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Item is a wooden ruler which belonged to Port Hope student Miller George, likely while he attended Port Hope High School between 1936 and 1939.

The ruler is signed by classmates of 'Form 2A':

Miller George
R. Sweanor
F. Hodgson
V. White
J.D. Newton
Jack Kervan
D. Dodd
Norman Snelgrove
Ron Hugh
G. Martyn

Other names are visible but illegible.

Item is a Plan of Survey for Part Lot 56 in Lot 6 Concession 1 of Port Hope, 1939.

Fonds includes photographs documenting Bickle's life from infancy to young adulthood. Many of the photographs depict Bickle at summer camp or on board boats.

Collection consists of family bibles, and other ephemera related to several local families (Powe, Haskill, Rowden and Gordon) from the Port Hope area, c1847-1937. For more detailed information, please refer to series and item-level descriptions.

Fonds consists of eighty seven (87) invoices, cancelled cheques, and receipts pertaining to Irving Margles' clothing store in downtown Port Hope, 1918-1936. Most of the cheques were written to suppliers of Margles' store, including a few related to Port Hope: Port Hope Hydro Electric Commission, Weatherproof Rubber Coat Company, William Currie, International Association of Lions Clubs (Port Hope), Arcade Chain Stores (O. Pattenick, Prop.), W. J. Highfield Victoria Dairy.

Item is a 'High School Entrance Certificate', awarded to Jean Hanna of Port Hope.

Item is a program from the 1935 'Annual Commencement Exercises' for Port Hope High School. Includes staff and board names, winners of scholarships and championships, and field day championship.

Names mentioned:
Fred Kelly
G.L. Brackenbury
Fern Clark
Bruce Elliott
A.E. Fulford
Leona O'Neill
W.J.B. Davison
Mildred Bickle
W.A. Dunbar
Ruby Thorndyke
C. Stephenson
Murwin Austin
H.W. Mitchell
Margaret Wallace
S. Ryan
Jack Sylvester
Edward Hunt
Elwin Quantrill
L.T. Sylvester
Helen Barnes
Doris Boughen
Fern Hodgson
R. A. Sculthorpe
F.R. O'Neill
G.L. Brackenbury
P.J. Bigelow
M.E. Carson
C.E. Eastman
E.C. Foy
M.E. Hagerman
L.R. Hammond
R.P. Reid
G.E. Ryan
K.M. Staples

Fonds consist of two W.H. bronze medals (1935-1936) , a Hamilton bronze medal pendant and a Little Big Four Championship tie bar (1934).

The item is a photograph of the winners of Warden's Trophy, Quinte District Seed Fair 1931-1935. 15 people in the photo. Includes names and years won of all winners. Black and white photo. Elmore Scott in photo

File consists of various documents and newspaper clippings regarding the old Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery, 1925-1931. It includes: (1) "Former Cemetery is now playground" no date or source; (2) "Cemetery Land, High School Board Discuss Use of Land to Rear of School for Playing Fields," Port Hope Guide, 11 Jul 1925; (3) Map of Cemetery plots at Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery; (4) Map of Wesleyan Methodist Plot, Union Cemetery; (5) Copy of the land abstract for Lot 89; (6) Copy of the resolution for the sale of the Wesleyan Methodist Church Cemetery lands to be sold to the Trustees of the Port Hope High School, 1930; (7) Copy of Resolution of Consent of Presbytry, 1931; (8) Copy of Judge's Order, 1931; (9) Copy of notes and minutes concerning sale of Wesleyan Methodist Church Cemetery Land, 1931.

Item is a program from a play presented by the Port Hope High School Athletic Association at the St. Mark's Parish Hall, 'It's a Knockout'.

Names of main cast:
Mildred Bickle
Helen Roberts
Margaret Ferguson
Helen Foster
Grace Brackenbury
Scott McCarthy
Hugh Fraser
George Box
Wilfred Lewis
Jasper Grieves
Douglas Brooks
Frank Long

File consists of a ledger book including meeting minutes from the Port Hope Old Boys and Girls Association, Toronto Branch, 1923-1928. The book includes many historically important Port Hope Names (i.e. Brockenshire, Snell, Baulch, Merrifield, Skitch, Mackie, Byrne, Davidson, Lockington, Craig, Hacker, McLennan, Clarke, Kelly, McMahon, Wright, Martin, Kerr, etc.). Early meetings were held in the home of William Skitch (311 Jarvis Street, Toronto), with E.C. Merrifield serving as Secretary.

Series consists of Port Hope Fall Fair prize lists / books for the years: 1926, 1942,1943, 1944,1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951,1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1965, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994.

Fonds consists of circuit register, 1874-1916, of Orono Methodist Circuit (includes Newcastle Methodist Circuit, Newcastle, Orono, Kirby, Leskard, and Clarke); Quarterly Board minutes, 1892-1926, of the Orono Pastoral Charge (includes Orono Methodist Circuit, Newcastle Methodist Circuit, Newcastle, Orono, Kirby, Leskard, and Clarke).

Fonds consists of Board of Managers and congregational minutes (includes Cresswell), 1900-1924, correspondence and other records relating to property, 1926-1927

Item is a booklet created for the Golden Jubilee of the Port Hope Methodist Church in 1925.

Includes a short history of methodism in Canada, the history of methodism in Port Hope starting in 1813, officials and groups of the church in 1875 and 1925, and messages from ex-pastors for the anniversary.

Item is a 'Tuxis Boys' Badge Book', used in 1925.

Item is a logbook which contains Port Hope Girl Guides attendance records from 1921-1924. Attendance was recorded by Lillian Hamly, Captain of the First Port Hope Company of Girl Guides.

Also found loosely in the book, likely having belonged to Lillian Hamly:
-Captain's Warrant, appointing Lillian Hamly as a Captain of the Girl Guides
-a map of the Lighting System of Port Hope, 1908;
-a receipt for purchased badges
-two (2) records of accomplished troupe tasks
-portrait of H.T. Crossley and John E. Hunter, leading Canadian Evangelists in the later 19th century
-instructions for knitting a sock

Fonds consists of a copy of the history of the Lennard's Mill and family, written by Graham Lennard, a Trinity College School cap and a scrapbook consisting of personal family and school photos.

A sepia photograph of the students in West Primary School in Port Hope. Harold Wakely is present in photo. West Primary School Port Hope. A photograph given to the students in photo. Locatred at Bruton and Bramley. Taken in 1922.