Résultats

      Early Toronto residents, politicians and local entrepreneurs transformed the City by creating public gardens and offering services and supplies to the gardening industry. As a result of their efforts, nineteenth century Toronto emerged as a more liveable community and a popular tourist attraction.

      Photocopy of the County of Oxford Gazetteer and General Business Directory for 1870-71. Contains a historical and descriptive sketch of the county, townships, towns, villages and post offices, with the names of residents of each township and locality arranged alphabetically.

      Photocopy of the County of Oxford Gazetteer and General Business Directory for 1874-75. Contains an alphabetical directory of the inhabitants of the towns and villages in the county; a classified business directory and a list of farmers throughout the county with their post office address, together with a miscellaneous directory.

      Photocopy of the Oxford County section of the Mercantile Agency Reference Book (and Key) Containing Ratings of the Merchants, Manufacturers, and Traders Generally, Throughout the Dominion of Canada, published in September 1877.

      Contents: Title Page: 5 Publisher’s note to patrons p. 6 Errata, additions, corrections, & c. p. 7 General contents p. 8 Index to advertisers p. 9 Dominion of Canada p. 11 Description of Chatham p. 23 Miscellaneous directory p. 34 Street & public building directory p. 40 Court officers p. …

      This is a copy of fragment of a statutory lease from The Ontario Methodist Camp Ground Company to Mrs Phebe Glass of London, Ontario. It is dated Aug. 17, 1878. It is a lease for 999 years. There is a modern note at the bottom indicating that this lease was …

 appeared in Northern Light, 10 Jun 1870. Date of Event: 30 May 1870     (OHR, v.1)

 appeared in Northern Light, 10 Jun 1870. Date of Event: 30 May 1870     OHR, V.1

 Newmarket Era (Newmarket, ON1861), 1 Mar 1878, p. 2, column 2     Death of J. W. Marsden, prominent public man and leading business citizen of Newmarket.

 Newmarket Era (Newmarket, ON1861), 15 Mar 1878, p. 4, column 2     Brief sketch of his life. Death of one of oldest and most esteemed citizens, Lieut.-Col. Richard Lippincott Denison.

 Newmarket Era (Newmarket, ON1861), 26 Apr 1878, p. 2, column 3     This venerable gentleman, who died at Newmarket, on the 18th inst, in the 88th year of his age, was one of those most admirable men who bore so prominent a part in the early settlement of the country, and who, as they pass away, deserve an honourable notice.

 Newmarket Era (Newmarket, ON1861), 24 May 1878, p. 2, column 2     Demise of one of oldest inhabitants in the County, Samuel Pearson on May 17.

 Newmarket Era (Newmarket, ON1861), 11 May 1877, p. 2, column 7     ...

 Newmarket Era (Newmarket, ON1861), 8 Feb 1878, p. 2, column 4     Sudden demise of Joseph Marsden, youngest son of J. W. Marsden, Esq., of this place., which occurred on Saturday last. Aged 26.

 Newmarket Era (Newmarket, ON1861), 21 Jun 1878, p. 2, column 2     It became our painful duty, two weeks ago, to record the demise of Mr. Jacob Lundy, an old and highly esteemed native of this County, aged 69 years, 3 months and 10 days.

 Newmarket Era (Newmarket, ON1861), 29 Jun 1877, p. 4, column 1     ...

      Reprinted in 1984

      Reprinted in 1972

      In the Freewill Baptist Church binder

      A Historical Sketch of the County of Carleton, a 1971 reprint of the H. Belden & Co 1879 Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Carleton (without the maps) with a new introduction by Courtney C. J. Bond, Head of the Canadian Section of the National Map Collection.