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Includes the following records:
a. land deeds book 1815
b. land deeds book 1831
c. land sales book 1835, 1836
d. land sales book 1841

The fonds includes photocopies of the following items: Township Patent Book, 1820-1872, including the names of the grantees, lot purchased and dates as well as township/municipal election returns, and oaths of office for 1850. It also includes the correspondence of John Reid, township road surveyor, with elected officials and citizens, including maps, drawings etc.; township business papers, including receipts, taxation abatements, and school business; and Statute Labour lists and returns for the year 1850.

This addition to the fonds consists of pencil sketches, in a book, of scenes along the Dawson Road such as Lake Shebandowan, Kettle Falls and Rainy River from a camp at Fort Francis.

This fonds consists a diary (1863-1864) of M.A. Farrar and 12 drawings, etchings, watercolours and sketches by M.A. Farrar, genealogical information re the Farrar family, and photographs of Farrar and family members.

Octavo. (21.2 cm x 14 cm), pp. 55, tan printed wraps, title-page reproduced in frame to front cover, sewn binding. Pencil signature on title-page of "J. Davis Barnett 9/82," possibly the civil engineer, railway superintendent, and great book collector, who came to Canada in 1866. Covers lightly soiled, chipping to spine and front lower corner tip, otherwise a very good copy. Reprinted in The Garland Library of War and Peace, 1971.[2315]

This fonds consists of bound volumes of births, marriages and deaths for the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham and loose marriage documents. Fonds is organized into two series: loose documents and bound volumes.

Octavo (22 cm x 15.5 cm), pp. 30 + [1] Notice from the Departement des Travaux Publics, original printed green paper wrappers, with title-page reproduced in frame on front cover, sewn binding. Covers dust soiled, remnant of a postage stamp affixed to rear cover, 1 cm chip to spinestrip at both the head and tail. Contents very good, clean and bright. Peel (3) 650. Title of the English Version: 'Narrative of a journey to Manitoba: Together with an abstract of the Dominion Lands Act, and an extract from the government pamphlet on Manitoba.' Shantz was sent out to inspect land for the Russian Mennonites who subsequently settled in southern Manitoba. [1938]

This item is a minute book of Loyal Orange Lodge Victoria, No. 180, Peterborough from January 4, 1860 to 1861 and from December 1869 and February 3, 1874. It includes membership and attendance rolls, 1867-1871.

This item is a 16-page compilation of letters and excerpts from letters gathered in response to an attack on the Department of Education contained in a 24-page pamphlet written by G. Mercer Adam, a bookseller in Toronto. The first section contains three letters by Rev. Dr. Egerton Ryerson. The second section contains replies from public school inspectors, while the third section contains responses by J. George Hodgins, manager of the depository, and remarks and opinions of school trustees.

The principal correspondent in the "Attack on the people's depository for Ontario", Rev. Dr. Egerton Ryerson, was the Chief Superintendent of the Department of Education of Ontario. It was under his guidance that the educational system for the province was established.

This item is a foreman's wage and material book from the Engineer Department of the Grand Trunk Railway, showing the name and occupation of workers, rate and amount of pay and material used for each four week period, 1866 to March 7, 1874. Each page bears the notation "paid at Belleville".