Fonds 2015-020 - Valera Hartley Fonds

20 cm textual material and 1 artifact

Material from the estate of Valera (Richardson) Hartley of Seeley's Bay, donated by her daughter Laurel Hartley Ritchie, including an accrual received Oct 2015

Fonds consists of: “The news from Seeley’s Bay & Lyndhurst” Vol 1, issues 1, 2, 3, 4, & 6 (housed with Community Newsletters in Cabinet #5) – book “Our Living History” a historical guide to the United Counties of Leeds & Grenville,2000. (Housed on General Research shelves) – Printed script for a play “The Calamity Kids” copyright 1942 by Walter H Baker Co. – poster advertising production of “The Calamity Kids” by Seeley’s bay Choir, with cast of characters – book “Proceedings of the 50th Annual Session of the Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star”, 1965 – announcement for “Bakeless Bake Sale” sponsored by Order of the Eastern Star Rideau Chapter 234. – catalogue of books and games recommended for Rebekah, Eastern Star, Order of the Rainbow, & Job’s Daughters, 1965 – calendar of official visits of the District Deputy Grand Matron for District 13 Order of the Eastern Star 1965-66 – 3-ring binder of “Beautiful Homes” copyright 1928, as sold by C W Hartley & Sons, Seeley’s Bay – book “Bills of Materials for Beautiful Homes Plan Book, Dec 1928 –manuscript of a song “Revolutionary Tea” (about the Boston Tea Party) – book of questions and answers for drivers from Motor Vehicles Branch, Dept of Highways Ontario, undated – Canadian Dairy Industry facts sheet 1965 – Hartley family medical receipts and St Johns Ambulance certificate – coupons for 5 cents, 10 cents, and 25 cents, redeemable in merchandise at Eugene P Wright & Son store, Gananoque. – flyer for Centennial Cellebrations in Seeley’s Bay July 20-23, 1967. – booklet of “40 Famous Menus from Sweet’s Grocery” – 1938 financial statement for Seeley’s Bay Pastoral Charge, United Church of Canada, -- bulletin for “Service of Rededication, Seeley’s Bay United Church, June 30, 1968. – book “Seeley’s Bay and District 1967 Profile”, -- promotional letter from The Ontario Temperance Federation dated Dec 3, 1958 – small quantity of incidental papers from Albert & Hugh Brown family, including bills from the Leeds & Frontenac Rural Telephone Co. – newsletter of Lyndhurst Continuation School called “The Lyndhurst Star”, March 1951. Staff listed as Frederick Hinton, Leonard McConnell, Barry Dean, Isobel Sly, Doreen Casselman, Marlene Dean, Shirley McMachen, John Warren, Nadleen Cross, Marion Neddo. – small map of Rideau Lakes District. – folder Centennial Thanksgiving Celebration for St John’s Anglican Church, Leeds Rear, 1850-1950 –
Also included; a fabric nail apron advertising C W Hartley & Sons Building Contractors, Seeley’s Bay (artifact) –
Also included 14 school books as follows: “Ontario Public School Geography” W J Gage & Co. 1948 – “Junior Mathematics Grade 8” Toronto Educational Book Co, 1944 – “The Canadian Speller Book Two” W J Gage & Co. 1948 – “General Science, Book Two” copyright 1938, J M Dent & Sons 1952 – “Standard Canadian Reciter” McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1918 – “Words, their Spelling, Pronunciation, efinition, Application” The Gregg Publishing Co. 1929 – “The Treasury Readers, Grade Six”, Ryerson Press, 13th printing 1946. – “The Treasury Readers, Grade Five” Ryerson Press, 13th printing 1945. – “Living English” Clarke Irwin & Co 1939 – “Successful Recitations” McClelland & Stewart, 1927 – “Ontario Public School History of England” Ryerson press, 12th printing 1926 – “Junior History of England” Ryerson Press, 16th printing 1947. – Golden Windows” Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1945. – Ontario Public School Arithmetic” T Eaton Co. Ltd. 1926. – “Junior Arithmetic Grade Three”, The Educational Book Co. 1945. – “Junior Arithmetic Grade Four”, The Educational Book Co, 1947. – Junior Arithmetic Grade Five” The Educational Book Co.
Accrual to 2015-020, received Oct 11, 2015: -- 4 reciepts from A L Campbell & Son, Westport Granite Works, and Chown Hardare for costs related to the funeral of John Hartley’s son who drowned at the docks in Seeley’s Bay, Oct. 1959 – (artifact) another fabric nail apron advertising C W Hartley Builders Supply, Seeley’s Bay – a book of duplicate counter receipts printed for C W Hartley Builders Supply (water damaged). – The New Improved Standard Dictionary, 1942 --