Central Elgin (Yarmouth)

A look back at eighty years of Church Of England in Port Stanley.

A booklet titled "The Selborne Grist Mill", written by C. Teskey Smith. Contains the history of the Selborne Grist Mill, built in the early 1820s by Jesse Zavitz on a tributary of Kettle Creek, in an area known as Talbot Mills. As the area developed after establishment of the mill, the village was renamed Selborne.

Port Stanley Customs House Manifest Book for the period March 28, 1850 to December 13, 1852. Includes names of ships, destination ports and descriptions of cargo.

A second booklet advertising Port Stanley. Includes a brief history of the community as well as a listing of Port Stanley attractions and local businesses.

A booklet advertising Port Stanley. Includes a brief history of the community as well as a listing of Port Stanley attractions and local businesses.

A photograph album, likely compiled by Clara Moore Thompson, containing 212 photographs showing members of the Duncombe-Moore families, 1897-1904. Clara Kathleen Moore was born to Nelson Whitney Moore (N.W. Moore) and Mary Eliza Rebecca Duncombe on September 20, 1875. She married Peter McKinley Thompson in 1910, with whom she had at least one child: Mary. She died in 1958, and is buried at the Old English Cemetery.

History of the Paterson family in North Yarmouth. Also contains history on the Paterson Log Cabin which is currently at Dan Paterson Conservation Area.

Contains images and descriptions of St. Thomas and Port Stanley. Two sketches show the Kettle Creek Railway Bridge at St. Thomas and Invererie Heights at Port Stanley.  

More continued pages from the Diary of Mary Elizabeth ‘Minnie’ (Baker) Williams, July 3, 1918-May 16, 1921.

More pages from the Diary of Mary Elizabeth ‘Minnie’ (Baker) Williams, July 3, 1918-May 16, 1921.