Archive Record
Metadata
Accession # |
A2015.5 |
Title |
The History of Cumnock, compiled by Alex Macdonald; published by the author, 2009. |
Date |
ca.1890 - 2014 |
Description |
The History of Cumnock, compiled by Alex Macdonald; published by the author, 2009. This accession consists mainly of printing masters used for producing copies of the book. Usually, original photos, colour and b&w, and printed materials have been glued in place. The files are numbered and listed in accordance with the organization of the book chapters. The sheets have been numbered to correspond to the spiral-bound copy A2010.2 [MU 965]. A second, slightly different edition is A2014.78, with which an index has been prepared and filed [MU 1202]. Series 2 consists of materials collected but not used in the book. SERIES 1: HISTORY OF CUMNOCK. - file 1: Introduction and Acknowledgments - file 2: Province. - file 3: Districts. - file 4: County. - file 5: Surveying. - file 6: Jones Survey. - file 7: The Fergus Settlement. - file 8: Early Roads in Upper Canada. - file 9: Transportation in Early Years. - file 10: Banks and Money in Early Years. - file 11: Owen Sound Road. - file 12: Cumnock. - file 13: Cumnock Post Office. - file 14: Cumnock Service Station. - file 15: Cumnock School. - file 16: The Churches of Cumnock. - file 17: Cumnock Boys in Service [Bill Nesbitt; Wm. Bill Taylor; Walter Muir; Russell Muir; Kenneth Muir]. - file 18: Walter Muir Recalls the Past. - file 19: Threshing Days at Cumnock. - file 20: Century Farm at Cumnock [Taylor farm / Tay-Lore]. - file 21: Cumnock Tornado. - file 22: James Wilson & Sons, a.k.a. Monkland Mills. - file 23: Cumnock, Scotland. SERIES 2: MATERIALS NOT USED, ca.1890 - 2014. The following files consist of materials collected for, but not used in, the publication. Many of the materials relate to Thomas A. Harper (1866-1943) or his son William W. Harper (1892-1974); for additional family history, see below: - file 1: Invoices, receipts, accounts, ca.1890 - 1966. [Note: Divided into file 1A (A-F) and 1B (G-W). - file 1A: - A.H. Foote, Fergus, 1906. - A.R. McLean, Arthur, 1948. - Alma Feed and Chopping Mill, 1953. - Arthur District Co-operative Inc. (2), 1951. - Ashes of Roses Sachet, poem-advertising card, undated. - Austin Methodist Episcopal Church, [Chicago] (3), 1907. - Bank of Montreal, Elora / J.L. Pulkinghorn, 1930. - Bank of Toronto, Bradford, 191? - Bell Telephone, Fergus (2), 1930-1933. - Breeders Gazette / Alex Macdonald, 1958. - Carswell Bros, Elora, 190? - Charles Pryde, Mount Forest, 1943. - Cumnock Service Station / General Store, 1935-1956. - Cumnock United Church / Bruce Woods, 1952. - E.R. Bushfield Estate, Fergus, 1952. - Elliott Business College, 1907. - Elmer Beams Farm Eqpt., Fergus (4), 1949-1962. - Elora Cemetery / W.M. Petrie, 1905. [Letterhead: Alliance Assurance Co.] - Elora Hardware Co., 1957. - Elora Union Cemetery / John Alpaugh, 1901. - Fergus and Nichol United Fund (3), 1950-1957. - Fergus Co-operative Assn. (21), 1948-1958. - Fergus-Drayton United Co-operatives of Ontario, (2), 1954-1955. - Fergus Electric Light & Milling Co. (3), 1905-1906. - Fergus Market Scales (9), 1904-1906. - Fred Bell, custom work, 1948. - file 1B: - G.M. Davidson Massey-Harris, Elora (9), 1952-1958. - G.M. Welz, Elora, 1901. - Geo. H. Booth, Coal and Wood, Fergus (17), 1949-1957. - George Templin, Fergus (2), 1905. - Goold, Shapley & Muir Co, Brantford, 1902. - Groves Memorial Hospital Building Fund, 1954. - Guelph Daily Mercury (2), 1956, 1957. - Imperial Bank of Canada, Belwood / Albert Louttit (2), 1930, 1931. - J. Flannery & Co., Fergus, 1959. - J. Mennie, Fergus, 1904. - J.M. Adams, Drayton, 189? [book of blank promissory notes] - James Russell & Sons, Fergus (2), undated. - John A. Wilson, Fergus, 1904. - John Gibb, Elora 189?. - John McGowan, 1903. - Lewis Menary, Grand Valley (2), 1949. - Mrs. F. Palmer, 1903. - N.R. Drimmie & Sons Ltd., Elora, 1957. - Neilson Bros. / Jack Smeltzer, 1954. - Norman Hostrawser, Fergus (5), 1948-1951. - Percy Macdonald (4), 1951-1953. - Rawleigh Products, Herman Beurman, Elmira (2), 1957-1958. - Ross Spark Massey-Harris, Arthur (3), 1951-1955. - Royal Bank of Canada, Fergus (2), 1949. - Shaw Implement Co., Arthur (2), 1966. - Steele Brothers, Fergus (3), 1901, 1906, 1955. - Thomas Nesbitt, 1956. - W.J. Foote, Fergus, 192? - Walter Dixon & Sons, Fergus (2), 1948, 1956. - Watkins Quality Products / G. R. Smith, 1956. - William Leslie Stickney (6), 1954-1957. - William S. Conley, Nichol Twp. (2), 1906-1907. - file 2: Songs of the Living Way (Philadelphia: Pepper Publishing Co., 1898), 88 pages; on back cover: "Mrs. E. Harper." - file 3: Recipes, ca.1900. - Item 1: Lemon pie. - Item 2: Mountain cake / Spanish bun. - Item 3: Soap. - Item 4: Chili sauce / Hatch Patch pickle. - Item 5: Ripe cucumber pickles. - Item 6: Diamond Dinner Pills [advertisement]. - Item 7: Les pilules de Dodd [advertisement] - file 4: Insurance, 1895 - 1958. - Item 1: Receipts for amounts received from Thomas A. Harper by North Waterloo Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 1895 - 1904. - Item 2: Correspondence between The Temperance and General Life Insurance Company and Thomas A. Harper, 1900 - 1901. - Item 3: Receipts for amounts received from William W. Harper by North Waterloo Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 1949 - 1958. - Item 4: Receipt for amounts received from Bill Harper by Continental Casualty Co., 1950. - file 5: Letters to Thomas and Emma Harper and their boys John, Willie and George, 1900 - 1906. - Item 1: Dear Mr. and Mrs. Harper, condolences from Bethel League, 22 Aug. 1900. - Item 2: Dear Tom, from friend Joe [Broughton], Livingstone Creek / Thessalon, 25 Aug. 1900 [condolences]; 28 Nov. 1905; Dear Sister, from Mary [Broughton (nee Wright)], Thessalon, 7 March 1904. - Item 3: T. Harper, Alma, from J. Monaghan[?], 10 Dec. 1902. - Item 4: Certificate that Thomas Harper and his wife Emma are members of the Methodist Church, Alma Circuit, 18 July 1904. - Item 5: To Mrs. T. Harper, from Mrs. D. Mayne, Goldstone, 6 Sept. 1900; 11 June 1905. - Item 6: Dear Bro + family, from J.W. Harper, Oak Park, Illinois, 3 July 1905, expressing condolences on the death of his wife. - Item 7: To Mr. Harper, from Miss Nellie Reynolds, Hamilton (2 letters), 1906. - Item 8: Dear Tom, from Dr. Alex Singer, Brooklyn (2 letters), 1906. - Item 9: Dear Brother, from Mary R. Bee [(nee Harper)], Lemberg, Sask. (3 letters), ca.1906. - Item 10: Dear Mr. Harper, from Maggie B., Creek Bank, 18 Nov. [ca.1906]. - Item 11: My Dear Bro & family / My Dear little boys, John, Willie and George, from his sister, Sarah Jane [Jackson (nee Harper)], Glenallan, ca.1906. - file 6: Nichol Township Assessments, 1904 - 1906; 1949 - 1959. Items 1-3: 1904-1905-1906. Addressed to Thomas Harper, Part Lot 6, Con. 15 and Con.16, Nichol Twp. Items 4-15: 1949-1959, Addressed to William Harper, Part Lot 6, Con 15 and Con.16, Nichol Twp. - file 7: Maps, 1827 - 1922. Photocopies of District and County of Wellington; bus timetables. - file 8: Ontario Dept. of Public Highways, reports, 1920 - 1926. Photocopies of pages of tables and maps related to road construction in Wellington County and Nichol Township in particular. - file 9: Livestock shipping, 1948 - 1958. Includes shipping documents to Burns & Co, Kitchener; Essex Packers, Hamilton; John Duff & Sons, Hamilton; Canada Packers, Toronto; and United Farmers Co-operative, Toronto, by T. Miller, G.E. Thomson, C. Roche, 1948-1958. - file 10: Shur-Gain Feed Mill, Fergus, invoices, receipts, 1948-1963. [The four mills are linked by sharing the phone number 182] - Item 1: King Flour & Feed, 1948. - Item 2: Dubois Feed Mill, 1948-1952. - Item 3: Leslie's Feed Mill, 1953-1958. - Item 4: Whitelaw Feed Mill, 1963. - file 11: James Wilson & Sons Ltd., invoices, receipts, 1952 - 1959. - file 12: Envelopes addressed to, and lists handwritten by, Alex Macdonald, 1988-2009. - file 13: Photocopies made in researching the Harper family for this accession, 2014. Notes on the Harper family, 1839-1974: The biography of Richard Harper [Sr], in the 1906 Atlas of Wellington County, reports that he came from England in 1849, settled in Port Hope, and later farmed with his wife Jane Oliver (nee Lemin) at Concession 16, Lot 10, Pilkington Township - see below. Their large family included sons Richard [Jr] and his wife Mary (nee Amy) in Oakville - see below; and Aaron and Mary (nee Oakman) in Pilkington - see below. The 1871 Census of Canada shows Richard Harper [Jr], a blacksmith, and his wife Mary, both 32 years old, born in England, then living in Oakville, Halton County. With them are their children: Sarah Jane, born 1865; Thomas Amy, born 1867; John Wesley, born 1869; and Mary Rebecca (born 1870). An addition, Lily Josephine Harper was born to them in June 1872, but Mary Harper died several days later. Lily Josephine Harper seems to have disappeared from the historical record, as has her father Richard Harper. The family dispersed, as the children went to the homes of relations and friends. In the 1881 census, Sara Jane Harper is listed as a maid in the household of Robert and Rebecca Jackson, Peel Township. She does not appear in the Census of 1891 and 1901. In 1902 she married Henry Jackson and they settled near Glenallan. It is from there she wrote her brother ca.1906. The 1911 census shows John C. Harper, a nephew [son of Thomas A.], in the Jackson household. The 1881 Census showed John Wesley Harper with the family of Richard and Jane Oliver Harper [his grandparents] in Pilkington. He does not appear in the census of 1891 or 1901. When he wrote to Thomas in 1905, he was in Illinois. Mary Rebecca Harper appeared in the 1881 census with the family of Richard and Sarah Amy, relations of her mother in Pilkington Township. In 1890, she married Thomas Martindale Bee. The 1906 Census showed Thomas and Mary with 4 children at Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, where she wrote to Thomas about that time. Thomas Amy Harper was 14 in 1881, listed with the family of Aaron and Mary Harper [his uncle and aunt], in Pilkington. In 1890, he married Emma Wright, the daughter of George and Christian Wright of Pilkington. The following year, Thomas and Emma were farming in Woolwich, with a year-old son, George Wright (born 1890) The 1901 census listed the family in Peel Township, with the addition of William Wesley (born 1892); Russel Albert (born 1896 - died young, 1900). John Christian Harper was born in 1900; Thomas reported the birth, listing the mother as Jane Miller. The 1901 assessment roll for Peel Township lists him as proprietor of the flax mill in Alma. Thomas and his family were at Part Lot 6, Concession 15 and 16, Nichol Twp. in 1904. His wife Emma died in 1905. It was her sister Mary (nee Wright) and her husband Joseph Broughton who wrote from Livingstone Creek / Thessalon in 1904 and 1905. Thomas died in 1943. His son William continued on the farm until the 1960s. He died in 1974. William never married, perhaps aware of the deaths at a very young age of both his mother and grandmother. |
Creator \ Maker |
Macdonald, Alex |
Creator \ Maker |
Harper, Thomas Amy Harper, William Wesley Pepper Publishing Company |
Item Name |
Assessment Notice Book Correspondence Insurance Policy Invoice Letter Receipt Recipe Report Research Notes Song Sheet Statement |
Person \ Organization |
A. M. Taylor and Son Adams, J. M. Alliance Assurance Company Limited Alma Feed and Chopping Mill Alma Methodist Church Alpaugh, John Amy, Mary Amy, Richard Amy, Sarah Arthur District Co-Operative Incorporated Austin Methodist Episcopal Church Bank of Montreal Bank of Toronto Bee, Mary Bee, Mary R. Bee, Thomas Martindale Bell Telephone Company of Canada Limited Bell, Fred Bethel League Beurman, Herman Booth, G. M. Breeders Gazette Broughton, Joe Broughton, Joseph Broughton, Mary Burns and Company Bushfield, E. R. Canada Packers Carswell Brothers Conley, William S. Continental Casualty Company Cumnock Methodist Church Cumnock Post Office Cumnock Presbyterian Church Cumnock School Cumnock Service Station General Store Cumnock Store Cumnock United Church Davidson, G. M. Diamond Dinner Pills Dodd's Medicine Company Limited Dubois Feed Mill Elliott Business College Elmer Beams Farm Equipment Elora Agricultural Machine Company Elora Hardware Elora Union Cemetery Essex Packers Fergus and Nichol United Fund Fergus Co-Operative Association Fergus Electric Light and Milling Company Fergus Market Scales Fergus-Drayton United Co-operatives of Ontario Flannery, J. Foote, A. H. Foote, W. J. G. M. Davidson Massey-Harris George H. Booth Gibb, John Goold, Shapley and Muir Company Groves Memorial Community Hospital Building Fund Guelph Daily Mercury Harper Harper, Aaron Harper, John Harper, Mary Harper, Richard Harper, Sarah Jane Harper, Thomas Harper, Wesley Hostrawser, Norman Imperial Bank of Canada J. Flannery and Company Jackson, Henry Jackson, Sarah Jane James James Russell and Sons James Wilson and Sons Limited John Alpaugh and Sons John Duff and Sons Jones, Augustus King Flour and Feed Lemin, Jane Oliver Leslie's Feed Mill Louttit, Albert Macdonald, Alex Macdonald, Percy Mayne, D. (Mrs.) McGowan, John McLean, A. R. Menary, Lewis Mennie, J. Miller, Jane Miller, T. Monaghan, J. Monkland Mills Muir, Kenneth Muir, Russell J. Muir, Walter N. R. Drimmie and Sons Neilson Brothers Nesbitt, Bill Nesbitt, Thomas North Waterloo Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company Oakman, Mary Ontario Department of Highways Palmer, F. (Mrs.) Pepper Publishing Company Petrie, W. M. Pryde, Charles Pulkinghorn, J. L. Rawleigh Reynolds, Nellie (Miss) Roche, C. Ross Spark Masey-Harris Royal Bank of Canada S. S. #6 Nichol Twp. Shaw Implement Company Shur-Gain Singer, Alex (Dr.) Smeltzer, Jack Smith, G. R. Spark, Ross Steele Brothers Limited Stickney, William Leslie Tay-Lore Farm Taylor, A. M. Taylor, Bill Taylor, William Temperance and General Life Insurance Company Templin, George Thomson, G. E. United Farmers Co-Operative Company Limited Walter Dixon and Sons Watkins Welz, G. M. Whitelaw Feed Mill Wilson, James Wilson, John A. Wilson, John A. Woods, Bruce Wright, Christian Wright, Emma Wright, George Wright, Mary Zion Presbyterian Church Zion United Church, Cumnock Corners |
Place |
Alma Arthur Belwood Bradford Brooklyn Chicago County Of Wellington Creek Bank Creekbank Cumnock District Of Wellington Drayton Elmira Elora Fergus Glen Allan Glenallan Goldstone Grand Valley Hamilton Illinois Mount Forest New York Nichol Twp. Oakville Ontario Owen Sound Road Philadelphia Pilkington Twp. Saskatchewan Scotland Thessalon Upper Canada Woolwich Twp. |
Subject |
Agriculture Animals Family Life History-local Household Accounts Mill Music Weather |
Year Range from |
1890 |
Year Range to |
2014 |
Accession # |
A2015.5 |
Containers |
MU 1251 |