| F0435 - Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection |
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(1) | Summons to Moses Holt to give evidence. -- File consists of a handwritten subpoena prepared by John Reid, Clerk of the Peace, to Moses Holt of William Henry to appear at the Court of Quarter Session to give evidence as a witness against Louis Ethier upon an indictment for petty larceny. -- Related documents can be found in the Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection, 2003-060/001(06) and (08). | 21 April 1797 | |
| (2) | Letter from Hannah Mendell to Lydia Howard | 4 March 1809 | ||
| (3) | Bribery oath. -- File consists of a printed text used to have a voters swear (in the case of Quakers, solemnly swear) that they did not receive money, office, place or employment, gift, reward, or other promise of security to secure their vote in a county or borough election. | ca. 1830 | ||
| (4) | Calling card for Charles Bradlaugh. -- File consists of a small printed card bearing the printed name and signature of Bradlaugh, an English social and political reformer, with instruction on the verso of the card to "admit bearer & friends platform tickets," Boston. | 18-- | ||
| (5) | Advertising trade cards. -- File consists of cards for: T. & C. O'Rourke, merchant tailors, Rock Island, Quebec; Union Marble and Granite Works, Montreal; and Emile Pingault, professor of French, Sherbrooke. | ca. 1885 | ||
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(6) | The London chronicle : or, universal evening post. -- File consists of one issue that includes the proclamation by the governor of the colony of Pennsylvania announcing a treaty of peace with the Delaware Shawnee Indian Confederacy and commanding a cessation of hostilities. | 18-20 October 1757 | |
| (7) | Lloyd's evening post, and British chronicle (London). -- File consists of one issue containing official despatches from Major General Amherst regarding the French surrender of Montreal. | 6 October 1760 | ||
| (8) | Le Canadien (Quebec). -- File consists of two issues of the newspaper. | 30 May and 22 August 1807 | ||
| (9) | The Quebec mercury. -- File consists of two issues containing articles on the War of 1812, and Napoleon on the eve of the battle of Waterloo. | 26 July 1814 and 25 July 1815 | ||
| (10) | Grip (Toronto) | 20 September 1884 and 12 December 1885 | ||
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(11) | Copperplate etchings of Lower Canadian scenes. -- File consists of four prints showing Quebec, the town of Sorel, the place d'armes at Montreal, and the view from Wolfe's Cove at Cape Diamond | ca. 1805 | |
| (12) | Light-tower near Coburg / W.H. Bartlett. -- London : Geo. Virtue. | 1841 | ||
| (13) | Hand-coloured prints of Halifax, Quebec, and Montreal | ca. 1855 | ||
| (14) | Kingston from the Citadel | ca. 1865 | ||
| (15) | Engravings from newspapers. -- File consists of five prints showing the Port Hope viaduct in Ontario (Illustrated Times, 22 January 1859), the Victoria Bridge at Montreal, Caledonian games on the civic holiday in Hamilton, laying of the corner stone for the Boy's Home in Hamilton (1876), and a hand-coloured rendering of a curling match in Montreal. | 1855-1879 | ||
| (16) | Map of Gatling and adjacent mines, Hastings Co., Ontario / by R.H. Stretch, accompanied by Sections of veins on Gatling and adjoining properties. -- Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, vol. IX. | 1880 | ||
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Call Number: 2007-062/002 |
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(1) | The morning chronicle and London advertiser. -- File consists of one issue with reference to a letter from Halifax mentioning that "while the southern provinces are impoverishing themselves by a voluntary restriction on trade, that colony is happy in the manifold increase in its inhabitants, and its advantageous situation for the fisheries; the art of shipbuilding was also considerably advanced, and they had begun to raise hemp and flax in great quantities." | 27 November 1769 | |
| (2) | The city gazette (St. John, New Brunswick) | 6 August 1816 | ||
| (3) | Le constitutionnel, gazette francaise des Trois-Rivieres. -- File consists of two issues providing reports on the proceedings of the legislative assembly of Lower Canada. | 6 and 20 January 1824 | ||
| (4) | Montreal transcript and general advertiser | 3 November 1838 | ||
| (5) | The volunteer review and military and naval gazette (Ottawa) | 14 October 1872 | ||
| (6) | The Quebec gazette. -- File consists of a broken run of the newspaper, containing accounts of proceedings of the legislature, and notices regarding trade and merchant activity, including Benjamin and Moses Hart. | 1804-1812 | ||
| (7) | The Quebec gazette | 1814-1816 | ||
| (8) | The Quebec gazette | 1817-1818 | ||
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Call Number: 2007-062/003 |
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(1) | Hosier's ghost : a song. -- File consists of a handwritten transcript of the ballad composed by the poet Richard Glover and published in 1739 to raise British spirits against the Spanish. | [17-- or 18--] | |
| (2) | Plan of the town of William Henry. -- Scale 1:4,800 -- 1 plan : col. ; 24 x 22 cm. -- File consists of a plan of the settlement at the convergence of the Richilieu and St. Lawrence rivers, prepared by Joseph Bouchette and published in "A topographical description of the province of Lower Canada with remarks upon Upper Canada, and on the relative connexion of both provinces with the United States of America." | 26 April 1824 | ||
| (3) | Naturalization certificate. -- File consists of a handwritten document on vellum signed by John Murray Bliss, Lieutenant Governor and William F. Odell, Provincial Secretary, stating that Elliot Dyer, formerly a citizen of the United States, is granted citizenship as a British subject after seven years residence in the Province of New Brunswick "and being of good Protestant Character." -- Water stained with some damage to text. | 12 August 1815 | ||
| (4) | Engravings from "The illustrated London news." -- File consists of prints showing: horses and riders at the fountain near Parsonville on the Fraser River, and scenery near Harrison Lake, 17 December 1864; settlements at Lilloett on the Fraser River and Fort Anderson on Anderson Lake, 24 December 1864; Native and European settlements on the shore of Douglas Lake, British Columbia, 1866; and scenery and the settlement at Fort Simpson, as well as a funeral on the Klondike, 10 December 1898. | 1864-1898 | ||
| (5) | Quebec : map of a part of the city, shewing the burnt district. -- 1 map ; 24 x 34 cm. -- Canadian illustrated news, p. 377. | 10 June 1876 | ||
| (6) | Maps of Canadian cities from the "Atlas of Canada." -- File consists of plates for Quebec, Winnipeg, Vancouver, London, and Ottawa. | 1910 | ||
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Call Number: 2007-062/004 |
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(1) | Caledonian mercury (Edinburgh) | 9, 19, and 21 November 1812 | |
| (2) | The times (London). -- File consists of a broken run of the newspaper acquired by Sheldon and Judy Godfrey due to the North American content, such as: article on meeting "for the purpose of arranging a Subscription for the relief of the Sufferers in the British provinces of North America" with list of donations by various politicians, merchants, etc. (7 July 1813); news of the War on Lake Ontario and the Battle of Lake Erie from Halifax papers (9 October 1813); revolt of Spanish colonies: capture of Amelia Island (Florida) by Americans, with troops going next to St. Augustine, as well as reports of disagreement on American and British commissioners in fixing the boundary line between British North America and the United States, following the Treaty of Ghent (11 August 1817); report of a "Distressing Fire at Newfoundland" (at Carbonear) on 18 June (30 August 1817); Lord Selkirk sent from Quebec to investigate hostilities between employees of the Hudson Bay Co. and the North West Company in "the North West Country" (30 September 1817); analysis of difficulties in the Newfoundland trade (26 November 1817); extracts from the Newfoundland Royal Gazette & Mercantile Journal on the fire in St. John's on 7 and 21 November 7 & 21, 1817 (9 December 1817); accounts of the fire from private letters (10 December 1817). | 1813, 1817 | ||
| (3) | The times weekly edition (London) | 5 August 1881 | ||
| (4) | The courier (London) | 6 and 13 March 1823 | ||
| (5) | Bell's weekly messenger (London). -- File consists of an issue with an article regarding the outbreak of cholera in Quebec. | 15 July 1832 | ||
| (6) | The vindicator, and Canadian advertiser (Montreal). -- File consists of an issue containing articles about the prospect for legislative reform and public health in Montreal, as well as local notices of trade. | 2 September 1834 | ||
| (7) | The morning courier (Montreal). -- File consists of an issue containing the proclamation of Lord Durham regarding transportation of the rebels from the rebellion in 1837 to Bermuda. | 3 July 1838 | ||
| (8) | Les debats (Quebec). -- File consists of issue no. 6 in the first year of a paper devoted to reporting the debates in the Legislative Assembly, with advertisements for local businesses on the last page. | 15 November 1854 | ||
| (9) | The New-Brunswicker (St. John) | 18 December 1856 | ||
| (10) | The daily witness (Montreal) | 9 December 1864 | ||
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| (1) | Canadian illustrated news. -- File consists of an issue with an engraved print of the first meeting of the Presbyterian synod in Montreal. | 31 December 1870 | ||
| (2) | The Irish Canadian (Toronto) | 29 July and 9 December 1874 | ||
| (3) | The Montreal daily herald and commercial gazette | 26 and 27 July 1886 | ||
| (4) | Montreal Standard Publishing Co. Ltd. -- File consists of two broadsides published by the company, the first consisting of photographs of the Canadian Army's gymnastic and police schools in Rockcliffe Camp, with text on the verso devoted to "How Canada went into the war" and an overview of "Ontario war activities," and the second featuring the City of Dundas, Ontario (including photographs of the John Bertram & Sons machine works with an illustrated article devoted to "Prince Edward Island : 'the garden of the Gulf'" on the verso. | ca. 1915 | ||
| (5) | The Saturday globe (Toronto). -- File consists of two issues of the weekend newspaper, with the first containing an article on the history of Methodism in Canada, and the second issue containing an illustrated article about the Ontario Medical College for Women. | 7 March 1891 and 17 August 1895 | ||
| (6) | The full, generous years of Mr. Sam. -- File consists of an illustrated, eight-page unattributed newspaper insert devoted to the life of Col. Robert Samuel McLaughlin. | [1972?] | ||
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(7) | Sectional map indicating main automobile roads between Canada & United States (Atlantic sheet) / prepared by Natural Resources Intelligence Service. -- [s.l.] : Canada, Department of the Interior. -- 1 map : col. ; 72 x 93 cm. | 1926 | |
| (8) | Atlas of Canada. -- File consists of sheets devoted to: relief map, west sheet; minerals, west sheet; limits of forest trees; telegraph and telephone lines and railways from Quebec west to British Columbia anf the Yukon Territory; telephones over the same areand Quebec; canals, lighthouses and sailing routes for the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes; lighthouses and sailing Routes, Pacific coast (includes sailing distances to Vancouver and Victoria from various world wide ports sailing through either Strait of Magellan or the Suez Canal); density of population from Quebec west to Alberta in 1901; Aborigines; origins of the people in 1901 from Quebec west to Alberta; international and inter-provincial boundaries; and routes of explorers. | ca. 1910 | ||
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Call Number: 2007-062/006 |
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(1) | Morning chronicle (London) | 24 March 1840 | |
| (2) | Montreal gazette | 6 May 1845 | ||
| (3) | The globe (Toronto) | 1845, 1877-1880 | ||
| (4) | The globe weekly edition (Toronto) | 1872 | ||
| (5) | Montreal weekly herald | 1853, 1858-1859 | ||
| (6) | Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette. -- File consists of a broken run of the newspaper collected by Sheldon and Judy Godfrey because of the advertisements for various Jewish business people, including C. Solomon & Co., Samuel & Co. (guns), Theodore Hart, Alexander Levey, Jesse Joseph, A. & S. Nordheimer (piano fortes), John Levy, Simon Hart, A. Hoffnung (jeweller), William Benjamin & Co., H. Benjamin & Co. (crystal block importer), M. Bessunger (oil paintings), J.A. Harte (druggist), R.M. Hart (advocate), Silverman's Extract, and Wulff & Co., as well as an advertisement to builders regarding the construction of a synagogue on St. Constant Street. | 1854-1864 | ||
| (7) | Commercial advertiser (Montreal). -- File consists of an issue containing advertisements for G.I. Ascher, importer. | 12 October 1855 | ||
| (8) | The leader (Toronto) | July 1863 | ||
| (9) | Montreal daily star | 1882-1883 | ||
| (10) | Family herald weekly star (Montreal) | 1882, 1885 | ||
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(11) | Map to illustrate the climatology of the dominion of Canada / by Lorin Blodget. -- 1 map : col. ; 41 x 64 cm. | 1874 | |