• "Borden and Aunt Euphrona". Striking portraits of them both. Surely the unique combination of their names should identify the family.
• Josephine CAMPBELL, Sydenham, Ont. Photo taken in Oneida, N.Y.
• Ian Roland DARLING was born in Vancouver in 1961. I have a collection of photos, mostly of him and his mother, plus two letters, found in a flea market in Smiths Falls, Ontario. The letters imply an Ottawa connction, but I'm not sure what it is.
• Agnes DAVENPORT of Elgin. Good portrait, found in an antique store.
• GARLAND family group photo. Christmas, 1919. Location now known to be California, but family is originally from Eastons Corners. Connected surnames: Dixon, Goble, Johnston, Yuill.
• Child, "Master W. J. F. JAMES", Jan. 28th, 1896. Kemptville or Merrickville studio. This was the only Canadian photo in an album (purchased in Winchester, Ontario) containing other photos from Paris France, New York City, Auburn New York, York Pennsylvania, and Curacao West Indies. Hames or Homes and Johnston families are connected to the album.
• Daniel McCARTHY Married Marion Mahoney. Taken in Rochester, N.Y.
  • Thomas & May McCARTHY Children of Daniel. Taken in Rochester, N.Y.
• Duncan and Fanny McLEOD Location missing.
  • Possibly a McLEOD group photo Duncan above may be one of group. Edmonton Alberta?
• PLATT family photos. Letters with these photos place them in upstate New York. Connected surnames: Lints, Washburn, Waters.
• "Presented to Robert J. SAMPLE". Strong portrait of man wearing badge of Montague Corner Loyal Orange Lodge, Montague, Ont.
• Mr. & Mrs. George WOODMAN, Kingston, Ont. This photo fell out of a book I purchased at an antique store.
• Unknown group, Almonte photographer This group of 10 adults must have been gathered for a funeral as all the women are in black.
• WATSON family group photo, Smiths Falls photographer. This group of four women and a baby are identified as Watsons.

• Aladin Hotel, Mountain Grove, Ont. (Frontenac County) Undated group photo taken in front of the hotel. This photo has been given to the North Frontenac Historical Society. It was used as an illustration in Michael Dawber's book, Back of Sunset, a history of what is now Central Frontenac Township.
• A series of 11 photos and a postcard which seem to be related, as the handwriting on the back of four of them is similar. They were stuffed together into a folder found in an antique store. Surnames of person in photo and the location of the photographer are: Boyce (Moose Jaw, SK), Clark (Kingston), Collins (Trenton), Hamilton (Napanee).
• Three PATRY children, St. Placide, Quebec. Found in an antique store. I saw about 30 photos of this family in the store c. 1998, but they're mostly gone now (2000).

ASHBURY COLLEGE, OTTAWA, ONT. :
•   Group photo taken 1911. Included are the names written on the back of the photo. Two versions of the photo are shown -- size-as and very much enlarged of the students only -- plus a scan of the names written on the back. The names have been expanded through information received from an Ashbury College researcher. First names have been given to most of the boys and those who were killed in World War I are shown. (Updated July 6, 2008)
• Probably Ashbury College. A group of about 60 men and boys of all ages, with the younger ones dressed for racing or other sport. Photo taken c.1900, in front of a building with a distinctive design on the doors. Can anyone identify the location for certain? Note the teacher holding a hand-gun! He is one of two teachers who are probably in the photo above which is definitely of Ashbury College.
  Compare two of the teachers in the two photos above. I believe this proves that the second photo is of an Ashbury College class.
• JACKSON Homestead at 212 Springfield Road, later sold to Ashbury College. Fifteen people are gathered on the verandah.
  Enlargement of group on verandah in the photo above.
• Three photos related to the BABCOCK family of Frontenac County. Can anyone identify these people? Surnames are: Babcock and Rees.
• School Fair at Balderson, Ont., c. 1912. Two photos plus enlargements of the people in the crowd (none are identified). From the Perth Museum. Thanks to Donald C. McGregor for identifying the location of this fair at the farm of his grandfather, James C. McGregor of Balderson, Ont.
• Clayton Ont. School class photo, circa 1909. About 30 pupils and their teacher. Roy Reston Evans is the only one identified. I've more accurately dated the photo by using the 1901 census.
  • See an image of the students only, twice the size of the one above.
• CORBETT - SHAW A group of photographs of people (all identified) who may or may not be related to the Corbett and/or Shaw families of Smiths Falls, Ont. Surnames include: Blackburn, Butler, Corbett, Drew, Paul, Perkins, Puffer, Quartz, Todvin, Vanexan.
• Dalhousie Lake, Lanark County. A postcard from the 1930's or 1940's. The image is of cottages with some swimmers on the beach.
DOBIE & DOBBIE FAMILIES OF LANARK COUNTY :
These are links to my genealogy website and to the LCGS website. Pages will be displayed in a new browser window.
• Disjunction Certificate, John DOBIE & Mary BARBER Document written in Tortherwald, DFS, SCT., 1820. They first settled in Lanark County, Ont., then where did they go?
• DOBIE-SMITH Bible This family first settled in Lanark County, Ontario, then moved on to Chesley, Bruce County, Ont. Surnames: Dobie, Elliot, Graham, Halliday, Holliday, Houston, Knox, Livingston, Mair, Mclellan, Newell, Smith, Tatlock, Walls. This link is to the Lanark County Genealogical Society website.
• DOBBIE Families of Lanark County My research notes. Mostly taken from the Perth Courier.
• Photo of Hannah DOBBIE of Lanark County, Ont., and her daughter Theressa McGonegal, circa 1930.
• DUNCAN Family Photo, c. 1905, Lanark. The family of Robert Arthur Duncan (1870-1945) and Mary Cullan Munro (1871-1941). They were originally from Dalhousie. Connected surnames are: Donaldson, Munro, Turnbull, Wright.
• Easton's Corners, 1930. Eight photos: three of Victor Norman Grimmett with a boy named Cecil, and three of Victor's brother Harry Vernon Grimmett. Another is of the Easton's Corners community band, and another a farm photo with a team of horses.
ELPHIN, LANARK COUNTY, ONTARIO :
• Elphin School class about 1910. Elphin is a small unincorporated village about 5 km west of McDonalds Corners, at the junction of County roads 36 and 12. See Elphin on Google Maps. This photo was found with a large collection of photos of Elphin area people, in the landfill at the McDonalds Corners municipal dump. (See the Izatt photo collection below). This school is just east of Elphin and is now a private home.
  Enlargement of the above photo showing the students only. Five of the 20 students have been identified. Surnames are: Balfour, Duncan, Gordon, McIntyre. However, there must be one and probably two Izatt children there too.
• Elphin School class about 1912 or 1913. Twenty-three students and their teacher. George Gordon is common to this photo and the one above.
• George GORDON and Hilda BEATTY, 1926 wedding invitation and photo. The hand-written invitation is for the reception held at the Elphin Hall on Wed., Dec. 1st, 1926.
• Downtown Elphin about 1900. Don't yet know the exact date, but the telegraph lines have been installed.
  Same scene in 2006. I'll re-take this photo in November when the leaves have fallen.
• Elphin Public School students in 1920. Scan of a photo published in The Perth Courier about 2001. All 34 students and teacher are identified, however when you compare this photo with the circa 1910 photo above, you will see that several of the students appear in both, and there seems to be less than 10 years difference in their ages. Surnames are: Balfour, Brownlee, Buchan, Duncan, Dunlop, Geddes, Izatt, Lake, McDougall, Millar, Miller, Scott, Smith, Thompson, Weir.
• Elphin Ontario, "Council No. 357, R. T. of T." medal. Seems to be 1880's to early 1900's. Possibly from a temperance society. Can you identify it?
• Gananoque area, C.S.E.T. camp group photo. All names needed. C.S.E.T. was similar to the Y.M.C.A. and provided healthy social outlets for young men and boys. This photo is by Prosser Studio, Gananoque, and is hand-dated 1929. See Wikipedia's explanation of the C.S.E.T. and TUXIS programs.
  Enlargement of the above photo showing the people only.
• Mostly unidentified photos from the GRIFFITH family. The family is descended from Thomas Griffith (b. 1814) and Margaret Lake / Leake who settled in the Beckwith area in 1822.
•   Students of an Innisville, Ontario school, 1898. This photo is part of the McCoy family photo collection, so it's a good bet there are McCoy children among the students. (Added April 10, 2008)
• Iroquois Public School, Room 2, 1929 Class photo, 25 students with their teacher. Can you identify anyone?
IZATT FAMILY PHOTOS -- ELPHIN ONTARIO & SOURIS MANITOBA :
This photo collection is now in the Lanark County Archives.
• 121 Photos, only a few identified. This collection of photographs was found in an old suitcase in the landfill at the McDonalds Corners municipal dump. Many of the photo locations are farms and other rural areas, and except in a couple of cases, not enough background is shown to identify their location. Some photos show town or city houses, and in one case, what seems to be a large city school. One photo almost certainly was taken in downtown McDonalds Corners, Ontario, and another is of a class at the Elphin school. I'll need your help to identify the others. Studio photos were taken in Perth and Brockville, Ontario, while others were taken in Manitoba at studios in Brandon and Winnipeg, and yet another is from "Irvine" with no state or province given. In addition, a photo booklet, "The Town Of Souris", was found with the photos. Only a few people are identified; they are: Lyle Keith Bulloch, Essie and Meda Caldwell (identified as being from Watsons Corners), Robert Carmichael, John Fletcher (photo taken in Irvine), Mrs. Allan Izatt, and Mary Rae Kellie. This collection presents a fascinating puzzle -- about the only thing that can be assumed is that the people shown here are connected in some way to the Izatt family.
  Click here to see the menu of photos.
• IZATT notes and facts. Information gathered on this family since posting the photo collection above. The connection between these Izatts and two families in Souris and Reston Manitoba has now been made clear. Surnames so far are: Allen, Bulloch, Caldwell, Izatt, Millar, O'Connor, Pudd, Ranger.
• See Elphin on Google Maps.
• Kemptville High School, "Thirds", 1897 Class photo, nobody identified.
• Possibly Kemptville High School checkers, card club Nobody identified.
MAXWELL & ROBERTSON FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS :
A collection of photos with descendant lists. The Maxwell and Robertson families arrived in Lanark County, Ontario, circa 1820, and had at least two marriages between them. One branch left Lanark County about 1880 and settled in Snowflake, Manitoba. Other family members spread throughout North America, and as far away as Mexico.
If you click on a surname link above, a descendant list will be displayed with links to photos of specific people. Or you can see a menu of the photos arranged by family.
I'm still working on this collection and will update it with more photos after some questions have been resolved.
Many thanks to for the photos and to for updated info on the two families.
•   McCoy Family: Descendant list and photos. Alexander McCoy (b. 1791) and Mary Robinson (b. 1811) were both born in Ireland, and were married 13 Aug 1833 in Bastard Township, Leeds County, Ontario. Their children were born variously in Toronto and in Bastard Township. The information here is of the first three generations, many of whom settled in New York state, but others settled in Frontenac, Renfrew and Lanark Counties, Ontario. (Updated May 1, 2008)
• McDonald's Corners school with students in front, about 1880. There are about 75 students plus three adults, one of which is Mr. Purdon, a school trustee. This photo is now in the Lanark County Archives.
• MERRICK Family Bible Pages : Plomer Young Merrick and Julia Letitia MaGee, both of Merrickville. Plomer was a son of William Merrick and Julia Roche.
• Merrickville Men's Hockey team, 1903-1904. The players are identified as a group but not as individuals. Can you help? Surnames are: Angus, Cranstoun, Davis, Edwards, Kyle, Laycock, Merkley, Mills, Putnam, Watchorn.
•   Ottawa : 15 photos from 1970. I took these photos of a small music performance in a park in Ottawa. Look closely at the teenagers there because if you're under 30 you might see your parents! This is a link to a set of my photos on Flickr. Click on any of the small photos to see a larger version. Any info you might have would be helpfull -- for instance, in what park were the photos taken? It was close to a river, that's about all I remember. (Link added April 10, 2008)
• Perth : Autograph book, 1888 to 1897 The autographs and sentiments are directed to "Edith", who must have attended or even taught at the Perth Model School. She also had cousins and friends in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Surnames are: Armour, Barnett, Bower, Campbell, Clark, DeWitt, Douglas, Drysdale, Dunham, Forgie, Fumerton, Hammond, Jaques, MacDiarmid, McFarlane, McKinley, Motherwell, Murray, Pink, Ritchie, Scott, Silcoxson, Steele, Storey, Talbot, Taylor, Virtue, Wodden.
• Picnic at Playfairville, Ont. Large group of people, 1880's? Photo is from the Walter Cameron estate. Playfairville is at the junction of county roads 7 & 12 -- about a mile north of the village of Fallbrook, and eight or nine miles north-west of Perth, Ontario. Up to about 1900 Playfairville boasted several saw mills and even an iron mine. All that is left now (2008) is the church and three or four houses.
PURDON FAMILY PHOTOS & HISTORIES :
• Family of William PURDON & Elizabeth McDOUGALL, McDonald's Corners, Ont. (about 1880's?).
  Enlargement of the people in the above photo. Everyone is now identified and a short history of this Purdon family is included.
  Surnames: Clement, Dahlka, Lett, McDonald, McDougall, McIntyre, Proven, Purdon, Rathwell, Stewart, Teahan, Waite.
• Family of Robert PURDON and his wives Betsy & Jane THOM, about 1890. Robert Purdon was an older brother of William Purdon, above. Born in 1836 in Dalhousie Twp., he died in 1910 in Wingham, Huron County, Ont. A short history and a descendant list is included.
  Surnames: Dawson, Henderson, Laidlaw, MacKay, Purdon, Stein, Taylor, Thom.
• Jane (THOM) PURDON and family, taken after Robert's death.
• An email from Janet Gosior says: " I published a book on the Purdon families of Dalhousie Twp. in 2000. There has been a demand lately for copies so I have just reprinted it. (Anyone interested) can email me at purdonhistory@canada.com.
  More info is available on the website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~purdon/ "
• Queen's University, 1934. My father went to Queens for one year but flunked out because of too much serious partying. Among about 100 photos in an album of that era, I found these two of his friends at school, with names marked on one of them. Surnames are: Bean, Burt, Coy, Dobie, Gooderham, Lee, McBane, McConnell, Parry, Paulin, Platt, Scott(?), Wilmott. The other photo is simply marked "Boardinghouse Gang, Queens, 1934".
• Russell Ontario, circa 1926. Staff of the Russell Restaurant. Seventeen photos in all -- nine photos of the staff and eight of the family and/or friends of the owner in 1920's automobiles.
• Two STONE Families. The Charles F. Stone family of Perth, Ont. and the John Stone family, probably also of Perth. Charles Stone was at one time publisher of the Perth Expositor. There are two sets of photos here -- the first is a formal portrait, circa 1912-14, of the Charles Stone family, the rest are photos taken at the wedding of Etta Belle Stone to William Lawrence on 17 June, 1914. Members of both families are present in the wedding photographs, but it's not immediately clear how they were related.
• Smiths Falls or Brockville, Ont. Unidentified group, c.1940's-60's. Informal, outdoor photograph of 17 girls, 11 boys and an adult woman. Ages from about 10 to 13. Photographer is identified as "W. MacDonald, Smiths Falls". Possibly a church group?
• Tamworth, Ont. "C" Co., 146th O.S. Batt. Surnames include: Alton, Babcock, Barker, Bush, Campell, Charlton, Coxall, Cross, Day, Ekulbeck, Franklin, Furrs, Galbraith, Garrison, Hannah, Lambert, Lee, MacFarlane, McGill, Parks, Pennell, Pervus, Rogers, Salsbury, Samson, Smith, Stoddard, Switzer, Tompson, Wagar.
• Toronto, Ontario: Four Cyrillic gravestones seen in Toronto Necropolis & Crematorium. I originally assumed they were Russian, but have since been told that three are Macedonian and one is Bulgarian.
• Unknown school class, but almost certainly Lanark County. Probably Beckwith, Ramsay or Drummond Townships. Seems to be about 1890's. The children are well-dressed, so it may be a school in Carleton Place.
• Unknown school class. Probably Lanark County and most likely Lanark Village, Middleville or Hopetown. Looks like 1940's to 1950's. This shows the complete photo.
  • Enlargement of above photo showing the students only.
• Unknown school class. Unknown location. The wall behind the children is of stone and they are for the most part well dressed, so this is possibly a large town or a city school -- Kingston? Ottawa? Perth? Brockville?. A very fragile and fragmented photo.
• Two unknown classes, about 1920 It is the same school, as the outside entrance behind the students has the same brickwork. Two students are identified as "Bill" and "Hilda". And I'm guessing at the era -- can you identify even when the two photos were taken?
•   Unknown Woman, 1930's or earlier. Possibly taken in McDonald's Corners, but most certainly somewhere in eastern Ontario, based on where it was found in a country auction. (Added April 30, 2008)
• Wilstead S.S. No. 5 Undated class photo (c. 1936). Wilstead is just east of Gananoque, Ont.
  May 21, 2001 -- The children in this photo have all been identified.
  Click here to see the updated information on the Leeds & Grenville Genweb website.

ATIKOKAN, STEEP ROCK IRON MINES & CALAND ORE, ONTARIO : MOSTLY PHOTOGRAPHS
  Atikokan is in northwestern Ontario, about 200 km. west of Thunder Bay and 150 km east of Fort Frances. See Atikokan on Google Maps. We moved there in January of 1953, when the town's reason for being was Steep Rock Iron Mines, which was operating the world's largest open pit mine, and Caland Ore, which was mining a separate part of the same pit. At its height in the 1960's, three mines produced millions of tons of ore annually. I was there until I left high school to join the Canadian Navy in the fall of 1960. The mines have long since closed but Atikokan struggles on, marketing itself as "The Canoeing Capital of Canada". I will be adding to this section regularly now that I'm starting to scan my old color slides and black & white negatives. Click here to see the menu. (Updated August 19, 2008)
• Beardmore, Ontario. From a postcard dated by the photographer May 9, 1940. Shows the main downtown area and some residents.
• Cobalt, Ont.? Gray family photos, 1930's. A collection of 12 photos, mostly of people. The only person identified is "Douglas Gray, 1 yr. June 12". Also a woman, possibly his mother, is "Maude". The photos were mailed to Mrs. J. E. Vanclief, Goward, Ont., in an envelope from Shaw's Drug Stores, Cobalt. The envelope is my only reason for claiming that these photos are from Cobalt. Your expertise would be greatly appreciated in placing the photos and identifying the people.
• Empire, Ontario : Northern Empire Mine, 1929. I think Empire was very close to Geraldton, but the mine and town no longer exist. This is a postcard dated December, 1929. My parents lived at the townsite in the late 1930's and I'll post some photos from their album here soon.
• Fort William studio: photo of a World War I Captain. Who is he? This photo was found behind another when I opened the frame to photocopy the top one. A nice surprise, but who is this man?
• Downtown Geraldton Ontario, about 1935. Two photos from my parents' album showing some downtown stores with mud streets and partial wooden sidewalks. Shown are: C.M. Douglas, General Store; Geraldton Cafe; Geo. W. Matthews & Co. Stocks and Bonds; and Normandy Inn.
• Geraldton Hotel, Geraldton Ontario. From a postcard postmarked 1946.
• Geraldton area mining camp, about 1935. Five photos which seem to have been printed from the same roll of film as the Geraldton photos above.



KEARNS & VIRGINIATOWN ONTARIO : MOSTLY PHOTOGRAPHS
Kearns and Virginiatown are two small towns in north-eastern Ontario, situated almost on the Quebec border between Kirkland Lake Ont., and Rouyn Quebec. We lived in Virginiatown from about 1943 to about 1947, then made the one-mile move to Kearns where we lived until January 1953. This is a steadily growing collection of photos contributed by website users. In fact, it is probably the largest part of this website. Click here to see the menu. (Updated August 31, 2008)

• Cassiar, BC. Want some asbestos? Here's some asbestos -- a whole mountain of it. My father worked there in the middle 1970's. This postcard was published by Cassiar Asbestos Corp. Ltd., so they weren't trying to keep this a secret.
ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY :
These two items have been moved to my ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY website.
•   H.M.C.S. Ste Therese, ship's company photo, August 1961. A souvenir of my three years in the Royal Canadian Navy. The photo was taken when my ship was visiting San Francisco. Many men are identified but most are not. (Updated January 6, 2008)
•   H.M.C.S. Ste Therese, most of the weapons department, 1962/63. This was taken on the quarterdeck of the Ste. Therese, somewhere at sea. Can't place the time exactly but it must have been 1962 or the first half of 1963. Someone took the photo with my camera so I'm actually in it. (Updated March 19, 2008)


TWO NEWFOUNDLAND GRAVEYARDS :
In Newfoundland you are never very far from the dead. Graveyards greet you at the entrance to every village, and memorials can be found on nearly every headland overlooking the sea. I noticed two major differences between graves in Newfoundland and those in Ontario -- many headstones with dates well into the 1970's are the thin, white (limestone?) tablets common a century ago, and which can be seen in any mainland "Pioneer" cemetery. The second thing I noticed was the terrible state of many of the cemeteries -- weed-choked with the stones twisted and tumbling at every angle. Many of the cemeteries are well-kept and neat, but the ruins seem to be a significant minority. These photos were taken in late September or early October, 2005.
• Keels, Anglican Cemetery. Keels has to be one of the most remote and starkly beautiful villages I've ever seen. Our guidebook said that the earliest graves in this cemetery are dated from the late 1700's.
• Kings Cove Cemetery. A few kilometers down the road from Keels is the larger village of Kings Cove. It boasts at least two churches and a beautiful harbour. This graveyard, probably the Anglican, is larger and if possible, even more bedraggled than the one in Keels.

• Sanish, North Dakota, cattle roundup, about 1934. From my mother's photo album. I believe she taught school there for a year or so.
• Vernon St. Grade 7, 1907. Where is Vernon Street? This shows the complete photo.
  • Enlargement of the above photo showing the students only.
• Wilmington, Delaware -- KOLLER family photos -- These nine snapshots were found in a photo album belonging to my aunt, Dorothy (Dobie) Fraser. Photos are dated between 1925 and 1932, plus one undated group photo of the same family taken a few years later. My aunt may have known a Koller while attending the University of Toronto.
• Unknown group of people. Possibly in England? This group looks about to break into a Monty Python routine.

• ANDERSON Family Bible. The family of William and Elizabeth Anderson, who were married in Bytown, Canada West, on March 19, 1844. Most of their children were born in Kemptville, C.W. Surnames mentioned: Anderson, Bevitt (minister only), Bower, MacLennan, and Stawage (minister only).
• HAY - MacGREGOR Family Bible. The family Bible of George Hay and Mabel Rebecca MacGregor who were married 2nd September, 1908 in Riverfield, Quebec. Surnames contained in this bible: Bishop, Carson, Coombs, Crawford, Forbes, Gruer, Halliday, Hay, Kellock (minister only), Kerr, MacGregor, McGregor, McLeod, Morgan, Murphy, Perkins, Rennie, Sowler, Wilcox. This Bible was found in the Smiths Falls Flea Market, Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada, in August, 2003, and returned to the dealer who kindly let me transcribe the names.
• Family Bible of Howard PRICE & Eva Lillian HANES who were married June 9th, 1915 in Winchester, Ontario. The last entry is 1982. Surnames are: Hanes, McLeod (minister only), Price, Scott, Wanke.

LANARK COUNTY, ONTARIO :

• See other Lanark County directories & voters' lists on the LCGS website.
• Carleton Place : St. James Anglican Church, 1945 Annual Report. The list of contributors is transcribed and you can see page images of the complete booklet.
• Elphin, Snow Road & McDonald's Corners, 1919 Church Reports. With the name and contribution amount of each member. You can see page images of the complete booklet.
• Kitley Township, Leeds County, 1953 Voters' List. Complete transcription of 32-page printed booklet.


LANARK COUNTY ONTARIO :
1918 DIRECTORY OF RURAL PROPERTY OWNERS
These lists contain 3381 names from the 1918 "Guidal Directory Of Lanark County," scanned from photocopies of the originals in the Perth Museum. Please note that this is not a complete directory -- North Sherbrooke and Lavant Townships are missing. And although many people are indicated as living in various towns, there are no lists for owners of property within Perth, Carleton Place, Smiths Falls, etc.
• Bathurst Township. 449 names.
• Beckwith Township. 290 names.
• North & South Burgess Townships. 188 names.
• Dalhousie Township. 206 names.
• Darling Township. 123 names.
• Drummond Township. 450 names.
• North & South Elmsley Townships. 324 names.
  (South Elmsley Twp. is in Leeds County).
• Lanark Township. 287 names.
• Montague Township. 365 names.
• Pakenham Township. 253 names.
• Ramsay Township. 312 names.
• South Sherbrooke Township. 134 names.
•   Napanee : Selections from the Napanee Standard of August 26, 1887. Local news, one marriage and several deaths. Three out of the four pages are devoted to US and international news, so I've not transcribed those. (Added October 13, 2007)
•   Napanee : Selections from the Napanee Beaver of May 15, 1896. News, births, deaths, social notes, gossip, and outright lies. As well as local news from Napanee, there are short gossip/news columns from: Beaver Lake, Centreville, Colebrook, Croydon, Deseronto, Desmond, Enterprise, Erinsville, Fredericksburgh, Hawley, Ingle, Lime Lake, Millhaven, Morven, Orchard Hill, Plevna, Tamworth East, Violet, and Wilton. (Added October 10, 2007)
• North Elmsley Twp., 1915 Voters' List. About 300 names, even though two pages of the original list are missing.
•   North Elmsley Twp., 1945 Voters' Lists. Three voters lists -- Polling Divisions No. 45 & 46 only, both Federal and Provincial, from the area around Port Elmsley. (Added August 19, 2008)
McFARLANE FAMILY : 1821 JOURNAL & 1829 LETTER
These two documents are in the collection of the Metro Toronto Reference Library, and can be found in the Baldwin Room, indexed under "Lanark County" and "McFarlane, John." Both documents were microfilmed in 1941, but the film is unreadable, being almost completely black. Luckily, the original documents had been photocopied, and the library staff were able to copy the original photocopies for me. Both journal and letter are extremely fragile. I transcribed the two documents six or seven years ago for the Lanark County Genealogy Society website, but their website ran out of storage space so they weren't used. I just discovered the files on an old backup CD, so there they are.
• The Journal of John McFARLANE, 1821. Sailing from Geenock on May 19, 1821, this family endured many hardships by the time they started clearing their land near Lanark Village in August.
• Letter from John McFARLANE Sr. to his son John, 1829. His son John being the writer of the journal above. John Sr. was left behind in Scotland and has mostly woeful news for his son.
• Perth, Ontario 1898-1899 Directory. Originally published by the Perth Expositor. All of the individuals' names and the commerical listings are included as well as names of school students and teachers, etc. Not only does this directory tell you where everyone lived but also where they worked.
• Smiths Falls, Ontario, 1929 St. John's Church Annual Report. Contains the published list of subscribers, WWI Honour Roll, and names of church officials. You can see page images of the complete booklet.
• See other Lanark County directories & voters' lists on the LCGS website.

OUTSIDE OF LANARK COUNTY :

•   Alberta College, Edmonton, 1946-47 Calendar. About 300 names of students who received prizes and diplomas. (Updated Sept. 3, 2008)
• Three Dr. Barnardo's Homes postcards. c. 1918. They are from England, but about 30,000 Barnardo children were sent to Canada after 1870.
• McGIll University, Montreal : The Class of 1936. Names and addresses of the class of 1936. This includes Phil Edwards who at that time was Canada's most decorated Olympic athlete.
• Ottawa Journal, Wed. Nov. 3, 1965, Births & Deaths. These birth and death notices, along with those from the Globe & Mail below, were found under our kitchen linoleum during renovations.
• Ottawa Journal, Fri. Nov. 5, 1965, Births & Deaths.
• Memorials of Sanquhar Kirkyard, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. About 850 graves are listed along with short histories of many of the families. All of the photos have now been added as the first step in transcribing the complete text of this book.
  The Descendants of WILLIAM REID and MARGARET JANE RAFTER :
I found the above-titled book in an Ottawa bookstore several years ago. When I got around to looking at it recently I found a Certificate of Baptism and a colour photo stuck inside. The certificate is self-explanatory, but the photograph needs you to help with identification. Please see below.
• Baptismal Certificate of Margaret Jean Stuart. Daughter of Horace Stuart and Sarah Reid, born June 7th, 1923, in Yorkton SK, baptised 23 December, 1923.
• Class photo of 37 boys, all about eight years of age. They are well-dressed, some with school jackets, and I'm speculating it was taken at a private school, but Upper Canada College and Ashbury College have been ruled out through email enquiries. Must be 1980's or 1990's.
(Added June 25, 2008)
• Toronto Globe & Mail, Mon. Nov. 1, 1965, Births & Deaths.