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Archive Record
Metadata
Item ID# |
A2010.099.0786 |
Title |
History of Wiarton & district |
Object Name |
Book |
Dates of Creation |
January 1961 |
Creator |
Sims, James Percy |
Other Creators |
Preston, Mrs. C. (Eleanor) |
Description |
James Percy Sims and his daughter, Eleanor Preston, have compiled written information and oral history data on Wiarton and district covering the last years of the occupation of the Indians and settlement by whites. Early accounts of the settlement of the town of Wiarton from the child of a first generation settler including people, events, organizations, industry, shops, churches, schools, and folklore from that time. |
Collection |
Schmalz, Peter fonds |
Parent Object |
Schmalz Series 1, File 6 |
Level of Description |
Item |
Physical Description |
87 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm |
Places |
Amabel Township Bruce Peninsula Bruce's Caves Cape Croker Clavering Colpoy's Bay Grey County Keppel Township Oliphant Oxenden Saugeen Peninsula Spirit Rock Conservation Area Tobermory Wiarton |
People |
Akiwenzie, Joseph V. Atkey, James Crandon, William (Sr) Flarity, William Henderson, James Johnson, Chief Oliver Johnston, Orville Jones, Arthur Jones, Charles Kegedonce, Chief Jones, John C. Jones, Peter Jones, Thomas Keeshig, Edward Keeshig, John Wesley Nadjiwon, Peter Christopher Nadjiwon, Marceline Preston, Eleanor Preston, William Sims, James P. Smith, Daisy Sutton, Catherine (Nahnebahwequa) Sutton, William Trout, James |
Search Terms & Subjects |
Arenas & recreation facilities Bands Banks Barbershops Blacksmiths Business Butchers Cemeteries Churches Doctors & physicians Education Factories Foundries Hospitals Legends & myths Marine Mills Organizations Parks Postal service Postmasters Quarrying Radio industry Railways (railroads) Sawmills Schools Sports Tanneries Telephone industry Trails & paths Treaties Women's Institute |