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Algonquin-Ontario-Township-Books Algonquin College Perth campus Research Library (posted on the Perth Historical Society website) “List of Ontario and Townships History Books – in Algonquin College Library, Perth” Title Description & Date Author/Publisher A Hibbert Review, County of Perth Lists by lot and concession with property owners 1953 Campbell, Isabelle A History of Drummond Township 1999 Ebbs, John C. A Pioneer history of the County of Lanark 1968 McGill, Jean S. Andrewsville and adjacent properties Montague Twp. (Ont.); Wolford Twp.; Oxford Twp. Newman, L.H. Augusta; royal township number seven Connell, Goldie A. (ed.); Gaylord, Bonnie M.; Winmill, Dorothy Away Back in Clarendon and Miller 1976 Armstrong, C.A. Back of sunset: a history of Central Frontenac Township 2000 Dawber, Michael Beckwith, Irish and Scottish identities in a Canadian community; two transplanted cultural communities..1816 and 1991 Lockwood, Glenn J. Beckwith Township Bennett, Carol Beckwith Township Fire Department; 40th anniversary 2005 Beckwith Township Volunteer Fire Department Beginning settlements of Ramsay Township, Lanark Co.; lots 20-27 Con 9 - East half only, and lots 20-27 Cons 10-12. 1981 Snedden, Marilyn Bonniemeade, Lot 26 Concession 11, Ramsay Township, Lanark County 1981 Currie, Evelyn Carleton Saga 1968 Walker, Harry Centennial, North Renfrew Agricultural Society 1857-1957 1957 Price, Mrs. Carl Dundas; or, A sketch of Canadian history 1972 Croil, James Edna's scrapbook; over 80 years of happenings in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville and area 1988 Chant, Edna B.; Schroeder, Lois Faded footsteps; the early settlers of Bathurst Township 2000 Jordan, Barbara Farm history, E1/2 lot 23, Conc. 4, Ramsay Township, County of Lanark, Ontario 1981 Sarsfield, Rose Mary Follow the smoke; the history of firefighting in Lanark Township 2004 Smith, Claudia Founding families of Beckwith Township, 1816 - 1842 2007 McCuaig, Carol Bennett Frontenac, Lennox & Addington; an essay 1980 Cooper, C.W. Grattan Township yesterday and today Township of Grattan Historical glimpses of Lennox and Addington County 1964 Lennox and Addington Historical Society Historical report, Murphy's Point Provincial Park, August 1981 1981 McPherson-Fox, Kathryn Historical sketch of McDonalds Corners, Snow Road and Elphin 1975 Geddes, Hilda Historical sketch of the County of Carleton 1971 Bond, Courtney C.J. 1 Algonquin College Perth campus Research Library (posted on the Perth Historical Society website) History of Leeds and Grenville 1972 Leavitt, Thad. W. H. History of Pine Grove School; farm histories of Lanark Twp. 1940; 197? History of the County of Lennox and Addington 1972 Herrington, Walter S. History of the Township of North Crosby and Westport 2006 Patterson, Neil I Mind the Time 2000 Drummond Twp. (Ont.); Adam family Adam, Evelyn In search of Lanark 1980 Bennett, Carol Index, illustrated atlas, Lanark County 1880, Renfrew County 1881; H. Beldon & Co., Toronto 1995 Livingston, Mildred R. Inside North Sherbrooke Vol. 1 2008 Stott, Beryl; Griffith, Barbara Its place in History; the parish of St. Patrick's Church, Ferguson's Falls; St. Columbill's, McDonald's Corners; Sacred Heart, Lanark McNally, Brian Kitley, 1795 - 1975 1974 Lockwood, Glenn J. Lanark Highlands Heritage Tours 2003 William Ross Solutions Lanark Legacy; nineteenth century glimpses of an Ontario county 1984 Brown, Howard Morton Leeds and Grenville; their first two hundred years 1967 McKenzie, Ruth Leeds the Lovely; 1951 Earle, Evelyn Purvis March Past 1972 March Twp. Burns, Bernard et al Montague; a social history of an Irish Ontario township, 1783-1980 Lockwood, Glenn J. Murphy's Point cottagers; at Oct 31, 1999 Property histories of "the fourteen or so private cottages on Big Rideau Lake within Murphy's Point Provincial Park located on a 3 km stretch from Hawse Bay in northerly direction halfway to Hoggs Bay." Frazer, W.W. (Wally) Pioneer Era and Memoirs; St. Bridget's, Stanleyville & N. Burgess 1976 Haughian, Marguerite Pioneer Sketches in the District of Bathurst 2003 Haydon, Andrew Ramsay Reflections, 1836 - 1862 Ramsay Municipal Corp. Ramsay Reflections, 1836 - 1979 1979 Campbell, Susan; Stewart, Trisha; Timmins, Shelley Rideau passages 1982 Big Rideau Lake; Portland; Bastard Twp.; Leeds County (Ont.) Moore, D. Jane Schools of Wolford Township 1979 Hughes, Alice South Elmsley in the Making, 1783 - 1983 1984 Kennedy, James R. The Canadian Mississippi River 1988 Geddes, Hilda The Dalhousie pioneer library History of Dalhousie Library, inventory of artifacts in the Dalhousie Pioneer Library McNicol, Mrs. Keith The Flourishing Tree 1977 Story of Presbyterian Minister, Rev. John Smith, his Church, family, Manse Beckwith Twp. Ringereide, Mabel The History of the County of Bruce; and of the minor municipalities therein 1960 Robertson, Norman The Last Laird of MacNab; an episode in the settlement of MacNab Township, Upper Canada 1974 Fraser, Alexander The Leeds, Grenville, Lanark & Renfrew county directory; with names of inhabitants of seventy towns and villages 1859 Copleston, E.A. The Pioneer Pastor; reminiscences of life of Rev. Geo. Buchanan, first Presbyterian Minister, Beckwith Twp. 1905 Campbell, Jessie Buchanan The Story of Dundas from 1784 to 1904 1973 Carter, J. Smyth The story of The Derry 1943 The Derry lies between the 5th and 7th concession lines of Beckwith Twp. Kidd, George Edward The Story of the Upper Rideau Settlement 1982 Hughes, Alice Township of Lanark, 1820 - 1970 1970 Thompson, Claire 2 Algonquin College Perth campus Research Library (posted on the Perth Historical Society website) Township of Ramsay showing those lots designated clergy reserve and crown reserve 1980 Macpherson, Jean E. Voters' list for the municipality of Drummond 1932; 1952; 1956 Drummond Twp. (Ont.) Voters' list for the Municipality of the Township of North Elmsley for the year 1915 North Elmsley Twp. (Ont.) Voters' list June 13, 1905 for the United Townships Dalhousie and North Sherbrooke in Lanark County, 1994 Dobie, Charles 3 .
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