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Collection Land, settlement and immigration
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Lakefield Heritage Research collection

  • ON00333 12-004
  • Collection
  • 2003-2012

Collection consists primarily of photocopies and emails with information pertaining to various aspects of Peterborough's history, from both the city and the county. Brief history of the town of Lakefield is also included.

Lakefield Heritage Research

Dunham and McDougall family

  • PANB MC167
  • Collection
  • 1838-1977

This collection documents the business and personal activities of members of the Dunham and McDougall families, particularly David E. Dunham. It includes Samuel Dunham's book of timber surveys (1846-1849) in the parish of Hampstead and shoemaker Jonathan McDougall's cash book (1850-1853) and ledger (1851-1859) reflecting the trade conducted in his shops at Port Hope and Wickham.

There are also architect David E. Dunham's account books, order books, and cash accounts (1872-1883); an office diary kept by one of his draftsmen, possibly Arthur Anderson; advertisements for Dunham's firm, giving qualifications and a partial list of buildings designed by him; several architectural plans for and photographs of his buildings; and accounts for private buildings.

Lastly, the fonds contains 7 school exercise or copybooks (1844-1861) belonging to David Elson Dunham, Mary Ann McDougall, James Norman McDougall, or Jessie McDougall; a story by Mary Ann McDougall (1860); family photographs of the Dunhams and McDougalls; family history notes compiled by Mrs. J. S. Vanderploeg; and a typed transcript of a letter from schoolmaster John C. Thompson of Stanley to Jonathan McDougall of Gagetown (1838).

Dunham, McDougall (family)

Culbertson Tract Land Claim collection

  • ON00397 TD/CTLC
  • Collection
  • 2007

This collection comprises documents received in response to an Access to Information request addressed to Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) by the Corporation of the Town of Deseronto, Ontario, in 2008. The request asked for copies of documentation submitted as part of the Culbertson Tract land claim of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and upon which the decision to allow the claim had been based.

The documents in this collection are all photocopies of materials located in public archives in Canada. The materials range in date from 1779 to 1959 and record the interactions between the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and the British and Canadian governments, in relation to lands, from the time of their departure from the Mohawk Valley to the mid-twentieth century.

Athabasca Archives Oral Interviews Collection

  • CA ATH ath-1930
  • Collection
  • 1862-1978 [copied 1987]

The fonds consists of 28 audiocassette tapes and their synopses recorded about family histories or other topics pertinent to Athabasca including: Calder family, Bob Robertson, Herbert Browne, Constance (Sanders) Pearson, Charles Lynch, Garfield Rogers, W.O.Willey, George Cooke, Gertrude(Reeves)Bannerman, Constance(Robertson)MacDougall, Kenneth Kinnaird, Frederick Young, Nellie Cahoon, Eva Hasell, William Byrd, Charles Brumfit, Lawrence Rye, The Athabasca Story, Mr. Urban, Mr.Struzynski, CFRN Radio Jan.1974 brief interviews with locals, Henry Stelfox, Alberta and Hector MacLean, Bill Kirby, Tom Jamieson, W.Wilkin, Vital and Clothtilda Callahoo, Robert Andison, Jan Liss, Antoni Turbiasz, Raynor Whiteley, John Cook, John Burt, Helene Boytinck, Alex Middleton, Louis Uliac, Sister Hilda Diederich, Donat and Albertine Soucy, Irene Stainton, Harold Warren, Mark Hooks, Walter Hill, Dr. George Ball, Father Quinn, John Sullivan, Frederick Mannix and others.

Athabasca Archives Oral Interviews Collection

Athabasca Archives Directories collection

  • CA ATH ath-2045
  • Collection
  • 1900-1929

The fonds consists of photocopies of pages relating to Athabasca from the 1900-1901 Lovells Directory of Manitoba, NWT; 1905,1907,1928-29 Henderson's Gazeteer and Directory; and the 1920, 1922 Wrigley's Directory. The archives also has a copy of the complete Henderson's Directory from 1914.

Athabasca Archives Directories collection

Edwin Kinney Wright collection

  • CA ATH ath-2093
  • Collection
  • 1899 - [1960s], predominant 1910-1916

The fonds consists of photographs and letters solicited by Dr. Wright, through ads placed in Alberta and B.C. newspapers in 1961, for the purpose of writing a history book on Athabasca. Contributors were: Harold Ashacker, Jim Ballsellie, A.J.Bell, Dr. Joseph Boulanger, Allan Bowe, Annie Brown, William Brown, Louise Champion, Patrick W.L.Clark, Scotty Clark, George Cooke, Ted Dahlin, E. Danard, Aline Davison (Morris), William Dent and Elizabeth (Mahood), G.R.Dent, H.G. Dimsdale, S.C.Ells, William B. Falkner, Wilfred R. Flack, Isaie Gagnon, Ernest R. Gowen, Peter Grandbois, Millie Hay (Talpash), H.G. Jamieson, Frances Benham Johnson, W.P. Keep, Gertrude McLaughlin (Allan), Madge McLean (Fisher), Fred Marshall, Emma Miller (Blair), James Milne and Rosamund (Herbert), Hazel Minns(Lewis), E.H. Nagle, Barbara Parker (Dick), Alf Plant, Mrs. Reed, Violet Rein, Alexander Leonard Sawle, Jessica B. Watson (Segers), Nina Watt, Frances Woolley (Rowland), Gladys Wright (Puylaert). Subjects of these photographs include: a dog team, a moose team, Colinton's first Agricultural Fair, Holy Trinity Church (Anglican) in Big Coulee, Soper and Lawley familys, Christopher Loan, Hazel Currie in Christopher Johnston's bakery, Miss F.E.Roberts, Miss MacDonald, Kennedy mail stage, boat building, Sawridge, SS Slave River, furs and fur press, Grand Rapids Island portage, tracking, Walton Lewis, NTC SS Northland Echo, buildings and streetscapes of early Athabasca, Lot Willey, men leaving Athabasca to join up for WWI, Grand Union Hotel, Alcide Letourneau, Bill Fontaine, Bobby Gray, Louis Desrochers, Jack Secord, David Grandbois, Ambrose, Joe and William Paquette, Francis Lepine, Billy McLeod, Frank Savoyard, Frank Lafferty, Benny Shank, Archie Taylor, First Nations, SS Athabasca, NTC SS Northland Sun, SS D.A.Thomas, Max Beaton, Albert Edward Crosby McDonnell, Victoria Day-1914, Rev. and Mrs. Spencer Baron, Athabasca's Dramatic Society, E.J.Gordean, T.D.Latta, immigration hall, Albert Alexander Greer, Lewis' Stopping Place, Perryvale's first post office, Harold's Store at Baptiste Lake, and Charles Gagnon.

Wright, Edwin Kinney

Harry Wilt collection

  • CA ATH ath-2104
  • Collection
  • [1910]

The fonds consists of four photographs of Colin Fraser leaving Athabasca for Fort Chipewyan in [1910]. Colin was the nephew of Simon Fraser. The last photograph is of a paddlewheel steamboat being built in Athabasca.

Wilt, Harry

Richard Baker collection

  • CA ATH ath-2128
  • Collection
  • [1910]-[191-?s]

The fonds consists of 22 post cards, from an original group of 25, in the series : Mid Snow and Ice printed in France by The Oblates of Mary Immaculate. There are two other photographs of early Athabasca. The photo subject headings are : Athabasca River rapid, Bishop Breynat, Brother Girard, Canadian Northern Railway depot in Athabasca, Colin Fraser, Chesterfield Inlet, Cree woman, dog team, Monseignor Grouard, first airplane in north, Fort Providence, Fort Resolution, Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, igloo, Inuit, kayak, and MacKenzie River ice breakup.

Baker, Richard

Marvyn Rogers collection

  • CA ATH ath-2153
  • Collection
  • [1977]

The fonds consists of brief biographies of Jim Appleby, Hugo Carlson, Todd Richards and Jettie (Day) Willey who were interviewed by high school students. These biographies probably accompany the cassette tapes in accession 93.13

Rogers, Marvyn

Parkhurst District collection

  • CA ATH ath-2154
  • Collection
  • 1913-1945

The fonds consists of newspaper clippings from local papers and photographs of St. Mary's Anglican Church, railway tie camps, the Parkhurst District, Archdeacon and Mrs. Little, Parkhurst School students in 1938, Highway 55 (E-W) through Athabasca, Eugene Sale, threshing, Mrs. Joseph Laflamme and family; Eleanor,Jim, Ruth, John, Bill and Lily Elliott; and the Athabasca Flying Club in 1977.

Parkhurst District

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