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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

Adam Gillespie's obituary

  • 2011-006
  • File
  • 1876

File contains: 1 handwritten minutes of the annual meeting of the trustees of Long Point School 22 Dec 1904 (housed with Long Point School Fonds); printed full page obituary for Adam Gillespie, 1798 - 1876, with notes on family members au verso.

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) --

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

Joan Sands collection

  • 2012-023
  • Collection
  • n.d.

Collection consists of: a centennial history entitled "Lyndhurst 1794 - 1967" by Anna Harvey, -- a photo with names of girls at Lyndhurst Continuation School 1938, -- photo with names of the guests at the wedding of Bernice Tye, -- quantity of newspaper clippings filed in General Research files

Bracken Family tree

  • 2013-003
  • Item
  • 1985

Item consists of four 19 by 66 cm encapsulated sheets containing the family tree of the Bracken Family.

Keith Sly papers

  • 2013-034
  • File
  • n.d.

File contains: -- 8x10 colour photo of 6 past reeves of Rear of Leeds & Lansdowne including Hubert Sly, Roy Greenhorn, John McKinley, Johnson Plunkett, Harold Webster, and Douglas Moore. -- hand written receipt on letterhead of Albert J Sly for payment of principal and interest on mortgage between Albert Sly and W. G. Collinson, 7 July 1916. -- Class photo of Seeley's bay Continuation School 1931, Deed to Adelbert Sloan for Plot #55 in Trinity Church Burying ground Lansdowne, Letter from Adelbert Sloan 1913 instructing William Bryan to prevent his chickens from trespassing, bill from Lyndhurst telephone Co to Frank Chase 1924, bills to Hubert Sly from Don McGregor, R A Warner, Lorne Chapman, Emerson Baxter, and G L Normandin; Voters lists for Bastard & Burgess Twp 1917-18-19-20;

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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