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.
