Collection consists of: Public School Drawing Books #2,3, & 5, 1892, belonged to Robert Steacy, Warburton -- 3 scriblers of Robert Steacy -- Public School Writing Course, Vertical System, 1896, belonged to Robert Steacy -- Public School Geography text book (title/date pages missing) belonged to Robert Steacy, Warburton -- 2 loose leaf Science Note Books belonged to Dorothea M Andrew, Gananoque High School (no date) -- Literature Handbook Book I, II, III, IV, V, no date.

Item consists of 115 page thesis entitled "The Federal Government and Land Expropriation: A case study of pressure group politics in the Thousand Islands area" by George Newton Hood, University of Western Ontario, London, 1982.

2019-055-A Diary describing the travels of Maude Nichols beginning Aug. 5th, 1904, with her return from their honeymoon trip to Europe, ending Nov 1906.

• Illustrated brochure for the Woodstock Inn, Vermont, where they visited in Oct 1904.
• Theatre programs and entertainment events almost every other page. Frequent art exhibits and sales.
• 40 page brochure advertising a production of Alice in Wonderland to benefit Vincent Memorial Hospital, Boston.
• 32 page brochure for New York Hippodrome, WonderTrips around New York by electric coaches, Amateur & professional Circus to aid the Children’s Home,
• Souvenir list of members of a Raymond & Whitcomb Tour to California including Mrs. Austin Nichols, Dec 1904 until March 1905
  -Trip to Yellowstone Park and Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition in Spokane June 5, 1905, with maps, tickets, brochures, menus, then on Pacific Coast Steamship Co to Alaska, brochure for resorts in the Canadian Rockies, returning July 13.
• Chase family tree 1618 to 1855
• 24 page brochure Holt Renfrew guide to “10 Days in Quebec”, 24 page brochure promoting Montreal
• Last item is an obituary for Dr Charles Stewart Kittredge, father of Mrs. Austin Nichols.

2019-005-B Photo album assembled by Maude and Austin Nichols showing activity at Winnekenni beginning in 1915:

• Post card of Maude and Austin Nichols on their wedding trip to Europe, 1904
• People posing in Indian costumes with canoe, dated 1917
• Two large photos by L. Prosser of a race at Gananoque Canoe Club about 1917, with yachts and motor boats observing.
• Various inboard skiffs and launches
• Two men and two women in a flying boat, dated 1922.
• Names on pictures include Stan Guteling, Wm Kittredge, Rose Cronise, Mary and Ruth Caldwell, Bill Quinn, Paul Leach, Bell, Skinner, Wheeler, Mr. Wilson, Ednor Marsh, Florence McLaughlin, Maude Hartling, Marion Day, Mrs. McGillis, Sally Dickenson, Maude Peters, Geo. Gibson & family, Miss Fisher, Miss Gallord, Janette Weeks, Frances Miller, Margaret Knepper, Mary Frances Phelps, Bill Rhind, Helen & Alice Morse, Phyllis Britcken, House, Hessey, Dunlap, Anne Mills, Maude Leighton
• Pictures of the May family starting in 1930, including close-ups of the houseboat in 1936, and quantities of sturgeon, and building the “Peirce Arrow” in 1939.
• A series of photos of Winnekenni in 6” of snow taken by David May in Nov 1936
• Photo of Grenadier Island school class of 1938, teacher Helen Mallory

2019-005-C Photo album assembled by Maude Nichols and her husband Austin Nichols showing photos and newspaper clippings related to Winnekenni Lodge, including:

• Post card of Winnekenni Island and the Lodge with note “Built early 1908/Occupied 1st summer of 1908, Austin Nichols, Maude (his wife) + James Ricson”
• Miniature silhouette of Austin P. Nichols
• Clippings and post card of Winnekenni Castle in Haverhill Mass, which was the source of the name for the lodge.
• Six photos of Winnekenni with 6” of snow, Nov. 1936, incudes the boathouse with their boat “Aloha”
• Two photos of “Mrs. Gibson (senior)”
• Photo of a class beside “The little school on Granadier Island” with a list of names including the three May sibblings.
• A second photo of Grenadier Island School and pupils from 1947 when Maude May was the teacher.
• Many photos of the May and Nichols family members at Winnekenni, photos of the Lodge and its interior, the boathouse and skiff house, boats, games, and fish, dated from 1933 to 1955.
• Several guest families are named including Rowe, Hensley, Hooper, Hayes, Pillsbury, Poole, Davis, Warner, Ny, Poulter, Knowles, Peters, Chase, Genge, Smith,

2019-005-D Books & Papers
D-001 “A Community Vanished” by Christina Bates ,1987, history of Grenadier Island. Located in General Research – Local Histories
D-002 “Souvenir of the Thousand Islands”, the James Bayne Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., 86 pages, undated circa 1900, showing 82 professional photos of places, boats and people in the 1000 Islands.
D-003 “A History of Gananoque” prepared for the Gananoque Museum Board by John Nalon, 1985.
D-004 Undated but very old looking fold out engraved map, 21 cm x 364.8 cm (8 ¼” x 144”) “Drawn by Alfred R. Waud/engraved by John Andrew, Boston, US.” showing the waterway from Niagara Falls to Niagara on the Lake, excluding Lake Ontario, resuming at Kingston, and ending at Quebec City, with views of towns along the shores and vignettes of interesting places in between. It shows the Grand Trunk Railroad, the Prescott to Ottawa RR, Cape Vincent RR Depot, and frequent illustrations of sail boats and paddlewheel steamboats.
D-005 St Lawrence Islands National Park Newsletter, July 2007.
D-006 22 blank pages with letterhead of “1000 Islands Area Residents’ Association/Lansdowne Ontario”
D-007 Folding rack-card explaining the Tousand Islands Heritage Conservancy.

Six postcards

Collection consists of the following items concerning the production of an interpretive sign about the history of schools in LTI, and the ceremony where the sign was unveiled on Oct 20, 2016:
Digital DVD containing research by members of the LTI Historical Society with photos and comments on each school in the three amalgamated townships. – a hard copy printout of previous DVD. – 11 page downloaded printout of Leeds County portion of 1951 report of schools giving trustees and teachers names. – as previous, 5 pages dated 1930. – 1 page “Rules for Teachers” 1872 and 1915. – photos reproductions of school classes, with names, for Soperton School 1920,Wilstead 1935, Ellisville 1947, Ellisville 1953, Long Point 1953, Sweets Corners 1911,1952, & 1953. – 5 photos of the unveiling ceremony for the “Schools of the Past” interpretive sign, Oct 20, 2016, showing Matt Mumford, Cammy Job, Glenda Olivier, Wilhelmina Lacelle, Joe Baptista, John McAllister, David Corney, Wayne Anderson, Marion McKay, Audrey Newell, Freda White, Bill Boulton, Wilma Hartley. -- 9 page script for MC of the ceremony. – 2 copies of the poster announcing the ceremony. -- a paper printout of the sign unveiled. – text of a speech during the ceremony. – text of a speech by David Corney. – newspaper clipping from Gananoque Reporter Nov 3, 2016, telling of the ceremony. – 2 page plan for signage program for Lansdowne Village.

Collection consists of:– Leeds & Lansdowne Rear report card for Graham Mallette 1952-53 – Leeds & Lansdowne Rear report card for Ronnie Mallette, 1960 –– 2 bumper stickers from Friends of Lyndhurst Bridge, one in black& white, one grey & white. – 7 very old school text books containing signatures of Samuel Plunkett, Miss Maggie Plunkett, Miss Mary Johnson, Minnie Edgers, -- 2 copies of the calendar from W.G.& L.D. Johnston Store, Lansdowne, 1914.(encapsulated) -- 4 copies of the Gananoque Reporter 1954, '57, '58, '67.(encapsulated in Map Cabinet)

File consists of: an undated photo of students at Victoria School in Lansdowne including - ? Peck, Charlie Lynch, Arthur Dixon, Bert Sly, Blaine Moore, Alban McClary, Ross Johnston, Forest Johnston, Mildred McConnell, Phyllis Peck, Freda Latimer, Doris Warren, Eula Warren, Phyllis Warren, Bernice Quinn, Lorraine Burns, Nancy Funnell, Victoria Horton, Dorothy McConnell, Margel McKay, Flora Webster, Leticia Guild, Audrey Earl, Mayone Burns, Dora Fox, Helen Webster, teacher T I Ellis. – another undated photo of students at Victoria Scholl in Lansdowne, including Ford Peck, Jack Tedford, Bolton Slack, Bill Sheppard, Richard Bonesteel, Bill McConnell, Jim Mackie, Max Sheppard, Sid Coates, Herb Coates, Betty Nunn, Bessie Johnston, Grace Latimer, Bessie Warren, Charlie McIvena, Willis Shields, Doris McDonald, Frances Funnell, Pearl McDonald, Fanny Horton, Mary Lou Mackie, Vaida Cross, ? Funnell, Cleora McConnell, Marjory C?, Vera Warren, Edgar McMunn, Harris Latimer, Herb Horton, Ronald Warren, Warren Tedford, Frank McIveen, Jack Peck, Bill Burns, Ford Horton. – Undated newspaper photo of students at Wilstead School, including Lappan O’Hearn, Joe Cliffe, Paul Anderson, Clayton Anderson, Billy Cross, Gerald Breckenridge, Marion Cross, Rhea Breckenridge, Doreen McNeely, Marcilla O’Hearn, Ina Humphrey, Phyllis O’Hearn, Marie Cross, Bessie Humphrey, Beatrica Blackwell, Joleen O’Hearn, Armond Anderson, Frances Cross, Ella McNeely. – newspaper photo of students at Dulcemaine School in 1921, including Dorothy Lappan, Eva Bradley, Carmel Lappan, Madeline Varnderburg, teacher Evelyn Earl, Georgina Humphrey, Lea Cross, Eula Humphrey, Doris Earl, Mary Humphrey, Anna Steacy, Victoria Horton, Phyllis Heaslip, Grace Humphrey, Ina Heaslip, Burrell Cross, Mortimer Cross, Fred Cook, Charles Cross, Basil reed, Jack Steacy.

File consists of photo of Sand Bay School and students 1901 -- photo by Lorne Prosser of Lansdowne Red Cross volunteers 1946 including Joan (McNeil) Montgomery, Gladys Danby, Mrs Caiger, Margel Reed, Marjorie (Heaslip) Running, Eccles Warren, Agnes Jack, Annie Moorhead, Mrs Johnston, Mrs. Grier, Dorothea Burns, Dorothy Funnel, Frances Caiger, Phylis Clancy, Thelma Bean, Mrs Bradley, Gladys landon, Helen Reynolds, Alma (Alguire) Moorhead, Anna Stennitt. (There is a copy from this photo in 2012-031) -- photo of Lansdowne Orange Lodge at Perth, July 12, 1909,-- photo of Sand Bay on Gananoque Lake

File contains: -- List of Rockport Women’s Institute officers and conveners of Standing Committees, and schedule of meetings for the next year, undated. – “Women’s Institute Song Sheet”. – Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario memo to all branches, Feb 1977, with directions for competitions in handicraft, a painting, and community history kit. – 3 page pencil manuscript of suggestions for compiling a Tweedsmuir History, on letterhead of “Women’s Institute of Leeds East District” having a list of branches in the district, 1954..—Bound booklet of programs for Women’s Institutes Leeds East District 1978-79. – 8 page amendment to the constitution of Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario, 1975. – post card showing the stone bridge across the International Rift, part of the Thousand Islands International Bridge system. --

1926 postcard labelled "River Front, Center, Rockport Village. Ont." -- 1970s copy of a 1905 photo entitled Howard Huck's House, Rockport, taken by Martin Slate, showing George M Slate, Corry Slate (Root), Fred Slate and Helena Slate (MacDonald) -- paper placemat showing recommended motels and resaurants between Toronto and Montreal before Hwy 401 was built, -- program for the unveiling ceremony for the LaRue Family Cemetery, July 1, 1985,