Chatham: Planet Book and Job Dept, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 150 p. 23 cm. Frontispiece portrait and a few other b&w decorations. Cloth hardcover. Spine faded, tears in spine ends, corners worn. Scrape and small hole in front free endpaper. Early history of Kent County, Ontario, especially the Western District. Includes section on the War of 1812.
Barrie: Simcoe County Pioneer and Historical Society, 1908-1917. First Edition Thus. Cloth. Very Good. Various paginations. 21 cm. B&w portraits and illustrations. Green cloth hardcover. Hinges cracked internally. Pages neat and clean. The papers contain: 1) Justices of the Peace by Judge Ardagh, Sunnidale Fifty Years Ago by Geo. Sneath, Recollections of Moses Hayter, the first Jailer by S. L. Soules, Early Days in Oro, by Lt.-Col. O'Brien, Notes of Barrie's First Residents before 1837 by Sneath, Soules, W. H. Hewson and others. 2) Memories of a Pioneer by the Rev. Thos. Williams. 3) Memories of the Rebellion of '37 by Gilbert Robinson, Reminiscences of Lake Simcoe by Henry O'Brien, The Days of the Pioneers at Big Bay Point by Donald McKay, Pioneer Life in Vespra by Geo. Sneath, Some Reminiscences by Judge Ardagh, Interesting Document (Orillia Township) from the Orillia Packet. 4) Reminiscences of pioneer life by John Coucher Steele. (5 & 6) Old Penetanguishene by A. C. Osborne.
