Fonds consists of store records and ledgers, receipts, tax forms, school and record books, correspondence, clippings and photographs relating to the life and business of the Darling family in the Thousand Islands region.
There are also several small items of historical interest, including a primitive treadle sewing machine and a hand operated vacuum cleaner.
Fonds consists of records of the Township of the Front of Escott (and of its predecessor, the Township of the Front of Yonge and Escott). This includes tax records, vital statistics, census of children, council financial records, and electoral records including voter lists.
Series are as follows:
- Administration
- Council and By-Laws
- Electoral Records
- Financial Records
- Legal Affairs
Box G0166 contains SS #17 Escott Public School files cosisting of: a file of School Inspectors Reports – file of Teacher Contracts
-- file of Insurance Policies
–file of Book orders and receipts for various supplies
– envelope of receipts including Billheads from local merchants such as Chas. Heaslip, Escott, R S Heaslip, R H Smart Brockville, R P Hagerman Escott, Wm Chick Mallorytown, Kelly Bros Mallorytown, Jas. Smart Mfg. Co Brockville, Merkley’s Transport Iriquois, E E Johnston Lansdowne, A E Summers & Son Mallorytown, Wm McConnell Lansdowne, Gananoque Agency of The Rathburn Company, J G Steacy Escott, Wm Mconnell & Son Lansdowne, S M Mallory Mallorytown,
-- “Statutes and Regulations Respecting Public and High Schools Ontario 1896”
-- “An Act respecting Public, Separate, and High Schools”, 1879 – “Catalogue of Books Recommended for Public School Libraries” Department of Education 1902
-- “Instructions to Inspectors” Dept of Education 1907 & 1910 – “Changes in the High and Public Schools Acts” 1907
– “An Act to Amend the Public Schools Act” 1907
– Elementary Agriculture and Horticulture and School Gardens in Village and Rural Schools” Dept of Ed. 1907
– blank Application Form for Teachers’ Summer Course at Ont. Agricultural College, Guelph, 1907
– Course Description for Summer Schools for teachers at Ont. Agricultural College 1907
– “An Act to Amend the Department of Education Act” 1907
– Accomodations and Equipment of Rural Public and Separate Schools” 1906 (incomplete)
– Catalogue of Maps, Globes, and Charts, Geo. M Hendry Co. Toronto 1910
– Catalogues and price lists from E N Moyer Co. Ltd. School Furnishers, Toronto, 1909, ’10, ’11.
– Catalogues of School Books from William Briggs, Toronto, undated
– The Merchant’s Bank of Canada statement for 1909 from Lansdowne branch, R F Hungerford, manager
-- Letter and reciepts to Miss Irene Finucane from Dept of Agriculture 1924 --
Fonds consists of material generated by Joseph McAlonan and other members of the McAlonan family.
Copperplate engraving for wedding invitation, Vera Irene McAlonan to Stewart Hunter
McConnell, 1934
Family Bible
Newspaper clippings re: Joseph McAlonan’s death, 1935
Two Cheesemaker’s Certificates, Joseph McAlonan, 1911 & 1932
Poem, Joe McErdy for Mother
Two Individual Liquor Permits, 1953-1956
Railway pass, Lyndhurst to Brockville, 1919
1 photograph, Seeley’s Bay Public School, 1935
15 photographs, various family photographs
39 photographs, various family photographs
45 photographs, various family photographs
9 photographs, First World War soldiers
6 postcards, Seeley’s Bay Hockey Club and Seeley’s Bay locations
3 photograph albums, various family photographs.
Sweet’s Food Market, Seeley’s Bay, Ontario. Calendar 1972 with illustration of Seeley’s Bay by
Trudy Doyle.
Sweet’s Food Market, Seeley’s Bay, Ontario. Calendar 1973 with illustration of Seeley’s Bay
Public School by Trudy Doyle.
3 photographs of the Seeley’s Bay Hockey Club, 1929-30, 1030-31, and 1931-1932; Ledger from the Gilt Edge Cheese Factory 1931-1945 (added 18 Sept 2014)
Accrual received Aug 20, 2015, consists of:
– mounted photo of the students of Seeley’s Bay Continuation School for 1936, no names.– school report cards for Eldon McAlonan 1936 and 1940. – mounted photo of Joe McAlonan (left) and another man operating a butter worker in the old cheese factory. Photo by Gilbert, Seeley’s Bay.– 2 snapshots of the old McAlonan cheese factory + 1 of 2 man leaning against a pickup truck by the loading dock of the cheese factory. – photo of the McAlonan house on Main St Seeley’s Bay. – photo of a man in a suit standing on a country road with farm buildings in the distance. – photo of the front of a garage with the name G E Graham over the door, signs advertising White Rose motor oil and a poster for James Auld. – photo of the Gill Rapids Cheese Factory on Seabrook Rd. – photo of a huge log on sleighs pulled by a team of horses in front of the Dr Young house in Seeley’s Bay, inscription “Gordon Kenny driver”. – partial post card showing the Seeley’s Bay Hockey team of 1931-32. – small photo of the 3 silver trophies won by Seeley’s Bay Hockey Team in 1930 including the Stewart Cup, Gray Cup, and one other. – letter written on letterhead from Rideau Lake Inn, Seeley’s bay, by Bob Coleman, to his son Jack, about going into the army, Aug 1944. – Christmas card from Rev and Mrs. J A Wadell, The parsonage, Seeley’s bay 1917. – certificate of confirmation of Ellen Francis McAlonan, May 1916, at St Peter’s Church, Seeley’s Bay
The fonds is comprised of the records of the Lansdowne Women's Institute, including branch minutes books, as well as the minutes books of the Brockville (later Leeds East) District of the Women's Institute of Ontario. These Minutes Books also include membership lists and financial records, and are organized chronologically. Series are:
- Branch Minute Books
- District Minute Books.
Fonds is comprised of the records of Loyal Orange Lodge #51, including minutes, accounts, attendance and membership records, and constitution and by-laws. Also includes some records of L.O.L. #194 and #511. The records are not complete, and are missing years. Series are:
- Loyal Orange Lodge #51 records
- Loyal Orange Lodge #194 records
- Loyal Orange Lodge #511 records
Material pertaining to the history of the legacy township of Escott (also known as Front of Escott).