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Elsie Ross diaries

  • 75-1000
  • Item
  • 1911-1912

The first item is a diary of historical places in Paris, France, written from November 1911 to July 1912. It includes postcards of historically interesting buildings and notations regarding the use of the buildings and their origins. The second item is a diary of art history, written from February to July 1912. It includes postcards of works of art and notations relating to the history of art.

Ross, Elsie

Edith Fowke manuscript

  • 97-1016
  • Item
  • [1965]

This 8-page, typewritten manuscript is entitled "Folk Songs of Peterborough" and consists of a brief overview of the folk song tradition of the Peterborough area. Fowke indicates that the Peterborough region is one of the richest in Ontario and credits this in large part to the significant Irish representation in the County. She mentions by name individuals who can sing old songs brought from the old country, or songs learned in the lumbering shanty and carried down from generation to generation. She quotes songs that give specific reference to places such as Kinmount, Omemee, Gannon's Narrows, Tory Hill, etc. Farming traditions, love ballads, and jail terms all find their places in the canon.

Fowke, Edith

1885-1985 Batoche Fish Creek: Capt. Edward T. Brown

  • 94-1002
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  • 12 May 1985

This item is a pamphlet regarding the Brown Memorial rededication at Centenary Park in Peterborough, Ontario.

Edward Templeton Brown, grandson to Frances and Thomas Stewart, was born at Goodwood, the family farm in Douro Township, Canada West, on December 24, 1852 to Edward Wilson Brown and Elizabeth Lydia Stewart. In 1879 he went to the Northwest Territory to help survey Riding Mountain National Park. After the survey was completed he worked for the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1880 he joined a party, led by Major Boulton, heading for the Shell River area of western Manitoba to settle on land. He joined Boulton's Scouts and during the Battle of Batoche was killed in action on May 12, 1885. The community in Peterborough decided to raise a memorial stone to Edward Brown to commemorate his death in the Riel Uprising.

Andrew Mather letter

  • 76-1012
  • Item
  • 1839

This item is a letter written by Andrew Mather of Beadnell, 9th Concession, Otonabee Township to his son-in-law Jonathan MacDougall after the death of Mather's daughter. The letter outlines the opportunities open to MacDougall if he were to choose to settle in Otonabee Township. The letter also gives news of neighbours and friends. Included is a transcript and comments regarding MacDougall by Margaret Dunham Vanderploeg, great granddaughter of MacDougall.

Mather, Andrew

William Howden notebook

  • 89-1038
  • Item
  • 1860-1903

This item is a notebook written by William Howden and kept between 1860 and 1903 on the subject of animal husbandry. It contains various recipes for horse medicine and newspaper articles on stallions available for stud.

Howden, William

Five Hundred Dollars Worth of Knowledge for One Dollar: Great Exposure of Liquors and Recipe Book / Charles H. Hagar

  • 92-1009
  • Item
  • Photocopied [ca. 1992]

This item is a photocopy of an 1870's recipe book entitled Five Hundred Dollars Worth of Knowledge for One Dollar: Great Exposure of Liquors and Recipe Book by Charles H. Hagar. The book was published in Binghampton, New York and contains recipes for alcoholic drinks and sundry other recipes for things such as hair tonic, sore throats, pain killers and others.

Montreal (Que.). Gastaldi, Giacomo, ca. 1500-ca. 1565 La Terra de Hochelage nella Nova Francia. Second ed. [Venice? 1565?] Woodcut plan of the town of Hochelaga as described by Cartier who visited in 1535. One of earlier printed maps of Canada and the first one ever to use "Montreal" as a name, printed here as "Monte Real". Illustrations show the Indigenous village and stockade and meeting the French. Printed at top left corner: "446"; top right corner: "447" Taken from vol. 3 of Ramusio's Navigationi et Viaggi, Venice, 1565. [Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1517]

St. Lawrence River. 25 Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771 An exact chart of the River St. Laurence from Fort Frontenac to the Island of Anticosti showing the soundings rocks, shoals, etc. with views of the lands and all necessary instructions for navigating that river to Quebec. London, Robert Sayer, May 25, 1775. Originally published: Lond, Thomas Jefferys at Charing Cross, Jan. 25, 1757. Phillips maps p. 762. Phillips Atlases 1165, map no. 9

Quebec. 21 Holland, Samuel, 1728-1801. A new map of the Province of Lower Canada, describing all the seigneuries, townships, grants of land, etc. to which is added a plan of the rivers Scoudiac and Magaguadavic, surveyed in 1796, 1797 & 1798 by order of the Commissioners appointed to ascertain the true River St. Croix intended by the Treaty of Peace between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America. London, William Faden, April 12, 1813. Not in Phillips. This is another issue, without any changes except the date imprint of a map first published August 12, 1802

Prince Edward Island. 26 Holland, Samuel, 1728-1801. A map of the Island of St. John, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence divided into counties and parishes and the lots as granted by Government to which are added the soundings round the coast & harbours improved from the late survey of Captain Holland. [London, Sayer & Bennett, 6 April, 1775] From: The North American Pilot for Newfoundland, Labradore, the Gulf and River St. Laurence. Chart XIII

Nova Scotia. 27 A map of the South Part of Nova Scotia and its Fishing Banks with two inserts: A Plan of Halifax Survey'd by M(oses) Harris, and, A View of Halifax drawn from ye top mast head. From: The English Pilot, the fourth book, describing the West-India Navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the river Amazones... Map no. 14. Dublin, 1767. Map also has cartouche: To the right Honble the Lords Comission for Trade and plantations. No author given. Phillips notes the map was probably inserted. Appears to be based on Thomas Jefferys' map of 1750

North America. 24 Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667 Amerique Septentrionale divisee en ses principales parties ou sont distingues les vns des autres les estats suivant quils appartiennent presentemet aux Francois, Castillans, Anglois, Suedois, Danois, Hollandois, tiree des relations de toutes ces nations par le S. Sanson, geographe ordinaire du Roy. A Paris, chez H. Jaillot, joignant les grands Augustins aux deux globes, 1674. Coloured in outline. Large title cartouche and cartouche of scales both uncoloured. Copy of the first edition only a few copies of which are recorded. California is copied from Sanson's 1656 map. The remainder of the map is based on Sanson's 1669 Map. Omits Montreal. [Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, 1632?-1712]

Lake Champlain. 8 Holland, Samuel, 1728-1801. A chorographical map of the country between Albany, Oswego, Fort Frontenac, and Les Trois Rivieres, exhibiting all the grants made by the French governors on Lake Champlain and between that Lake and Montreal. Drawn from authentic surveys by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty. London, 1775. Title in one long line along the top outside the border line. Subsidiary title of a two sheet map: The Provinces of New York and New Jersey ... and the Governments of Trois Rivieres and Montreal. Drawn by Capt. Holland. Engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty. [London] Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street and T. Jefferys in the Strand [1775]. Phillips Atlases 1196, map no. 33

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