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Totem Lodge photo album The Osborn Collection

  • 2014-008
  • Collection
  • [1923-1924]

Collection consists of: -- 50 b&w photos of Totem Lodge, a privately owned summer residence on Tar Island; includes family, guests, and scenes from the 1000 Islands, including 2 photos of the home of Gordon Thing in Rochester, NY. Most are unidentified, a few have Post-It notes attached naming members of the Osborn family. These photos are possibly from the era of 1922-23.

Russell Leeder Fonds

  • 2014-009
  • Fonds
  • n.d.

Fonds consists of: Book with Curlox binding “I Wander the way Alone” by Russell Leeder 2002, 300 pages, (General research shelves) – book “The Story of the Lower Rideau Settlement” (Merrickville, Burritt’s Rapids) by Max & Virginia Martyn, no date, (General Research shelves) – book “Athens Was Her Home” by Edna Chant, no date, 68 pages (General research shelves) -- photocopy of the manuscript for Chapter 5 of his book “I Wander the way Alone”. – 2-hole bound pamphlet “The Natural and Human History of the Thousand Islands” by John G. Woods and Elizabeth M Holyroyd, about 1974, St Lawrence Islands National Park – pamphlet “Hunters and Gatherers at Charleston Lake” by Phill Wright, Charleston Lake Provincial Park Technical Bulletin No 1, 1999, 24 pages -- Gananoque Historical Society Newsletter Number 3 (1985?) –pamphlet “Charleston Lake Background Information, Issues, and Plan Alternatives” by Ontario Parks, 2002 -- CD in case “Rideau District High School Remembrance Day Symposium 2005” -- photo “Tom & Nancy Lee Leeder” by studio in Germany, -- photo “Rhena and Elva Sheffield, taken Jan 1945 / To Uncle Russell/ Your Neices” – photo “Velma Leeder taken August 22nd 1944” – photo of 5 young women inscribed au verso “Sewing Class ‘37” – large format photo on card of a house with a wooden sidewalk in front and a man, woman, and child standing outside, from a studio in Winnipeg Man. – unidentified photo appears to be a pet cemetery -- 3 copies of a blank greeting card showing a drawing of the Delta Mill – Hardbound Ledger book which records the names and payment of dues in an unknown organization, probably an Orange Lodge, between 1882 and 1915. The book is stamped by a bookseller in Pembroke ON. – unused forms for Application for Admission to Loyal Orange Association, B.A., and Royal Black Knights of Ireland. – Deed of Land in Lansdowne Twp Lot 20 Con 6 from the estate of Thomas J Darling (Edward James Webster and Joseph Grier, executors) to William Steacy, 1902 – statement of account from Barr & Lee general store in McDonald’s Corners to Thomas Cameron, 1890. – 8 copies of the Athens Mural newspaper 1997-99 (newspaper collection) – pamphlet “The beautiful 1000 Islands” published by Gananoque Boat Lines, c1975 – 1997 Tourist Guide to Athens, Charleston Lake & Township – fold-out photocard with 16 views of the 1000 Islands entitled “Souvenir of the 1000 Islands on Snider Boat Lines, Brockville, Canada” c1950 – large file of papers from Robert W Steacy including assessment notices and tax bills, order to report for medical examination 1918, milk statements, 3 receipts from Fairknowe Home (Home Boys), and local merchant billheads including S H Warren, Wm McConnell & Son, M B Burns, Miller & Purvis, Dr Lockhead, J R Thrasher, -- 1 letter from John Deere Plow Co of Welland to George Gates of Lyndhurst,-- file of papers pertaining to William and Donald Patience including tax bills 1940 & 42, billheads from Wills General Store, Smythe, Smythe & Lyon barristers – file of papers pertaining to Floyde Beadle of Delta including letterheads from W W Phelps – file of printed maps including Charleston Lake, Lower Beverley lake, Temperance Lake, Graham Lake, and the Triangle Cross Country Ski Club trails in those areas. – pamphlet “Trapping Guide” by Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, 1973 – Spiral bound book on tombstone carvers in Leeds and Frontenac, by Lawrence Hayward c1998 – OGS cemetery transcriptions for “Some Augusta Twp Cemeteries” (#84-3), “Maynard cemetery” (#84-7), “Edwardsburgh Cemeteries” (#88-1), Sandy Hill Cemetery” Prescott (#87-2), “Brockville Cemeteries” St Peter’s Anglican & The Old Catholic (#86-1) –Reports of local cemeteries visited in 1994, ’95, ’96, and 1997 by Paul Cote and Russell Leeder, including Denaut Cemetery, Scovil, Slack, Charleston, Fowler, Warren, Warburton, Temperance Lake, Johnson, Haskin, Rebecca’s, Bullard, Lytle, Chamberlain, Day, Stevens, Forbes, Old St Philip Neri, Old Lyndhurst Cemetery, -- 11 copies of Leeds & Grenville Branch OGS News Letters from 1991, ’92, ’93. – 2 copies of “Pioneer People and Places Early Grenville” by Grenville County Historical Soc, Nov ’82, and April ’85 -- Photocopies of land abstracts for Lot 15 Con 5 in Yonge, and a registerd indenture of Bargain and Sale by John VanLoon to Wellington Landon for part of Lot 12 iCon 10 Yonge dated 1859.

Lyndhurst cemetery maps

  • 2014-010
  • Collection
  • 1908, 1959

1 plan of St Luke's Anglican Cemetery Lyndhurst, dated 1908, 100 x 67 cm -- 1 plan of Lyndhurst United Church Cemetery (adjacent to Anglican Cemetery) dated 1959, 40 x 21 cm.

Keith Sly papers and ephemera

  • 2014-011
  • File
  • 1901 - 1951

File consists of: savings account book from Union Bank of Canada Merrickville Branch -- Ladies Orange Benevolent Assoc Constitution and Laws, Feb 1950 -- Loyal Orange Assoc. Rules of the Royal Scarlet Order, Juvenile Orange Assoc., and Grand Lodge Benefit Fund 1947 -- Masons Lodge of Canada authorized Funeral Service 1935 -- Grand Black Chapter of British North America, rules and regulations Jan 1949 -- Instruction manual and Parts list for R A Lister "Melotte" cream seperator, 1901 -- 2 pages correspondence from R A Lister Co. 1901 and 1927 -- Receipt from Office of the Registrar-General to Mr J Dillon, 1951 -- Annual Statement for Twp Rear of Leeds & Lansdowne 1946 -- "Garnet & Gold" yearbook from Seeley's Bay Continuation School, 1929-30 --

Hewitt Family collection

  • 2014-013
  • File
  • 1928-88

1 leather bound guest book from Totem Lodge on Tar Island recording guests at the lodge from 1928 to 1988 -- 12 post cards of Rockport, the Ivy Lea Bridge, Boldt Castle, Skydeck, and Gananoque Boat Line -- book "Brockville Voices" edited by Deborah Emerton, 1994 -- book "Thomas Jowsey, his Descendants and Other Pioneer Families of Eardley Township Quebec" by Joan Jowsey, 1981 -- pamphlet "Brief History of Grenadier Isalnd Country Club 1927 - 1960" by Harold Everett -- booklets "General Information & Auditor's Report" for Front of Escott Twp 1982, 83, 84, 85,86, auditor's report 1993

Diary of Edward Langley

  • 2014-014
  • Item
  • 1890

The diary of Edward Langley, Lansdowne, Jan to Aug 1890 displaying excellent penmanship.

1954 Boat Race program + 1st Book Reader

  • 2014-015
  • File
  • 1867 & 1954

File contains -- Souvenir program from Canadian Boating Federation Regatta (races) at Brass Point Bridge Sept 4, 1954, sponsored by the Seeley's bay Fire Dept. -- manuscript of a poem entitled "Fight Fight Fight" about WWII signed P.T.O. -- "First Book of reading Lessons - Part 2" authorized by the Council for Public Instruction for Ontario, 1867, -- Manuscript recipe for "Indian Lung Syrup"

Boat race program/First Book reader

  • 2014-015
  • File
  • 1867, 1954

File consists of a copy of the Souvenir Program & Historical Review of C.B.F race boat Regatta at Brass Point Bridge Sept 4, 1954, sponsored by the Seeley's Bay Fire Department - - First Book of Reading Lessons Part 2, published by W. Warwick, Toronto, 1867.- -

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) --

Lorne Prosser Photos

  • 2014-018
  • File
  • ca. 1951

9 Photos 8 x 10" taken by Lorne Prosser of Gananoque, including 7 of Lansdowne Bank of Montreal interior and exterior, 1 of Lansdowne Anglican Church, and 1 of Seeley's Bay Firemen and firetruck about 1951. All are water damaged except the Anglican Church.

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