Archival Collections Catalogue

CA RBD MSG 1299-4-03
File
16 May 1797-28 December 1803

This file contains certificates attesting to the positions held by Benjamin and John Hall in masonic lodges in Hanover and Montreal.

Correspondence, 1790-1795

CA RBD MSG 1310-2-03
File
25 March 1790 - 13 November 1793

Part of James Morrison papers

This file contains business and personal correspondence between James Morrison and other merchants and family members in Quebec and Ontario, for the period of 1790-1793. Letters primarily concern the trading and price of goods, including sugar, rum, and wheat. They also information related to the construction of a house, as well as political and legal news, and news from Morrison's brother-in-law, Charles LePallieur, who was trying to establish himself as a fur trader. The file also includes a letter that describes a formerly enslaved woman who arrived in Quebec and was working for herself. Letters are arranged in chronological order.

November 1943

CA RBD MSG 1296-2-03
File
29 November 1943

Part of Second World War Correspondence Collection

Air mail letter card from Jack Mills to his mother, C.I. Mills.

Mills, J. (Jack), active 1943-1944

Voyageur contract for Louis Peltier

CA RBD MSG 1108-03
Item
14 April 1807

Part of Coppenrath Collection of Voyageur Contracts

Contract between Louis Peltier of Faubourg Saint-Laurent and the outfitter Parker, Gerrard, Ogilvy & Co. Contract outlines Robichau's employment as a carpenter with the destination of Kingston, Upper Canada, for the payment of 90 livres per month. Contract duration is for four months. The contract notes that he received 15 piastres on account, his wife to be paid 8 piastres per month during his absence in addition to a blanket.

Check payment receipts from the East river National Bank

CA RBD MSG 1262-2-02-002-03
Item
20 May 1919- 3 January 1920

Part of Palmer Cox Collection

Item consists of 7 check payment receipts from the East River National Bank, dated and signed, to the Royal Arch Masons Fifth Chapter in San Francisco, the East Quogue (N.Y.) Public Library, St Vincent's Hospital and L.E. Howell from 1919 to 1920

Canto III from How Columbus Found America

CA RBD MSG 1262-3-01-002-03
Item

Part of Palmer Cox Collection

Item consists of 6 typed pages from "How Columbus Foud America", an early Palmer Cox work. This part documents mutiny in the crew up to the first sight of land

Part of a religious text