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Item is a Statutory Lease between Arthur T.H. Williams and Archibald Sands regarding the 'Ontario Block' building at the corner of Walton and Ontario Streets.

Item is a Statutory Lease between Arthur T.H. Williams and Archibald Sands regarding the 'Ontario Block' building at the corner of Walton and Ontario Streets.

A sepia coloured photograph of 37 children both standng and sitting outside the Perrytown Schoolhouse. Reverse side indicates the studio of "E.B. Neal, Port Hope, Ont", a popular Port Hope photographer in the 1890's.

This volume is the accounts book kept by Reverend Edward Denroche for St. Peter's Anglican Church in Brockville. The left-hand pages of the volume itemize the date and amount of offerings received in the Church; the right-hand pages itemize amounts given to the poor, including names and details, such as "to blind Foster to pay for a cord of wood" - and "to French Mary". Many of the entries were made during a cholera epidemic, and record assistance to victims and to others such as runaway slaves.

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Item consists of one handwritten volume which is the account book for a Haldimand Township tavern owned by Eliakim Barnum. Entries include liquor sold, prices, and customers' names and accounts. Small documents are inserted in the account book.

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Item is one panorama photograph created by the Alexandra Studios of Toronto showing the delegates to the 3rd triennial convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen in Toronto, May 1922.

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Fonds consists of two items prepared by Andrew Hicks, MPP for Huron South and member of the United Farmers of Ontario party, in 1923: a 21 page manuscript; and an incomplete typed transcription (5 pages) of a speech.

The speech summarizes Hicks' views of the United Farmers of Ontario's position in government and condemns his own party leader, Premier Ernest C. Drury, for trying to amalgamate the U.F.O. Party with part of the Liberal Party.

Hicks delivered the speech in the Ontario Legislature on April 11, 1923. The following day Premier Drury called a general election for June 25, 1923 where the U.F.O Party was defeated by the Conservative Party. Andrew Hicks lost the nomination as the U.F.O candidate for the South Huron riding and therefore did not run.

Both the handwritten speech and typed pages are on official Legislative Assembly paper. The typed pages correspond to but are not identical to the handwritten draft.

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item is the daily diary of John Hunter, a carpenter in Williamsburgh, Ontario, in the nineteenth century.

Hunter's diary contains daily one line entries commenting on the weather, or the nature of the day's work. Additional information may include where or for whom he was working. The work was mostly carpentry, and he comments on going to mills for planks or lumber, lathing, or working on porches or furniture, and laying floors. But Hunter appears to be a jack-of-all-trades, and other entries refer to the following: shingling; painting; working on outside of house; building skiff keel; glazing windows; and boat building.

Though little is known about Hunter, the diary reveals that he worked in the Williamsburgh and Morrisburg area of Dundas County. He enjoyed skating in the winter, and was religious, spending many of his Sundays going to church services (both Lutheran and Presbyterian are mentioned) or for a 'preaching'.

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Item is a motion picture film created by Harold Whyte and Ray McFadden, staff photographers for the newspaper, the Toronto Telegram. The film depicts in comic fashion night shift activities at the Toronto Telegram in 1953. The film also depicts newsroom equipment such as typewriters, cameras and telephones and staff who were working for the Telegram. Staff identified include: Bob Vezina, Arnold Agnew, Mike Steers, Bert Petlock, Eddie Palmer, Duncan Cameron, Ed Mahoney, Val Sears, Chick McGregor and Nels Quarrington.

Harold Whyte created a video version of the film in 2002 to which he added a soundtrack which helps to identify persons and provides a storyline to the original 1953 film. The video version also includes and identifies a group photograph of Telegram photographers who covered the 1951 visit of Princess Elizabeth to Canada.

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Map is a reproduction of a ca. 1851 map detailing patents of Crown land. The area is labeled King’s Mill Reserve and details the areas of the Humber Valley and Etobicoke. Notably, it showcases and labels the various taverns and mills along the river. King’s Mill was established by John Graves Simcoe in 1793 to be used as a timber supplier for the British Government. The names inscribed on the map correspond to the area of land the individual has a patent to. These plans were often used to document sales and grants on the land. However, patentees listed on the plans produced pre-confederation, like this example, would often forgo actually following through with the patent process, so multiple sources should be consulted to confirm the patents of the land.

Item is a blue and white ceramic plate featuring the Willow pattern. Inspired by Chinese porcelain, it depicts a landscape scene with a garden and pavilion along the water. There are many examples of ceramics with this pattern with its invention dating to roughly 1790.
The inclusion of "semi-porcelain" in the makers stamp of this piece suggests a manufacturing date of pre-1925.

Item is one souvenir plate featuring buildings from the Upper Canada Village. The back of the plate offers descriptions of each building.

Item is one silver plated platter with a simple pattern around the edge.

Item is one pewter plate. The hallmarks on the back of the plate are likely pseudo marks, intended to replicate the look of silver goods. Above these, the letter X is stamped below a crown, a symbol that was often used to indicate a specific quality of metal.

Item contains two seam rolls, a tool used for pressing open the seams of narrow areas like sleeves and pant legs. Often the rolls were stuffed with sawdust or scrap fabric. One of the rolls consists of a rolled magazine, dating to 1955, encased in a hand sewn fabric sleeves. The other roll is machine sewn using cotton and wool fabrics.