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Cobourg, Ontario: fire insurance plan / Underwriters' Survey Bureau
76-002 · Item · 1946

This item is a bound fire insurance plans of the Town of Cobourg, reprinted March 1946 from a plan dated May 1919. The plans have a key of symbols and the scale varies on individual sheets.

 Charles E. Goad Company - Underwriters' Survey Bureau
Isabella Carr letter
76-1002 · Item · 1846

This item is a photocopy of a letter written by Isabella Carr to her sister, Mrs. Richard Bond of Lockport, New York. The letter was written in February, 1846. The letter gives news of family and neighbours and tells of an outbreak of measles.

 Carr, Isabella
Arctic Regions. 1680 Pitt, Moses, fl. 1654-1696 A map of the North Pole and the parts adjoining. Oxon, At the Theater, MDCLXXX. Has two coloured illustrations: one of a family in Eskimo dress and the other of fishermen harpooning a whale. Inset map at top right is of Nova Zembla [Zembia?] Has note: In the Philosophical Transactions of ao. 1674, no. 101, there is set down a description of Nova Zembla as it was sent to the Royal Society from a Russian merchant and discovered by order of the Grand Czaar, but there being not joyned to it either longitude latitude or other measure, we thought it better to follow the two newest maps. One printed at Amsterdam 1678 the other at Nuremberg 1679 and to place this by itself which shews it not an island but joyned with the continent at the letter K." Map dedicated to the Right Honble. Charles FitzCharles, Earle of Plymouth ... Taken from vol. 1 of Pitt's English Atlas published under Royal patronage in 1680. The Atlas bankrupted Pitt; only
87-001/HMC13 · Item · 1680
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
Canada, Eastern. 1689 Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1697. Partie Orientale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France ou sont les provinces, ou pays de Saguenay, Canada, Acadie, etc. les peuples, ou nations des Etechemins, Iroquois, Attiquameches etc. avec la Nouvelle Angleterre, la Nouvelle Ecosse, la Nouvelle Yorck, et la Virginie, les Isles de Terre Neuve, de Cap Breton etc., le Grand Banc, etc. Dresee sur les memoires le plus nouveaux par le P. Coronelli, Cosmographe et de la Ser. Rep. de Venise. Corrigee et augmentee par le Sr. Tillemon, et dedice a Monsieur l'Abbe Baudrand par son humble serviteur I.B. Nolin. A Paris chez I.B. Nolin sur le Quay de l'Horloge du Palais, proche le Ponte-Neuf a l'Enseigne de la Place des Victories. Avec privilege du Roy, 1689. Coloured. Has two illustrations: Indian armee, and Indien en habit de chasse
87-001/HMC17 · Item · 1689
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
George Barker Hall indenture
75-1018 · Item · 2 Dec. 1851

This letter is a hand copy of an indenture between G.B. Hall, his wife, E.M. Hall, and Zaccheus Burnham, for the sale of lands in Otonabee township.

 Hall, George Barker
Judge John E. Harding letter
75-1011 · Item · 13 Jan. 1900

This item is a letter from Judge Harding to Messrs. Ball and Ball, Barristers of Woodstock, Ontario. The letter is about his financial difficulties.

 Harding, John Elly