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      Marine excerpts from the Amherstburg Echo. Pages 44-45 missing.

      Microfilm reels stored in Local History Room at the Stirling-Rawdon Public Library.

      Content also includes some regional records (Elzevir, Frankford, Hastings, Hungerford, Huntingdon, Madoc, Marmora, Rawdon, Shannonville, Sidney, Stirling, Thurlow, Trenton and Tyendinaga)

      A Historical Sketch of the County of Carleton, a 1971 reprint of the H. Belden & Co 1879 Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Carleton (without the maps) with a new introduction by Courtney C. J. Bond, Head of the Canadian Section of the National Map Collection.

      Reminiscences by the author of the early settlement and history of Galt and Dumfries Township to 1879.

      Reprinted in 1972

      Contains a historical sketch of Perth County, townships, cities, towns and villages. Also contains a directory, biographical directory of subscribers, a historical gazetteer, and maps.

 unknown, The Intelligencer, 19 Jun 1879, p. 3     newspaper article

 unknown, The Intelligencer, 2 Jun 1879, p. 2     newspaper article from the Daily Ontario

 unknown, The Intelligencer, 2 Jun 1879, p. 3     newspaper article from Daily Intelligencer

      The New Schooner Leadville The dimensions of the new schooner Leadville, owned by M.J. Cummings and launched at Goble & Macfarlane's yards yesterday, are as follows: Length 142 feet 6 inches; beam 26 feet 3 inches; depth of hold in the shoalest place, 12 feet, and at ...

      A Deadly Fall. ____ A Sailor Plunges from the Cross Trees of the Schooner Bentley, Eighty-five Feet to the Deck - A Rotten Rope. _____ About 8 o'clock last evening, Andrew Skillin, of West Eighth street between Seneca and Schuyler, a sailor on the schooner J. ...

      The reference, of course, is to a set in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera "H.M.S. Pinafore," which was playing at the Detroit Opera House almost exactly one year after its debut in England. One can imagine the P&T's editor having his little joke at the expense of the marine …

      The Alanson Sumner at Halifax Acadian Recorder (Halifax) June 25: the American steam tug Alanson Sumner: arrived off the mouth of the harbor about midnight, or one o'clock this morning, and had to lay off three or four hours owing to the heavy fog which obscured the entrance. She ...

      THE GREAT DISASTER Further Particulars -- Eleven Lives Not Accounted For -- None Reported Saved Since Last Night -- The Pecuniary Loss $ 100,000 with No Insurance -- Statements of Survivors -- How the Lost Were Swept off and Drowned -- How the Survivors were Rescued -- A Story of …

      THE GREAT DISASTER Full list of the Lost and Saved -- The Property Loss Valued at About $ 40,000 -- No Insurance -- A Review of the Dreadful Calamity. ___________________________ There seems this morning to be very little to add to the very full and graphic story of ...

      THE GREAT DISASTER. The Company's Safe, Containing Valuable Papers, Wages of the Crews and Money Lost on the Gordon -- A Large Sum of Money and Valuable Papers on the Body of Mr. Arnoldt -- Reward for its Recovery -- The Fleet Warned at the Cape -- Mr. Hall Opposed …