Printed brochures and some copies of Arnprior ads.
Key words: Museum, house tour, Salute to the Valley, Royal Tour, Royal Oak, Two Rivers Artists Studio Tour, Downtown Arnprior, B.I.A., industry, industries, industrial development, program for ceremonies at Mayor Tom Sullivan’s retirement party in 1989. Trish Dyer. Bonnie Jane’s Scones, Arnprior Book Shop; Arnprior Bookshop, Arnprior: Souvenir Book and Historical Sketch, 1831-1909, a certificate entitling bearer to one cubic centimeter of property on the historic island at the Madawaska and Ottawa Rivers; advertising feature on Arnprior published in Nepean This Week, Vol. 2, No. 31, pages 16 to 20, August 6, 1999.
1. Booklet produced by the Town of Arnprior (in 1946), with newspaper clippings pasted over some of the text by an unknown collector of clippings. On the cover: town hall, 1940. Population: 4300. Water conditions. Arnprior Hydro. Municipal Council 1946 (Mayor A,A. McLean). “Arnprior - The Heart of the Ottawa Valley”, Rev. J.T. Warnock [Dean Warnock], Sullivan & Son, David Craig & Son, telephone, McCord’s Drug Store, Alex Menzies, T.T. Barnes, Kenwood Mills, Buchanan Brothers (article by Harry Walker), Canadian Public Booth Co. Ltd., AS.F. Campbell & Son, Cold Storage Plant, Boat Building Plant (Ayling & Ramage), newspapers, airport, fire brigade, John Street looking north (N of Madawaska), Separate School, Public School, Sacred Heart Convent was home built by Claude McLachlin about 1880, then John Burwash, Lindsay Russell, Eric McLachlin, Charles E. Read: sold to St. John Chrysostom. Sanitaris Building (Kenwood). High School. Stafford R. Rudd, Parental Association, street names, Wagenblass, Stan Slater’s Bread and Pastry, R.M. Simpson residence, Francis B. Murphy, editor of Arnprior Guide, Golf, Beattie’s Service Station and Lunch Room in the old grist mill (built by Daniel McLachlin), Neil Campbell Insurance, Malloch’s Tourist Home, Canadian Tire (Elgin Street), Caruso’s grocery, Donoghue Motors, Scholl’s, Newbyrne Hotel, Central Hotel, Yacht Club, beaver colony, Sand Point.
2. Brochure with ring-binder, blue cardboard cover, “The Town with a Future ... Arnprior, Ontario - Canada”. This 14-page brochure was produced by the Town of Arnprior at some time during or shortly after 1979, when George M. Johnson was mayor and Gary M. Buffam was Clerk. It was printed by Brittles. Some aerial views of the town. Climate chart, population chart with age distribution and ethnic origins, employment data, government facilities, trade unions, wage rates, manufacturing firms and their employee numbers, information about water, sewage, power, natural gas, education, new housing, churches, banks, hospital, cablevision, recreational facilities, transportation, municipal taxes, utilities, medical services, dental services, living environment, the 1979 municipal budget.