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Item is a scanned CD of the Guest Book of Totem Lodge.

Collection consists of: -- 50 b&w photos of Totem Lodge, a privately owned summer residence on Tar Island; includes family, guests, and scenes from the 1000 Islands, including 2 photos of the home of Gordon Thing in Rochester, NY. Most are unidentified, a few have Post-It notes attached naming members of the Osborn family. These photos are possibly from the era of 1922-23.

Collection consists of digital copies of 55 photographs and one cover letter.

File cosnsists of: -- a "Tourist Register" book from Scenic Lodge, Rockport Ontario, begun June 6, 1959 and ending July 10, 1963, -- leather bound "ARDS. Visitors' Book" recording names from 1954 to 1970,

Fonds consists of records of the Township of the Front of Escott (and of its predecessor, the Township of the Front of Yonge and Escott). This includes tax records, vital statistics, census of children, council financial records, and electoral records including voter lists.
Series are as follows:

1. Administration
2. Council and By-Laws
3. Electoral Records
4. Financial Records
5. Legal Affairs

Box G0166 contains SS #17 Escott Public School files cosisting of: a file of School Inspectors Reports – file of Teacher Contracts
-- file of Insurance Policies
–file of Book orders and receipts for various supplies
– envelope of receipts including Billheads from local merchants such as Chas. Heaslip, Escott, R S Heaslip, R H Smart Brockville, R P Hagerman Escott, Wm Chick Mallorytown, Kelly Bros Mallorytown, Jas. Smart Mfg. Co Brockville, Merkley’s Transport Iriquois, E E Johnston Lansdowne, A E Summers & Son Mallorytown, Wm McConnell Lansdowne, Gananoque Agency of The Rathburn Company, J G Steacy Escott, Wm Mconnell & Son Lansdowne, S M Mallory Mallorytown,
-- “Statutes and Regulations Respecting Public and High Schools Ontario 1896”
-- “An Act respecting Public, Separate, and High Schools”, 1879 – “Catalogue of Books Recommended for Public School Libraries” Department of Education 1902
-- “Instructions to Inspectors” Dept of Education 1907 & 1910 – “Changes in the High and Public Schools Acts” 1907
– “An Act to Amend the Public Schools Act” 1907
– Elementary Agriculture and Horticulture and School Gardens in Village and Rural Schools” Dept of Ed. 1907
– blank Application Form for Teachers’ Summer Course at Ont. Agricultural College, Guelph, 1907
– Course Description for Summer Schools for teachers at Ont. Agricultural College 1907
– “An Act to Amend the Department of Education Act” 1907
– Accomodations and Equipment of Rural Public and Separate Schools” 1906 (incomplete)
– Catalogue of Maps, Globes, and Charts, Geo. M Hendry Co. Toronto 1910
– Catalogues and price lists from E N Moyer Co. Ltd. School Furnishers, Toronto, 1909, ’10, ’11.
– Catalogues of School Books from William Briggs, Toronto, undated
– The Merchant’s Bank of Canada statement for 1909 from Lansdowne branch, R F Hungerford, manager
-- Letter and reciepts to Miss Irene Finucane from Dept of Agriculture 1924 --

Fonds consists of three scrapbooks documenting controversies around municipal governance in Escott.

Accession consists of three scrapbooks.

Accession consists of three scrapbooks.