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Photos of Crosby/Newboro area

  • 2014-006
  • File
  • n.d.

File consists of 3 photos, 1 showing 2 young men with a horse and wagon in front of the stone butcher shop in Crosby, 1 showing a large meeting of men and boys seated in a circle in a farm yard, 1 studio photo of 2 men in a very old car.

Purchase from Grandma Had That

  • 2013-011
  • Collection
  • n.d.

8 post cards of the 1000 Islands including "Needle's Eye", "Half Moon Bay", "Heart Island", and "Rideau Queen"; 1 post card of Lansdowne Main St Looking South; photo of Jones Creek by Ian Inniss; book "Country Musings" poetry by Gertrude Forth Wheeler; book "As The Pages Turn" by Edna Chant; unused medicine bottle label from Dr Lockhead, Lansdowne;

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Rockport Area

  • 2022-20
  • Item
  • 1975 - 2016

Collection of newspaper articles and photographs, some loose, pertaining to Rockport area topics such as politics, St. Lawrence skiff, local personalities, TIARA (Thousand Islands Area Residents' Association) . Some materials appear to have been added after Dr. Kort's death in December 2004.

Dr. Kees Kort

Rockport photos & Navigation charts

  • 2014-016
  • Collection
  • 1906-07, 1917, 1963, and 1980

2 photos of Andress boat dock 1963, -- 1 photo of Rockport Motel 1980 -- 3 nautical charts of St Lawrence River by U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers dated 1906, 1907, & 1917 (Map Cabinet 2, Drawer 3) --

Sweets Corners church book

  • 2013-035
  • File
  • n.d.

File contains: a bound book of lined paper belonging to The Holiness Movement Church at Sweets Corners, also called the "Cannons Corners Mission" listing members and trustees of the church beginning in 1924, plus the minutes of their annual meeting June 5, 1929. In later pages it becomes a family record of Robert Tye who changed the spelling of his name to Tighe.

Tar Island motion pictures by William Gilbert

  • Collection
  • 1928-

Reels contain episodes depicting various events and activities such as luncheon at the Grenadier Island Golf Club, a barbeque, the playing of golf, a circumnavigation of Tar Island, the line of automobiles awaiting the Rockport ferry.

William Gilbert

Thousand Islands Area Residents' Association Fonds

  • 2011-024 & 2011-024A & 2011-024B
  • Fonds
  • since 1977

Fonds contains 2 sets of TIARA maps titled Plan of the Canadian Islands in the River St. Lawrence (3 maps, 6 total located in Cabinet 3 Drawer 1), 2 sets of index cards used to create the maps (1 alphabetical, 1 by lot #), 1 copy of Report to the People, 1 copy of 4 old photographs of fishermen, ca. 800 slides related to TIARA research, 8 audio cassettes regarding the creation of TIARA by Warren Almand, Mike Sykes, Wilson Goff, St Lawrence Islands National Park, and reports. A copy of the Nominating Document for the St Lawrence River to be included in the Canadian Heritage Rivers System prepared by Tiara.

2011-024A accrual received Aug 2015: Accrual consists of: 6 large scrapbooks of newspaper clippings about TIARA activities from Oct 1975 to June 1977 – 2 large scrapbooks of cartoons and letters to the editor by or about TIARA from Oct 1975 to December 1976. – 2 steel 5x8” card files containing survey data on punch cards. – A homemade drilling guide to record data on the punch cards. – 6 file folders of input forms to surveys by TIARA from local residents -- old (or reproduction) map of Westminster Park on Wellsley Island (encapsulated) -- original cartoon by Gene Day showing “Porks Canada” gobbling up the 1000 Islands. (encapsulated) – W. E. Saunders Natural History Award presented by Federation of Ontario Naturalists to TIARA, 1990. – 23 Bristolboard panels telling a retrospective of Tiara activities to 2010. – 6 copies of the first TIARA newsletter of 1975. – a bumper sticker with the logo “Don’t Park on People” – book “Citizen Wetland Initiatives” edited by Wilfred Cwikiel, Michigan, 1995. – books “A Report to the People” vol. #1 to 5 by Tiara, Jan 1977. -- 2 maps of Grenadier Island traced from 1874 survey, one showing historic uses, one showing Parks Canada property (encapsulated, in Map Cabinet).

2011-024B Accrual received Sept 27, 2018
Accrual consists of : typescript history of the birth of TIARA on Nov 21, 1975. -- photo of the audience at the meeting at Rockport Recreation hall Nov 21, 1975 indicating the 7 people who first met to oppose the expansion of the National park, i.e. Gordon Spaffoerd, Don MacRae, Chris Smith, Kathie Shine, Val Mody, Jan David. -- photo of an early TIARA study group including Kathy Nathan, Fred ?, Joan MacRae, Kathie Shine, Bo Collins, & Lawrence Mallory. -- "View Album of Thousand Islands" consisting of 16 pages with 2 photos per page of scenes in the 1000 Islands. -- Post card of an Island with cottage in the river. -- photocopy of the original doantion form for 2011-024, Nov 1, 2011.

Thousand Islands Area Residents' Association

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