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Harold Wing family papers & photos

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2018-004 Harold Wing Family papers and Photos.

Collection consists of:
A hardbound ledger book inscribed Wilhelmina Sarah Eliza Green/ Lyndhurst/Ont./1896. It has been used as a scrap book with clippings and engravings of stories pasted in all but a few pages. Those pages not obscured show transactions from 1872 and ’73 in strange forms of notation not yet deciphered. Only 2 pages have clippings pertaining to Lyndhurst -- Gananoque Reporter, issue of Jan 15, 1881, containing obituaries for James Kirker, William Birmingham, James Hunt, and Daniel Hepworth (encapsulated.` -- Gananoque Reporter issue of June 18, 1881, containing obituary for Rev. John Carroll. (encapsulated) – Brockville Evening Recorder issue for May 12, 1906, containing an account of a prison escapee in the Rockport Escott area. – drawing of a crest for class of Science 1904 at McGill University, signed J Buicke Harvey. (encapsulated). -- very large hand traced map on tissue paper of Lyndhurst and the Gananoque River as far as Red Horse Lake (encapsulated). -- very large blue print plan of Charleston and Red Horse Lakes signed S B Code, OLS, 1919 (encapsulated) THESE 2 MAPS NOT OFFICIALLY TRANSFERRED TO ARCHIVES AS OF 10 MAY/18

File 2018-004- 01, Wing Family photos:
Studio photo of 4 children, inscribed “For Luella/ Willie aged 12 yrs/Ralph-10/Luella-8/ Pearl-6”. – 1 photo on punched card showing 3 people in a canoe near a shoe with trees, inscribed “To June/A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year/ Harry and Jennie”, possibly Vancouver? -- 3 photos on punched cards with inscriptions: “Big trees Stanley Park”, “Beach”, “An 8” snow fall Nov. 1900 A.D.” also inscribed “To Lambert Wing with best wishes for a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year”, believed to be all from Vancouver. – half card photo of a tug boat at a wharf, boat is named “Michael Davitt” and “M.C. Co.”. -- 22 studio half card photos of people, unidentified. – post card of a woman, unidentified. – small very faint photo of a woman in a fancy hat, with a computer enhancement of the same, unidentified. – printed photo-Christmas card dated ’86 of young couple and baby and dog inscribed “Love Mark, Susan and William”. – book “Constitution Code of Laws, By-Laws and Rules of Debate of Lyndhurst Division No. 229 of the Sons of Temperance, 1890”, certifying that Lambert Wing was initiated in Dec 1880. –

File No 2018-004-02 Green & Wing Family Info
8 x 10” computer prints of 2 photos from the J. B. Harvey collection, of the Lyndhurst carding mill and the St. Luke’s rectory. – page 1 of a grammar exam, with date of death of David Roddick on the back (1806-1839). – Printed circular from Elmer and Jay Dwiggins & Co. advertising residential and commercial lots in a new development in Griffith, Illinois, near Chicago. – notes of the birth and deaths of Josephine Halliday (Harvey), Richard Giles Harvey, George Harvey, and John Buick Harvey. – manuscript letter from “Loving Brother Albert” in Boston to “Bro. Dave”, Jan 4,1915. – typescript extract from Belleville Monitor 1869 obituary of William Green born in Wexford 1790, from Athens Reporter 1908 obituary for Mrs. Mary (Webster) Green widow of Wm., with list of family connections to Johnston, Mulvena, Stafford, & Foster. –invitation to Lambert Wing “accompanied by Miss Lou Roddick” to wedding of Alma White and William Wing, 1894. – invitation to Mr. & Mrs. Lambert Wing, Lucy and Frank, to reception for Miner Sweet and his bride, 1897. – invitation to Mr. & Mrs. Lambert Wing to wedding of Lillian Worden to William Berney, 1905. -- news clippings re wedding Jean Mustard to Brubs Seaman, death of Miss Lucy Wing and Dr. J M Kelly. – Photocopy of a 10 page manuscript family history of the White and Wing families from Brier Hill, written in 1978 by Madeline Gertrude Wing (1897 - ?)

File 2018-004-03 Letters to Mrs. Lambert Wing (Lou Roddick) and Miss Lucy Wing from Local people.
Leather postcard from Delta addressed to Master Milford Wing 1905. – letter to Milford Wing from Aunt Elizabeth at Delta – 19 letters to Mrs. Lambert Wing (Lou) from sisters Stella G, Kate, & Elizabeth at Delta, brother Aaron in Kingston, son Milford at Gramma’s, Spencerville, cousin Jennie, Maude Ackland at Forfar, Lizzie at Delta, Mercy at Elgin, unsigned from Harrietsville, Ont, + 4 empty envelopes including one postmarked Brier Hill NY and addressed to Brier Hill Ont., all dated 1896 to 1910. – letter to Lambert Wing from W W Chipman, Delta, 1907. – letter of sympathy to Miss Wing (Lucy) from Rev H S Cooke, formerly minister at Lyndhurst, from Beachburg, and Geo. W Dustin, N. Augusta, 1942, -- fragments of letters no signatures) from Ottawa 1953. – card advertising New Williams sewing machines from agent C M Quinn, Lansdowne. –

File 2018-004-04 Letters to Mrs. Lambert Wing from brother Jim Roddick and wife in Vancouver.
8 letters and 1 fragment from Jim Roddick and wife Ethel to Lou Wing 1899 to 1910. – 1 letter from Ethel to little Milford Wing, 1903. –
File 2018-004-05 Letters to Mrs. Lambert Wing from father James and brother John in Alberta.
Letter to Lou Wing from brother Aaron teaching in Irvine, Alberta, 1910. – letter from her father James (who disowned her for marrying Lambert Wing) Edison, Alta 1910. – letter from Aunt Jean, Edison Alta. to Milford Wing, 1909, -- Letter from Jean (Roddick) Mitchell, Edison Alta. 1910. – letter to Lou Wing from sister Jean, Pilbroch Alta. 1910. – undated letters to Lou from mother Mary and sister Elizabeth. – letter to Lou from father James Roddick, Edison Alta. 1909. – undated letter to Lou from father, Edison Alta.
File 2018-004-06 Family recipes
Large quantity of old recipes written on scraps of paper and then folded up tight