Arnprior & McNab/Braeside Archives

Date

unknown

Format

map

Collection/Fonds

Peter Hessel collection

Description Level

Item

Fonds No.

0021

Series

3

Reference No.

M026

Physical Description

photocopy

Size: 16.5 x 23.5 (smaller)

Material Details

Scale: unknown

Scope and Content

Shows the ethnic distribution (“cultural regions”) in Renfrew County by ethnic group and by township. Based on the 1941 Census, a 1953 publication, and the 1961 Census

Notes

two photocopies, with one an enlargement. Unknown origin. Title Supplied by Archivist

Accession No.

1994-0021

Subject Access

Maps - Population

Geographic Access

Renfrew

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Date

1941

Format

map

Collection/Fonds

Peter Hessel collection

Description Level

Item

Fonds No.

0021

Series

3

Subseries

HES1

Reference No.

M067

Physical Description

photocopy

Size: 22 x 28

Material Details

Scale: see map

Scope and Content

Yellow coloured townships are showing predominantly German origin in 1941 census. Beside Renfrew County, other counties are Pontiac, Frontenac, and Lennox & Addington

Related Material

see Peter Hessel book "Destination: Ottawa Valley"

Accession No.

1994-0021

Subject Access

Maps - Population

Geographic Access

Renfrew

Frontenac

Lennox & Addington

Pontiac

Less detail

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Charles Macnamara fonds

Description Level

Item

Series

5.5

Creator

Charles Macnamara

Physical Description

1 mounted print : b&w ; 9.5 x 11.75 cm

Scope and Content

Chesterholme in Quebec City.

Accession No.

2002-0154

Less detail

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Arnprior District Museum Collection

Description Level

Item

Physical Description

1 mounted photograph : b&w ; 10.4 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

Studio portrait of a man in two women in German dress. The caption under the photograph reads "Berchtesgadner-Gruppe."

Accession No.

1993-0005

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Date

1881

Format

map

Collection/Fonds

Reference Material

Description Level

Item

Series

2

Reference No.

M026

Publication

H. Belden & Co.

Physical Description

photocopy

Size: 36 x 22

Material Details

Scale: unknown

Scope and Content

Shows streets, town lot numbers, town sections, and block designations. One copy has handwritten Fraserville, Churchville, and Girouxville.

Notes

2 copies

Related Material

portion of map from page 58 of Historical Atlas of Lanark and Renfrew Counties

Accession No.

9999-9999

Subject Access

Maps - Lot Plan

Geographic Access

Pembroke

Less detail

Date

1846

Format

map

Collection/Fonds

Renfrew County Land Records

Description Level

Item

Reference No.

M055

Physical Description

paper on cloth backing

Size: 49 x 62 cm.

Material Details

Scale: 40 chains = 1 inch

Physical Condition

faded, dirty, stained, torn

Conservation

removed from wood frame and cleaned

Scope and Content

Map of Pembroke Township showing lots and concessions, Allumette Lake. Signed by Commissioner of Crown Lands Dept. September 1846

Accession No.

2003-0161

Subject Access

Maps - Lot Plan

Geographic Access

Pembroke

Less detail

Format

textual records

Collection/Fonds

Peter Hessel collection

Description Level

File

History / Biography

About 8,000 families from northeast Germany (mostly from Prussia and Mecklenburg) emigrated to the Ottawa Valley between 1857 and the 1870s. Most of these people settled in the northwestern part of Renfrew County, but a significant number also settled in McNab Township and Arnprior, with particular concentrations in German Settlement (now called Clay Valley) and Mansfield.

Scope and Content

The file contains information relevant to genealogists researching their German roots. Some of the information is in German.

Notes

Much current information on this subject is available on the Internet, both in English and in German.

Related Material

See also the books, “Destination: Ottawa Valley” by Peter Hessel and “Harvest of Stones” by Brenda Lee-Whiting.

See Also “Passenger Lists" from Germany” (1858-61) in a large box on shelf H1.5

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Text

John Claud Manley German of Toronto and Mary Kathleen O’Brien. ( Jan. 9, 1914, p. 2 )*

Index

Marriage Index

Link

Arnprior Chronicle p. 2

Date

1914-01-09

Newspaper

Arnprior Chronicle

Page

2

Less detail

Date

1959

Format

map

Collection/Fonds

Arnprior District Museum Collection

Description Level

Item

Reference No.

M038

Physical Description

blueprint

Size: 128 x 91

Material Details

Scale: 1 in. = 50 ft.

Physical Condition

edge torn

Scope and Content

Shows location of sawmill, sorting plant, facility buildings, track lines, and main CPR line along Ottawa River for the Pembroke plant. Shows legend with freehold properties in red and leased properties in green.

Accession No.

1993-0005

Subject Access

Maps - Yard Plan

Geographic Access

Pembroke

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Format

textual records

Collection/Fonds

Peter Hessel collection

Description Level

File

Fonds No.

0021

Series

1

Subseries

WHY

History / Biography

The subject refers to the decisions leading to Pembroke becoming the principal town of Renfrew County in 1861. There was much controversy over that decision in Renfrew (the village) and McNab Township. At one point in 1862, McNab and Bagot-Blithfield even applied for separation, arguing that Pembroke was 60 miles away, while Perth was only 40 miles away. Back in 1857, Daniel McLachlin had offered to donate land for the County buildings, but his offer was turned down.

Scope and Content

File consists of:

1. Photocopy of an article by C.E.J. Whebell (University of Western Ontario) called “Why Pembroke?”, published in Ontario History (vol.? year?). Whebell was an associate professor in the Dept. of Geography, University of Western Ontario.

Key terms: Francis Hincks; county population figures of 1851 (8.423), 1861 (20,325). Politics, political history. McNab Township assessment (wealthiest in the County).

Accession No.

1994-0021

Less detail

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Charles Macnamara fonds

Description Level

Item

Series

2.4

Physical Description

1 postcard : col.

Scope and Content

Colour postcard depicting the monument to Samuel de Champlain located in Quebec City.

Accession No.

2002-0154

Less detail

Date

1938

Format

map

Collection/Fonds

Peter Hessel collection

Description Level

Item

Reference No.

M069

Physical Description

textual record

Material Details

Scale: 1 in. = 100 ft.

Physical Condition

folded

Scope and Content

Full title: "Plan of the King's Highway in the Township of McNab Country of Renfrew as Assumed by Deposited Plan No. 192 and Land Plan through concessions VI, VII, VIII, IX, XI, XII & XIII Shewing Widening"

Item consists of a large folded plan showing widening of Highway 17 near Arnprior Fair Grounds to Clifford Side Road in McNab Township with concession numbers, lot numbers and land owners.

Accession No.

2012-0260

Subject Access

Maps - Road

Geographic Access

McNab

Less detail

Date

ca. 1920

Format

photographic

textual records

Collection/Fonds

Charles Macnamara fonds

Description Level

Item

Creator

Charles Macnamara

Physical Description

1 mounted photograph on notebook page : 15.5 x 23 cm

Scope and Content

An original photo of the Hudson's Bay Company canoe later used as a bank note engraving. Includes some handwritten notes by Charles Macnamara concerning the photograph and its background. Another copy of the photo can be found in K4.3.

Notes

Paper is glued to a frame.

Related Material

See engraving of the scene in box K3.0.

Accession No.

2002-0154

Less detail

Date

1982

Format

map

Collection/Fonds

Reference Material

Description Level

Item

Reference No.

M034

Physical Description

print - black & white

Size: 85 x 53

Material Details

Scale: 1:250,000

History / Biography

Donated by Eric Ridgen

Scope and Content

Shows the Resource Management areas of Renfrew County, provincial parks, deer yards, spawning areas, etc. Gives townships, some towns, lakes, rivers, roads, railways, air bases and Indian reserves.

Notes

.

Accession No.

9999-9999

Subject Access

Maps - Land Use

Geographic Access

Renfrew

Less detail

Date

1886 circa

Format

map

Collection/Fonds

Renfrew County Land Records

Description Level

Item

Reference No.

M023

Physical Description

paper on cloth backing

Size: 63 x 44 cm.

Material Details

Scale: 40 chains = 1 inch

Physical Condition

bit dirty

Scope and Content

Fraser Township showing concessions, lots, Bonnechere River, Indian River (2 branches), and some lakes. Mackey's Road and Bonnechere and Pembroke Road shown.

Topographical symbols show marsh land and elevated areas.

Accession No.

2003-0161

Subject Access

Maps - Lot Plan

Geographic Access

Fraser

Less detail

Date

1919

Format

map

Collection/Fonds

Charles Macnamara fonds

Description Level

Item

Series

3.1

Reference No.

M013

Creator

Charles Macnamara

Publisher Series

Dept. of the Interior, Canada

Physical Description

linen backed paper, ink

Size: 48 x 69

Material Details

Scale: 1 in. = 3.95 miles

Scope and Content

Map is folded into case. Pembroke Sheet shows portions of Haliburton, Nipissing, Hastings, Renfrew, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Counties Ontario, Pontiac and Timiskaming Counties Quebec. Lots and Concessions within each Township are shown.

Accession No.

2002-0154

Subject Access

Maps - Topographical

Geographic Access

Ottawa Valley

Less detail

Date

1902

Format

map

Collection/Fonds

McLachlin Bros. fonds

Description Level

Item

Reference No.

M006

Publication

surveyor, Wilkie OLS, Carleton Place

Physical Description

linen - ink

Size: 49 x 40

Material Details

Scale: 1 in. = 2 chains

Acquisition Source

Donated to the Archives by Arthur McLean in 2003. The maps were in the basement of his law firm's building on John Street. Mr. McLean's father Alan McLean took over the law firm from Arthur Burwash who was the lawyer for McLachlin Bros.

Scope and Content

Shows Dochert Village and McLachlin Bros. land along the Ottawa River

Accession No.

2004-0168

Subject Access

Maps - Survey

Geographic Access

McNab

Dochart

Less detail

Date

1876

Format

map

Collection/Fonds

Renfrew County Land Records

Description Level

Item

Reference No.

M043

Physical Description

hinged map

Paper on cardboard backing

Size: 81 x 131

Material Details

Scale: 2 chains = 1 inch

Physical Condition

bit dirty with worn edges

Scope and Content

Large hinged map. Shows town lots by number, street names, CC Railway Station, some reserves, rock ridge, and Muskrat Lake.

Accession No.

2003-0161

Subject Access

Maps - Lot Plan

Geographic Access

Cobden

Less detail

Date

1942

Format

map

Collection/Fonds

Renfrew County Land Records

Description Level

Item

Reference No.

M037

Physical Description

vellum on cardboard backing

Size: 64 x 59

Material Details

Scale: 1 in. = 100 feet

Scope and Content

Shows town lots by number, plan numbers, street names and Indian River.

Accession No.

2003-0161

Subject Access

Maps - Lot Plan

Geographic Access

Pembroke, Churchville

Less detail

Date

unknown

Format

map

Collection/Fonds

McLachlin Bros. fonds

Description Level

Item

Reference No.

M034

Publication

surveyor, MacDonald

Physical Description

linen - ink

Size: 39 x 41

Material Details

Scale: 1 in. = 80 ft.

Acquisition Source

Donated to the Archives by Arthur McLean in 2003. The maps were in the basement of his law firm's building on John Street. Mr. McLean's father Alan McLean took over the law firm from Arthur Burwash who was the lawyer for McLachlin Bros.

Scope and Content

Shows lot layout along Claude Street between McGonigal Street and Elgin Street in the village of Arnprior. Plan is part of the estate of the late Daniel McLachlin

Accession No.

2004-0168

Subject Access

Maps - Lot Plan

Geographic Access

Arnprior

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