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Original Wrappers. Octavo (24.5 cm x 16.5 cm), pp. 142. Large colour fold-out (47.5 cm x 64.5 cm) "Map of the Prairie Region, 5th April, 1879" at rear. Sewn and gutta percha binding, printed, salmon-coloured paper wrappers. Slightly soiled, chipping along the spinestrip with some loss, gutta percha dry and brittle, the sewing however, is quite tight, else very good copy. Lowther 556. [1695]

Octavo. Original Printed Wrappers. (21.4 cm x 14.7 cm), Grey printed wraps, title-page reproduced in frame to front cover. 56 pp. + 11 publ. adverts (including rear cover), 1 map; Contemporary light pencil signature of A[lexander] Kirkwood [1823-1901] at head of upper cover. Kirkwood, farmer, author and civil servant, wrote many articles and treatises which eventually earned him a position with the Ontario Crown Lands Department where he became a senior officer. Kirkwood’s most significant work as a government promoter of agricultural expansion was an officially sanctioned book entitled The undeveloped lands in northern & western Ontario . . . (1878), written with his colleague Joseph J. Murphy. He is remembered largely for the prominent role he played in the establishment of Ontario’s first and most famous provincial park, Algonquin Park. (see DCB online article by Gerald Killan). Interior crisp and clean. Covers soiled, primarily to spine and edges, otherwise a very good, tight copy. Peel (3) 896. [2079]

This collection consists of two marriage certificates. One is a handwritten certificate documenting the marriage of Charles Luduc and Sarah Walton, officiated by Pastor Michael [Tunlin], and dated 21 January 1868 at Cobourg. The other is a standard printed certificate, dated 28 February 1880 in Peterborough, and documenting the marriage of William Storms and Emma Preston. There is one family name in common on the two documents: Preston.

The fonds consists of the deeds and other land records relating to property in Seymour Township.

This fonds consists of four Peterborough residences of which two are framed. One of the photographs is of the Haultain home from approximately 1880 and another is of Maplehurst.

This fonds consists of a family photograph album inscribed "Presented to Miss Neads by the Presbyterian Church, Bowmanville for services rendered as organist, August 9, 1876". It contains photographs of people who are mostly unidentified and one tintype. Also included and wrapped separately on the shelf is the Neads Family Bible which contains genealogical information on the Neads family.

The fonds consists of field notes, reports, descriptions and certificates relating to surveys conducted by John Reid. The areas surveyed included Cavan Township, Monaghan Township, Smith Township and Otonabee Township which are in the County of Peterborough. There are also some records pertaining to John Reid's service in the militia.

First Edition. Original Printed Wrappers. 8vo., pp. 28, 3 plates by Bengough, original printed paper covers, sewn binding. Front cover detached but present, tiny chip to upper left corner, else good, clean copy. Neatly contained in a mylar wrapper. [1876]

Series consists of five microfilm reels of the decennial nominal census, of 1881, of Peterborough, Victoria, Hastings, Durham and Northumberland Counties. This collection includes the census of the towns, villages, and townships of Hastings County (north) and are listed as follows: Marmora Lake, Wollaston, Monteagle, Hershel, Wicklow, McClure, Bangor, Mayo, Carlo, Grimsthorpe, Elzevir, Dungannon, Faraday, Cashel, Limerick, Tudor, Sabine, Airey, Lyell, Murchison and Robinson; also Northumberland County (east), including Cramahe, Colborne (village), Brighton, Brighton (village), Murray, Percy, Seymour, Campbellford (village) and Hastings (village). Included also is Northumberland County (west) encompassing Alnwick, Haldimand, Hamilton, and Cobourg (town); and Peterborough County (east), which includes Ashburnham (village), Norwood (village), Burleigh, Anstruther, Chandos, Harvey, Galway, Cavendish, Belmont, Methuen, Hastings (village), Asphodel, Stanhope, Sherborne, McClintock, Dudley, Dysart, Harcourt, Snowden, Glamorgan, Monmouth, Cardiff, Minden, Douro, Otonabee, and Dummer. Also included is Peterborough County (west), encompassing Peterborough (town), Smith, Monaghan (north), Monaghan (south), and Ennismore; also Durham County (east), which includes Hope, Port Hope (town), Cavan, Manvers, Millbrook (village); also Durham County (west), which includes Darlington, Newcastle (village), Clarke, Cartwright, and Bowmanville (town); also Victoria County (south), which includes Ops, Lindsay (town), Mariposa, Emily, Verulam, Omemee (village), and Bobcaygeon (village); also Victoria County (north), which includes Eldon, Fenelon, Fenelon Falls (village), Carden, Dalton, Bexley, Somerville, Digby, Laxton, Longford, Lutterworth, Hindon, and Anson; also Muskoka, which includes Morrison, Gravenhurst (village), Muskoka, Wood, Medora, Monk, Cardwell, Watt, Conger, Humphrey, Oakley, Ryde, Draper, Bracebridge (village), Macauly, Brunel, Stephenson, Ridout, McLean, Sinclair, Franklin, Proudfoot, Chaffey, Bethune, Perry, McDougall, Cowper, and Foley.

Octavo. and Prompted by Patrick O'Meara, Assistant City Clerk; Alderman Allard acting as Whipper-in; George E. Desbarats, ex-Queen's Printer, Appointed by the City Hall Committee to examine Louis Perrault & Co.'s Accounts and to Certify their Correctness. Some idea may be formed of how he served the Tax Payer by looking at three of His Certificates ... John Lovell & Son Deprived of the Contract Because They Are Not French Canadians. The City Hall Committee Voted $1000, extra, of the Citizens' Money, to Patrick O'Meara, to keep Louis Perrault 'honest.' ... Montreal, Sept. 27, 1881. (22 cm x 14.5 cm), pp. 104, facsimiles, tables, grey printed paper wraps, sewn binding, 'Opinions of the Press' to rear and inside rear cover. Cover title reads: "John Lovell's Exposé of the Corporation Printing and Stationery Scandal!!!" Covers lightly soiled at the margins, pages 97-104 printed on different paper stock with tanning to the edges of this portion only. Otherwise an excellent copy of this most interesting complaint of fraud. [2248]

Octavo. (20 cm x 15.5 cm), pp. iv, 232 (adverts p. 219-232), tipped-in errata slip, tables. Rebound in grey paper covers with mounted computer printed label, title-page and preface missing piece from bottom outer corner, crude tape repair to bottom centre of p.iii/iv. P. 1-128 printed on a different paper stock which has tanned, primarily to the margins, last 4 leaves (adverts) chipped with corner pieces missing. Otherwise, a good tight, clean copy. Lowther 592; Peel (3) 978. Dawson (1810-1894) was born at Redhaven, Banffshire, Scotland, ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1835, and came to Canada in 1854. He published several volumes of verse. Besides this descriptive volume was the author a number of translations from the French, and of a history of "The Catholics of Scotland" (Ottawa, 1890). [2263]