Collection consists of : 10 milk receipts for the Steacy brothers from Warburton Cheese and Butter Factory between Dec 1934 and May 1936. – Tax bills for the Steacy farm at Warburton between 1919 and 1962. – Memorandum of Agreement from 1910 between Vincent Goff and the Steacy brothers regarding division of trees to be cut.
File contains: a book "Recollections and Reflections" containing 90 pages of transcribed oral histories published by Leeds & Grenville County Board of Education 1990 -- a file of unbound transcripts of oral history interviews by Front of Leeds & Lansdowne Historical Society, each accompanied by a permission slip from the subjects of the interviews giving the Historical Society rights to use them at their discretion. The subjects were Paul Slack, Lizzie Ferguson, Ralph Smith, Mary Wilson, Edith Galway, Thelma Dennison, Glen Reed, Doug Donovan, Mabel Danby. -- 7 micro size cassette tape recordings of interviews, some of which may not have been transcribed.
Item consists of: a scrapbook containing photos, clippings, souvenirs and event program from the Dutch-Canadian Friendship Tulip Planting ceremony on 6 November 2015 at Thousand Islands Elementary School, put on by Lansdowne Association for Revitalization. Includes a CD of the same material.
Accrual given by Wilhelmina Lacelle, Nov 2020, consisting of:
- 55 loose photos of the event,
- two newspaper clippings describing the event (probably from Brockville R&T).
Collection consists of:
54 Lansdowne Fair Programs with Prize Lists 1962 to 2015 inclusive, missing 1965, 1968, & 1972, some others duplicated. – lists of entrants and winners in the antique machinery classes, starting in 1998. – 43 photographs of the antique machinery at Lansdowne Fair from 1997 to 2002. – 6 printed ribbons from Lansdowne Agricultural Society dated between 1882 and 1899 for President, Vice President, Judge, or Member, and one Souvenir ribbon dated 1917. – 3 folders for the Miss Lansdowne Fair Pageant including 1991 with stories of each contestant Renee Tuninga, Kathleen Nicholson, Stacey Nash, Tammy Baldwin, Angela Currie, Robyn Allen, Christa Carswell, Sarah Fodey, Lori Jocko, & Michelle Griffin. 1997 contestants Jeanette Modler, Lisa Asbreuk, Shelly Crombach, Julie Lacelle, Cassandra Burns, & Tina Poldervaart. 2009 contestants Erin Lynch, Katherine Geekie, Krista Miller, Emma Paquette, & Leah Randall . – 1 photograph of society member Alex Birtch with Miss Dominion of Canada who visited Lansdowne Fair circa 1967. – booklet for 1990 Miss Canadian National Exhibition pageant. – Program and prize list from 1962 Almonte Fair by North Lanark Agricultural Society. – 2 aluminum souvenir badges for contestants in Lansdowne Fair Antique Farm Machinery exhibit.
Accrual Aug 3/17 from Wilhelmina Lacelle includes Program and prize list for 2017 Fair, -- 2 copies Schedule of Events 2017. -- List of prize winners in each category. - Script, 6-page, typed: Address to the crowd 2017: Brian Porter as Sir J.A. MacDonald & photocopied photo of costumed Brian & wife.
2017-004
Collection consists of:
Computer print of a 1920s photo of Short Point School. – manuscript note by Vi McMachen about Brier Hill School when she taught there. – CDV of a young woman inscribed “Myron Sly’s daughter”. – Post card entitled “Rideau Inn, Seeley’s Bay, Ont.” showing Coleman’s Hotel. – 4 previous items from Viola McMachen.
Following material from Keith Sly collection.
Invitation card from Parliament St Methodist Church. – multi-fold post card of London England addressed to Mrs Arnold Berry, Lyndhurst. – 3 post cards of the Bay Motel at Hwys 15 & 32, 2 new 1 used. – post card of Grove United Church, Lansdowne. – post card of Main St, Gananoque, 1910. – post card of “Sunny Acres” Seeley’s Bay. – Post card of Gananoque industrial buildings entitled “Overlooking the St. Lawrence” circa 1905. – postcard of fall colour entitled “Greetings from Seeley’s Bay, Ont. Canada” 1957. – Post card of fall colours entitled “Greetings from Seeley’s Bay, Ont.” 1947. – Post card entitled “Up the Gananoque River” showing the railway bridge and pump house near Cheeseboro. – Booklet about Burnt Hills School, SS #8 Storrington entitled “Burnt Hills School Reunion July 6, 1996” 20 pages including advertising. – paper poster advertising the book “Kitley 1795-1975” by Glenn Lockwood. -- book "Luther H Holton a founding Canadian Entrepreneur" by Henry C Klassen, 2001 (Luther Holton was born at Soperton) (in General research Row 3, Bank A, Shelf 3)
Item consists of a large format scrap book of news clippings regarding 1000 Islands and environmental issues from the period 1975 -1981.