Niagara Falls Park: Notice to Treat to Sutherland Macklem, Esquire, 1885

The Niagara Parks Commission administrative headquarters are located in Oak Hall which is on the cliff above Dufferin Islands. In 1798 this land was granted by the crown to United Empire Loyalist James Skinner until 1898. A century later it was the home of the Clarks, Streets and Macklems. These families controlled the mills of Bridgewater which was a pioneer industrial village located at Dufferin Islands. Then, it was known as Clark Hill. Colonel Thomas Clark, commander of the Second Lincoln Militia in the War of 1812 is the earliest known occupant of the house. When Clark died in 1837, the house went to Thomas Clark Street who was the son of the Colonel’s partner. Mr. Street was a bachelor and his sister, widow of Dr. T.C. Macklem, managed his household. Mrs. Macklem had 2 sons. The eldest son drowned in the Niagara River at the age of 8 and the younger son, Sutherland became heir to the estate. Mr. Macklem opened Cynthia Islands and Cedar Island to the public and had roads built to reach them. Two suspension bridges connected them to the mainland and tolls were charged on the bridges. The improvements to the land cost Macklem $18,962. He called the bridges “Bridge Castor” and “Bridge Pollux”. There was also an office built at the end of Bridge Castor. Macklem also spent $454 fixing up the Burning Spring Building (the burning spring is enclosed in a barrel which collects gas and lets it out through a tube at the top). Macklem received a yearly income of $56,378.79 from tourists and visitors. In 1887 Cynthia Islands and Cedar Island were deeded to the crown and became part of Queen Victoria Park. The name Cynthia was changed to Dufferin in honour of Lord Dufferin. Sources: www.niagarafrontier.com/parks.html www.niagarafrontier.com/burningsprings.html

Letter - William Young to James Woodruff

Letter to James D. Woodruff at the Welland Canal, St. Catharines. The letter is postmarked Philadelphia [date illegible] and Queenston, Feb. 7, 1847. In this letter William Young of Philadelphia describes some of the prices and features of his wares including compasses and levels, Feb. 3, 1847.

Receipt from James Oliphant, Cap Maker to the Army, London, England

Receipt from James Oliphant, Cap Maker to the Army, London, England for a silk hat, Aug. 26, 1847.

Knox-Wise Family Papers - Accession 591

The Knox-Wise Family Papers includes a land grant issued to John Knox in 1768; diaries written by Dr. John Knox [1792-1859] covering the 1840s and 1850s; James N. Knox [1806-1880] covering 1859-1880; and William D. Knox [1847-1928] covering 1869-1928; indentures, deeds, receipts, court summonses and other papers of Hugh Knox [1757-1821], sheriff and justice of the peace in Chester County, South Carolina (ca. 1780s and 1790s); correspondence of James N. Knox, correspondence, and other professional papers of Dr. John Knox; correspondence, and other papers of William D. Knox, Superintendent of Education in Chester County from 1896-1928. Papers of various other members of the Knox and Wise families including Hugh Boyd Knox [1814-1886], Robert Knox [1796-1879], Sally Knox Wallace [1803-1901], Alexander Walker Wise, and Emmie R. Knox [1885-1969]; family histories of the Knox, Wise, Dunlap, Gaston, and Wilks families; church histories, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Also included are three published volumes of the United Confederate Veterans Minutes of the 21st (1911) and 25th (1915) Annual Meeting and Reunion; and the minutes of the annual reunion of the South Carolina Division of the United Confederate Veterans (1921-1927).

Catharine Waugh McCullouch papers in the Mary Earhart Dillon collection, 1869-1945

Collection primarily documents McCulloch's research on women's legal status, and her work with the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the League of Women Voters. There is also documentation of women in the legal profession, of McCulloch's friendships with the other women suffragists and lawyers, and some biographical material. The papers contain little information about her family or social life.

Canada, as it was, is, and may be.

"This work is a continuation of 'Canada in 1841 and in 1846'."--Pref.

Imperial gazetteer of India .

Editor for India, 1902-04, William Stevenson Meyer; 1905-09, Richard Burn; editor in England, James Sutherland Cotton.

Shakespearean extracts from "Edward Pudsey's booke", temp. Q. Elizabeth & K. James I. which include some from an unknown play by William Shakespeare [or rather from Chapman's "Blind beggar of Alexander"] Also a few unpublished records of the Shakespeare of Snitterfield and Wroxall preserved in the Public Record Office.

Mode of access: Internet.

The botany [of] the Antarctic voyage of H. M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross.

In this reprint, the plates from the three volumes are separately bound in one atlas. Plates 158-178 of volume one are bound after plate 198.

One hundred years ago: American writing of 1847-.

Editor: 1847- J.P. Wood.

Discursos leidos en las recepciones públicas que ha celebrado desde 1847 la Real Academia Española.

Contiene: Discurso de ingreso de Rafael María Baralt, con contestación de Joaquín Francisco Pacheco. Discurso de Aureliano Fernández-Guerra y Orbe, con contestación del Marqués de Molins. Discurso de Leopoldo Augusto de Cueto, con contestación de Antonio Alcalá Galiano. Discurso de Manuel Cañete, con contestación de Antonio María Segovia. Discurso de Manuel Tamayo y Baus, con contestación de Aureliano Fernández-Guerra y Orbe. Discurso de Pedro Felipe Monlau, con contestación de Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch. Discurso de Cándido Nocedal, con contestación del Duque de Rivas. Discurso de Tomás Rodríguez Rubí, con contestación de Antonio Ferrer del Río.

Discursos leidos en las recepciones públicas que ha celebrado desde 1847 la Real Academia Española.

Contiene: Discurso de ingreso de Francisco Cutanda, con contestación de Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch. Discurso de Severo Catalina del Amo, con contestación de Tomás Rodríguez Rubí. Discurso de Ramón de Campoamor, con contestación del Marqués de Molins. Discurso de Juan Valera, con contestación de Antonio Alcalá Galiano. Discurso de Antonio García Gutiérrez, con contestación de Antonio Ferrer del Río. Discurso de Luis González Brabo, con contestación de Cándido Nocedal. Discurso del Marqués de Auñón, con contestación del Marqués de Molins. Discurso de Isaac Núñez de Arenas, con contestación de Antonio Ferrer del Río.

Catalogue général des livres de médecine, chirurgie, anatomie, physiologie, histoire naturelle, physique, chimie, pharmacie, français et étrangers, qui se trouvent chez J.-B. Baillière, libraire de l'Academie royale de médecine. A lonbres , chez Baillière: Janvier 1847.

Mode of access: Internet.