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Collection : 1783-1826.

Call Number:
HIL-MICL FC LSC .Q4M4M4C6
Category:
Special Collections
Creator:
McGill University. McLennan Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Material Description:
1 microfilm textual records 35 mm
Contents:

The Collection includes the following sources:

Joseph Bouchette (1774-1841) Collection, schedule of the lands granted and a general statement of lands remaining ungranted in the Township of Quebec, also references to Crown and Clergy Reserves, 1809; a warrant for salary payment of 50 pounds for six months work to Reverend Edmund Burke (1753-1820), missionary to the Indians, Amherstburg, Upper Canada, 1797; Sir Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester, official papers, 1783-1793; William Osgoode to the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, memorandum concerning Crown Lands, 1798; Quebec, Executive Council Minutes (Extract), 1798, 1819; Levi Laurence, Burford Township, London District, Upper Canada, land grant, 1805; Lt-Colonel Joseph Robinson, residing in St. John's Island (PEI), memoir of his military services as commander of the South Carolina Royalists, 1797; Herman Witsius Ryland (1760-1838), public official of Lower Canada, letters to Sir James Craig, the Earl of Liverpool, and others, concerning the condition of Lower Canada, 1810-1815; Attorney-General, Jonathan Sewell (1766-1839), report to Lieutenant-Governor Robert Prescott (1726-1815), relative to some seditious proceedings at Montreal, 1796; Chief Justice Jonathan Sewell of Quebec, official papers, 1826; Joel Stone (1749-1833), founder of Gananoque, Ontario, family papers, militia returns, and business documents, 1787-1815; Gale, Samuel.

Originals:

The original records are held by McGill University, McLennan Library, Montreal, Quebec.

Finding Aids:

There is a numbered table of contents at the beginning of the reel, including a brief description of each record.

The table of contents is available in print and as a PDF.

See Microforms staff for digital copy of record.

PDF Finding Aid:
McGill-University_McLennan-Library_Document-List.pdf
Notes:

The sources which make up the Collection are microfilmed in an order which is different from the numbered order as given in the table of contents. The order of filming is as follows: Numbers 10,11,7,9,5,4,3,2,1,6,8.