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      This is a copy of fragment of a statutory lease from The Ontario Methodist Camp Ground Company to Mrs Phebe Glass of London, Ontario. It is dated Aug. 17, 1878. It is a lease for 999 years. There is a modern note at the bottom indicating that this lease was …

      The former land on which the Chautauqua Camp ground was located (Lot 3) was sold to Harry H. Wylie with Peter D. Crerar acting as a trustee on April 10, 1912.

      Mr. Carscadden was a principal at the Galt Collegiate Institute. According to "Report of the Minister of Education, Ontario, 1890", the average salary of a male teacher in a county system in 1889 was $389. Peppercorn rent was a customary form of exchange in the British legal system.

      Spooney Bridge, also known as Spoonery Bridge, was a popular gathering spot at Grimsby Park. It crossed over a ravine.

      J.H. Ford, Views of Grimsby Park, Photographer...

      This is a negative of a photograph taken from Victoria Terrace. It shows a steamboat docked at the Grimsby Park pier. People are crowded on the pier and the beach. Many people are lined up on the shore side of the ticket booth.

      Phelps was one of the founders of the Ontario Methodist Camp Ground which became Grimsby Park. He was elected the first president of Grimsby Park in 1874 and remained president until his death in 1900. He also served as Postmaster of the Grimsby Park post office. He was an ardent …

      This is a positive film. It shows approximately one hundred members of the Jackson family at their reunion which was at Grimsby Beach. They are sitting on grandstands.

 Beans, Joe, Grimsby Independent, 1899     ...

      -BOWSLAUGH -- Entered into rest on Sunday morning, Nov. 18, 1923, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. M. S. Phelps, E. W. Bowslaugh, in his 81st year. Funeral from the above address. Interment at the Fifty cemetery. BUILT FIRST PIER AT BEACH One of North Grimsby's oldest ...

      BIG CROWDS AT BEACH ON CIVIC HOLIDAY Over Six Thousand Amusement Seekers Visited This Beautiful Spot. Macassa Carried Over Three Thousand. Hardy, Gave Performance On ...

      Phelps Avenue was renamed Lake Street and a new Phelps Avenue was named.

      This is a newspaper article from the Owen Sound area with a short article on the devastating fire which occurred August 10, 1914 in Grimsby Beach.

      BIG CROWDS AT BEACH ON CIVIC HOLIDAY Over Six Thousand Amusement Seekers Visited This Beautiful Spot. Macassa Carried Over Three Thousand. Hardy, Gave Performance On Tight Wire. Vaudeville Show in Auditorium a Real Classy One. While Civic Holiday passed off quietly in Grimsby, it was by no ...

 Livingston, James, The Independent (Grimsby, Ontario: Livingston, James A.), Aug. 13, 1891     Grimsby Local News --Notice--The country tresurer's office will be closed July 20th, until the 17th of August, 1891. Thomas Keyes, Treasurer of the County of Lincoln. --Geo. F. Little, express engineer on the Kentucky C. R. R., was visiting his father, Benj. Little, a few days last week. --A ...

 The Independent (Grimsby, Ontario: Livingston, James A.), Aug 1901     Mr. Wilkinson Honored One of the most delightful functions that has ever taken place at Grimsby Park, was held at the Lake View Hotel on Friday evening last, when over one hundred residents of the Park and vicinity gathered in the spacious dining hall, to ...

      GRIMSBY BEACH STEAMBOAT SERVICE The manager of the Canada Steamship Companies at Toronto and the the agent, Mr. Mark Allan at GRIMSBY Beach are very much disappointed over the limited amount of freight that has been shipped by the steamer Macassa the present season although a ...

      A stereoptican and magic lantern are similar to a slide projector.

      DEATH OF MRS J.H. FORD On Saturday, September 15th, a very esteemable lady, in the person of Mrs. J. H. Ford passed away at her home at GRIMSBY East, after being in poor health for several years, at the age of sixty-seven. The deceased lady was well known in this …