2024-019 James D McDonald Ledger (Lansdowne Blacksmith)
Ledger received from Parks Canada in Ottawa in 2024 . Offered as a result of Deaccessioning of archival material. It has been conserved by Parks Canada to their standards, which involved removing the pages and encapsulating them separately in heavy acetate and bound into three volumes with red cloth covered hardboard covers. The three volumes then housed in an outer case of similar material.
2024-019-A001 Volume 1: begins with an alphabetical list in a tall narrow format, (one page for each letter) listing patrons, with page references to the account of the patron. At the end of the alphabet, the accounts begin in a wider format (indicating a different book) of lined pages with vertical columns, on numbered pages 1 t0 91 and dated 1890 to 1892
2024-019-A002 Volume 2: continues accounts from page 92 to 183 and dated 1892 to 1901, with loose pages, cards, letterheads, letters, and envelopes inserted between the numbered pages. Following page 127 there are several such pages inserted, including .
2024-019-A003 Volume 3: continues accounts from page 184 to 253 and blank pages continue to 302, with dates from 1902 to 1915. Following page 227 there is an interesting billhead for Firman Cross describing his business. There is a non-consecutive entry on page 302 for the Presbyterian Church from 1890.
File consists of:
2024-022-001 Spiral bound notebook containing manuscript minutes of meetings of the FoLL Library Board beginning Jan 5, 1983, to Dec 3, 1985.
2024-022-002 Hard bound guest book with manuscript calligraphy listing donors to the FoLL Library in memory of family members, from June 1978 to April 2005.
144 scans from negatives.
Nine loose, unused postcards (Valentine-Black Co., Toronto) of The Thousand Islands (St, Lawrence River scenes - Canada & USA) images 1908-1927. Digitized, including the reverse of one postcard.
Three scanned pages.
Collection contains a file on the Thousand Islands Bridge, unpublished family trees, newspaper clippings, seven photographs, topographical maps of Mallorytown, Gananoque, Gananoque, and Presbyteriam Households at the time of Church Union, 1925; Lansdowne (Ebenezer) Cemetery 1908 plot map & 1914 list of inscriptions [Box E0154]
Six diaries of Wellington Willis, 1913,1915,1916,1919, 1922,1923
One Ledger of William Cockrill, 1855 - 1887
One Diary - John Willis 1872
One Diary - writer unknown - Hunting Diary
One Newspaper Clippings - Willis Clippings, miscellaneous Scans - Terry Wood Scans
PDF of Building of the Thousand Islands Parkway 1937 - 1947 by Grant Haskin.
Eight pages.
Box of 1950s home movies from Patrick family of Lyndhurst, Rideau District High School yearbooks from 1960s, 1 copy of Leeds & Grenville Bicentennial History by Ruth MacKenzie