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Collection consists of various materials and documents related to the history of Port Hope, c1910-1985. Please refer to file and item-level descriptions for more detailed information.
Donated to the Port Hope Archives by K. Taylor, 2003-2009. Donor was working as archivist at the time of donation, and purchased the items from various sources to donate to the Port Hope Archives.
Elmo Wesley Watt served in the Great War and registered as a Private in Port Hope. He returned from the war and according to the 1 April 1920 Port Hope Evening Guide, he married Pearl Tremain Welch (Welsh?) in Toronto, at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Welsh at 64 Chester Ave. The wedding was officiated by Rev. J. J. Coulter. The couple was to reside at 44 Patricia Drive, Toronto.
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Item is a Christmas card sent to Miss Elizabeth Shaw from Elmo Watt of Port Hope, 1914.
Donated to the Port Hope Archives in, 2003. Donor purchased the items from various sources to donate to the Port Hope Archives.
The Christmas card was sent by Elmo Watt of Port Hope in 1914. The card belonged to Miss Elizabeth Mary Shaw (1888-1983) of Bowmanville. Miss Shaw married David R. Morrison (1890-1958) of Bowmanville. Both are buried at the Bowmanville Union Cemetery. The card was in the possession of Mrs. Morrison's great nephew, Garfield Shaw of Mississauga, Ontario. Garfield Shaw indicated in correspondence with K. Taylor that his aunt was very active in Bowmanville musicals and events, often contributing as a piano player. He believes that is where she may have met Mr. Watt as a young, unmarried woman.
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Item is a poster which advertises the Dominion Day Celebrations organized / sponsored by the Port Hope Lions Club. The programme for Monday July 1 included a parade, band music, Trotting Races, baseball games, bingo, street fairs, horse race wheels, booths. Proceeds from the event were to benefit the Lions Club Children's Welfare and Relief work. A photograph of the Cobourg Kiltie Band is featured on the poster.
Purchased with the intention to donate to the Ganaraska Region Archives in April 2004.
Float Your Fanny Down the Ganny is an annual event remembers the flood of 1980 which destroyed much of downtown Port Hope and resulted in the reconstruction of the Ganaraska River.
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Item is a poster for Float Your Fanny Down the Ganny which describes the 4th annual event with contact information, it what was used for advertising the event locally.
Purchased with the intention to donate to the Ganaraska Region Archives in, April 2004.
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File consists of two (2) carbon copies of invoices. Invoices for alcohol sold to W. Mitchell, Port Hope from O'Keefe Brewing Co., Toronto, 1915.
Item was purchased at Randy Potter's Auction House, 2005. Donor purchased the invoices for the purpose of donation to the Port Hope Archives.
The Standard Ideal Company was establised about 1903 in Port Hope by Hiram T. Bush (d.1927). The company first made soil pipe and pipe fittings. By 1910 the Canadian Sanitary Manufacuring Company of Montreal bought Standard Ideal Co. in Port Hope and carried on the business of making stoves, ranges, furnaces, and iron and brass goods. The Standard Ideal Company changed its name to Port Hope Sanitary Manufacturing Company, Ltd. in Aug 1916. During the First World War the Port Hope Sanitary Manufacturing Company changed production from household items to making acid proof enamel ware, selling to the Military Hospitals Commission of Canada in Trenton, to USA and Allied Chemicals in Port Hope (1918). The Company was later bought out by Crane Company, which closed production in Port Hope in 1967.
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Item is a catalogue for Sanitary Manufacturing Co. Ltd. entitled "Port Hope Enameled Iron Sanitary Ware for the Home," c1916.
Donor purchased item on eBay from a seller in Nova Scotia, 2005. Purchased to donate to the Port Hope Archives. No other information known about its previous owners.
The Port Hope Telephone Co. was governed by a board of directors who held shares in the company. Each financial statement lists the board of directors for that year. The company was eventually sold to the Bell Telephone Company.
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File consists of financial statements for the Port Hope Telephone Co. (duplicate copies for some years): 1929, 1934, 1935, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966.
Donor purchased the reports for the purpose of donating them to the Port Hope Archives. The reports and statements were purchased at an auction sale in Port Hope, 2006.
The Nicholson File Company was first established in Port Hope on Cavan Street as the Outram File Factory. The company expanded from the Cavan Street location and moved to Peter Street / Highway 2. An image of the new factory is featured in the catalogue. Files made at the Port Hope plant were shipped across Canada.
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Item is a catalogue for Nicholson File Company of Canada, 1956. Catalogue illustrates files and rasps available. Also includes a "welcome" from company president Paul C. Nicholson.
Donated to the Port Hope Archives in 2006. Donor purchased the catalogue on eBay for the purpose of adding the catalogue to the collection of the Port Hope Archives.
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Item is a Port Hope & Agricultural Society Fall Fair Prize List, Sep 24 and 25, 1936. The book includes prize list, categories, directories, committees and advertising of local businesses.
Donated to the Port Hope Archives 2007. Donor purchased the prize list at the Cobourg Antique Mall in Feb 2007.
Thomas Watson Kirkconnell was born on May 16, 1895 in Port Hope. He was the son of Thomas Allison Kirkconnell (1862-1934) and Bertha Gertrude Watson (1867-1957). T. A. Kirkconnell served as Head Master of the Port Hope High School from 1894 to 1908. Mr. Kirkconnell was appointed principal of Lindsay Collegiate in 1908, and with this new position, the family relocated to Lindsay. Watson Kirkconnell graduated from Queens with a Master of Arts in Classics in 1916. After the war, he studied economics at Oxford University, and graduated with his degree in 1922. That same year, he accepted a position to teach English at Wesley College in Winnipeg. From 1922 to 1940 he taught English and Classics at the school later to become the University of Manitoba. In 1948 he accepted the post of president of Acadia University. He was the ninth president of the University and retired in 1964. Dr. Kirkconnell was married twice. He and his first wife Isabel (d. 1925) were the parents of two sons, James and Thomas. With his second wife Hope, they had three daughters – Helen, Janet and Susan. Dr. Kirkconnell died on February 26, 1977 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. In 1979 the Kirkconnell Reading Room was dedicated at Acadia University. Taken from the Winter 2007 "It's About Time..."
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Item is "The Tide of Life and other Poems" by T. Watson Kirkconnell, 1st Edition, 1930.
Donated to the Port Hope Archives in 2007. Purchased by donor on eBay from a seller in Campbellcroft.
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Item is a copy of "The Descendants of John Mix & Unis Gaffield of Cramahe from 1797." It includes bibliographical references and index, and the genealogy of Lorna Ann Micks, wife of W. John Henry.
Donated to the Port Hope Archives in 2009. Purchased by donor at the Dufferin County Museum & Archives.
The HMCS Port Hope was a minesweeper that the Town of Port Hope sponsored during the Second World War. The minesweeper was launched on 13 Dec 1941 and commissioned 4 Aug 1942. The minesweeper was 175' long and 28' beam.
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Item is a Hooked Pillow featuring an image of the HMCS Port Hope Minesweeper, c1945.
Donated to the Port Hope Archives in 2007. Purchased by donor in 2004 on ebay from a seller in British Columbia. The seller did not know the origin of the piece, he only had it because his mother had been born in Port Hope.
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Item is a notice to invite Port Hope residents to organize the Port Hope Horticultural Society in 1894. From the back of the card: "Notice! A meeting of the members of the proposed Port Hope Horticultural Society will be held at 4 o'clock, p.m. on Thursday, January 11th, 1894 at the Provisional Council Chamber, in McLean's Building, on Walton Street, Port Hope, for the purpose of organizing the said Society and the Election of Officers for the first year. H. H. Burnham, Mayor Port Hope, Jan. 9th, 1894." Card is addressed to George Watson of Port Hope.
Donated to the Port Hope Archives in, 2009. Purchased on eBay by donor for the purpose of donating to the Port Hope Archives.