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Voyageur contract for François Rousseau
Contract between François Rousseau of Faubourg St. Laurent and the outfitter Owen McDougal. No other contract details are present.
Voyageur contract for Isaac Barnes
Contract between Isaac Barnes (likely from the city of Montreal) and the outfitter Thomas Ritchie of Quebec, represented by Owen McDougal. Contract outlines Barnes's employment as sawyer with the destination of St. John's. Amount of payment is not noted. Contract duration is for three months.
Voyageur contract for François Michel
Contract between François Michel of Faubourg St. Laurent and the outfitter Owen McDougal. No other contract details are present.
Voyageur contract for Jean-Baptiste Teran of Isle du Pas
Contract between Jean-Baptiste Teran of Isle du Pas and outfitter Alexis Trempre (agent). Contract duration is two years. Payment is for 700 livres per annum. Position given as "wintering" milieu. Destination of the Northern Limits.
Dawson-Harrington Families Fonds
The Dawson-Harrington Families Fonds follows the family of Sir John William Dawson, geologist and Principal of McGill University from 1855-1893, through four generations, including both personal and scientific papers of John William Dawson, his son-in law, B. J. Harrington, and his son, explorer, geologist, and Director of the Geological Survey George Mercer Dawson. Other family members include James Dawson, father to Sir John William Dawson, a Scots immigrant to Nova Scotia, printer, stationer, unsuccessful investor and zealous Presbyterian; John William's wife Margaret Mercer; their children William Bell Dawson, an engineer, Rankine Dawson, a physician, and Anna Lois Dawson. Also represented are Anna Dawson Harrington and B. J. Harrington's children, Eva Dawson and her husband, Hope Atkin, and their families
Dawson-Harrington Families
Hunting permits and indentures, 1800-1809
Part of Dawson-Harrington Families Fonds
File consists of business correspondence and records.
Fonds consists of journal for the year 1800 kept by Thomson on the Mackenzie River (Rocky Mountain).
Thomson, John, died 1828
Letter from Charles Burney Jr. to William Davies, 1 December 1800
Autograph letter from Charles Burney Jr. written at Greenwich, 1 December 1800, to William Davies, Bookseller, Strand. Also postmarked 1 December 1800. Consists of one folded sheet with one page of letter, one page address and one page of postscript (one page blank). Written on black-edged laid paper. The letter requests a receipt for Fanny Burney's account ("The Bill against Mrs. D'Arblay"). In a postscript, Burney requests that Davies send him 100 copies of Gay's Fables.
Burney, Charles, 1757-1817
A variety of the Indian Certhia
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a pencil and partially coloured illustration of a red and blue bird poised on a branch, with identification and description in pen in contemporary hand: A variety of the Indian Certhia; with different Trees and Shrubs on Salsette. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in.
Another variety of the Indian Certhia
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a pencil and partially coloured illustration of a reddish brown bird with black wings poised on a branch and a flying insect, with description in pen in contemporary hand: Another variety of the Certhia, with wild Forest Plants, and Insects, in the Concan. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in.