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      Sister Delphine gave refuge to the orphans of Toronto Source: The Toronto Star, Saturday, August 27, 1983 Acquired: January 2008

      Pt. 1. Queenston.--Pt. 2. Fort Niagara. Printed by Steele's Press

      A certificate of marriage, dated August 10, 1851, for John William Taylor, of St. Catharines, to Susan Jones, also of St. Catharines. The certificate is signed by a William Wilkinson, Baptist Minister. This marriage certificate was in the possession of Rick Bell, of St. Catharines, Ontario. Rick Bell's mother, Iris …

      This item is a letter dated January 13th, 1851 addressed to Thomas B Campbell from W. H. Fisher in Saint John, New Brunswick.

      Card 2 Recorder (cont'd) appointed, and shall receive a salary of not less than two hundred and fifty pounds per annum, payable quarterly out of the Municipal Funds of such City... Source: "Incorporated Cities," Scobie's Municipal Manual for Upeer Canada. Second ed. with ...

      London, Ontario - Industries. London, its manufactures and general progress. Issue of the London Prototype and Daily Western. Advocate, Mar. 5, 1851. Western Ontario History Nuggets, No. 13 ...

      Signed S. Wright.

      THE 'SOO.' - The London, Capt. Watts, came in last evening with a full freight of the commodities of Lake Superior, copper from the Cliff Mine, &c.; The new steamer Monticello, of McKnight's line, was on the ways, and the most active exertions making to launch her across the Portage …

      STEAMBOAT NORTHERNER. - This excellent and commodious boat, built at Cleveland during the past winter, especially for the Sault Ste. Marie and Lake Superior trade by the Messrs. Turner, of Ohio City, is now on her second trip to the Sault. We are glad to see capitalists, both at home …

      The Editor of the Utica Gazette, Doct. Potter, who is out on a pleasure and fishing excursion, thus writes home to his paper: We left Oswego at 8 o'clock this morning on board the crack boat of the lake, the Ontario, one of the excellent line, some of whose managers, …

      Coal Trade at Oswego As the Legget Gap Railroad, is to be opened on the first of next month, by which a new channel for the cheap transportation of coal, will be opened between this city and the beds of the best quality of Pennsylvania anthracite coal, we have looked …

      *Mrs. Grundy - n. Any person who is too much concerned with being proper, modest, or righteous (Rogets II Thesaurus, 1995) The EMPIRE STATE was built at St. Clair, Michigan by Griffin in 1848 and was 299 feet and 1,554 tons, old style - a very large ship for her …

      Fire. - A fire broke out about 7:30 o'clock last evening in the long ship building connected with the Marine Railway of Messrs. Carrington & Pardee. It was occupied by Capt. Weeks and his ship carpenters and joiners, employed in preparing the upper works of the steamer. The ...

      Fast Elevating. - The grain warehouse of H. & G. Ames, on the east side of the river, elevated yesterday from the schooner Gazelle, 4,594 bushels of wheat in one hour and seventeen minutes, being the whole of her cargo, and discharged it into canal boats during the same time. …

      Capt. Week's newly invented wheel for propelling steamers, which we noticed a few days since, we understand is about to be tried upon the steamer Northerner, the Captain having contracted to put in a set of his wheels.

      Spring Walk I Time the remorseless eater-up of all things has made our other annual revolution and compels us to take again that "Walk," which it seems but the other day to have been finished and ended. In youth the hours stand idly still; in early manhood, they glide along …

      Spring Walk II Contrary to general expectation, the opening of Kingston Harbor has been greatly accelerated by favorable circumstances, and the consequence is, that it has taken the shipping interest somewhat by surprise. Every body is ...

      Spring Walk III THE WHARVES AND WHARFINGERS OF KINGSTON: As various changes have taken place this season in the location of the several Forwarders and Wharfingers, a concise notice of such establishment may be found useful, and not out of place in this Our ...

      Marine Disaster. - The schooner Abbey , of this port took in a cargo of 5,300 bushels of wheat, part at Queenston and part at Lewiston , a few days since and left the ...

      Loss of the Maid of the Mist . - The little steamer, so aptly named, The Maid of the Mist, and which has played a gallant part in showing up the Falls , to thousands of visitors here, has ...