- CA RBD MSG 159
- Fonds
- approximately 1770
"Yarico to Inkle", with Marlay's" Prologue to the Begger's Opera" and Father Francis' "Prayer to Saint Agnes" comprise Jerningham's papers.
Jerningham, Edward, 1727-1812
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"Yarico to Inkle", with Marlay's" Prologue to the Begger's Opera" and Father Francis' "Prayer to Saint Agnes" comprise Jerningham's papers.
Jerningham, Edward, 1727-1812
Interleaved in a copy of Florio and Bas Bleu are six letters from Hannah More, two from Martha More, and four from Sarah More, one giving an account of Garrick's death.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833
Rhodes and Tudor Hart Family Fonds
The fonds consists of papers of the Rhodes family of Yorkshire and Quebec, approximately 1774-1975, and Percyval Tudor-Hart and family, approximately 1920-1970, including business and personal correspondence. Rhodes family, approximately 1850-1970, business and personal correspondence. Tudor-Hart family, approximately 1920-1950, Crimean war military papers, Col. Godfrey Rhodes, approximately 1850-1858, diaries and notebooks, Rhodes family, approximately 1774-1970, business and estate papers including accounts, receipts and inventories for Rhodes and Tudor-Hart properties, family history material for Rhodes family, including charts and pedigrees, drawings and sketches, mainly by Catherine and Percyval, approximately 1890-1920, and photographs and Rhodes family members and residences, Yorkshire and Quebec, approximately 1850-1968.
Rhodes and Tudor Hart Family, 1774-1975
These McGill papers are entirely concerned with his property and estate. They comprise legal documents and copies of letters (some in McGill's hand) concerning his land holdings on St. Paul St., Montréal, in Stanbridge, and in Detroit. McGill's cash book, 1809-1815, and copy by W.D. Lighthall of a deed of conveyance to McGill of some land formerly occupied by the city fortifications, 1805, are also included, as is a blue-print and sketch by W.D. Lighthall of the site of McGill's St. Paul St. house. Estate papers comprise a probate of McGill's will, copied by Alice Lighthall, and his executor's cash book.
McGill, James, 1744-1813
Fonds consists of a travel journal from a trip to Italy kept by Duboille.
Duboille, C., active 1777
This collection consists of "Hiel's letters. Thirty letters on theological subtleties". Upton, 1778. A note by E. Dowden ascribes the authorship of this work to Okely.
Okely, Francis, active 1778
Fonds contains an inventory of joint property between the late Jean Orillat, a French Canadian merchant, and his wife, Thérèse-Amable Viger. Inventory signed by notary Mesière. ("Inventaire des biens de la communauté d’entre feu Mr Jean Orillat à dame Thérèse Viger son épouse, 19 juin. 1779.)
Approximately half this material consists of letters, covering the years 1823-1837, from Andrew William Cochran, 1792-1849, civil secretary to the governors of Lower Canada from 1812 onwards, and a member of the Executive Council from 1827 to 1841. The remainder comprises a number of accounts of travels and exploration by North West Company employees, probably collected by McKenzie for his history. Included are Charles McKenzie's expeditions amongst the Otoe Missouria Tribe.; Edward Umfreville's journal of a canoe trip from Lake Superior to Portage de l'Isle 1784; accounts of the Alaskan Athabaskans, 1795 and 1805, George Keith's memoirs of the McKenzie River Department, 1807-1817; and George Henry Monk's of the Department of Fond du Lac or Mississippi, 1807; John McDonnell's account of the Red River, ca 1787; and John Johnston's of Lake Superior and a letter on the Indigenous communities of the northwest from Eneas McDonnell. Also included are letters written to McKenzie from Forks on the Mackenzie River by William Ferdinand Wentzel, 1807-1824.
McKenzie, Roderick, 1761-1844
Consisting of documents detailing the 1785 travels and observations of Joseph Hadfield through the Northwest fur trade of North America and to Niagara Falls (probably written after 1810). Observations are primarily economic in nature; however, there are also references to the geographical and cultural surroundings.
Hadfield, Joseph, 1759-1851.
Le fonds comprend dix lettres adressées à De Salaberry et à certains de ses proches sur divers sujets de 1785 à 1912, un manuel de manoeuvres militaires de Major Michel de Salaberry, 1796, des photographies, des cartes postales, un spicilège (ca 1834-1841) et quelques documents relatifs à Frederick George Heriot (ca 1818).
De Salaberry, Famille, 1785-1912