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Books: housed in General Research shelves. (most of these books were collected to inform the application to UNESCO for World Heritage River status for the St. Lawrence.)
book: "The St. Lawrence River, History, Highway and Habitat" by Janice Hamilton, 2006.
book: "Morrises' History of Prescott 1800-2000" by John A H Morris, 2001
book: "The Rivermen, Echoes of Lake St. Francis" by Roy Lefebvre & Norman Seymour, 2007
book: "Aboriginal People and the Fur Trade" by Louise Johnston, 2001
book:"Running Down the Rapids" by Ian Bowering, 2005
book: "Running Down the Rapids Vol 2" by Ian Bowering, 2006
book: "Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Study Report", 2007
book: "Cornwall: From Factory Town to Seaway City" by Ian Bowering, 1999
book: “Chevrier” by Mabel Tinkiss Good, 1987
book: “Voices from the Lost Villages” by Rosemary Rutley, 2004
book: "Collected Poems of Armenia J Bull" (in shelf box).
Video Cassette: The Essential Link in Wetland Protection, U.S. Senator Carl Levin & Garrison Keillor (in shelf box)

File 2017-029-01 TIARA membership lists, Committee members and directors:
List of directors dated Aug 2008. – list of directors dated Aug 2003. – list of directors dated June 2004 – undated list of members of the Liason Committee. – undated membership list 5 pages – membership list dated 2000 (20 pages). – membership list dated 2001. – membership list dated 2002 – list of members with Canadian addresses dated 2007. – List of members with American addresses dated 2007. – 2003 membership renewal form with short questionnaire. – TIARA newsletter spring 2012. – undated membership request with flyer “The future of the Thousand islands – more than our lifetime”

File 2017-029-02 TIARA legal and financial papers:
TIARA operating budget for 1977. – photocopy of Letters Patent for TIARA Mar 6, 1976. – typescript “History of TIARA” listing events up to March 1976. – brief by TIARA to Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs, 1977

File 2017-029-03 TIARA Study Group 1976
Contents of a three ring binder containing tyred minutes of meetings of TIARA Study Group Mar 6, 1976 to Aug 1977 including a budget. – 1-page flyer requesting participation in TIARA Survey. – sample data cards from first survey. – list of people involved in group discussions and statements/questions.– list of volunteers to various aspects of organization dated Mar 6, 1976 – undated questionnaire for peoples section of study group

File 2017-029-04 TIARA Input '84 survey
16-page Report on Input '84 survey. – Summary of results of Input '84 survey. – blank survey questionnaire for Input '84

File 2017-029-05 TIARA Input '96 survey
5 page Report on the TIARA Survey Input '96. – Summary of Results of Input 96 survey (2 copies). – blank Input '96 survey form. – mail out package for 1996 Tiara members including membership renewal and Input 96 survey

File 2017-029-06 TIARA Input 2000 survey
144 page final report of Input 2000 survey. – summary of responses to Input 2000 questions 17-21. – Input 2000 synthesis of Directors' comments. – questionnaire for Input 2000. – 2 page mailout of results of Input 2000 for members.

File 2017-029-07 Special Policy Area south of 401
Concept Plan for Thousand Islands Special Study, South Leeds Planning Board 1977. – Special Policy Area amendment to the Official Plan for South Leeds, 1980. – Thousand Islands Heritage Area concept for management of heritage resources, 1981. – South Leeds Official Plan 1979.

2020-015
-001 Scribbler belonging to Frances Bryan containing clippings and games and contests
-002 Minute Book (Frances Bryan’s Treasure) containing newspaper clippings of deaths, marriages etc.
-003 Studio photograph (cabinet card) of a young girl with dog beside her done by photographer in Saratoga, N.Y.
-004 Collection of42 miscellaneous post cards and Greeting cards from different countries addressed to Mulvena Family of Charleston Lake
-005 White plastic folder with Audrey Yeomans deed to her property plus deed to old John Bryan property bought by Susie and Alice Tye. Home of Audrey Yeoman
-006 Obituary card of Paul Daniel O’Connor, M.D.
-007 Photograph Album with tintype and sepia photographs.
-008 Tintype of an unknown woman
-009 Tiny treasure given to Miss E.H. Green by her teacher A.E. Cranston for Superior answering and attendance at School during the past week. August 18th, 1854
-010 Deed of Land from Director, The Veterans’ Land Act and Walter Stafford Yeoman, Sept. 13, 1957
-011 Deed of Land Robert E. Tighe to Clarence Lee Millar, Aug. 9, 1944
-012 Memorandum of Agreement between Julia Bryan (mother) and George Bryan, William Bryan and Loftus Bryan, Nov. 27th, A.D. 1924. With an envelope to William N. Bryan, Esq., Lyndhurst, Ontario.

File 2016-044-A and File 2016-044-B
75 recent prints copied from old photos of people and buildings in the Rockport-Escott area including Fred Huck, Escott Methodist Church, W T Weeks saw mill and cheese box factory, W T Weeks house. -- Kaiser farm west of Waterton, Running house, Squire Thompson farm, McKee farm, Elwood Hunt garage at Waterton, Hutchison homestead on Hutchison Rd, E W Mallory house Mallorytown, Larue Mills ice jam, several photos of the old Escott School and students, Tingren’s store at Waterton, Brooker’s Crossing (over RR tracks), Seaman house, Stafford’s Inn at Soperton, many other inidentified. – 11 old original photos including Ernest Plunkett, Hotel Waterton, Nate Kelly mother, C W & Mrs Stunden, Mrs Hollingsworth & C P., others unidentified. – modern professional photo of Springfield House after restoration.

File 2016-044-B
photocopy from Gananoque Reporter July 18, 1891 showing photo of Escott Orange Lodge members and banner, with attached article. – 2-sided regalia ribbon from Escott L O L No 27, orange on one side, black on the other.
– photo of a Holland School 1906 with students Jim Cobey, Eugene Lynch, Grover Reid, William Kennedy, teacher Miss Mary McNeil, Cecelia Lynch, Mary Ellen Kennedy, Wilf Cobey, Frances Cobey. – copy of an old photo of Escott School #17 with twins Annie & Mae Martin front row right.
– interior photo of Escott School 1897 with students Tom Donovan, Tommy Smith, Jim Thompson, George Hutchison, Tom Heaslip, Ambrose Godkin, teacher Mary Mitchell, Lil Cranker, Arlie Trickey, Laura Thompson, Maggie Hughes, Iona Campbell, Libby Donovan, Fanny Heaslip, Mary Taylor, Pearl Godkin, Maggie Donovan.
Photo of Escott School 1904 with students Wilmer Grothier, Bert Donovan, Jimmy Hollingsworth, Charles Heaslip, Oscar Dowsley, Grey Ferguson, Arthur Findlay, Tom Gavin, Earl Findlay, Rhoda Hughs, Mildred Friedenburg, Edna Findlay, Mary Elizabeth Donovan, Tom Heaslip, Din Donovan, Fanny Heaslip, teacher George Hutchison, Maggie Hughes, Florence taylor, Maggie Fair.-
Photo of Escott School 1910 with teacher Miss Kerr or Wiseman, students Mary Wiltse, ? Quinn, Maggie Donovan, Madeline Easton, Bill Donovan, Arthur Findlay, Oscar Dowsley, Edna Donovan, Katie Shipman, Helen Donovan, Annie Donovan, Eileeen Wiltse, Earl Findlay, Mrs Kate Miller, Tom Miller, Melita Miller, Vincent Donovan, Helen Hutchison, Ethel Dowsley, Vera Hilliard, Frances Mallory, Celia Donovan, Iris Weeks, Harold Dowsley, John Trickey, Hubert Mallory, Milford Shipman, Fred Ferguson, Grey Ferguson, Charlie Jobson, William Hutchison, Percy Ferguson.
Duplicate copies of above school pictures – recent print of old photo of a cheeses factory with patrons and wagons, possibly Escott. – printed programs from Escott Public School 25th anniversary 1990, Grade 8 Graduation 1998, Escott Public School closing 1965-2004. – stapled booklet Township of Front of Escott Bicentennial 1784-1984. – pricelist of produce from Lansdowne Bakery of B W Stringer, undated, with recipe for mixed pickles written on the back. – annual statement for 1915 from Springfield Union Cheese and Butter Factory with names of directors R F Hungerford manager, D F Dowsley pres/sec, R B Wright maker, E C Kelly sec. ,C J Phillips, C J Hollingsworth, Thomas Donovan, David Hutchison. – recent lists of schools in Front of Leeds & Lansdowne and Rear of LL. – list of statistics for Escott cheese factories from 1871, 1874, and 1908. -- letters and printed material from the opening of Springfield House Aug 28, 1982 – photocopies of old photos of Springfield House, Sheppard’s garage at Lansdowne, early spring on Hwy 2 near Escott showing mud and water and ruts, tar vats pulled by steam engine for paving Hwy 2. – printed script for guided tour of Springfield House.

2016-044 Accrual donated Aug 9, 2018:

book "The Story of Grenadier Island" by Jane R Allen, 31 pages, printed privately 1971. This is a well made photocopy of an original. A digital copy is available from the "Digi Vault".

File contains 3 scrapbooks of clippings pertaining to actions of Council of Front of Escott between Nov. 1991 and Aug 1992

2 books of manuscript records of meetings of the Escott Public Library Board 1974 - 79 and 1979 - 84

Fonds consist of a Guest Book and a Scrapbook.

Material pertaining to the history of the legacy township of Escott (also known as Front of Escott).

6 photographs of groups of military officers, some dated 1885, one identified as 4th Company, 42nd Battallion, 1 photograph of LOL #26, Lansdowne, photo taken at Perth 1909, and 1 faded interior photograph of old Town Hall, Lansdowne, with 5 councilors seated at a table including Nelson Bowen, Oscar Landon, Reeve William McConnell, unknown, and William Burns.

Fonds consists of a scrapbook titled History of Emery School SS 12 and 15 loose photographs.