The family History of Elisha Mattice of Forfar, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada - His ancestors and descendants 1710-1968

2022-005-A - Postcards b&w, 8.5 X 14 cm Unused:
A-001 - Seeley Bay[sic] streetscape: horse and wagon in front of church
A-002 - Seeley Bay [sic] two individuals in a rowboat
A-003 - Rideau Queen at Wharf, Seeley’s Bay [1910]
A-004 – A. Neal & Son Brick & Tile Co. Seeleys’ Bay
A-005 - Loughborough View Hotel, Battersea
A-006 - Continuation School, Seeley’s Bay
A-007 - [United Church] white church w spire, Seeley [sic] Bay
A-008 - View of the Village of Seeley’s Bay
A-009 - 3 strip negatives, representing 7 of the above images

2022-005-B - Used:
B-001 - Seeley[sic] Bay, stamped & addressed to Miss Nellie Cockrill, Ottawa; from Addie
B-002 - Grippen Lake Beach, Seeleys Bay, stamped & addressed to Mrs. May E. Lutz, Easton PA, 1957, from Alice & George
B-003 - Enniscorthy Co. Wexford, return address label for Gerald Cockrill, Gananoque; travel notes

2022-005-C – Seeley’s Bay Photos, b&w, 10 X 15 cm
C-001 - Putnam’s Grocery store, on verso: became Sweet’s later
C-002 - General Store & Post Office, on verso: Main Street. St. Peter’s Anglican church, Willis house, general store owned by a Dean, but Wellington had post office in there for a while (till the fire).
C-003 - Streetscape w 2 men and four horses, two wagons, on verso: Main St. Looking West/ St. Peter’s Anglican church is brick bldg. on left. Appears to be before Willis house was built just west of church
C-004 - Brick/block store building w man & horse, on verso: May have been Wellington’s first store. Not sure.
C-005 - Street scene that includes Northern Crown Bank, on verso: Eleanor (Willis) Wyatt
C-006 - Street scene that includes St. Peter’s Anglican Church, on verso: Eleanor (Willis) Wyatt

2022-005-D Seeley’s Bay Continuation School photos
D-001 - Exterior of school w auto parked in front, on verso: June 22, 1943; Aunt Barbara
D-002 - Two adults at front door of school, on verso: Mrs. Kidd, Mr. Pearson June 22, 1943
D-003 - Seeley’s Bay Football Team: Gerald Cockrill, front left.
D-004 - Group Photo of 8 female students, on verso: Top left to right: Pearl Johnson, Marg. Slack, Marg. Townsend; Bottom: Mary Scott, Norma Knapp, Rita Doyle, Katherine McElroy, Eleanor Willis / June 22, 1943
D-005 - Class photo, all standing, on verso: Sterling C., Earnest Wilson, Wallace Caird, Francis Glover, Merton Gray, Mr. Pearson, Saul Metcalfe, Eldon McElonan, John McKinley / Mary Scott, Norma Knapp, Eleanor Willis, Marguerite Slack, Pearl Johnston, Marguerite Townsend / June 22 1943
D-006 - Class photo, front row females seated or kneeling, on verso: Earnest Wilson, Sterling Chapman, Wallace Caird, Frances Glover, Merton Gray, Mr. Pearson, Saul Metcalfe, Eldon McAlonen, John McKinley / Mrs. Kidd, Mary Scott, Norma Knapp, Eleanor Willis, Marguerite Slack, Pearl Johnston, Marguerite Townsend / June 22 1943
D-007 - Class photo, on front steps, on verso: Mrs. Kidd, Vera Hill, Norma Knapp, Mr. Rhodes, Brad Hartley, Larry Stafford, Eldon McAlonen, Sterling Chapman, Earnest Wilson, Saul Metcalfe, Merton Grey, John McKinley, Francis Glover, Merton Hill, Eleanor Willis, Mary Scott, Eleanor Stanton, Mr. Pearson, Catherine McElroy, Beatrice Carr, Marguerite Slack, Pearl Johnston, Phyllis Townsend & Barbara B. / taken by Marguerite Townsend
D-008 - Seeley’s Bay School, [with automobile in front] recent copy, 12.5 X 18 cm
D-009 - Group Photo of 8 female students, recent copy, 12.5 X 18 cm, on verso: Back Row: Pearl Johnson, Marguerite Slack, Marguerite Townsend / Front Row: Mary Scott, Norma Knapp, Rita Doyle, [Katherine McElroy, Eleanor Willis / June 22, 1943]

2022-005-E
E-001 - B&w printed image 19.9 X 27.5 cm Putnam’s Grocery 1912 [top half of calendar]
E-002 - Sweet’s Food Market calendar 1974, 40 X 27.5 cm w b&w photo image of Putnam’s 1912
E-003 - Sweet’s Food Market calendar 1973, 38 X 32.5 cm w black ink artwork of Public School by Trudy Doyle ’72

2022-005-F 5 b&w glossy photographs 28 X 35 cm, copyrighted Rideau Air Photos Ltd, business owned by Mike & Juanita Willis, Jack & Eleanor Wyatt
F-001 - Seeley’s Bay 1960? Aerial views, serial number: 20
F-002 - Seeley’s Bay 1960? Aerial views, serial number: 52
F-003 - Seeley’s Bay 1960? Aerial views, serial number : 412-A-F-3
F-004 - Rideau Air Photos Dock 1959-60, Jack on right, SN: 279
F-005 - Rideau Air Photos Dock and Float Plane, 1959-60, SN: 278

2022-005-G – 001 - Yearbook: Garnet & Gold / Seeley’s Bay Continuation School / 1931-1932; 24 pages representing 53 students [condition: staples previously removed and pages separated]

2022-005-H - 001
Newspaper clippings (and photocopies) relating to June 9 1941 plane crash and 3 fatalities in Seeley’s Bay: Scottish pilot ALA [Acting Leading Airman] William McCulloch, residents Harold Battams, James Free:
5 Titles: Remove Bodies, Clear Wreckage From Seeleys [sic] Bay Air Crash; Doctor Stricken at Accident, June 10; Double Funeral for Victims of Seeleys Bay Fatality, June 12; Flier Took Part in “Y” Sing-song; In Memoriam

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,

Documentary record in Aerial photos of the building of the St. Lawrence Seaway, photographed by Ed Clark

Digital video and still pictures of tulip planting ceremony to celebrate Dutch Canadian friendship on Nov 6, 2015 + a printed program from the ceremony, advertising poster, and guest book.

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 Photo Album from the family of Dr. Elizabeth Beatty with 74 photos of places in India. -- Artifact; a printed silk sari from India 51 x 153 worn by Elizabeth Beatty.

Collection consists of :
Hard cover photo album containing 61 photos of people and places in India (direct glued to rigid pages), some including Dr.Elizabeth Beatty and associates, others of temples and architecture. The only dates are 1889 and 1890, places include Jeran, Neemuch, Agra, Delhi, Jypore, Indor, (Pages have been removed from the album in order to scan them on a flatbed scanner.)

3 large format professional photos, one inscribed “Wind Palace – Jeypore -India” and another “Principal Temple – Poonah, India”.

• Computer prints from scans of 2 Beatty family photos, not included in the album.
• copy of the LTI Historical Society Newsletter #18 (Fall/Winter 2002) containing the story of the Beatty house.
  -Beatty family tree by Alan Lindsay, 2 pages

Artifacts: a signature quilt made by members of the Presbyterian Church in Lansdowne. – a silk sari worn by Elizabeth Beatty in India.

Collection consists of: 4 photos of men in WW1 uniforms, 1 labeled Delbert Ritchie & Herb Barton, 1 labeled Hilton Tousley – photo of 2 couples in a Model T Ford touring car with 1916 license plate – winter picture of a woman with dog sitting on front step of a house with street number 27 – photo of a man in WW1 uniform riding a horse – a series of 16 photos taken in a hunting camp with a large log building, including up to 15 men and women, one dressed as cook, some with hung deer, some in humorous poses (this log building appears in numerous other photos in the collection)– Photo of an early speed boat with folding top, at a wharf on a very large lake, a well dressed man standing on the wharf. The boat named “Royal May” – post card of a WW1 Dreadnault style war ship adressed to “A E Haffie, Lansdowne, Ontario Canada” from his son – photo of a well dressed couple in front of a house – photo of a WW1 officer in uniform, seated – photo of a man waving, standing in front of a 1940s Chevrolet – 3 photos of people posing with a dead bear hung in a tree – group photo labeled “Xmas 1956 Sunday School” with names Sandra Burd, Nora & Pat Boyd, Cathy Broad, Roger Lyns, Roger Larry & Rosemary H (Haffie?), Sheron Ferguson, Mary Ellen & Dwight Running, Steve Cranker, Philys & Johnny Willison, David Cutts, Dean & Dale Haffie – photo of a hockey team, possibly Lansdowne – photo of a stone building with sign “The Lansdowne Reporter” with Model A Ford roadster parked beside – approximately 250 other black and white photos from 1940s to 1960s, unidentified – Approximately 85 colour photos from the 1970s, unidentified.