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Records of general store in Westport, ON.

Chapter on Eastern Ontario, p.665 (1882).

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.

Item is a portrait of [J. M. Macbeath?] and other taken by an unknown photographer. Item was located and retrieved from WD Jordan Special Collections - Buchan, under call number PR8561 .M11.

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.

The fonds consists of a ledger detailing transactions made by many Kingston hotels, stores and prominent citizens from an unknown Kingston butcher.

The collection consists of two bank statement books, a number of signature cards, a bank ledger for June 1907 to October 1907 tallying deposits for a number of banks in the City of Kingston, as well as a "Borrowing Book", 1893-1903, detailling the rental of dinner and glass ware to a variety of citizens and organizations in the Kingston.