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      This spade had been given to the Ontario Archives via Edwin C. Guillet by Alexander Black of Toronto to whom it came from the Mackechnies. It was later transferred to Trent University, Peterborough

      From "View of Cobourg, C.W." facsimile p.viii, Angle American magazine vol II Jan-June 1853

      Yeoman Gibson was born at Ebberston, Yorkshire, UK on 31 March 1828. He came to Canada in 1847 and started a business as a clerk and bookkeeper in Whitby. He was also a partner in a grocery business with William Laing and Robert Yarnold until 1864. Gibson later opened an …

      Belinda Gibson (nee Hyfield) was born on 6 May 1828. She married Yeoman Gibson on 9 January 1851. The Gibsons were members of the Methodist CHurch in Whitby and in 1854 they gave the church a silver communion set which was in use for more than 100 years. Gibson and …

      William Gibson was the first son of Yeoman and Belinda Gibson. He was born at Whitby on 29 August 1852. Like his father, Gibson opened a grocery with a Mr. Sparvell at 102 Dundas St. W. in 1873. When their partnership dissolved, Mr. Gibson ran an establishment called the Whitby …

      Located right next to the Salt Springs Church on the Grand River, the Salt Springs Cemetery has been in operation since 1822. The cemetery is still active under the management of the Salt Springs Cemetery Board of Trustees. There is a plaque on the property that tells the history of …

      A woodcut engraving of an artist's reconstruction of the burning of the steamboat OCEAN WAVE for the New York Illustrated News of May 21, 1853. In the distance to the bow and stern are the schooners GEORGIANA and EMBLEM.

      Map 5 from "Maps, Reports, Estimates, &c., Relative to Improvements of the Navigation of the River St. Lawrence; and a Proposed Canal Connecting the River St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain"

      The W. A. Knapp was one of the earliest steamboats on Lake Winnebago and the nearby lakes and rivers. At one time she was owned by Neff & Co. as one of seven freight & passenger steamers on the Fox & Wolf rivers, and Lake Winnebago. When river business slackened …

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      People driving sleighs across the ice, drawn by single horses or pairs, several dogs acompanying them, other figures skating, ships docked in the ice along the shore lined by houses, which curves outwards to the left; after Downman. 1853 Chromolithograph

      From Franklin B. Hough, A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Albany: Little & Co., 1853) after page 560.

      Birdseye view of Buffalo in 1853 featuring Buffalo Creek and a series of vessels lining its banks. The Niagara River forms the left boundary of the image with the Erie Canal alongside it.

     

      STEAMER "MISSISSIPPI."--This once popular and magnificent vessel, of 1830 tons, was built at Buffalo in 1853, and ran for many years between Buffalo and Detroit, in connection with the Michigan Central Railway for Chicago.

 Gleason's Pictorial Companion, 8 Oct 1853, p. 240     TORONTO BOAT CLUB FLEET COMING INTO HARBOUR We have been favored by a marine artist from Toronto, in the neighboring provinces, with a representation of a few of the boats of the Toronto Club coming into the harbor from a cruise on the lake. They are passing the Queen's Wharf, …

      This 1853 deed transfers ownership of Lot 7, East side of Dumfries and Lot 7, West side of Burwell, and the site of the old Town Hall from James Fisher and his wife Frances to his brother Robert. James and Robert had bought this land in 1845 from Hiram Capron; …

      This document, written by County of Brant registrar T.S. Shenston, certifies that no conveyance of any type has been filed on the two lots he outlines in the title, Lot 7 East of Burwell and Lot 7 East Side Dumfries.

      This draft telegram from Hiram Capron to a friend announces the death of his wife the month before, and the circumstances of her death. This telegram is referenced on page 35 of At the Forks of the Grand, Volume I.

      This is the certificate granting land to William Douglas of the Township of Onondaga issued on September 7, 1853 by the Province of Canada. The original document was provided by John M. Douglas during a Scan & Share Day event held at the Onondaga Hall on January 14, 2012.