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A: 10 – b&w photos on card 16.5 X 11 cm of members of the Robeson family of Glen Elbe: identified on verso
A - 001 – J. E. Robeson [1866-1903]:
A - 002 – John Robeson [m. Clarissa Bowser] / store at Glen Elbe
A - 003 – Rev J B Robeson / Joshua B. Robeson / 1854 – 1917 / m / Sarah Elmina Hunter
A - 004 – J. B. Robeson / 1870-1901, top left corner missing
A - 005 – Mr. & Mrs. E. Robeson & Clare / Fairburn / 1895-1922
A - 006 – Vera Robeson. Niagara, / Aunt Lydia [m. Robert Powell / Arthur 1904-1925]
A - 007 – To Mrs H. S. Robeson / from / Annie Robeson / Mrs E B Robeson / 1877-1925
A - 008 – Clare & Vera / Clare and Vera Robeson / Poole St Catharines / 1877-1922
A - 009 – Clare / Fred and – Robeson / Belleville, Ont / Children of James E / & Jennie Robeson: 18.5 X 13.5 cm
A - 010 – Mrs J B Robeson / Toronto, Ont / Sarah Elmina Hunter Robeson: 28 X 22.5 cm, missing top left corner

2 photos of Andress boat dock 1963, -- 1 photo of Rockport Motel 1980 -- 3 nautical charts of St Lawrence River by U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers dated 1906, 1907, & 1917 (Map Cabinet 2, Drawer 3) --

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,

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. --

File consists of one b.w. photograph of King George vi and Elizabeth the Queens Consort standing on the rear platform of a railway coach.

Fonds consists of: Book with Curlox binding “I Wander the way Alone” by Russell Leeder 2002, 300 pages, (General research shelves) – book “The Story of the Lower Rideau Settlement” (Merrickville, Burritt’s Rapids) by Max & Virginia Martyn, no date, (General Research shelves) – book “Athens Was Her Home” by Edna Chant, no date, 68 pages (General research shelves) -- photocopy of the manuscript for Chapter 5 of his book “I Wander the way Alone”. – 2-hole bound pamphlet “The Natural and Human History of the Thousand Islands” by John G. Woods and Elizabeth M Holyroyd, about 1974, St Lawrence Islands National Park – pamphlet “Hunters and Gatherers at Charleston Lake” by Phill Wright, Charleston Lake Provincial Park Technical Bulletin No 1, 1999, 24 pages -- Gananoque Historical Society Newsletter Number 3 (1985?) –pamphlet “Charleston Lake Background Information, Issues, and Plan Alternatives” by Ontario Parks, 2002 -- CD in case “Rideau District High School Remembrance Day Symposium 2005” -- photo “Tom & Nancy Lee Leeder” by studio in Germany, -- photo “Rhena and Elva Sheffield, taken Jan 1945 / To Uncle Russell/ Your Neices” – photo “Velma Leeder taken August 22nd 1944” – photo of 5 young women inscribed au verso “Sewing Class ‘37” – large format photo on card of a house with a wooden sidewalk in front and a man, woman, and child standing outside, from a studio in Winnipeg Man. – unidentified photo appears to be a pet cemetery -- 3 copies of a blank greeting card showing a drawing of the Delta Mill – Hardbound Ledger book which records the names and payment of dues in an unknown organization, probably an Orange Lodge, between 1882 and 1915. The book is stamped by a bookseller in Pembroke ON. – unused forms for Application for Admission to Loyal Orange Association, B.A., and Royal Black Knights of Ireland. – Deed of Land in Lansdowne Twp Lot 20 Con 6 from the estate of Thomas J Darling (Edward James Webster and Joseph Grier, executors) to William Steacy, 1902 – statement of account from Barr & Lee general store in McDonald’s Corners to Thomas Cameron, 1890. – 8 copies of the Athens Mural newspaper 1997-99 (newspaper collection) – pamphlet “The beautiful 1000 Islands” published by Gananoque Boat Lines, c1975 – 1997 Tourist Guide to Athens, Charleston Lake & Township – fold-out photocard with 16 views of the 1000 Islands entitled “Souvenir of the 1000 Islands on Snider Boat Lines, Brockville, Canada” c1950 – large file of papers from Robert W Steacy including assessment notices and tax bills, order to report for medical examination 1918, milk statements, 3 receipts from Fairknowe Home (Home Boys), and local merchant billheads including S H Warren, Wm McConnell & Son, M B Burns, Miller & Purvis, Dr Lockhead, J R Thrasher, -- 1 letter from John Deere Plow Co of Welland to George Gates of Lyndhurst,-- file of papers pertaining to William and Donald Patience including tax bills 1940 & 42, billheads from Wills General Store, Smythe, Smythe & Lyon barristers – file of papers pertaining to Floyde Beadle of Delta including letterheads from W W Phelps – file of printed maps including Charleston Lake, Lower Beverley lake, Temperance Lake, Graham Lake, and the Triangle Cross Country Ski Club trails in those areas. – pamphlet “Trapping Guide” by Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, 1973 – Spiral bound book on tombstone carvers in Leeds and Frontenac, by Lawrence Hayward c1998 – OGS cemetery transcriptions for “Some Augusta Twp Cemeteries” (#84-3), “Maynard cemetery” (#84-7), “Edwardsburgh Cemeteries” (#88-1), Sandy Hill Cemetery” Prescott (#87-2), “Brockville Cemeteries” St Peter’s Anglican & The Old Catholic (#86-1) –Reports of local cemeteries visited in 1994, ’95, ’96, and 1997 by Paul Cote and Russell Leeder, including Denaut Cemetery, Scovil, Slack, Charleston, Fowler, Warren, Warburton, Temperance Lake, Johnson, Haskin, Rebecca’s, Bullard, Lytle, Chamberlain, Day, Stevens, Forbes, Old St Philip Neri, Old Lyndhurst Cemetery, -- 11 copies of Leeds & Grenville Branch OGS News Letters from 1991, ’92, ’93. – 2 copies of “Pioneer People and Places Early Grenville” by Grenville County Historical Soc, Nov ’82, and April ’85 -- Photocopies of land abstracts for Lot 15 Con 5 in Yonge, and a registerd indenture of Bargain and Sale by John VanLoon to Wellington Landon for part of Lot 12 iCon 10 Yonge dated 1859.

Collection consists of: 9 tin canisters of 8mm home moves of Patrick family and Lyndhurst area – 5 reels of 8mm film in cardboard boxes – 7 editions of the year book for Rideau District High School in Elgin, being 1962, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, -- 1 copy of “Leeds & Grenville Bicentennial 1984” by H Meribeth Clow (in General Research section) --

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