Collection 75-1032 - Port Hope letters, papers and documents collection

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Port Hope letters, papers and documents collection

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    Trent University Archives

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    75-1032

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    • 1821-1928 (Creation)

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    1 folder of textual records
    2 photographs

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    Custodial history

    This fonds was in the custody of B.K. Van Buren before it was donated to the Trent University Archives.

    Scope and content

    This fonds is similar to Port Hope miscellanea fonds with correspondence, bills, receipts, promissory notes, area railways and transportation, political advertisements, Ontario Lacrosse Association Certificate, one letter of Clifford Sifton, military material, summons, writs, some Thomas Benson correspondence, municipal records, records relating to Vincent Massey, and records relating to Frederick Thompson.

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    The fonds was donated by B.K. Van Buren of Port Hope, Ontario.

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        For related records see: 75-1031 and 75-1027.

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        1. Programme - Methodist church, Port Hope - Cobourg District Sunday School Convention, 1915

        2. Funeral notice - Albert Ernest, 1871

        3. Sermon - "In His Presence."

        4. Poem - "Lines on the death of W. M. M'camus

        5. Quarterly tickets (18) - 1857, 1860's, 1890

        6. Invitation - Celebrate Dominion Day, 1945

        7. Pamphlet - Board of Agriculture meetings, 1921

        8. Programme/menu - Dinner to the :Plenipotentiary to the United States form Canada

        9. Telegraph messages (2) - 1856, 1871

        10. Correspondences (5) 1815, 1854,1857,1856, ?

        11. Correspondences (3) - From the bursar's Office of the University and Collages at Toronto, 1838, 1854, 1860

        12. Correspondence from The National Services Board of Canada, 1915

        13. Correspondence from The Smart & Smith Barristers and Attorneys-at-Law

        14. Poster - "Message to the Electors of the West Riding of Northumberland."

        15. Miscellaneous - envelope addressed to Lt. Colonel Benson

        16. Summons to Appear (4) - 1855, 1856(3)

        17. Writ of Summons

        18. Notice of Appearance, 1860

        19. Summons of Witness, 1856

        20. Notice of Trial, 1859

        21. Notice to Admit, 1859

        22. Writ of Capias

        23. Miscellaneous - judicial documents

        24. Correspondence (19) - transactions - 1812, 1817, 1854, 1856,1862, 1866, 1867 (2), 1869 (3), 1870, 1881, 1886, 1888, 1911 (2), 1913

        25. Indenture of Bargain and Sale - loan transaction Document, 1862

        26. Receipts (13) - 1849, 1854, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1860, 1863, 1873 (2), 1876, 1879, 1911

        27. Shares of stock (2)

          • The Hope Consolidated Road Company, 1853
          • The Peterborough and Monaghan Road Company, 1851

        28. Taxation receipts (7)

        29. Cheques (10)

        30. Tennis Club Membership Card, 1943

        31. Port Hope Lindsay & Beaverton Railway Schedule, 1857

        32. Report Card - Port Hope United Grammar & Common Schools

        33. Certificate of Military Instruction (2)1894,1896

        34. Marriage Certificate, 1864

        35. Canadian Lacrosse Association Playing Certificate

        36. Miscellaneous Certificates (2)

        37. Hotel Keeper's License, 1859

        38. A person's notes - "Professor Watson Kichconnell on the history of Victoria country."

        39. Newspapers
          1) "Facts for the Irish Electors!"
          2) The Presbyterian p.51-2, 1906
          3) The Weekly Magnet (advertisement)
          4) Upper Canada Gazette - facsimile of front page - Volume 1, Number 1, April 18, 1793

        40. Photographs
          1) Description - black and white, three young cadets and one young girl in foreground, one young person and white tents in the background
          2) Description - photo of a drawing - the Port Hope Brewing Co. Limited

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