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CA ON00093 2006/2 · Fonds · 1939-1996; Scanned in 2006 (originally created 1776-2006)

Fonds consists of files containing forms, messages and correspondence between chart depots at various locations in the world and the Hydrographic Services Office in Halifax, N.S. Includes files regarding dispersal of hydrographic supplies, dangers and aids to navigation, chart and map procurement, admiralty publications and the administration of the Hydrographic Services Office. Also, fonds contains various lists and logs, such as Chart Correction Logs and Folio Indexes, Consecutive Lists of Admiralty Charts and Candydrolants, and the HSO log for 1942-1945, as well as 26 compact disks of miscellaneous naval images from the Hydrographic Services Offices in Halifax. Includes eight published volumes of maps, including an ice atlas of Canada and an incomplete set of the US Navy Marine Climatic Atlases. Also includes There are five series:

  1. Reference Numbered Files
  2. Central Registry Files
  3. Lists, Logs, etc.
  4. Published Maps
  5. Miscellaneous Electronic Images
Canada. Canadian Armed Forces. Hydrographic Services Office (Halifax, N.S.)
CA ON00340 F1434 · Fonds · 1776-1887

Fonds consists of baptisms, 1802-1846, 1857, 1865-1882, 1883 1887, marriages, 1836-1846, 1857, 1884-1885, burials, 1868-1885, membership list of Methodist Society at the Upper Mohawk Grand River, 1826, register, including births, 1776-1881, marriages, 1831-1855 (predominantly undated), deaths, 1840-1883, of the River Credit Indians, 1840-1883, financial records, 1827-1844, of New Credit Methodist Indian Mission (includes Grand River Mission, Credit Mission).

New Credit Methodist Indian Mission (Ont.)
John Strachan collection
CA ON00335 C2021 · Collection · [1778-1868]

The collection includes correspondence from every period of Strachan's life, official documents, notes, and writings.

Strachan, John
Tom Carey fonds
CA ON00311 PF67 · Fonds · 1778, 1987, 1994-1995, 1997-1999, [between 1999 and 2003]

Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Tom Carey. The majority of the records pertain to his time as a bencher of The Law Society of Upper Canada. The fonds is arranged in two series: Bencher records and Photographs.

Carey, Thomas James Patrick
Wanamaker fonds
CA ON00156 MG 27 · Fonds · 1778-1974

The Wanamaker fonds consists of textual records and graphic materials of genealogical histories of various families. The fonds also contains records, brochures, pamphlets, publications, books, and other textual records from towns and cities throughout Ontario, predominantly from the Quinte Area and Hastings County.

  • Family Photographs of the Sayers family, Ralph Wanamaker's family, the Hodgen family, of Loral Wanamaker's family, Parliament family, Van Cott family, Post family, as well as loose photographs of the Parliament family, the McTaggart family, various snapshots and negatives of sceneray and views, as well as 2 boxes of slides
  • 1 box of Books and Binders with genealogical records, as well various records of various towns in Ontario ca. 1816 - 1957
  • Genealogical notes, histories, birth records, death records, pages from family Bibles, receipts, and other textual records for over 40 individual families
  • Genealogical charts, and ancesteral charts
  • Genealogical correspondences
    *Newspapers, and News clippings from Hastings County, Hastings County Museum, Historical Society, Lennox and Addington, Prince Edward County, Trenton, Tyendinaga, and United Empire Loyalists
  • Legal documents, seals and original deeds, and land records ca. 1803 - 1848
  • Genealogy forms, research materials, reference materials
  • Various artworks and postcards (of Hastngs County, the Quinte Region, the British Military and Navy, the Belleville Art Association, and travel)
  • Quinte region, Belleville, Trenton, and Prince edward County miscellaneous publications, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, notes, directories, histories, records, and tourism guides and publications
  • Ontario, New York , and Canada pamphlets, magazines, calendars, and an Ontario Liquor License Act, 1891
  • Land Abstracts for Prince Edward County
  • Maps and plans: 1778-1779 Blue Print Surveys from General Washington, New York Historical Society; 1784 Ontario (printed by Ministry of Natural Resources), 1984; 1860-1861 Hastings County, 1860-1861 from the Hastings County Directory; 1928 Lloyd's Map of Hastings County; c. 1930 Belleville Post Office Carrier Route #8, North Front and North Park Streets
  • Scrapbooks ca. 1958-1972
  • Miscellaneous Publications (almanacs, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous pins belonging to Loral Wanamaker, blue print surveys)

Genealogical family research names:

  • Allison
  • Alyea
  • Babcock, John
  • Bailey
  • Belnap
  • Benson
  • Blair/Snider/Mumby/Spenser
  • Brickman, Lewis
  • Brighton
  • Canniff
  • Clapp
  • Cole
  • Cunningham
    *Davis
  • Embury
  • Finkle
  • Fraser
  • Gallagher
  • Gerow
  • Giraud/Gero-Gerow
  • Hodgens
  • Johnson
  • Loveless, Absolam
  • McTaggart
  • Meyers, John W.
  • Mitchell, Alfred
  • Orser
  • Parliament
  • Peck
  • Redner
  • Roblin
  • Scott
  • Spencer
  • Sprung
  • Van Cott, John
  • Vander Woort
  • Waite (see also Sprung and Putnam)
  • Wallbridge
  • Wanamaker
  • Wanamaker, Judge George Washington
  • Wanamaker
  • Weese
  • Whitney
  • Williams and Schermerhorn
  • Yarrow
Complin family fonds
CA ON00353 AFC 474 · Fonds · 1779-1870

Fonds consist mostly of legal papers of the Complin family. This includes probate of wills, bankruptcy documents and legal assignments.

Complin family
William Bell fonds
Fonds · 1779-1836, predominant 1798-1829

Most of the papers deal with Bell's activities as part of the Hastings Militia. Bell served under his friend, John Ferguson, and in 1825 succeeded him as colonel in command of the 1st Regiment, Hastings Militia. There is a small quantity of personal correspondence and 23 items relating to his role as Justice of the Peace and Coroner. Also included is a small file of correspondence from Robert Laing, who succeded Bell as schoolmaster on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Reserve. Fonds consists of of the following series: Correspondence, 1779-1836 Correspondence, Public Offices, 1799-1833 Robert Laing, 1795-1823 1st Regiment, Hastings Militia, 1798-1831

Bell, William, 1760-1833
Contredanses, French
CA ON00351 GA 56 · Item · [ca. 1780]

Fonds consists of a notebook containing diagrams of 84 contredanses with written annotations, circa 1780. Diagrams show the step by step movements of specific types of dances such as La Camille, Les Caprices de Chantenany, Les Cerises de Montmorenci, and Le Retour de Blanchard.

List of Contredanses included in Notebook:

La Camille
Les Deux Amies
La Zemia
La Labotiere
La Caprices Indiens
La Legere
L'Aufantine
L'été
La Nouvelle Etienne
La Nouvelle Monaco
L'Anglaise
Paule et Virginie
Lew Tembourins Picards
L'Union Intime
Les Trois Amis
La Champete
Les Caprices de Chantenany
Les Folies de Roncé
Les fête Villageoise
La Crécy
Les Plaisirs de Warennes
La Juno
La Petite Chasse
La Colbert
La Victoire de Cobourg
La Princesse d'Orange
La Rosalie
Le Duc d'Yorck
La Coalisée
L'arrivée du P. d'Orange
L'Espangnole
La Belle Elizabeth
Les Plaisirs d'Irlande
Carlalez [?]
La Julie
4o. La Tulipano
Le Retour Autrichien
L'Arrivée de l'Empereur
Les Cerises de Montmorenci
La Yacinte
La Belle Annete
Les Bons Amis
La Simplicie
Les Plaisirs d'Alançon
La Figaro
La Fille à Nicolas
L'inconnu à la Redoute
La Belle Poûlé
Le Plaisir de Chatenet
La Satisfaction
La Chinoise
La Petite Charmante
Le goût du jour
La Guchen
Le Plaisir de Basque
La Pastorale
La Charboniere
Les nouveaux capricieu
La Redoute
La Vandeuie
L'Enfant Trompeur
La Petite Savoyarde
Luca
Les hannetons [?]
Le Depart Indien
La Chasse d'Amour
Les Dettes
La Nouvelle Eté
La Tarare
Le Portaille Anglois
Le Caprice de Erevan
Les Amourettes
Les Pantalon
La Neuville
La Monaco
L'Elisabeth
La Fête villageoise
L'Infortuné
Le Retour de Blanchard
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CA ON00353 AFC 382 · Fonds · [1780], [18-?-1996]

This collection consists of extensive personal correspondence, concert documents, scores, manuscripts, recognition, primary publications, secondary publications, university papers, photographs, recordings, memorabilia and artifacts mainly relating to the private and professional lives of Gustav Mahler, Alfred Rosé, Arnold Rosé, Alma Rosé, Bruno Walter, Justine Rosé, and Maria Rosé. Other material relating to Alma Mahler-Werfel, Marie Mahler, Otto Mahler, Maria Rosé, Albine Adler, Dorothy Beswick Hetherington, Lorraine Busby, Jacob Dont, Martha Freud, R.A. Loederer, Nora Nathan, Richard Newman, Richard Strauss, and Arturo Toscanini are included. Also included are materials in the collection whose connection is unclear

Mahler Rosé Families
Prayer Books
CA ON00351 GA 51 · Collection · 1783-[188-?]

Three handwritten German prayer books dating from 1783 to the late 19th century. Each book contains a series of prayers such as communion, confession, morning, and evening prayers, in addition to examples of Fraktur (folk) art in ink and watercolour.

CA ON00009 F 44 · Fonds · 1784, 1803-1905

Fonds consists of records of Sir John Beverley Robinson, Christopher Robinson, Sir Charles W. Robinson, Sir Frederick P. Robinson, and of Sir William H. Robinson. Fonds includes: five bound diaries of John Beverley Robinson, bound correspondence between John Beverley Robinson and Emma Walker, an album of manuscript poems by Bishop John Strachan and Lady Sarah Maitland, a scrapbook of commissions, as well as loose commissions and appointments, a scrapbook of autograph letters and portrait reproductions, Robinson family arms with two wax seals issued by the College of Heralds, London, England in 1854, and document with wax seal granting title of Baronet to Sir John Beverley Robinson in 1854. Fonds also includes: general correspondence, bonds, reports, agreements, addresses, accounts, indentures, records arising from a special commission on the trial for treason in 1838, charges to the grand jury (arranged chronologically), accounts, records regarding forfeited estates of the North West Company, as well as journals and notebooks of Sir Frederick P. Robinson, Sir John Beverley Robinson, Christopher Robinson, and Charles W. Robinson.

For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+F+44?SESSIONSEARCH

Robinson, John Beverley (family)
CA ON00093 93/249 · Fonds · 1784-1993, predominant 1990-1991

Fonds consists of 16 folders containing 89 files in total, a few of which are in two parts. Files deal with the organization, methods of operation and approach of the 1 Canadian Division Intelligence Company and the 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group during the Oka crisis. Fonds contains post-operation reports, conference minutes and operation instructions for Operation Salon. A wide range of intelligence collected from Kahnawake, Oka and the Warrior Society in the early 1990s is also included. It is comprised of reconnaissance (the geography of the area, layout of buildings and other structures, and resources available to the Warriors to resist the military) and the personalities, aims and activities of the influential members of the Mohawk community, as well as some non-natives who took the Warrior side. Fonds also contains a book on traditional Native Teachings from 1984, the 1916 Constitution of the Iroquois, and background information regarding plans, proposals, RCMP logs and other memoranda, as well as legal and quasi-legal documents from the Six Nations, the Assembly of First Nations and the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation in the 1780s.

Canada. Canadian Armed Forces. Canadian Division Intelligence Company, 1
J.P. Francis collection
CA ON00003 F129 · Collection · 1784-1926

Fonds consists of personal and official correspondence as well as official documents of the Roe and Jarvis families, arranged chronologically. Included is a file of miscellaneous documents and letters belonging and relating to several different church figures.

Francis, J.P. (Jack Peter)
CA ON00341 C38 · Collection · 1785-1982

La collection générale réunit divers documents particuliers et témoigne partiellement de l'intérêt du Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française pour le Canada français. Il comprend des procès-verbaux de réunions du Barreau de Québec; de la correspondance entre autre, de Michel Brunet, Guy Frégault, Germaine Guèvremont, Octave Crémazie, Joseph-Charles Taché, Paul Claudel; des livres de souscriptions pour la reconstruction de la Cathédrale de Montréal; des médaillons en plâtre entre autre, de Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Arthur Buies, Alonzo Cinq-Mars, Louis Fréchette, François-Xavier Garneau, Charles Gill, Calixa Lavallée, Albert Lozeau, Émile Nelligan, Étienne Parent, Adolphe-Basile Routhier et Benjamin Sulte; des reproductions d'oeuvres de Suzanne Joubert, des affiches, des cartes postales; des spicilèges de coupures de presse.

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Ranna Cossitt fonds
CA ON00003 F207 · Fonds · 1785-1789. [Transcribed 1980?]

Fonds consists of letters from Cossitt to William Morice, secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and a copy of a crown grant.

Cossitt, Ranna
Pringle family fonds
CA ON00009 F 1030 · Fonds · 1786-1936

Fonds consists of correspondence, receipts, accounts, commissions, military records, legal records, and literary records of Jacob Pringle and other members of the Pringle family. Included are correspondence, receipts, and commissions of Jacob Farrand, a maternal ancestor of Jacob Farrand Pringle. Fonds also contains correspondence of James Pringle at Valenciennes, arrangements for the Pringle family to leave Yarmouth, England, for Upper Canada, accounts regarding the estate of James Pringle, and correspondence regarding a military pension for his wife, Anne. Personal records of Jacob Ferrand Pringle include: a genealogy of the Pringle family, legal appointments, military commission, and personal correspondence. Fonds also includes records relating to the Cornwall Volunteer Infantry Company which was raised by Jacob Pringle in 1862, and saw active service in repelling Fenian forces. These records include correspondence, pay lists, size rolls for the allotment of uniforms, and applications for medals. Also included are various legal records arising from Pringle's work as a lawyer. These records include: correspondence (pertaining to legal cases, points of law, and business letters to and from other law firms), printed materials, legal documents left with Pringle for safekeeping (including deeds, agreements, powers of attorney, quit claim deeds, letters patent, court accounts, leases, mortgages, insurance contracts, court notes from the assizes, petitions, and subpoenas), assessments and tax receipts, crown grants, estate records (of the estates of Colonel Alexander Fraser, Alexander Forsyth, Hugh Urquhart, and Angus Grant, and records include: correspondence, wills, annual reports of banks, and other records). Fonds also includes a groups records arising from a dispute between the Church of Scotland and the Free Church, in which both churches claimed a right to a portion of land in Glengarry County known as the Indian Reservation, inhabited by the St. Regis Iroquois nation. These records include correspondence with the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Reverend H. Urquhart (who was representing the Presbytery of Glengarry on behalf of the Indian Lands Congregation, and Reverend D. Gordon of the Free Church sect. Fonds also contains correspondence from Jacob Pringle to members of the Education Department for the Eastern District regarding the marketing of his book Lunenburgh or the Old Eastern District. Also included are poetry and miscellaneous writings by Pringle.

Pringle, Jacob Farrand
CA ON00003 F301 · Collection · 1787-2019

Collection consists of diocesan and provincial synod journals, constitution and by-laws, printed reports, Church Society reports, documents, publications, audio-visual and graphic materials related to the activities of the dioceses.
Collection is arranged in series by diocese and province. Series 501: Diocese of Algoma, 1876-2013 Series 502: Diocese of Arctic, 1961-2019 Series 503: Diocese of Athabasca, 1888-2008 Series 504: Diocese of Brandon, 1924-2018 Series 505: Diocese of British Columbia, 1886-2017 Series 506: Diocese of Caledonia, 1919-1998 Series 507: Diocese of Calgary, 1892-2004 Series 508: Diocese of Cariboo, 1914-2000 Series 509: Diocese of Edmonton, 1913-2008 Series 510: Diocese of Fredericton, 1845-2009 Series 511: Diocese of Huron, 1858-2006 Series 512: Diocese of Keewatin, 1905-1991 Series 513: Diocese of Kootenay, 1900-2009 Series 514: Diocese of Montreal, 1859-2002 Series 515: Diocese of Moosonee, 1919-2008 Series 516: Diocese of Newfoundland, 1873-1971 Series 517: Diocese of Central Newfoundland, 1975-2009 Series 518: Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, 1976-1992 Series 519: Diocese of Western Newfoundland, 1976-2001 Series 520: Diocese of New Westminster, 1886-2007 Series 521: Diocese of Niagara, 1875-2019 Series 522: Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, 1787-2006 Series 523: Diocese of Ontario, 1862-2014 Series 524: Diocese of Ottawa, 1896-2009 Series 525: Diocese of Qu'Appelle, 1891-1993 Series 526: Diocese of Quebec, 1859-2007 Series 528: Diocese of Saskatchewan, 1882-2005 Series 529: Diocese of Saskatoon, 1933-2008 Series 530: Diocese of Toronto, 1851-2009 Series 531: Diocese of Yukon, 1900-2010 Series 532: Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon, 1914-2006 Series 533: Ecclesiastical Province of Canada, 1861-2012 Series 534: Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario, 1893-2018 Series 535: Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land , 1875-2015

Provincial and Diocesan Synods
Thom family fonds
CA ON00311 PF101 · Fonds · 1788-1896

Fonds consists of records documenting legal and financial matters of the Thom family of Quebec City, including James Thom, William Thom, Catherine Thom, and Isabella Thom. Records include wills, receipts, correspondence, court decisions, court exhibits, rental agreements, and invoices.

Thom, James, fl. 1815-1845
David Secord fonds
CA ON00009 F 4632 · Fonds · 1788-1898

Fonds consists of records created and obtained by Major David Secord during his time in Lincoln County, 1788-1844, as well as by other Secord family members.

The majority of the records are petitions for compensation to the Province of Upper Canada for damages to David Secord's property in St. Davids during the War of 1812. Some petitions go into detail as to how the Secord family arrived in Lincoln County and the battles Secord participated in, and some petitions briefly describe his family's loyalty to Britain. An inventory list of damaged property with estimated values is also included in the fonds.

The fonds contains a family Bible with signatures of family members; David Secord's appointments to Major and Lieutenant; an early version of his will; a land grant; the American citizenship certificate of James Bradley, a grandson of Major David Secord through marriage, and a petition for compensation from Daniel Secord, likely a cousin of David.

Also included are copies of obituaries, a bookmark and greeting card which were originally laid in the bible.

A majority of the items have a “Thom J. Armstrong” rubber stamp imprint. He was a grandson of David Secord.

Files are in rough chronological order.

For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+F+4632?SESSIONSEARCH

Secord, David, 1759-1844
CA ON00311 PF16 · Fonds · 1789-1827

Fonds consists of minute books that document the proceedings of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the Luneburg Distict (1789-1802) and Mecklenburg District (1789-1790, 1793-1800, 1813-1816). The volumes record the dates of the court sittings, names of the defendants, charges, pleas, lists of jurors sworn, verdicts and penalties. One of the volumes also contains marriage oaths from between 1794 and 1827.

Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace