Fonds consists of:
File 2016-030-A: Bryan Family photos
Group photo of the picnic for the Moorhead family visiting from Milestone, Sask. July 1st 1947. – undated Christmas card with photo of Elmer and Winnie (Steacy) Bryan. – school photo of Bruce Bryan, grade 2 or 3, Long Point school. – Studio half-card of a family labeled “Uncle Will & Aunt Addie Moorhead, Vernal & Vera”. – CDV of toddler labeled “Vera Moorhead” – Studio half-card labeled “Lewis E Murphy”. – Studio half-card of a toddler labeled “Mildred Murphy”. – oval studio half card in folder labeled “Possibly Joyce & Arthur Murphy” -- Studio half-card of a baby labeled “Ethel Murphy”– snapshot of young woman in coat, hat and fur muff labeled “Mildred Murphy”. – CDV in folder labeled “Uncle Thomas Wigston and wife” by A Johnston Studio, Carlisle, Ireland. – oval CDV labeled “Victor Chipman aged 3 years” – studio half-card of two children labeled “Roy & Ethel Doolan/Uncle Albert Doolan’s 2 oldest children”. – snapshot on card of toddler in lacy dress labeled “Ethel Murphy”. – Studio card of a house with 2 ladies labeled “Aunt Jane Wright/Aunt Agnes Sherard/sisters of Grandpa Moorhead”. – Studio folder of young woman labeled “Mildred Murphy” – studio card of a steam traction engine, threshing machine, and crew, standing in water labeled “Out west – Uncle Joe Moorhead possibly 6th from left” (Milestone Sask.) – large house portrait of Thomas Bryan house (George Gates’s) with people labeled “Uncle Tom (Bryan)/ Aunt Tena/ Sarah Ann Bryan (Aunt of Uncle Tom sister of his father)” – large house portrait of John Moorhead house with 2 people on the vernada labeled “Tommy McConnell/Grandpa John Moorhead/at Uncle Johnson (Merton) Moorhead’s”. – large house portrait with horse and buggy and people, one inscription crossed out relabeled “Don Moorhead’s place at Sweets Corners/Uncle Joe Moorhead in buggy/Jim Bell family that kept house/when Mary’s mother died at her birth”. – group photo of councilors for Rear of Leeds & Lansdowne 1981-84: standing Doug Mainse, Murray Seaman, Bruce Bryan, sitting Gordon Leadbeater, Roy Greenhorn . -- 56 snapshots of Bryans and relations, incuding Jacob & Maggie (Moorhead) Bryan, Thomas and Tina (Morris) Bryan, Elswood & Beatrice (Smith) Bryan, Douglas Bruce and Elaine Bryan, Freda Smith, Eldon & Eleanor Albert, Helen (Bryan) Burtch, Hubert & Lenna (Bryan) McNeeley and children, Earl McNeeley, Bill De Wolfe, Doreen (McNeeley) DeWolfe & children Nancy & David, Mr. & Mrs. DeWolfe Sr, Sheila & Sharon Burtch, Mabel Elliott, Minta Machan, Merrill & Phyllis Machan, Janet Mustard, Frank Meyers, Mildred (Murphy) Meyers, Joyce Meyers, Art Meyers, Samuel & Sadie (Bryan) Chipman, son Gerald Chipman and wifeAileen & children Beverley, Allison & Karen, Mary (Bryan) Murphy, Ethel Murphy, Aggie Pridmore, Marilyn Johnston, Mr. & Mrs. Doolan and Elizabeth, Shirley Haskins, Evelyn Weeks, Ellen, Nancy, Ann & Allan Doherty, Ruby Ann Jones, Georgie McConnell, Merton Moorhead, Will Yardley, Beverley Gates, -- .
File 2016—030-B: Misc Families photos
Studio half card labeled “John Rupracht and wife Jane Simmons”. – CDV “James Morrison Foley age 1 year 10 days.” – CDV labeled “Johnny McKenzie/died 1925” (he was a Home Boy) -- oval studio half card in folder labeled “Johnny McKenzie – worked at Uncle Tom Bryan’s – interred at Leeds/ died approx 1925” – studio oval half card of 4 children labeled “Rupracht children” (Mulholland Studio, Oswego NY) – Studio half-card of small child labeled “Lloyd Scott”. – oval CDV of young woman labeled “Aggie Pridmore”. – CDV of bearded man labeled “Alex Sliter”
File 2016-030-C: unidentified photos
File 2016-030-D_: Misc. Bryan family papers.
Program for the unveiling ceremony of the memorial to the Lansdowne Iron Works National Historic Site 1935. – manuscript poem entitled “Divinity” author unknown, possibly Sadie Bryan who it belonged to. – High School entrance exam from “The Scientific teacher System”. – book of By-Laws of Victoria Lodge of Orange Young Brittons 1878. – Independent Order of Forresters membership certificate, and certificate issue statement admitting Bruce Bryan to the order, 1991. – In Memoriam card for Thomas Tye who died 15 May 1898, from Harmony Preceptory No 537 Royal Black Knights of Ireland . – copy of the speech by Hayden Stanton in the House of Commons 24 Nov. 1953 with envelope addressed to Elswood Bryan. – correspondence from the Holstein Friesian Association of Canada regarding a change in the name of a calf, 1957. –
File 2016-030-E: School scribblers
5 pulp school scribblers belonging to Helen Bryan, Elaine Bryan, and Douglas Bryan
File 2016-030-F: Elswood Bryan Farm income receipts.
Large quantity of milk receipts from Cow & Gate Co. in Gananoque, -- large quantity of milk receipts from Island City Cheese factory in Delta (Frank Tackaberry prop.) – receipts from Canadian Co-Operative Wool Growers Ltd (Carleton Place). --
File 2016-030-G: Elswood Bryan farm expense receipts.
large quantity of receipts from other local businesses including Sweets Frozen Food Center, George Ashby feed store, R T Elmy saw mill, Lyndhurst Hardware (Bert Clissold prop.), Rothwell-Perrin Lumber Co., Seal’s Motor Sales, Aylesworth Livestock Sales, R H Slack General Merchant, Homer Tye General merchant (Ellisville), J H Harvey Flour & feed, H T Webster general store, Gray’s Sport Center, Lyndhurst Garage, Lyndhurst Co-Operative Assoc., Gananoque District Co-Operative, C W Hartley & Son, Lawson’s Feed Service (Athens), Ault Milk Products --
Artifact: Aluminum place marker from L&G County Council, with engraved name “RR.Leeds & Lansdowne – Reeve/ BRUCE BRYAN”
Books (in General Research - Contemporary Knowledge) Large book of 557 pages on livestock management and diseases circa 1902, Title not readable. -- small book on animal care, no covers or title page, possibly an early copy of Lawson's Complete Farrier. --
Oversize items encapsulated in Map Cabinet 1, Drawer#3: 2-sided Coroplast campaign sign “ Elect Bruce for Bryan Mayor”. -- Membership certificate of Jacob Bryan in Orange Young Britons Association, 1882. Oversize items in flat shelf box G0196 – Auto sales literature mailed to Douglas Bryan in response to requests, with covering letters, includes books on 1957 Lincoln, 1958 Dodge, Plymouth, DeSoto, Chrysler (including 7 passenger sedan) and Chrysler 300, 1959 Chrysler, Chrysler Imperial and DeSoto, 1959 Cadillac funeral cars and commercial chassis, 1959 Edsel,