Receipt from E.D. Radcliffe, St. Catharines for ice

Receipt from E.D. Radcliffe, St. Catharines for ice, Dec. 5, 1887.

Receipt from McLaren and Co., St. Catharines for pants

Receipt from McLaren and Co., St. Catharines for pants, Dec. 23, 1887.

Receipt from M.Y. Keating, Books, Stationary and Newspapers, St. Catharines for books

Receipt from M.Y. Keating, Books, Stationary and Newspapers, St. Catharines for books, Dec. 23, 1887.

Receipt from St. Catharines and Welland Canal Gas Light Company for gas rent

Receipt from St. Catharines and Welland Canal Gas Light Company for gas rent, Dec. 31, 1887.

Receipt from H. Carlisle and Co., St. Catharines for fabric

Receipt from H. Carlisle and Co., St. Catharines for fabric, Jan. 3, 1888.

Receipt from W.H. Eckhardt, Star Music Store, St. Catharines for rent of machine

Receipt from W.H. Eckhardt, Star Music Store, St. Catharines for rent of machine, Feb. 1, 1888.

Letter to T. H. Wiley from J.J. Nichols and Sons, Mason Contractors and Plasterers, St. Catharines

Letter to T. H. Wiley from J.J. Nichols and Sons, Mason Contractors and Plasterers, St. Catharines regarding tenders for the proposed lily pond, May 12, 1916.

Letter to Mr. Welland D. Woodruff from Thos. Wiley, Architect, St. Catharines

Letter to Mr. Welland D. Woodruff from Thos. Wiley, Architect, St. Catharines regarding tenders for the proposed lily pond, May 17, 1916.

Studying Your Own Country. Social Scientific Knowledge For Our Times and Places; Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, St Catharines, May 28, 2014

Political science is both a generalizing and an anchored, nationally defined, discipline. Too often, the first perspective tends to crowd out the latter, because it appears more prestigious, objective, or scientific. Behind the international/national dichotomy, there are indeed rival conceptions of social science, and important ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions. This article discusses these assumptions and stresses the critical contribution of idiographic, single-outcome studies, the importance of producing relevant, usable knowledge, and the distinctive implications of studying one’s own country, where a scholar is also a citizen, involved in more encompassing national conversations. The aim is not to reject the generalizing, international perspective, or even the comparative approach, but rather to reaffirm the importance of maintaining as well, and in fact celebrating, the production of social scientific knowledge directly relevant for our own times and places.

Marriage records, 1665-1800;

The marriage records of the Hackensack and Schraalenburgh churches are reprinted from v. 1 of the Collections of the Holland society of New York.

Correlates of reading readiness in kindegarten children

The gene,nil purpose (If this thesis was to examine certain variables considered to be associated with reading readiness in kindergarten children Twenty-four children from a parent-funded parochial school i.n 5t Catharines. Ontaj-io were exanlined in this study, The children.'s reading readiness level, measured by the Test of Ea1'1y Reading Ability (JERA:) and by teacher"s ratings was correlated with various cognitive variables, These variables consisted (If a rough index of intelligence as measured by the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Revised CPPVT-Rl Form M, mean len.gth of utterance (MUn, the sum of relative,. subordinate and coordinate clauses, the !wmber of core statements children make when telling stories and a memory test. All but the memory test related to at least one measure of reading readiness, Although the memory test did not correlate significantly with reading readiness, the children appeaj~ed to be sensitive to the stimulus set size in terms of their study time, In addition. interi'uption in the interval between studying the stimuli and the ,reca1i test had a negathre effect on pe.rfornlance and set size had a substantial effect 011 recognition performance, The educational implications of these correlates of reading readiness are discussed as weH as the implications for future research.