This fonds consists of the news publications of the Review-Mirror, and includes some publications of its predecessors, The Review and The Mirror.
Fonds is composed of the following series:
1986-003 Independent Order of Foresters Lyndhurst Court Fonds.
1986-003-A 5 Reports of the Endowment Committee 1892-93
1986-003-B 19 Monthly Reports between Aug 1892 and Sept 1894 listing names of Initiates and fees collected.
1986-003-C 26 Monthly reports of assessments remitted to the Independent Order of Foresters Mortuary Department and the Sick and Funeral Department between April 1907 and July 1908.
1986-003-D Semi-Annual report to the Supreme Court of IOF for July 1894 plus a blank report.
1986-003-E Abstract Statements of Cash Account for 1900 and 1901.
1986-003-F Benefit Certificates from 1907 for IOF Members Harold Hicock 1907, J E Berry , R Cavanagh , A R Leadbeater, G G Ferguson, and guarantee Policies from the Employers Liability Insurance Company for Ziba Jackson.
1986-003-G Quantity of used Cheques for amounts paid for assessments and postage.
1986-003-H 2 Books of Cheque stubs as previous.
1986-003-I Reciepts from IOF High Court of Ontario and IOF Supreme Court for assessments and supplies, 1891 to 1895.
1986-003-J Quantity of Invoices for salaries, outlays for hall rentals and other expences, lamp wicks, fire wood, transportation etc, naming A B White, Ziba Jackson, C Sheffield, W H Metcalf, A E Stevens, James Young, F B Sheffield, F Middleton, J Johnson, Merrill C Sweet, Leonard Coon, D W Green, A LandonJ A Warren, Bryce White, William Wiltse, Wm J Kenny, Wm Webster, J E Roddick, W D Simes, Includes billheads for A. B. White J.P. & Conveyancing,, Hay Floral & Seed Co Brockville, R.G Harvey Merchant Miller, D W Green General merchant, Riverside House R W Copeland prop., W.B. Fullerton paint, drugs & chemicals, Gananoque.
1986-003-K Quantity Non-photo Post card correspondence with integral postage stamps 1893-1907.
1986-003-L Quantity misc internal I.O.F. correspondence.
1986-003-M As previous.
1986-003-N Promotional literature for Independent Order of Foresters, includes:
1986-003-V Artifacts used in Independent Order of Foresters procedings:
V-001-002 Book; “Constitution of Supreme Court of the Independent Order of Foresters”, 390 pages 4 x 6” format, Hunter Rose Printers, Toronto, 1898. 2 copies
V-003-004 Book; “Constitution and Laws of the Independent Order of Foresters”, 408 pages 4 x 6” format, Hunter Rose Printers, Toronto, 1905. 2 copies.
V-005 Cherry wood mallet, was originally one of a pair. The mate may have been adopted for use by R.o.L.L. council.
V-006A Red printed collection box for donations to I.O.F Orphans’ Home on Feresters Island at Deseronto.
V-006B The outer box in which the coin box arrived by mail.
V-007A to I Coins recovered from the collection box V006A.
A- Canadian 5 cent silver1899
B- Canadian 5 cent silver 1913
C- Canadian 5 cent silver 1902
D- USA 5 cent silver 1896
E- USA 5 cent silver 1889
F- USA 5 cent silver 1884
G- USA 5 cent silver 1900
H- USA 5 cent silver 1887
I- USA 1 Dime silver 1900
V-008A&B Book of I.O.F. Ritual Procedures, 102 pages, 5 x 7” format, blue covers, Advertiser Printing & Publishing Co, London ON. 1890. 2 Copies.
V-009A&B Book of Ritual of the Independent Order of Foresters Subordinate Courts, 149 pages, 5 x 7 format, Hunter Rose Co. Toronto, 1905. 2 Copies.
V-010 Minute Book I.O.F Court Lyndhurst meetings from 6 May 1891 to 31 July 1907
V-011 Lyndhurst I.O.F Minute Book of meetings from 30 Oct, 1907 to 1 July, 1914
V-012 12 pin-on rosettes in red and blue fabric with various thin metal silver plated symbols attached, including a Bible, collar, keys, swords, chalice, mallets, quills, all-seeing eye, and arrows.
V013 8 heavy cast metal crosses with symbols of a Moose’s head, shaking hands, all-seeing eye, and walking figures, forming medals mounted on ribbons printed with silver on blue for Court Lyndhurst I.O.F., each with bars on the ribbons and pendant symbols of swords, mallets, keys, battle axe, and shield.
V014 3 face masks of starched and pressed blue fabric with cut out eyes and black elastic holding strings.
V015 1 leather hoodwink consisting of a blue pressed face mask as previous, sewn inside a leather face cover with no eyes, with a shaped leather nose piece sewn on.
V016 2 leather straps with buckles (hand cuffs)
This fond consists of the Charter, records, and effects of the Independent Order of Foresters, Court Lyndhurst. The fonds is organized into the following series:
Collection consists of over 300 newspaper articles by Harry Painting regarding local history appearing in the Gananoque Reporter from 1977 to 1993.
Sans titreCollection consists of five photographs of the construction of the Thousand Islands Bridge, Canadian side.
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:
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 material generated by Joseph McAlonan and other members of the McAlonan family.
Copperplate engraving for wedding invitation, Vera Irene McAlonan to Stewart Hunter
McConnell, 1934
Family Bible
Newspaper clippings re: Joseph McAlonan’s death, 1935
Two Cheesemaker’s Certificates, Joseph McAlonan, 1911 & 1932
Poem, Joe McErdy for Mother
Two Individual Liquor Permits, 1953-1956
Railway pass, Lyndhurst to Brockville, 1919
1 photograph, Seeley’s Bay Public School, 1935
15 photographs, various family photographs
39 photographs, various family photographs
45 photographs, various family photographs
9 photographs, First World War soldiers
6 postcards, Seeley’s Bay Hockey Club and Seeley’s Bay locations
3 photograph albums, various family photographs.
Sweet’s Food Market, Seeley’s Bay, Ontario. Calendar 1972 with illustration of Seeley’s Bay by
Trudy Doyle.
Sweet’s Food Market, Seeley’s Bay, Ontario. Calendar 1973 with illustration of Seeley’s Bay
Public School by Trudy Doyle.
3 photographs of the Seeley’s Bay Hockey Club, 1929-30, 1030-31, and 1931-1932; Ledger from the Gilt Edge Cheese Factory 1931-1945 (added 18 Sept 2014)
Accrual received Aug 20, 2015, consists of:
– mounted photo of the students of Seeley’s Bay Continuation School for 1936, no names.– school report cards for Eldon McAlonan 1936 and 1940. – mounted photo of Joe McAlonan (left) and another man operating a butter worker in the old cheese factory. Photo by Gilbert, Seeley’s Bay.– 2 snapshots of the old McAlonan cheese factory + 1 of 2 man leaning against a pickup truck by the loading dock of the cheese factory. – photo of the McAlonan house on Main St Seeley’s Bay. – photo of a man in a suit standing on a country road with farm buildings in the distance. – photo of the front of a garage with the name G E Graham over the door, signs advertising White Rose motor oil and a poster for James Auld. – photo of the Gill Rapids Cheese Factory on Seabrook Rd. – photo of a huge log on sleighs pulled by a team of horses in front of the Dr Young house in Seeley’s Bay, inscription “Gordon Kenny driver”. – partial post card showing the Seeley’s Bay Hockey team of 1931-32. – small photo of the 3 silver trophies won by Seeley’s Bay Hockey Team in 1930 including the Stewart Cup, Gray Cup, and one other. – letter written on letterhead from Rideau Lake Inn, Seeley’s bay, by Bob Coleman, to his son Jack, about going into the army, Aug 1944. – Christmas card from Rev and Mrs. J A Wadell, The parsonage, Seeley’s bay 1917. – certificate of confirmation of Ellen Francis McAlonan, May 1916, at St Peter’s Church, Seeley’s Bay
This collection consists of research files compiled on various area families, schools, communities, buildings, landmarks and general research topics (compiled by members of the Leeds & 1000 Islands Historical Society, as well as the former Escott and Rear of Leeds and Lansdowne LACACs).
