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      Early surveyors, like William E. Logan, used Rochon micrometer telescopes and targets (disk on a calibrated pole) to measure distance. Each microscope had a different calibration and therefore a different range. The instruments were calibrated against a distance measured with a surveyors chain (also known as Gunter’s chain). One chain …

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      The image of the funeral card of William Ronald, Sr., who died in the Township of South Dumfries on Monday, Jun. 8th, 1885, at 4 p.m., aged 60 years, 1 month and 24 days.

      This is a mortgage document for $700 dollars between Thomas Armour and David Campbell of Onondaga Township. The original document was provided by Al Robinson during a Scan & Share Day event held at the Onondaga Hall on February 11, 2012.

      The gentleman with white facial hair in the centre of the group of people is probably Noah Phelps.

      This black and white photograph was taken when several horse and buggies and approximately sixteen people were outside in the commercial area of Grimsby Park. A milk canister sits on the horse-drawn wagon seen in the centre of the photograph. The sixteen men stand across the two porches and road …

      This is a 16 page leaflet or pamphlet, advertising the 1885 programme for the Ontario Methodist Camp Ground Company. It contains accomodation listings, lecture listings and advertisements for other companies such as Bell Organ. It has 12 numbered pages.

      Summary Bruce's School was named for James Bruce, a graduate of Dublin University who taught in the County of Brant for ten years. The first schoolhouse was a log cabin on Concession 5 near the Beverly Township line, in David Cope's field about three quarters of a mile east of …

 unknown, Kimball's Belleville City Directory (1885), 1885, p. 14     picture and description from Kimball's Belleville City Directory 1884-1885

      Photograph mounted on a cardboard frame of Charles Lawrence which would have been taken sometime in the mid 1880s.

      Title: Grimsby Park. New Survey. 1885. Parts of Lots 3 and 4 in the Broken Front and First Concession of Grimsby. Middle left: Proprietors certificate -- The lots coloured red and the Avenues and Streets coloured brown as shown hereon are laid out according to instructions. (signed) Noah Phelps President …

      Summary Located in Mount Pleasant, the United Church Manse was built to accompany the new Methodist church now known as the Mount Pleasant United Church. Designed by prominent Brantford architect John Turner and built in 1885, it has plain Georgian styling and repeats some of the architectural details of the …

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      In the Archdiocese of Toronto, original parish registers are not available to the public. Please DO NOT contact parishes for access to these registers. Other Resources Death and burials are not sacraments and are therefore not formally recorded by all parishes. In Ontario, official death records are kept by the …

      This picture is likely a copy of a tin type.

      James Rice ( 1807-1898) was born in Devonshire, England. He came to Canada sometime in the 1830s and married Nancy Park of Ireland at Whitby Township in 1840. The couple had 10 surviving children: Mary Rice (1841-1921), John (1843-1920), Ann (1846-1932), George (1848-1858), Thomas (1851-1904), Charlotte (1853-1893), James (1856-1934), Samuel …

      Dorothy Truesdale c1872-1900- wife of Thomas Norton.

      Leaving Aberdeenshire in Scotland, George McGillivray landed at Quebec in 1833 and hadn't intended to settle at Whitby Township. While in Vermont, McGillivray received a letter from William Dow encouraging him to purchase land in Whitby Township. After having spent time at Glen Dhu, the Dow family homestead in Whitby …

      Robert White (1816-1908) of England married Elizabeth Rowan (1822-1909) of Ireland in 1843. In 1852 they settled at Whitby on lot 29 of Concession 2 after living for some time at Toronto. Robert White was a brick and tile maker and he operated a brick yard on his property at …