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Custodial history
Material survived in the house built by Wm. Peter Bryan in 1873 in Lot 24, Con8 Leeds. It was donated to LTI archives by Elaine Bryan, the last surviving member of the family, when the farm was sold in 2016.
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Fonds consists of:
File 2016-030-A: Bryan Family photos
Group photo of the picnic for the Moorhead family visiting from Milestone, Sask. July 1st 1947. – undated Christmas card with photo of Elmer and Winnie (Steacy) Bryan. – school photo of Bruce Bryan, grade 2 or 3, Long Point school. – Studio half-card of a family labeled “Uncle Will & Aunt Addie Moorhead, Vernal & Vera”. – CDV of toddler labeled “Vera Moorhead” – Studio half-card labeled “Lewis E Murphy”. – Studio half-card of a toddler labeled “Mildred Murphy”. – oval studio half card in folder labeled “Possibly Joyce & Arthur Murphy” -- Studio half-card of a baby labeled “Ethel Murphy”– snapshot of young woman in coat, hat and fur muff labeled “Mildred Murphy”. – CDV in folder labeled “Uncle Thomas Wigston and wife” by A Johnston Studio, Carlisle, Ireland. – oval CDV labeled “Victor Chipman aged 3 years” – studio half-card of two children labeled “Roy & Ethel Doolan/Uncle Albert Doolan’s 2 oldest children”. – snapshot on card of toddler in lacy dress labeled “Ethel Murphy”. – Studio card of a house with 2 ladies labeled “Aunt Jane Wright/Aunt Agnes Sherard/sisters of Grandpa Moorhead”. – Studio folder of young woman labeled “Mildred Murphy” – studio card of a steam traction engine, threshing machine, and crew, standing in water labeled “Out west – Uncle Joe Moorhead possibly 6th from left” (Milestone Sask.) – large house portrait of Thomas Bryan house (George Gates’s) with people labeled “Uncle Tom (Bryan)/ Aunt Tena/ Sarah Ann Bryan (Aunt of Uncle Tom sister of his father)” – large house portrait of John Moorhead house with 2 people on the vernada labeled “Tommy McConnell/Grandpa John Moorhead/at Uncle Johnson (Merton) Moorhead’s”. – large house portrait with horse and buggy and people, one inscription crossed out relabeled “Don Moorhead’s place at Sweets Corners/Uncle Joe Moorhead in buggy/Jim Bell family that kept house/when Mary’s mother died at her birth”. – group photo of councilors for Rear of Leeds & Lansdowne 1981-84: standing Doug Mainse, Murray Seaman, Bruce Bryan, sitting Gordon Leadbeater, Roy Greenhorn . -- 56 snapshots of Bryans and relations, incuding Jacob & Maggie (Moorhead) Bryan, Thomas and Tina (Morris) Bryan, Elswood & Beatrice (Smith) Bryan, Douglas Bruce and Elaine Bryan, Freda Smith, Eldon & Eleanor Albert, Helen (Bryan) Burtch, Hubert & Lenna (Bryan) McNeeley and children, Earl McNeeley, Bill De Wolfe, Doreen (McNeeley) DeWolfe & children Nancy & David, Mr. & Mrs. DeWolfe Sr, Sheila & Sharon Burtch, Mabel Elliott, Minta Machan, Merrill & Phyllis Machan, Janet Mustard, Frank Meyers, Mildred (Murphy) Meyers, Joyce Meyers, Art Meyers, Samuel & Sadie (Bryan) Chipman, son Gerald Chipman and wifeAileen & children Beverley, Allison & Karen, Mary (Bryan) Murphy, Ethel Murphy, Aggie Pridmore, Marilyn Johnston, Mr. & Mrs. Doolan and Elizabeth, Shirley Haskins, Evelyn Weeks, Ellen, Nancy, Ann & Allan Doherty, Ruby Ann Jones, Georgie McConnell, Merton Moorhead, Will Yardley, Beverley Gates, -- .
File 2016—030-B: Misc Families photos
Studio half card labeled “John Rupracht and wife Jane Simmons”. – CDV “James Morrison Foley age 1 year 10 days.” – CDV labeled “Johnny McKenzie/died 1925” (he was a Home Boy) -- oval studio half card in folder labeled “Johnny McKenzie – worked at Uncle Tom Bryan’s – interred at Leeds/ died approx 1925” – studio oval half card of 4 children labeled “Rupracht children” (Mulholland Studio, Oswego NY) – Studio half-card of small child labeled “Lloyd Scott”. – oval CDV of young woman labeled “Aggie Pridmore”. – CDV of bearded man labeled “Alex Sliter”
File 2016-030-C: unidentified photos
File 2016-030-D_: Misc. Bryan family papers.
Program for the unveiling ceremony of the memorial to the Lansdowne Iron Works National Historic Site 1935. – manuscript poem entitled “Divinity” author unknown, possibly Sadie Bryan who it belonged to. – High School entrance exam from “The Scientific teacher System”. – book of By-Laws of Victoria Lodge of Orange Young Brittons 1878. – Independent Order of Forresters membership certificate, and certificate issue statement admitting Bruce Bryan to the order, 1991. – In Memoriam card for Thomas Tye who died 15 May 1898, from Harmony Preceptory No 537 Royal Black Knights of Ireland . – copy of the speech by Hayden Stanton in the House of Commons 24 Nov. 1953 with envelope addressed to Elswood Bryan. – correspondence from the Holstein Friesian Association of Canada regarding a change in the name of a calf, 1957. –
File 2016-030-E: School scribblers
5 pulp school scribblers belonging to Helen Bryan, Elaine Bryan, and Douglas Bryan
File 2016-030-F: Elswood Bryan Farm income receipts.
Large quantity of milk receipts from Cow & Gate Co. in Gananoque, -- large quantity of milk receipts from Island City Cheese factory in Delta (Frank Tackaberry prop.) – receipts from Canadian Co-Operative Wool Growers Ltd (Carleton Place). --
File 2016-030-G: Elswood Bryan farm expense receipts.
large quantity of receipts from other local businesses including Sweets Frozen Food Center, George Ashby feed store, R T Elmy saw mill, Lyndhurst Hardware (Bert Clissold prop.), Rothwell-Perrin Lumber Co., Seal’s Motor Sales, Aylesworth Livestock Sales, R H Slack General Merchant, Homer Tye General merchant (Ellisville), J H Harvey Flour & feed, H T Webster general store, Gray’s Sport Center, Lyndhurst Garage, Lyndhurst Co-Operative Assoc., Gananoque District Co-Operative, C W Hartley & Son, Lawson’s Feed Service (Athens), Ault Milk Products --
Artifact: Aluminum place marker from L&G County Council, with engraved name “RR.Leeds & Lansdowne – Reeve/ BRUCE BRYAN”
Books (in General Research - Contemporary Knowledge) Large book of 557 pages on livestock management and diseases circa 1902, Title not readable. -- small book on animal care, no covers or title page, possibly an early copy of Lawson's Complete Farrier. --
Oversize items encapsulated in Map Cabinet 1, Drawer#3: 2-sided Coroplast campaign sign “ Elect Bruce for Bryan Mayor”. -- Membership certificate of Jacob Bryan in Orange Young Britons Association, 1882. Oversize items in flat shelf box G0196 – Auto sales literature mailed to Douglas Bryan in response to requests, with covering letters, includes books on 1957 Lincoln, 1958 Dodge, Plymouth, DeSoto, Chrysler (including 7 passenger sedan) and Chrysler 300, 1959 Chrysler, Chrysler Imperial and DeSoto, 1959 Cadillac funeral cars and commercial chassis, 1959 Edsel,