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Breithaupt Leather Co. truck

  • ON00351 GA 142
  • Item
  • [191-]

Contents: one undated photograph showing a Breithaupt Leather Co. truck in front of the Shipping Dept. at the tannery, which was located in Kitchener, Ont. Photograph by Denton.

Milton Acorn review

  • ON00351 GA 54
  • Item
  • [196-]

Corrected carbon typescript of a review article dealing with A. Purdy, Irving Layton and poetics in general.

Report by Rear-Admiral Charles Holmes, Sept. 18, 1759

  • ON00351 GA 141
  • Item
  • 1759

Contents: 7. p. ms. report dictated by Rear-Admiral Charles Holmes for his superiors, recounting in detail the events of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Major-General James Wolfe captured Quebec on Sept. 13, 1759, but died on the battlefield. His opponent, the Marquis de Montcalm died the next day. Holmes dictated a detailed account of the battle and sent two copies on separate ships to the British Admiralty. This document is the second copy of that report.

Contredanses.

  • ON00351 GA 56
  • Item
  • 1780

Notebook containing diagrams of 80 contredanses, circa 1780.

Manuscript Recipebook

  • ON00351 GA 235
  • Item
  • [ca. 1800]

Contents: one 53 p. vellum bound ms. cookbook of unknown origin. Cookbook features approxamitely 50 recipes in at least fifteen different hands. Most recipes are for desserts, although a few are for savoury dishes and household products. Some recipes are signed and signatures include M. Moore, Mary Dawson, and S. Lowels. Also included in the file is an index of recipes and the original seller's note.

Account book

  • ON00351 GA 40
  • Item
  • 1800-1809

Unidentified English account book containing entries from 1800 - 1809, including wages paid, property taxes, debts. etc.

Arthur Lang diary copy

  • ON00351 GA 96
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  • 1820 (transcribed 1907)

This document is a 13 p. carbon ts. transcript of Arthur Lang's diary prepared as a Christmas souvenir in 1907 by T.A. Lang, Clearfield Pennsylvania. It includes a copy of a letter from one of Arthur Lang's granddaughters to another, giving some family background. Arthur Lang describes the sea voyage, scenery, passengers, trip from Montreal through the Lachine Rapids and on to Prescott, and his experiences inspecting land near Lanark, in Ramsay, Lanark and Dalhousie Townships.

Vincent Dewell deed

  • ON00351 GA 13
  • Item
  • 1834

One vellum document - Deed of bargain and sale : Vincent Dewell and wife to Henry Smith, of the west part of lot 29, 8th concession Hope Township, Durham County, Upper Canada, Dec. 13, 1834. - 1834.

Frederick Keller land grant

  • ON00351 GA 12
  • Item
  • 1835

Contents: One document on vellum: a grant of land in Hastings County, Upper Canada to Frederick Keller, heir of the original grantee, his brother David Keller, deceased, dated Feb. 10, 1835.

Amelia Alderson Opie letter

  • ON00351 WA 38
  • Item
  • 1838

One holograph letter from Amelia Opie to an unidentified correspondent refusing an invitation. 1838 May 5.

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