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La sentinelle

File contains two issues of a French Catholic newspaper published weekly in Mattawa. The two issues are: volume 1, number 25 ( June 21, 1895) and vol. 3, unknown number (April 30, 1897).

Postcards

File contains postcards of North Bay and other locations in and near the Nipissing District including: the French River, Lake Nipissing, Trout Lake, Lake Nosbonsing, Sturgeon Falls, Mattawa, Nipissing, Callander, Lavigne, Bonfield, Monetville, Saint Charles and Port Loring. The postcards depict: tourist attractions (such as parks, lakes, beaches, rivers, and waterfalls), tourist accommodations (including hotels, cottages, resorts, and camps), city scenes and buildings (including schools, railway stations, churches, municipal buildings, hospitals, and factories), the Dionne Quintuplets, the Chief Commanda steam ship, and trains.

File also contains a few postcards of other places including Temagami, Timmins, Cobalt, Lake Superior, Pembroke, Haileybury, Owen Sound, and Prince Rupert, BC. File additionally includes several souvenir folders containing postcards of Ontario, North Bay, and humorous cartoons.

Conolly Family postcards and photographs

File contains a postcard collection that was created by the Conolly Family, a pioneering family in South River. The collection consists of a postcard album and loose postcards. Postcards include photographs of South River (including the chemical plant and the Conolly home [?]), Sundridge, Magnetawan, Trout Creek, Huntsville, Toronto, and Vegreville (Alberta), as well as holiday greeting postcards received by the family.

J. A. Noel portraits

File contains studio portraits (some in presentation folders or mounted on board) that were taken by J. A. Noel, a North Bay photographer. Photographs include a first communion portrait and a wedding portrait.

History, title to property

File documents the granting of land for the North Bay Normal School and subsequent land disputes relating to the property. File contains: an indenture transferring plots of land from the Municipal Corporation of North Bay for the construction of the school; correspondence regarding a dispute over ownership and agricultural use of the school's property; and records relating to an application by North Bay landowners to the Board of Railway Commissioners of Canada for compensation for damages caused by construction of the Canadian Northern Railway.

File also contains two items relating to the history of the North Bay Teachers' College, a pamphlet from 1959 about the college's history, and a photocopy of an article entitled "North Bay Schools" from "The Northern Patriot" magazine, 1917.

Normal School - North Bay - Address register

Signatures and addresses register contains signatures of candidates for admission, who by signing declare that they intend to prepare for the profession of teacher and will comply with the rules and regulations of the school. Recorded information includes: student name, register number, street address, name of keeper of boarding house, and telephone number. Arranged chronologically. Also contains printed student lists for each session (academic year).

Model school final reports

Register contains reports of student grades and final results, arranged chronologically by year. Recorded information includes: candidate name, age, gender, grade percentage by subject, totals, standing recommended, and remarks.

Kelly Morgan

File contains a variety of photographs depicting: trains crossing a trestle, a steam shovel excavating, railway ties loaded on truck, engineer (?) "Barney" Morgan, the last Ontario Northland passenger train from Timmins (1989), a railway caboose of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway, and a train crew with their locomotive. File also contains permission signed by Kelly Morgan authorizing Surtees to use the photos "of Mr. T. Morgan and others" in his book.

Resumes, martins + mine

File contains a variety of photographs taken in Timmins, Porcupine City, South Porcupine, and Hayle that depict camps, mines, a sawmill, prospectors in canoes, lakes, rapids, and the visit of the Governor General to Timmins (September 26, 1914).

Kervin Bros. Camp

File contains promotional and souvenir materials relating to the Kervin Brothers Camp (also called Kervin's Camp, Kervin's Houseboats, or Kervin Bros.), a tourist outfitter and houseboat operator based out of Callander and Sturgeon Falls. File contains: souvenir booklets relating to the expeditions of "Timmer's Fishin' Party" (a fishing party led by C.W. Timmermeister); a program from a fishing trip by Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines executives; promotional letters, brochures, and envelopes; and 2 postcards featuring the houseboats.

S. D. Lawlor

File contains an unbound album of photographs that document the work of a (Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway?) surveying team in Northern Ontario from 1914 to around 1918. The album contains photographs (many captioned) depicting: the surveying crew at work and rest; winter travel with sleds and snowshoes; railway construction, including trestle building, laying rail, and construction equipment; railway cars, infrastructure, bridges, stations, and personnel; natural landscapes (such as river rapids and falls) and events (including floods, ice jams, a forest fire, and storm damage to trees); wild animals and pelts; a baseball club and field; transportation including canoes and a horse sled; a Hudson's Bay Company post and dog team; and the Revillon Brothers' schooner and post on James Bay. Locations depicted in the album include Elk Lake, Earlton, Gowanada Road, the Abbitibi River, Cochrane, Moose Factory, Matheson, Black River, New Liskeard, the Matogami River, Madawaska, and Haileybury.

File also contains a Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway Commission baggage notice, and eight loose photographs (some of which appear to have come from the album) with subjects including surveying and transportation of railway ties by rail.

Training register

Register contains reports on students' criticism and lessons taught, arranged chronologically and alphabetically by last name of student. Recorded information includes: date, form, teacher (evaluating teacher's name), percent, and remarks.

Private preceptory returns

File contains duplicates of private preceptory returns submitted to the Provincial Grand Black Chapter, Ontario West. Returns include the following information: title of preceptory, [preceptory] no., meeting at, night of meeting; [titles of] officers, [officers'] names, highest degree taken, profession, residence, post office address; [names of] members initiated, date [of initiation], certificates received, highest degree, former preceptory, date received, suspensions, highest degree, date of suspension, cause of suspension; and a summary of returns with totals of members as per last returns, joined by re-admission, joined by certificate, initiated, died, re-ballotted out, expelled, suspended, and in good standing.

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