Masonic Order from a lodge in Montreal.
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Lake Ontario tall Ships Rendezvous
Promotional package for the Tall Ships Rendezvous in Kingston, Rochester and Toronto in 1984. Includes letters of welcome from community leaders, itineraries, press releases, etc.
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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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Items are a photograph of Dr. Fyfe (Fife) Fowler, and a drawing of Fowler's mother, both in frames.
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Account book for The Schooners H. J. Jones and Laurel
A Ship's Account Book which shows the expenses of the Schooner H.J. Jones and the Schooner Laurel.
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Item is a video recording of an interview on a boat with a man talking about the naming of the Thousand Islands, among other points of interest about the Islands.
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[Photo album - Student at Queen's University]
Item is a photo album with numerous b&w photographs attached inside. About halfway through the album, there begins multiple pages of photographs around Queen's University: of students and buildings etc. It can be surmised that this photo album belonged to a female student from the graduating class around 1945, as there are faint dates written in pencil on some of the pages.
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