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The loose documents, primarily marriage lists except for one baptism list, date from 1831 to 1851. These are indexed with information taken from the Walker-Molotkow Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West vol.7, parts 1 and 2, Newcastle District available only in our reading room. These published indexes were prepared from the registers of marriages in the Ontario Archives. The documents we have at Trent are the original returns prepared by the clergy.

File consists of marriage records numbered 1 to 99.

The following folder includes

MEECH LAKE:

• Please see Newsclippings, Edition 90-25.1 for
  special coverage of Meech Lake.
  EDUCATION:
• Sod-turning for new school
• Juggling the budget to keep promises
• Students would rather go to jail than pay fine for trespassing
• Fines paid
• Increasing Native literacy
• High school gang fights threaten the education of some Native students
  POLICING, JUSTICE:
• Braids now allowed for native officers
• Police, natives try to close the gap
• Controversy grows over police braids
• Number of arrest rise after youth program cut
• Aborigines caught in cycle of despair
  AKWESASNE:
• It's not over bingo
• Police occupation of Akwesasne Mohawk territory
  THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH:
• Temagami wilderness agreement unsatisfactory to many
• Safe water
• Water ban lifted
• Indians want to handle health
  EDITORIALS, LETTERS:
• A legitimate use of crime statistics
• Native self-policing
• The curse of civilization
• No objectivity in low-level assessment
• I am a Canadian
  HISTORY, ARTS AND CULTURE:
• Indian chief on wheels
• The lost tribe of Georgian Bay
• Indian village excavated on path of 403 extension
• Ancestral remains uncovered in southern Ontario
• Government rejects protests over purchase of native artifacts
• Kids enjoy Indian lore at day camp
• From igloo to art gallery
• Carving or sculpture?
• Native rights and universal images
• Indian Country paints picture of the dreams, hopes of natives
• Indian athletes shine in history
• Thunder Bay no longer rough but always ready for fun
• Inuit hunters harvest polar bears for cash
• Native grads keep occasion all in the family
• Commons Debates - Literacy
• N.W.T. will try to teach tolerance
• Native students succeed at Daniel Mac
• Unity sealed
• Are you Native and graduating from high school?
  HEALTH:
• Battle against killer AIDS supported by Atlantic chiefs
• Micmacs coming to grips with AIDS
• AIDS: Breaking the silence
• A Deadly Fear: AIDS
• Native nurses tackle tricky family abuse issues
  ARTS AND CULTURE:
• Veterans observe Decoration Day
• Wet Bread and Cheese weekend
• Elder holds key to studying site
• Elder shares his knowledge of sacred belts
  • Biggest swindle in history of Canada
• Altering our notions of the Indian
• History, heroes, horses on Brantford getaway
• Cree artist outlived reputation as a dangerous man
• Hard and Soft
• Ontario Arts Council First Nations Grants
• Grey Owl from the shadows
• Professional troupe dedicated to natives
  COUNCIL FOR CHANGE, PS 2000:
• Racism to be probed in Indian Affairs
• Public Service 2000
• PS 2000 more than PR exercise
• "Downsized" public service still growing
• Red Tape: Rules and rigidity choke public services
• Sex, lies, and black-market Bach
  EDITORIALS:
• Sleazy strategies
• Court cautions on aboriginal rights
• We must teach youth the history of bigotry
• Natives give own views on what's needed to get Indian self-government
• The Hill's class of '88
• Let the managers manage
• Employment equity - nice name for discrimination
  UPCOMING EVENTS:
• Res '90: Economic Development Conference
• Books about Young Offenders
  Government:
• Kettle Point chief won't seek re-election
• CESO steps up promotion of Band Support Services
• Ojibway chief urges prudence in inheriting federal programs
  Business, Education:
• Native business centre tackles financing problems
• "Find your niche," says Diamond
• Job market holds promise for grads
• Are you Native and Graduating from High School?
• Native program may disappear
• College introducing variety of new programs
  Culture:
• Native languages "not just words, they're everything we are" - Blondin
• Federal cuts are killing native voice
• Aroland chief says "warfare" possible over aboriginal hunting rights
• From one chief ... to another
• The ascent of early New World man
• Hopi elder spins prophecies of earth's damage
  Arts:
• Indian sculptor practises aret of the "cosmic giggle"
• Theatre for the far North
• Yorkville native arts centre features fun, funky fashions
• Drummers, dancers part of festival
• Native foods focus on natural
  Editorials, letters:
• Independence would settle Akwesasne woes
• Building new longhouses
• Indian money always goes to wrong Indians
• Natives must forgive the white Canadians
• Respect cultures, languages of those who were here first
• Thanks for series on native peoples
• Where were stories on native MPs?
  EDITORIALS, LETTERS:
• Indians deserve self-government
• Who has the right and power to govern?
• Memories for Mother's Day
• Low-level flight noise a red herring
• Fete of clay?
• Natives manipulated

Octavo (22.7 cm x 14.6 cm), pp. vii, 63. Original grey wrappers, title-page reproduced in frame to upper cover, sewn binding. Lightly soiled around the edges, small chip from upper outer corner, else near fine copy. [2084]

This item is a copy and translation of a letter from Louis Riel in the prison at Regina to Dr. Romuald Fiset, thanking Fiset and the committee for Riel's defence, for what they were doing for him and outlining his activities since his return from the United States so that his attorneys (Lemieux and Fitzpatrick) might have his side of the story. In the letter, Riel also voices his desire that his trial be held in Lower Canada.