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Fonds consist of correspondence with the Secretary of War from November 1800- September 4 1863, including the War of 1812. Correspondence covers operations of the army, administration of the War Dept., appropriations, military commissions, military posts and establishments, general courts martial and annual reports, appointments, militia lists, promotions, pay lists, accounts, and rolls. Signed persons include the President of the United States James Madison, Secretaries of War John Armstrong and James Munroe, Chief Clerk Daniel Parker, Adjutant General Charles Nourse and US Marshall to the District of Columbia Tench Ringgold.

Collection consists of a variety of table linens including dinner napkins, tablecloths, table scarves and runners, coasters, and placemats. The items mostly date to the early late 1800s and early 1900s, however it's likely some of the pieces may have a later date of manufacturing.
The collection includes a lot of examples of twentieth century lace styles including Venetian, Battenberg, Broderie Anglaise and Armenian. Additional techniques include white thread embroidery, cutwork embroidery, picot, ladder and scalloped hems, and drawn thread designs. Some of the pieces are a part of matching sets of four or six items. Highlights from the collection include: Nottingham lace coasters; 1940s wine glass coasters or “slippers”; Madeira style cocktail napkins; hand embroidered, monogram napkins; and a floral designed organdy doily.

The fonds consists of records pertaining to Gisborne's activities as an engineer. it includes a letter copybook (1856-1861); a notebook (1855-1856); a journal (1851); material about Gisborne including notes by Mrs. Starr and Sessional Papers from the British Columbia Legislative Assembly (1880, 1883, 1885, and 1899); photographs; a map of the Western Section of the Dominion of Canada Telegraph and Signal Service (No. 4); and other material.

The fonds consists of records associated with Claire Pratt’s career as writer and artist, in addition to family records. Fonds is arranged into four series:

Series 1: Personal Materials
Series 2: Writings, Research, and Editorial Files
Series 3: Pratt Family Records
Series 4: Art and Poetry

Whiskey Ledger belonging to Nathaniel Haskill who owned property and lived at Lot 16, Broken Front and Lot 165, Concession 1, Hope Township (now the Municipality of Port Hope). The earliest date of entry is 1801 with most dates primarily from 1807- 1813. - the inside pages are hand written with the purchaser's name, a description and amount of whiskey purchased and the means of payment. Often based on a barter system with payment made in the form of bushels of wheat, cows, barrels of flour etc. Some customers paid in cash. - comprised of 145 pages which are written upon with the remaining pages blank. The first 33 pages include more than one customer, where later pages, 34 - 145 are devoted to a single customer. Each customer has two pages together, side by side. In handwriting at the top is the name of the customer. First name on the left page and surname on the right side page. Left page also lists the date, amount of whiskey obtained and the cost in pounds and shillings. The left page indicates the means of payment.

Fonds consists of three handwritten volumes, two cash books and one account book, which contain the business records of William Tench, Charles Tench, and John Forster.

Fonds includes a cash book kept by William Tench from 1827 to 1840 in which he recorded expenses, goods sold, and payment for jobs in relation to the operation of a general merchant business and a farm. The cash book also served as a diary in which he recorded various activities. Entries were made for such things as payments for tanning a calfskin and for getting straw into a barn, sales of tea, sugar, and other groceries, remedies for various physical ailments, listings of "produce of farm", and a "journey to Toronto with 5 fat hogs".

Also included is an account book kept by William Tench and John Forster from 1802 to 1803 which has records apparently relating to the operation of a mill. Entries are made for barley, wheat, oats, and bran including names of customers and prices. Included in the account book is an index listing customers' names.

The account book was also used by Charles Tench from 1852 to 1880 for business records related to the construction of houses.

Fonds includes a cash book, kept by Charles Tench from 1813 to 1906, contains records relating to the operation of a general merchant business and the construction of houses. Entries include sales of groceries and many liquor items as well as the costs of building materials.

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Fonds consists of nine handwritten day books, eight of which are also ledgers. The day books contain records relating to the general merchant business of Charles Jones. Entries give customers' names, prices of goods, and goods sold. The goods include both groceries and sundries such as butter, brown sugar, salts, peppermint, blankets, chalk, calico, and logs.

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The Thomas Talbot fonds includes 45 large-format plans (registered 1802-1832; incorporating annotations dated 1810-1849) and a lease settlement register (created and maintained 1842-1846; includes retroactive entries dated 1825-1836) documenting land distribution in the town of London and the 30 townships in six counties throughout southwestern Ontario in which Talbot controlled land allocation. The plans show survey grids, clergy and school reserves, town sites (including London), First Nations villages, mill seats, footpaths, trails, waterways and crossings, local and regional roads. Most significantly, perhaps, the plans include personal land settlement information, with the names of grantees and dates of occupation penciled in by Talbot on individual lots.

A note on dating the maps: in many cases, Talbot treated them as working documents, adding, removing, overwriting and revising annotations, often over a period of several years, and, in a few instances, including information retroactive to the creation of the document. For example, item F 501-1-0-0-18 was registered in 1824, but incorporates annotations dated 1817-1840. 34 of the plans have been registered, and their registration dates have been adopted as a "date of creation". 10 plans bear no registration date, but do incorporate dated annotations: in the absence of other evidence, the earliest and latest dated annotations in these plans have been adopted as representing the plan's temporal scope. One plan (F 501-1-0-0-38) contains no dated data and has been assigned an estimated date based on internal evidence and comparison with related plans.

Collection consists of records of John Norton as well as research materials created and acquired by J. McE Murray and Carl F. Klinck in the course of researching the life and work of John Norton. Included is an original diary of John Norton containing an early version of parts of his 1816 journal. Also included are transcriptions of the diary and Norton's letters (transcribed by Murray) as well as photocopies of the manuscript of his 1816 journal (photocopied by Klinck). Collection also contains research notes, correspondence, and clippings relating to Murray's and Klinck's research.

Fonds consists of the business records created or acquired by George Metcalfe for his cabinetry business, including stencils, books and business documents. Also consists of records of the 8th Boy Scouts Troop of London, including books, photographs and clippings, correspondence and test information.

Fonds consists of marriage records of Hallowell Township and material related to White Chapel, Picton, 1803-1823.

Collection consists of records accumulated by John Shirley Denison, a Toronto lawyer. The collection is arranged into three series: records of James Joseph Foy, records of Sir Adam Wilson, and miscellaneous letter and seal. The collection consists of correspondence, certificates, notices, commissions and notebooks, primarily relating to James Joseph Foy and Sir Adam Wilson. Wilson was the adopted father of John Shirley Denison's mother, Julia Isabella Jordan. The collection also includes a Seal of George III and a letter from Edmund Yates.

The fonds consists of records related to the ship-building heritage of the Ditchburn family, in particular Ditchburn Boats Limited, a boat building company owned and operated by Herbert Ditchburn in the Muskoka region of Ontario.

Fonds includes correspondence, notes and designs related to patent applications for boat parts invented by Herbert Ditchburn and for boat designs as well as general business documentation for the Ditchburn Boats Limited and its predecessors.

Fonds also consists of historical records and information about various shipbuilding companies owned by the Ditchburn family, including the Ditchburn and Mare Shipbuilding Company, which operated in England and built ships for Queen Elizabeth I to defeat the Spanish Armada as well as records related to Ditchburn family members.

Also includes material related to particular boats built by Ditchburn Boats Ltd. including boats built for the RCMP, the RCAF, raceboats that competed in the America's Cup and other speed boat races, in particular a series of boats built for Betty Estelle Carstairs.

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Fonds consists primarily of the papers of David Roblin created between his appointment of Warden of the United Counties of Lennox and Addington in 1849 and 1862, the year before his death. There are some items which pre-date 1849, but these do not represent all of his early activities. Fonds consists of the following series: David Roblin Papers 1818-1864 David Allan Roblin Papers 1862-1868 John Roblin Papers 1804-1831 Marshall Perry Roblin Papers 1856-1873 William Moore Roblin Papers 1819-1831

Collection consists of natural history plates collected by Emily Elliott, and include birds, mammals and fish.

Fonds consists primarily of the personal and business records of Thomas Benson and his descendants, principally his son, Thomas Moore Benson. It also includes papers of other family members.

Records of Thomas Benson include incoming personal and business correspondence, a letter book of outgoing correspondence, diaries, records of land acquired and sold, account books from his store in Port Hope and his mill in Peterborough, records relating to the Port Hope and Peterborough Railway, records accumulated by Benson as Paymaster of the 3rd. Battalion of Incorporated Militia, as well as records of Benson's estate.

Records of Thomas Moore Benson include incoming private and business correspondence, several letter books of outgoing correspondence, diaries, notes, examinations, certificates and correspondence relative to his training as a lawyer, and records pertaining to his law practice. Law practice records includes day books, journals recording payments, docket books, files relating to litigation and the settling of estates, and files relating to mortgages in the town of Omemee. Thomas Moore Benson's records also include appointments and commissions, records of land acquired and sold, subject files and scrapbooks, daily accounts, clippings and printed materials, and records relating to his retirement and his estate.

Records of Frederick Albert Benson include letterbooks, primarily recording business correspondence, a ledger, militia records, a minute book, and records of his estate.

Records of Richard Lowe Benson include certificates, notes, and correspondence relating to this training as a lawyer, and to his later law practice.

Records of Thomas Bingley Fuller Benson relate to his interests in the shipbuilding industry during the early 20th century.

Fonds consists primarily of the personal and business records of Thomas Benson and his descendants, principally his son, Thomas Moore Benson. It also includes papers of other family members.

Records of Thomas Benson include incoming personal and business correspondence, a letter book of outgoing correspondence, diaries, records of land acquired and sold, account books from his store in Port Hope and his mill in Peterborough, records relating to the Port Hope and Peterborough Railway, records accumulated by Benson as Paymaster of the 3rd. Battalion of Incorporated Militia, as well as records of Benson's estate.

Records of Thomas Moore Benson include incoming private and business correspondence, several letter books of outgoing correspondence, diaries, notes, examinations, certificates and correspondence relative to his training as a lawyer, and records pertaining to his law practice. Law practice records includes day books, journals recording payments, docket books, files relating to litigation and the settling of estates, and files relating to mortgages in the town of Omemee. Thomas Moore Benson's records also include appointments and commissions, records of land acquired and sold, subject files and scrapbooks, daily accounts, clippings and printed materials, and records relating to his retirement and his estate.

Records of Frederick Albert Benson include letterbooks, primarily recording business correspondence, a ledger, militia records, a minute book, and records of his estate.

Records of Richard Lowe Benson include certificates, notes, and correspondence relating to this training as a lawyer, and to his later law practice.

Records of Thomas Bingley Fuller Benson relate to his interests in the shipbuilding industry during the early 20th century.

Records of Dr. Clara Cynthia Benson primarily relate to her childhood and school life, her social life in Port Hope, Ontario, and her interest in her family's genealogy.

Records of Emma Louisa (Fuller) Benson consist of a small amount of personal correspondence, a school report, and a record of household expenses.

Records of James Binley Benson consist of his orders and commissions as well as volumes of transcribed poetry.

Records of Laura Abigail (Fuller) Benson consist of a travel journal, personal correspondence, personal photographs, and records of financial accounts and interests.

Records of Mary Edith (McCaul) Benson consist of personal correspondence, purchase receipts and a photograph.

Records of John Benson consist of a letter from his father Ezekiel Benson concerning land in Hay Bay, Upper Canada.

Records of Samuel Benson consist of a single letter sent to him from solicitors, in his capacity as a provincial land surveyor (PLS).

Records of Robert Cochrane Morris consist of certificates issued to him in various capacities.

Records of Ethel Constance Blake consists of two volumes of notations and clippings on the subjects of The Great War and current events between 1914 and 1916.

Fonds also contains photographs taken and accumulated by the Bensons relating to the family and their activities in Port Hope, St. Catharines and other locations. This includes portraits of individuals, mainly Benson family members and friends. This also includes views of Port Hope and St. Catharines, in addition to other parts of the province. This series has been divided into seven sub-series based on content; including portraits of Benson family members and friends, photographs of cities and towns in Ontario, photographs of militia groups, photographs of Benson family homes, photographs of railroads, leisure activities, stereographs, and other miscellaneous photos acquired by the Benson family.

Fonds also includes records relative to the activities of Port Hope barristers Thomas Trevor Baines and John Wright, which were acquired by the Benson family.

Fonds also includes a volume of account records of a practice of Dr. P. H. Salter of Port Hope, Ontario.

Fonds also contains a field notebook created between 1842 and 1844 by land surveyor John Knatchbull Roche.

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Fonds consists of incoming correspondence dealing with F.B. Tupper's research on Sir Isaac Brock. Correspondents include: J. Hillyard Cameron, J.B. Glegg, James Fitzgibbon, John B. Robinson, R.N. Sheaffe, Edward Ellice, and others. Fonds also includes letters to Sir Isaac Brock from Lt. General George Prevost, George Glasgow, Henry Proctor, and others regarding the preparation against American hostilities c. 1812. Also included are manuscript extracts from private and public sources providing information and comment on Brock's life and death, as well as clippings from Toronto newspapers regarding Tupper- Brock family history, 1906-1942, and the centennial of the Battle of Queenston Heights. Fonds is arranged chronologically.

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Fonds consists of correspondence, 1804-1838. Correspondents include Nathan Bangs.

Map is a composite image created from two separate photographs detailing the boundaries of the Toronto Purchase between the Crown and the Mississaugas of the Credit.

The original sale is dated to 1787, however there were questions raised about the legitimacy of the documents and about the delineation of the land. In 1805 a formal purchase was documented, and is referenced in the text of the map. This is accompanied by the signatures of the purchase. William Claus, the Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs, signed on behalf of the Crown.