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      Letter from Mrs Garnet Kenny re family tree.

      Letter to Ford W. Moynes thanking him for his comments about the Conklin organization in a recent column.

      This is volume 2 of this collection. Volume 1 includes a newspaper clippings and photographs of members of 420 Wing. The cover page to Volume 1 indicates that there are 3 volumes, but the library only received 2.

      George Chalmers was a Lowland Scot who, after emigrating to the Township of Trafalgar, started as a general merchant at Munn's Corners about 1820. He began to buy up land along the Sixteen where it crosses Dundas Street in 1816. There he built a saw mill. Chalmers lived in a …

      LETTER FROM JOE TANGNEY TO FORD MOYNES, M.E. TANGNEY

      (1) To Mrs. James Deagle We on behalf of the members and friends of the congregation of St. Paul's Church Middleport Ont Take much pleasure in calling upon you in view of your intended departure from this neighborhood to express our goodwill and wishes towards you, your personal and social …

     

      File Number: Postcards/Book21.pg40.2.1-8 Art Goring served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during WWI and saw action in France. This postcard is part of a collection of correspondence belonging to Cora Goring, who lived in Homer, Ont. and St. Catharines, Ont.

      2 page letter, handwritten on Caledonia Agricultural Society letterhead

      2 pages - a typed letter and page from the Book of Remembrance

      File Number: Postcards/Book21.pg41.1-3 Art Goring served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during WWI and saw action in France. This postcard is part of a collection of correspondence belonging to Cora Goring, who lived in Homer, Ont. and St. Catharines, Ont.

      John Delves, of Barrie, a graduate of the Ontario College of Art, is a professor of visual arts at Georgian College. His work reflects his search for directions and images, based upon dreams, symbols and visual language.

      Donated by Lt. Col. Roy C. Phelps. This painting was previously hung in the First United Church in St. Catharines after being donated by Mrs. John S Campbell, great-grandaughter of Abagail St. John Phelps.

      A portrait of Jediah Prendergast who was the first non-military doctor in the Thorold/St. Catharines area. He was also the father-in-law of William Hamilton Merritt, builder of the First Welland Canal. This unframed oil painting is 29 3/4 inches in height, 25 inches in length, and 1 inch in width. …

      This portrait is of Penelope Chase Prendergast, a woman of a prominant family in the St.Catharines and Thorold area. Her husband was Dr. Jediah Prendergast, the first non-military doctor in the St. Catharines and Thorold area. She was also the mother-in-law of William Hamilton Merritt. The unframed, oil painting is …

      An oil on canvas painting. Before dawn on October 13, 1812, the New York State Militia launched an invasion across the treacherous currents of the Niagara River at Queenston. The leader of the British forces, Sir Isaac Brock, was killed in the early stages of the battle. American advances were …

      This is one of seven oil on canvas paintings by Birch that depicts the Battle of Lake Erie (September 1813). This particular canvas shows Commodore Perry's flagship, the Lawrence, opposing the Detriot, the flagship of Commander Barclay, at the commencement of the battle. Nearby are the Caledonia opposing the Hunter, …

      This is one of seven oil on canvas paintings by Birch that depicts the Battle of Lake Erie (September 1813). This particular canvas shows the second phase of the battle, with the line broken, the Lawrence and Detroit engaged at close quarters. Undated.

      This is one of seven oil on canvas paintings by Birch that depicts the Battle of Lake Erie (September 1813). This particular canvas portrays a phase of the Battle of Lake Erie in which the Hunter is shown, almost a wreck. Undated.

      This is one of seven oil on canvas paintings by Birch that depicts the Battle of Lake Erie (September 1813). This particular canvas shows a further phase of the battle after Perry had transferred from the Wrecked Lawrence to the Niagara. Undated.