File includes records relating to the assessment for taxes on particular properties, appeals, arrears, foreclosures, estates, mortgages (1938-1960). Also includes two original land grants on parchment (1824, 1834), an Omemee Residential Suggested Assessment; plan of Omemee and surrounding area; and H.J. Lytle, Rate Tables for Preparing Collector's Rolls, Lindsay, Ontario, Newton Brothers, Warden Steam Printing House (1889).
Item consists of a bound volume of both published and handwritten pages. The published title page reads as follows: "Practical points, or, maxims in conveyancing, drawn from the daily experience of a very extensive practice, by a late eminent conveyancer, Mr. Bradley, to which are added, critical observations on the various and essential parts of a deed. By the Late J. Ritson, Esq, second edition, corrected, London, 1820." Several published pages are interspersed throughout the hand-written pages and are bound together with them. The name Chas. Avery Moore (May 1824) appears a few times near the beginning of the volume, as does the name W.H.I. Vizard. The hand-written pages are an excellent example of exemplary penmanship.
Series consists of files on various projects and research conducted by the Trail Studies Unit. Files include work and projects on the Northumberland Forest, rail trails, trail mapping, university and college trails, and Ontario provincial government grant funded research projects. Series also includes 41 photographs of the Northumberland Forest trails.
Series documents Peter Gzowski's research activities between 1960-2001. Records consist of research material, correspondence, published and unpublished writing, and Peter Gzowski's handwritten notes. Included are records relating to Gzowski's research on Stephen Leacock (1995), correspondence and a proof for Gzowski's chapter on the art of W.O. Mitchell (1997), notes for the Sixth Morningside Papers book (1996-1997), and undated drafts and notes of Gzowski's memoir. Series also contains Gzowski's proposal for "Little Book of Canada" (1984), "This Country" book reviews (1974-1975), and correspondence, notes, and research related to Gzowski and Co. (1985-1986), especially correspondence from Glenn Sarty, the show's executive producer.