These items are copies of the exhibit catalogue for The Birdsall Collection of Bookbinders' Finishing Tools by Emrys Evans and Rachel Grover of the University of Toronto, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1972. One copy is signed by the authors.
Birdsall Collection of Bookbinders' Finishing Tools / Emrys Evans & Rachel GroverFonds is comprised of 22 diaries authored by Richard Everett Birdsall (1837-1877), son of surveyor Richard Birdsall (1799-1852); Charlotte (“Lot”) Birdsall (1837-1933), [wife of Richard Everett Birdsall]; Francis (Frank) Birdsall (1838-1914), son of surveyor Richard Birdsall (1799-1852); and Richard (“Dick”) Everett Birdsall II ([1860]-1945), [only son of Frank Birdsall]. Also included is family correspondence (photocopies, originals, and transcriptions) dated 1819-1856; these items include original correspondence and militia lists related to the 1837-1838 Rebellion. The fonds also includes loose items from the diaries and two copies of attestation forms for the Seventh Provisional Battalion of Militia of Upper Canada.
Birdsall familyFile includes letters and other documents relating to problems regarding men employed at Crooks' Rapids, setting up mill 1844; damage claims by Jas. Crooks re mill at Crooks' Rapids on the River Trent, mention of grant of land given to Crooks by Birdsall to build the mill 1850; Birdsall instructing sons to improve their studies 1850. Correspondents include Birdsall's sons, James Crooks, and Thomas A. Bigly
File consists of Prof. John Wadland’s subject file on Sandra Birdsell. Includes a newspaper clipping on the biography of Sandra Birdsell.
The fonds consists of a Lay Reader's Licence issued to a Mr. Russell Jack by Bishop Edward Cridge in St. John, New Brunswick, 1876.
Cridge, Bishop EdwardFile includes the following items:
- 1-43: Black and white postcards of Stoney Lake and surrounding waterways (includes many shots of McCracken's Landing)
- 44: Colour photograph of the locks at Youngs Point
- 45: Colour photograph of the Peterborough Lift Lock
- 46: Map of Trent Navigation and Murray Canal
- 47: Postcard of Indian River
- 48: Postcard of Channel Glenwood
- 49: Postcard of Gil-Crest Park
- 50: Postcard of Bowness Park
- 50a: Card of Peaceful creek at Bowness Park