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      Winter Sports in Canada The accompanying engravings illustrate the way in which our Canadian neighbors contrive to make some of the moments of their long and dreary winter slip by pleasantly and happily. The first engraving represents a skating and sailing scene on the Bay of ...

 Kilburn, Samuel Smith, Ballou's Pictorial, 24 May 1856, p. 322     THE THOUSAND ISLANDS. The beautiful scene depicted on this page was drawn for us by Mr. Kilburn, form a point of view selected among the thousand islands which gem the bosom of the St. Lawrence. The group of wooded islets embraced in our engraving vary in size; on one of …

 Kilburn, Samuel Smith, Ballou's Pictorial, 29 Mar 1856, p. 201     FORTS ONTARIO AND NIAGARA, NEW YORK The views on this page were drawn expressly for us by Mr. Kilburn, and are characterized by his accustomed spirit and fidelity. The first represents Fort Ontario on the east side of the Oswego River. Its situation is pretty, and the breakwater ...

 Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters... (1856), 1856, after 331    

      This 1856 land deed transfers a lot between Thomas Clark Street and Edward Clarke Campbell, and George Girdwell in return for £124, 11s, 5d. The land sold is in the north quarter of lot 36 in the third concession of South Dumfries Township.

      Property of the Paris Museum and Historical Society. Inventory No. 1999.8144.01

      This is an image of the land grant issued to Henry Fryer of the Township of Onondaga on May 8, 1856. He received 50 acres for 50 pounds 5 shillings. The original document was provided by Ruth Doherty during a Scan & Share Day event held at the Onondaga Hall …

      This item is a land deed transferring land in Burford Township (50 acres on part of lot 3 concession 12) from Philip Flock to John Smith. The deed is dated January 11, 1856 and the land was purchased for the sum of 450 pounds.

      In the Archdiocese of Toronto, original parish registers are not available to the public. Please DO NOT contact parishes for access to these registers. Other Resources Death and burials are not sacraments and are therefore not formally recorded by all parishes. In Ontario, official death records are kept by the …

      This is a land deed from John Merral to John Whiting Junior for the purchase of 1/5 of an acre of land in the Village of Onondaga, Lot #7 on the South Side of Cedar Street for a price of "25 pounds of lawful money of Canada". The original document …

      CAR FERRY BOAT - The Great Western Railway Company have heretofore used, to transport cars across the river, a scow, which they were obliged to tow to and fro. But this item of freight has increased to such importance that they are now fitting a ferry boat, with complete steam …

      FIRST VESSEL FOR LIVERPOOL DIRECT -The fine new schooner Dean Richmond is chartered to take wheat to Liverpool direct, without transshipment, via the St. Lawrence, at 30c per bushel. This is but the commencement of direct shipments to Europe from this port. The advantage gained by ...

      CHICAGO AND LIVERPOOL - Yesterday evening witnessed the first departure of a Chicago vessel from this port direct to Europe. The vessel is the schooner Dean Richmond, owned by Charles Y. Richmond of this city, and her captain, D. Columbus Pierce. She takes a cargo of 16,000 bushels of ...

      INSURANCE ON THE DEAN RICHMOND - It having been ascertained that the insurance companies were averse to taking full risks on the Dean Richmond, and her cargo, for a trip to Liverpool, the Chicago Board of Trade have undertaken to effect the object by individual subscriptions, the ...

      THE SCHOONER DEAN RICHMOND - This schooner, bound from Chicago to Liverpool direct with a cargo of wheat, arrived at this port on Sunday morning last (27th), and left this afternoon. We learn that she, with another boat, was towed down the St. Clair Flats by the tug JULIUS D. …

      quoting Milwaukee Sentinel, 5 Aug. SCHOONER DEAN RICHMOND - We learn from Mr. Kershaw, who shipped the wheat from this city by the Dean Richmond, bound for Liverpool, that the Richmond reached Lake Ontario all right, on Saturday (Aug 2), and would soon be wending ...

      THE SCHOONER DEAN RICHMOND - The Thorold (C.W.) Gazette, of the 6th inst., gives the proceedings of a public meeting held there to welcome the schooner Dean Richmond, now on her way to Liverpool, from Chicago. A lengthy address was made to the Captain and owners by a deputation of …

      We learn from a late number of the Montreal Pilot that the schooner Dean Richmond, which left Chicago a few weeks since with a full cargo of wheat for Liverpool direct, passed that port on the 15th inst.

      quoting Montreal Gazette, Aug 15, 1856 THE DEAN RICHMOND - This vessel, which cleared at Chicago a short time ago, with a cargo of wheat for Liverpool, left this port yesterday afternoon for Quebec, in tow of the steam-tug John MacKenzie, on her way across the ...