THESE PHOTOS ARE FOR SALE, BUT . . . .

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• "Borden and Aunt Euphrona". Striking portraits of them both. Surely the unique combination of their names should identify the family.
• Josephine CAMPBELL, Sydenham, Ont. Photo taken in Oneida, N.Y.
• Ian Roland DARLING was born in Vancouver in 1961. I have a collection of photos, mostly of him and his mother, plus two letters, found in a flea market in Smiths Falls, Ontario. The letters imply an Ottawa connection, but I'm not sure what it is.
• Agnes DAVENPORT of Elgin. Good portrait, found in an antique store.
• GARLAND family group photo. Christmas, 1919. Location now known to be California, but family is originally from Eastons Corners. Connected surnames: Dixon, Goble, Johnston, Yuill.
• Child, "Master W. J. F. JAMES", Jan. 28th, 1896. Kemptville or Merrickville studio. This was the only Canadian photo in an album (purchased in Winchester, Ontario) containing other photos from Paris France, New York City, Auburn New York, York Pennsylvania, and Curacao West Indies. Hames or Homes and Johnston families are connected to the album.
• Daniel McCARTHY Married Marion Mahoney. Taken in Rochester, N.Y.
• Thomas & May McCARTHY Children of Daniel. Taken in Rochester, N.Y.
• Duncan and Fanny McLEOD Location missing.
• Possibly a McLEOD group photo Duncan above may be one of group. Edmonton Alberta?
• PLATT family photos. Letters with these photos place them in upstate New York. Connected surnames: Lints, Washburn, Waters.
• "Presented to Robert J. SAMPLE". Strong portrait of man wearing badge of Montague Corner Loyal Orange Lodge, Montague, Ont.
• Mr. & Mrs. George WOODMAN, Kingston, Ont. This photo fell out of a book I purchased at an antique store.
• Unknown group, Almonte photographer This group of 10 adults must have been gathered for a funeral as all the women are in black.
• WATSON family group photo, Smiths Falls photographer. This group of four women and a baby are identified as Watsons.

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THESE PHOTOS HAVE BEEN SOLD OR DONATED

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• Aladin Hotel, Mountain Grove, Ont. (Frontenac County) Undated group photo taken in front of the hotel. This photo has been given to the North Frontenac Historical Society. It was used as an illustration in Michael Dawber's book, Back of Sunset, a history of what is now Central Frontenac Township.
• A series of 11 photos and a postcard which seem to be related, as the handwriting on the back of four of them is similar. They were stuffed together into a folder found in an antique store. Surnames of person in photo and the location of the photographer are: Boyce (Moose Jaw, SK), Clark (Kingston), Collins (Trenton), Hamilton (Napanee).
• Three PATRY children, St. Placide, Quebec. Found in an antique store. I saw about 30 photos of this family in the store c. 1998, but the store is gone now (2009).

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THESE PHOTOS ARE NOT FOR SALE

• ASHBURY COLLEGE, OTTAWA, ONT. :

  • Group photo taken 1911. Included are the names written on the back of the photo. Two versions of the photo are shown -- size-as and very much enlarged of the students only -- plus a scan of the names written on the back. The names have been expanded through information received from an Ashbury College researcher. First names have been given to most of the boys and those who were killed in World War I are shown.
  • Probably Ashbury College. A group of about 60 men and boys of all ages, with the younger ones dressed for racing or other sport. Photo taken c.1900, in front of a building with a distinctive design on the doors. Can anyone identify the location for certain? Note the teacher holding a hand-gun! He is one of two teachers who are probably in the photo above which is definitely of Ashbury College.
  • Compare two of the teachers in the two photos above. I believe this proves that the second photo is of an Ashbury College class.
  • JACKSON Homestead at 212 Springfield Road, later sold to Ashbury College. Fifteen people are gathered on the verandah.
  • Enlargement of group on verandah in the photo above.
•   Aultsville before the flood. Four photos of Aultsville, one of Ontario's "lost villages" which were permanently flooded by the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1958. (Added January 7, 2009)
• Three photos related to the BABCOCK family of Frontenac County. Can anyone identify these people? Surnames are: Babcock and Rees.
• School Fair at Balderson, Ont., c. 1912. Two photos plus enlargements of the people in the crowd (none are identified). From the Perth Museum. Thanks to Donald C. McGregor for identifying the location of this fair at the farm of his grandfather, James C. McGregor of Balderson, Ont.
• Clayton Ont. School class photo, circa 1909. About 30 pupils and their teacher. Roy Reston Evans is the only one identified. I've more accurately dated the photo by using the 1901 census.
  • See an image of the students only, twice the size of the one above.
•   Collingwood, Ont., 1890's Students. This photo was taken by James Asa Castor who had a portrait studio in Collingwood. His son, Paul Mark Castor, is the only student identified here. Can you identify any of the others? (Added March 20, 2009)
• CORBETT - SHAW A group of photographs of people (all identified) who may or may not be related to the Corbett and/or Shaw families of Smiths Falls, Ont. Surnames include: Blackburn, Butler, Corbett, Drew, Paul, Perkins, Puffer, Quartz, Todvin, Vanexan.
•   Sea Rangers, Cornwall, circa 1961. Only one of the seven girls has been identified: Sandra Grant. (Added March 7, 2009)
• Dalhousie Lake, Lanark County. A postcard from the 1930's or 1940's. The image is of cottages with some swimmers on the beach.
• DOBIE & DOBBIE FAMILIES OF LANARK COUNTY :

  These are links to my genealogy website and to the LCGS website. Pages will be displayed in a new browser window.
  • Disjunction Certificate, John DOBIE & Mary BARBER Document written in Tortherwald, DFS, SCT., 1820. They first settled in Lanark County, Ont., then where did they go?
  • DOBIE-SMITH Bible This family first settled in Lanark County, Ontario, then moved on to Chesley, Bruce County, Ont. Surnames: Dobie, Elliot, Graham, Halliday, Holliday, Houston, Knox, Livingston, Mair, Mclellan, Newell, Smith, Tatlock, Walls. This link is to the Lanark County Genealogical Society website.
  • DOBBIE Families of Lanark County My research notes. Mostly taken from the Perth Courier.
  • Photo of Hannah DOBBIE of Lanark County, Ont., and her daughter Theressa McGonegal, circa 1930.
• DUNCAN Family Photo, c. 1905, Lanark. The family of Robert Arthur Duncan (1870-1945) and Mary Cullan Munro (1871-1941). They were originally from Dalhousie. Connected surnames are: Donaldson, Munro, Turnbull, Wright.
• Easton's Corners, 1930. Eight photos: three of Victor Norman Grimmett with a boy named Cecil, and three of Victor's brother Harry Vernon Grimmett. Another is of the Easton's Corners community band, and another a farm photo with a team of horses.
• ELPHIN, LANARK COUNTY, ONTARIO :

  • Elphin School class about 1910. Elphin is a small unincorporated village about 5 km west of McDonalds Corners, at the junction of County roads 36 and 12. See Elphin on Google Maps. This photo was found with a large collection of photos of Elphin area people, in the landfill at the McDonalds Corners municipal dump. (See the Izatt photo collection below). This school is just east of Elphin and is now a private home.
  • Enlargement of the above photo showing the students only. Five of the 20 students have been identified. Surnames are: Balfour, Duncan, Gordon, McIntyre. However, there must be one and probably two Izatt children there too.
  • Elphin School class about 1912 or 1913. Twenty-three students and their teacher. George Gordon is common to this photo and the one above.
  • George GORDON and Hilda BEATTY, 1926 wedding invitation and photo. The hand-written invitation is for the reception held at the Elphin Hall on Wed., Dec. 1st, 1926.
  • Downtown Elphin about 1900. Don't yet know the exact date, but the telegraph lines have been installed.
  • Same scene in 2006. I'll re-take this photo sometime when the leaves have fallen.
  • Elphin Public School students in 1920. Scan of a photo published in The Perth Courier about 2001. All 34 students and teacher are identified, however when you compare this photo with the circa 1910 photo above, you will see that several of the students appear in both, and there seems to be less than 10 years difference in their ages. Surnames are: Balfour, Brownlee, Buchan, Duncan, Dunlop, Geddes, Izatt, Lake, McDougall, Millar, Miller, Scott, Smith, Thompson, Weir.
  • Elphin Ontario, "Council No. 357, R. T. of T." medal. Seems to be 1880's to early 1900's. Possibly from a temperance society. Can you identify it?
• Gananoque area, C.S.E.T. camp group photo. All names needed. C.S.E.T. was similar to the Y.M.C.A. and provided healthy social outlets for young men and boys. This photo is by Prosser Studio, Gananoque, and is hand-dated 1929.
• See Wikipedia's explanation of the C.S.E.T. and TUXIS programs.
• Enlargement of the above photo showing the people only.
• Mostly unidentified photos from the GRIFFITH family. The family is descended from Thomas Griffith (b. 1814) and Margaret Lake / Leake who settled in the Beckwith area in 1822.
•   "Mrs. Inez", 57 King St. West, Kingston, Ont. Photo purchased at an auction near Inkerman, Ontario. (Added October 25, 2009)
• Students of an Innisville, Ontario school, 1898. This photo is part of the McCoy family photo collection, so it's a good bet there are McCoy children among the students.
• Iroquois Public School, Room 2, 1929 Class photo, 25 students with their teacher. Can you identify anyone?
• IZATT FAMILY PHOTOS -- ELPHIN ONTARIO & SOURIS MANITOBA :

  This photo collection is now in the Lanark County Archives.

  • 121 Photos, only a few identified. This collection of photographs was found in an old suitcase in the landfill at the McDonalds Corners municipal dump. Many of the photo locations are farms and other rural areas, and except in a couple of cases, not enough background is shown to identify their location. Some photos show town or city houses, and in one case, what seems to be a large city school. One photo almost certainly was taken in downtown McDonalds Corners, Ontario, and another is of a class at the Elphin school. I'll need your help to identify the others. Studio photos were taken in Perth and Brockville, Ontario, while others were taken in Manitoba at studios in Brandon and Winnipeg, and yet another is from "Irvine" with no state or province given. In addition, a photo booklet, "The Town Of Souris", was found with the photos. Only a few people are identified; they are: Lyle Keith Bulloch, Essie and Meda Caldwell (identified as being from Watsons Corners), Robert Carmichael, John Fletcher (photo taken in Irvine), Mrs. Allan Izatt, and Mary Rae Kellie. This collection presents a fascinating puzzle -- about the only thing that can be assumed is that the people shown here are connected in some way to the Izatt family.
    Click here to see the menu of photos.
  • IZATT notes and facts. Information gathered on this family since posting the photo collection above. The connection between these Izatts and two families in Souris and Reston Manitoba has now been made clear. Surnames so far are: Allen, Bulloch, Caldwell, Izatt, Millar, O'Connor, Pudd, Ranger.
  • See Elphin on Google Maps.
• Kemptville High School, "Thirds", 1897 Class photo, nobody identified.
• Possibly Kemptville High School checkers, card club Nobody identified.
•   Maple Grove before the flood. Maple Grove is one of Ontario's "lost villages" which were permanently flooded by the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1958. Photo is of the Maple Grove Villa. Their sign says "Uneeda-Rest". (Added January 7, 2009)
• MAXWELL & ROBERTSON FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS :

  • A collection of photos with descendant lists. The Maxwell and Robertson families arrived in Lanark County, Ontario, circa 1820, and had at least two marriages between them. One branch left Lanark County about 1880 and settled in Snowflake, Manitoba. Other family members spread throughout North America, and as far away as Mexico.
    If you click on a surname link above, a descendant list will be displayed with links to photos of specific people. Or you can see a menu of the photos arranged by family.
    I'm still working on this collection and will update it with more photos after some questions have been resolved.
    Many thanks to Craig Maxwell for the photos -- Craig, your email address no longer works -- and to for updated info on the two families.
  •   Letter from James and Margaret Robertson to Alexander Pringle. This letter was written from Lanark Ontario in 1845 to their nephew Alexander Pringle in Cobourg Ontario. (Added February 21, 2009)
• McCoy Family: Descendant list and photos. Alexander McCoy (b. 1791) and Mary Robinson (b. 1811) were both born in Ireland, and were married 13 Aug 1833 in Bastard Township, Leeds County, Ontario. Their children were born variously in Toronto and in Bastard Township. The information here is of the first three generations, many of whom settled in New York state, but others settled in Frontenac, Renfrew and Lanark Counties, Ontario.
• McDonald's Corners school with students in front, about 1880. There are about 75 students plus three adults, one of which is Mr. Purdon, a school trustee. This photo is now in the Lanark County Archives.
• MERRICK Family Bible Pages : Plomer Young Merrick and Julia Letitia MaGee, both of Merrickville. Plomer was a son of William Merrick and Julia Roche.
• Merrickville Men's Hockey team, 1903-1904. The players are identified as a group but not as individuals. Can you help? Surnames are: Angus, Cranstoun, Davis, Edwards, Kyle, Laycock, Merkley, Mills, Putnam, Watchorn.
• Monkland Ont.: family of Joe Lapierre & Matilada Derouchie. Photo taken near Monkland, Ont., Stormont County, circa 1914. Additional surname is Guindon.
•   Myrna Neil, age 20 months in 1942. Photo purchased in an auction near Inkerman, Ontario. (Added October 25, 2009)
• Ottawa : 15 photos from 1970. I took these photos of a small music performance in Vincent Massy Park, just off Riverside Drive on Heron Road, Ottawa. Look closely at the teenagers there because if you're under 30 you might see your parents! This is a link to a set of my photos on Flickr. Click on any of the small photos to see a larger version. Any info you might have would be most welcome.
• Perth : Autograph book, 1888 to 1897 The autographs and sentiments are directed to "Edith", who must have attended or even taught at the Perth Model School. She also had cousins and friends in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Surnames are: Armour, Barnett, Bower, Campbell, Clark, DeWitt, Douglas, Drysdale, Dunham, Forgie, Fumerton, Hammond, Jaques, MacDiarmid, McFarlane, McKinley, Motherwell, Murray, Pink, Ritchie, Scott, Silcoxson, Steele, Storey, Talbot, Taylor, Virtue, Wodden.
• Picnic at Playfairville, Ont. Large group of people, 1880's? Photo is from the Walter Cameron estate. Playfairville is at the junction of county roads 7 & 12 -- about a mile north of the village of Fallbrook, and eight or nine miles north-west of Perth, Ontario. Up to about 1900 Playfairville boasted several saw mills and even an iron mine. All that is left now (2008) is the church and three or four houses.
• PURDON FAMILY PHOTOS & HISTORIES :

  • Family of William PURDON & Elizabeth McDOUGALL, McDonald's Corners, Ont. (about 1880's?).
    Enlargement of the people in the above photo. Everyone is now identified and a short history of this Purdon family is included.
    Surnames: Clement, Dahlka, Lett, McDonald, McDougall, McIntyre, Proven, Purdon, Rathwell, Stewart, Teahan, Waite.
  • Family of Robert PURDON and his wives Betsy & Jane THOM, about 1890. Robert Purdon was an older brother of William Purdon, above. Born in 1836 in Dalhousie Twp., he died in 1910 in Wingham, Huron County, Ont. A short history and a descendant list is included.
    Surnames: Dawson, Henderson, Laidlaw, MacKay, Purdon, Stein, Taylor, Thom.
  • Jane (THOM) PURDON and family, taken after Robert's death.
  • An email from Janet Gosior says: " I published a book on the Purdon families of Dalhousie Twp. in 2000. There has been a demand lately for copies so I have just reprinted it. (Anyone interested) can email me at purdonhistory@canada.com.
    More info is available on the website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~purdon/ "
• Queen's University, 1934. My father went to Queens for one year but flunked out because of too much serious partying. Among about 100 photos in an album of that era, I found these two of his friends at school, with names marked on one of them. Surnames are: Bean, Burt, Coy, Dobie, Gooderham, Lee, McBane, McConnell, Parry, Paulin, Platt, Scott(?), Wilmott. The other photo is simply marked "Boardinghouse Gang, Queens, 1934". February 10, 2009: The complete album has now been posted.
•   Rev. A.G. Robertson and his sister Aggie. Studio photo, circa 1890's, taken in Perth, Ontario. They are not connected to the family in the Maxwell-Robertson photo collection (see the box above listed under Maxwell). This photo has now been re-united with a member of the family. (Updated December 9, 2008)
• Rosemont, Ont. Union School class, 1890's. Mono Twp., Dufferin County. Pictured are about 53 students plus five adults who presumably are teachers or school board members. Only one person is identified, and his surname is McNabb.
• Russell Ontario, circa 1926. Staff of the Russell Restaurant. Seventeen photos in all -- nine photos of the staff and eight of the family and/or friends of the owner in 1920's automobiles.
• Two STONE Families. The Charles F. Stone family of Perth, Ont. and the John Stone family, probably also of Perth. Charles Stone was at one time publisher of the Perth Expositor. There are two sets of photos here -- the first is a formal portrait, circa 1912-14, of the Charles Stone family, the rest are photos taken at the wedding of Etta Belle Stone to William Lawrence on 17 June, 1914. Members of both families are present in the wedding photographs, but it's not immediately clear how they were related.
• Smiths Falls or Brockville, Ont. Unidentified group, c.1940's-60's. Informal, outdoor photograph of 17 girls, 11 boys and an adult woman. Ages from about 10 to 13. Photographer is identified as "W. MacDonald, Smiths Falls". Possibly a church group?
• Tamworth, Ont. "C" Co., 146th O.S. Batt. Surnames include: Alton, Babcock, Barker, Bush, Campell, Charlton, Coxall, Cross, Day, Ekulbeck, Franklin, Furrs, Galbraith, Garrison, Hannah, Lambert, Lee, MacFarlane, McGill, Parks, Pennell, Pervus, Rogers, Salsbury, Samson, Smith, Stoddard, Switzer, Tompson, Wagar.
• Toronto, Ontario: Four Cyrillic gravestones seen in Toronto Necropolis & Crematorium. I originally assumed they were Russian, but have since been told that three are Macedonian and one is Bulgarian.
• Unknown school class, but almost certainly Lanark County. Probably Beckwith, Ramsay or Drummond Townships. Seems to be about 1890's. The children are well-dressed, so it may be a school in Carleton Place.
• Unknown school class. Probably Lanark County and most likely Lanark Village, Middleville or Hopetown. Looks like 1940's to 1950's. This shows the complete photo.
  • Enlargement of above photo showing the students only.
• Unknown school class. Unknown location. The wall behind the children is of stone and they are for the most part well dressed, so this is possibly a large town or a city school -- Kingston? Ottawa? Perth? Brockville?. A very fragile and fragmented photo.
• Two unknown classes, about 1920 It is the same school, as the outside entrance behind the students has the same brickwork. Two students are identified as "Bill" and "Hilda". And I'm guessing at the era -- can you identify even when the two photos were taken?
• Unknown Woman, 1930's or earlier. Possibly taken in McDonald's Corners, but most certainly somewhere in eastern Ontario, based on where it was found in a country auction.
• Wilstead S.S. No. 5 Undated class photo (c. 1936). Wilstead is just east of Gananoque, Ont.
  May 21, 2001 -- The children in this photo have all been identified.
  Click here to see the updated information on the Leeds & Grenville Genweb website.

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NORTHERN ONTARIO

• ATIKOKAN, STEEP ROCK IRON MINES & CALAND ORE, SAPAWE, ONTARIO : MOSTLY PHOTOGRAPHS

    Atikokan is in northwestern Ontario, about 200 km. west of Thunder Bay and 150 km east of Fort Frances. See Atikokan on Google Maps. Sapawe is a small village on the railroad about 10 miles east of Atikokan. We moved to Atikokan in January of 1953, when the town's reason for being was Steep Rock Iron Mines, which was operating the world's largest open pit iron mine, and Caland Ore, which was mining a separate part of the same pit. At its height in the 1960's, three mines produced millions of tons of iron ore annually. I was there until I left high school to join the Canadian Navy in the fall of 1960. The mines have long since closed but Atikokan struggles on, marketing itself as "The Canoeing Capital of Canada". I will be adding to this section regularly now that I'm starting to scan my old color slides and black & white negatives. Click here to see the menu. (Updated November 9, 2009)
• Beardmore, Ontario. From a postcard dated by the photographer May 9, 1940. Shows the main downtown area and some residents.
• Cobalt, Ont.? Gray family photos, 1930's. A collection of 12 photos, mostly of people. The only person identified is "Douglas Gray, 1 yr. June 12". Also a woman, possibly his mother, is "Maude". The photos were mailed to Mrs. J. E. Vanclief, Goward, Ont., in an envelope from Shaw's Drug Stores, Cobalt. The envelope is my only reason for claiming that these photos are from Cobalt. Your expertise would be greatly appreciated in placing the photos and identifying the people.
• Empire, Ontario : Northern Empire Mine, 1929. I think Empire was very close to Geraldton, but the mine and town no longer exist. This is a postcard dated December, 1929. My parents lived at the townsite in the late 1930's. See more photos in the items below.
•   Miners at Northern Empire Mine, 1936. Four men including my father. July 1936. This is a link to a page on my genealogy website. (Link added January 6, 2009)
•   Northern Empire Mine, 1939 & early 1940s. Nine photos: several of the mine buildings, one of the school & post office, one of gold bricks, etc. (Added January 6, 2009)
•   Fort William studio: photo of a World War I Captain. This man has now been identified as Captain John Clarence Milne, who was killed in action June 6, 1916. (Updated January 25, 2009)
• Downtown Geraldton Ontario, about 1935. Two photos from my parents' album showing some downtown stores with mud streets and partial wooden sidewalks. Shown are: C.M. Douglas, General Store; Geraldton Cafe; Geo. W. Matthews & Co. Stocks and Bonds; and Normandy Inn.
• Geraldton Hotel, Geraldton Ontario. From a postcard postmarked 1946.
• Geraldton area mining camp, about 1935. Five photos which seem to have been printed from the same roll of film as the Geraldton photos above.
• KEARNS & VIRGINIATOWN ONTARIO : MOSTLY PHOTOGRAPHS,
  and KIRKLAND LAKE ONTARIO HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOKS

    Kearns and Virginiatown are two small towns in north-eastern Ontario, situated almost on the Quebec border between Kirkland Lake Ont., and Rouyn Quebec. See Kearns & Virginiatown on Google Maps. We lived in Virginiatown from about 1943 to about 1947, then made the one-mile move to Kearns where we lived until January 1953. This is a steadily growing collection of photos contributed by website users. In fact, it is now the largest part of this website. Click here to see the menu. (Updated October 31, 2009)
•   Port Arthur Ontario, 1920s Photo Album. This is one of my father's photo albums showing his friends from early teenage years, c. 1922, to when he was a student at Queen's University, c. 1934. Surnames are: Andrews, Bonin, Burleigh, Burt, Callaghan, Cook, Coy, Cross, Dobie, Evans, Gooderham, Green or Greer, Lee, McBane, McConnell, McKay, Parry, Paulin, Platt, Scott, West, Wilmott, Zinc. This is a link to my genealogy website. (Link added February 10, 2009)
•   Sudbury Air Cadets 1955. Thanks to Gary Denny for this photo. These cadets were based in Sudbury, Ont., but at least a couple of them used to live in the Larder Lake - Virginiatown area. Most of the cadets are identified -- surnames so far are: Benhke; Bergeron; Bertrand; Blais; Bourne; Brazeau; Chalker; Chrapchynski; Denny; Gauthier; Grey; Irwin; Kelley; Kyre; MacIntosh; McCelland; McGillis; Mossy; Noble; Obonsawin; Quesnal; Shelswell; Shulman; Smith; Tones; Wattie; White. Can you identify any others? (Revised March 31, 2009)

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PHOTOS TAKEN IN CANADA BUT OUTSIDE OF ONTARIO

• Cassiar, BC. Want some asbestos? Here's some asbestos -- a whole mountain of it. My father worked there in the middle 1970's. This postcard was published by Cassiar Asbestos Corp. Ltd., so they weren't trying to keep this a secret.
• ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY :

  These two items have been moved to my ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY website which now has over 170 photos.

  • H.M.C.S. Ste Therese, ship's company photo, August 1961. A souvenir of my three years in the Royal Canadian Navy. The photo was taken when my ship was visiting San Francisco. Many men are identified but most are not.
  • H.M.C.S. Ste Therese, most of the weapons department, 1962/63. This was taken on the quarterdeck of the Ste. Therese, somewhere at sea. Can't place the time exactly but it must have been 1962 or the first half of 1963. Someone took the photo with my camera so I'm actually in it.
• TWO NEWFOUNDLAND GRAVEYARDS :

  • In Newfoundland you are never very far from the dead. Graveyards greet you at the entrance to every village, and memorials can be found on nearly every headland overlooking the sea. I noticed two major differences between graves in Newfoundland and those in Ontario -- many headstones with dates well into the 1970's are the thin, white (limestone?) tablets common a century ago, and which can be seen in any mainland "Pioneer" cemetery. The second thing I noticed was the terrible state of many of the cemeteries -- weed-choked with the stones twisted and tumbling at every angle. Many of the cemeteries are well-kept and neat, but the ruins seem to be a significant minority. These photos were taken in late September or early October, 2005.
  • Keels, Anglican Cemetery. Keels has to be one of the most remote and starkly beautiful villages I've ever seen. Our guidebook said that the earliest graves in this cemetery are dated from the late 1700's.
  • Kings Cove Cemetery. A few kilometers down the road from Keels is the larger village of Kings Cove. It boasts at least two churches and a beautiful harbour. This graveyard, probably the Anglican, is larger and if possible, even more bedraggled than the one in Keels.
•   St. Lambert, Quebec, Bell Telephone workers. Three photos which seem to have been taken in the 1950's. The person who sent them to me says he found them in a book. Updated to add a modern view of the street where one of the photos was taken. The other two were taken at the old Waterman Pen factory. (Updated October 25, 2009)

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PHOTOS TAKEN OUTSIDE OF CANADA OR IN UNKNOWN LOCATIONS

• MINNESOTA, U.S.A. :

  • My grandmother's family (Long) had lived in Princeton, Minnesota since the late 1860's or so. Her father, Solomon Long, ran a shoe store there. After she married my grandfather (Karl (Charles) Ludvig Carlson) in 1905, she lived with him in various small towns in North Dakota, as well as in Kensignton, Minnesota (see the photos in the section below). They and their three children moved back to Princeton in 1922. These are only a few of a large collection of Princeton Minnesota photos I inherited from my mother.
  •   Old Schoolhouse in Princeton, 1880s? This is identified as my grandmother's (Anna Long) school in Princeton. She was born in 1879, but I can't date the photo because I don't know which student is her. This large group consists of all ages from very young children to teenagers and teachers. Can you help to identify people? (Added January 1, 2009)
  •   Three Princeton gals, about 1900. Anna Long, Orpha Saxon and Blanche Byers. (Added January 4, 2009)
  •   Princeton Minnesota graduating class of 1925. Group portraits of the graduating class from Princeton High School. (Added December 27, 2008)
  •   Princeton High School Class, 1927 to 1930.This is my aunt Cathryn Carlson's high school class. She graduated in 1930, but many of the kids look too young to be graduating. This may be her freshman class, which would make the year about 1927. Can you help to identify people? (Added January 1, 2009)
  •   Princeton High School, The Tiger, 1930 Yearbook. Scans of all but the advertising pages of The Tiger, with transcription of all names. This copy belonged to my aunt Cathryn Carlson and it is full of hand-written inscriptions from many of her friends and teachers. (Added March 7, 2009)
• NORTH DAKOTA, U.S.A. :

  • My mother's family (Carlson) lived in various small towns in North Dakota and Minnesota between 1905 and the 1930's. My grandfather was a miller and later a mill manager so the family moved often. Keeping track of where they lived at different times is difficult and identifying the locations of a large number of photographs is almost impossible. Here are a very few which show outdoor locations. Can you identify where they are? The Carlsons homesteaded near Tolley (see the two "claim shack" photos below) soon after 1905, but eventually moved into Kenmare where my mother was born in 1908. They also lived in Kensington, Minnesota and Crosby, North Dakota at different times, and moved to Princeton, Minnesota in 1922 (see the photos in the section above).
  •   Eight photos probably taken in Crosby, ND. One photo is dated April 1, 1917. Most of the photos show people outside with buildings in the background. It is possible one photo was taken in Princeton, Minnesota. (Added January 1, 2009)
  •   Crosby, ND, about 1918, 33 photos. A small album about half full of photos, mostly of the Carlson and Hanmer children. (Added February 27, 2009)
  •   Unknown group of people, prairie setting. The people in this group seem to be related to either the Carlson or Long families. I can see family resemblances in at least two of them but my mother had no idea who they were. This is a link to one of my genealogy website pages. (Link added January 1, 2009)
  • Sanish, North Dakota, cattle roundup, about 1934. Six photos from my mother's album. She taught school in Sanish for a year or so. The town has now been obliterated because of the building of the Garrison Dam.
  •   "Claim shacks" near Tolley, ND, about 1907. My grandparents homesteaded near Tolley, ND soon after they were married in 1905. They lived in a "claim shack" and my grandmother's good friend Blanche (Byers) Stark lived in her own shack about 100 yards away. Two photos. (Added January 1, 2009)
• Vernon St. Grade 7, 1907. Where is Vernon Street? This shows the complete photo.
  • Enlargement of the above photo showing the students only.
• Wilmington, Delaware : KOLLER family photos. These nine snapshots were found in a photo album belonging to my aunt, Dorothy (Dobie) Fraser. Photos are dated between 1925 and 1932, plus one undated group photo of the same family taken a few years later. My aunt may have known a Koller while attending the University of Toronto.
• Unknown group of people. Possibly in England? This group looks about to break into a Monty Python routine.

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FAMILY BIBLES

• Bible of William and Elizabeth ANDERSON, who were married in Bytown, Canada West, on March 19, 1844. Most of their children were born in Kemptville, C.W. Surnames mentioned: Anderson, Bevitt (minister only), Bower, MacLennan, and Stawage (minister only).
• Bible of George HAY & Mabel Rebecca MacGREGOR, who were married 2nd September, 1908 in Riverfield, Quebec. Surnames are: Bishop, Carson, Coombs, Crawford, Forbes, Gruer, Halliday, Hay, Kellock (minister only), Kerr, MacGregor, McGregor, McLeod, Morgan, Murphy, Perkins, Rennie, Sowler, Wilcox. This Bible was found in the Smiths Falls Flea Market, Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada, in August, 2003, and returned to the dealer who kindly let me transcribe the names.
• Bible of Howard PRICE & Eva Lillian HANES, who were married June 9th, 1915 in Winchester, Ontario. The last entry is 1982. Surnames are: Hanes, McLeod (minister only), Price, Scott, Wanke.
•   Bible of Thomas STONE & Mary Jane HUNTER, who were married June 4, 1872 and lived in Port Elmsley, Lanark County, Ontario. Surnames are: Hunter, Stone. (Added November 19, 2009)

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DOCUMENTS, LISTS, ETC.

LANARK COUNTY, ONTARIO :

• See other Lanark County directories & voters' lists on the LCGS website.
• Carleton Place : St. James Anglican Church, 1945 Annual Report. The list of contributors is transcribed and you can see page images of the complete booklet.
• Elphin, Snow Road & McDonald's Corners, 1919 Church Reports. With the name and contribution amount of each member. You can see page images of the complete booklet.
• Kitley Township, Leeds County, 1953 Voters' List. Complete transcription of 32-page printed booklet.
• LANARK COUNTY ONTARIO :
  1918 DIRECTORY OF RURAL PROPERTY OWNERS

  • These lists contain 3381 names from the 1918 "Guidal Directory Of Lanark County," scanned from photocopies of the originals in the Perth Museum. Please note that this is not a complete directory -- North Sherbrooke and Lavant Townships are missing. And although many people are indicated as living in various towns, there are no lists for owners of property within Perth, Carleton Place, Smiths Falls, etc.
    • Bathurst Township. 449 names.
    • Beckwith Township. 290 names.
    • North & South Burgess Townships. 188 names.
    • Dalhousie Township. 206 names.
    • Darling Township. 123 names.
    • Drummond Township. 450 names.
    • North & South Elmsley Townships. 324 names.
      (South Elmsley Twp. is in Leeds County).
    • Lanark Township. 287 names.
    • Montague Township. 365 names.
    • Pakenham Township. 253 names.
    • Ramsay Township. 312 names.
    • South Sherbrooke Township. 134 names.
• Napanee : Selections from the Napanee Standard of August 26, 1887. Local news, one marriage and several deaths. Three out of the four pages are devoted to US and international news, so I've not transcribed those.
• Napanee : Selections from the Napanee Beaver of May 15, 1896. News, births, deaths, social notes, gossip, and outright lies. As well as local news from Napanee, there are short gossip/news columns from: Beaver Lake, Centreville, Colebrook, Croydon, Deseronto, Desmond, Enterprise, Erinsville, Fredericksburgh, Hawley, Ingle, Lime Lake, Millhaven, Morven, Orchard Hill, Plevna, Tamworth East, Violet, and Wilton.
• North Elmsley Twp., 1915 Voters' List. About 300 names, even though two pages of the original list are missing.
• North Elmsley Twp., 1945 Voters' Lists. Three voters lists -- Polling Divisions No. 45 & 46 only, both Federal and Provincial, from the area around Port Elmsley.
• McFARLANE FAMILY : 1821 JOURNAL & 1829 LETTER

  • These two documents are in the collection of the Metro Toronto Reference Library, and can be found in the Baldwin Room, indexed under "Lanark County" and "McFarlane, John." Both documents were microfilmed in 1941, but the film is unreadable, being almost completely black. Luckily, the original documents had been photocopied, and the library staff were able to copy the original photocopies for me. Both journal and letter are extremely fragile. I transcribed the two documents several years ago for the Lanark County Genealogy Society website, but their website ran out of storage space so they weren't used. I discovered the files on an old backup CD, so there they are.
  • The Journal of John McFARLANE, 1821. Sailing from Geenock on May 19, 1821, this family endured many hardships by the time they started clearing their land near Lanark Village in August.
  •   Letter from John McFARLANE Sr. to his son John, 1829. His son John being the writer of the journal above. John Sr. was left behind in Scotland and has mostly woeful news for his son. (Revised November 24, 2009)
• Perth, Ontario 1898-1899 Directory. Originally published by the Perth Expositor. All of the individuals' names and the commerical listings are included as well as names of school students and teachers, etc. Not only does this directory tell you where everyone lived but also where they worked.
• Smiths Falls, Ontario, 1929 St. John's Church Annual Report. Contains the published list of subscribers, WWI Honour Roll, and names of church officials. You can see page images of the complete booklet.
• See other Lanark County directories & voters' lists on the LCGS website.

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OUTSIDE OF LANARK COUNTY :

• Alberta College, Edmonton, 1946-47 Calendar. About 300 names of students who received prizes and diplomas.
• Three Dr. Barnardo's Homes postcards. c. 1918. They are from England, but about 30,000 Barnardo children were sent to Canada after 1870.
• McGIll University, Montreal : The Class of 1936. Names and addresses of the class of 1936. This includes Phil Edwards who at that time was Canada's most decorated Olympic athlete.
• Names from the University of Manitoba 1918-1919 yearbook. About 300 names: those killed in action, those awarded medals, those from the class of 1919 who were on active service, and the names, photos and biographies of the graduating class.
• Ottawa Journal, Wed. Nov. 3, 1965, Births & Deaths. These birth and death notices, along with those from the Globe & Mail below, were found under our kitchen linoleum during renovations.
• Ottawa Journal, Fri. Nov. 5, 1965, Births & Deaths.
• Memorials of Sanquhar Kirkyard, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. About 850 graves are listed along with short histories of many of the families. All of the photos have now been added as the first step in transcribing the complete text of this book.
• The Descendants of WILLIAM REID and MARGARET JANE RAFTER :

  • I found the above-titled book in an Ottawa bookstore several years ago. When I got around to looking at it recently I found a Certificate of Baptism and a colour photo stuck inside. The certificate is self-explanatory, but the photograph needs you to help with identification. Please see below.
  • Baptismal Certificate of Margaret Jean Stuart. Daughter of Horace Stuart and Sarah Reid, born June 7th, 1923, in Yorkton SK, baptised 23 December, 1923.
  • Class photo of 37 boys, all about eight years of age. They are well-dressed, some with school jackets, and I'm speculating it was taken at a private school, but Upper Canada College and Ashbury College have been ruled out through email enquiries. Must be 1980's or 1990's.
• Toronto Globe & Mail, Mon. Nov. 1, 1965, Births & Deaths.

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