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Brief biography of Stewart Sawle MacInnes. From the book "History of the Niagara Peninsula and the New Welland Canal" by Albert Ernest Coombs, c. 1930.

Brief biography of Lorne B.C. Livingstone, Welland County Judge, c. 1930. Black and white portrait also included.

From the book "History of the Niagara Peninsula and the New Welland Canal" by Albert Ernest Coombs, c. 1930.

Obituary for Anna Mary Oram, Welland's first public health nurse and first woman councillor, from the January 8, 1968 edition of the Welland Tribune. She was Public Health Nurse from 1921-1945, and on Welland City Council from 1949-1952.

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Newspaper clipping where Louis Blake Duff recounts his arrival in Welland in 1905, from January 4, 1955.

Newspaper clipping of a biographical article about Louis Blake Duff in the Globe & Mail magazine, August 15, 1959. It details his life events and interests. He passed away two weeks after publication of the article on August 29, 1959.

Complete scanned copy of the short work "The Journey of the Printing Press across Canada", written by eminent Welland scholar Louis Blake Duff, c. 1937.

Black and white photograph of George R. E. Burgar (on the right), one of Welland's earliest settlers, c. 1889. He lived from 1806-1890. The man on the left is Dr. Sinclair Holland Glasgow.

Biographical text from the book "The History Of The County Of Welland" by the Welland Tribune Printing House, about George R.E. Burgar being one of Welland's earliest settlers. It gives an interesting account of what Welland was like when it was…

Microfilm copy of an obituary in the Welland Tribune for George R.E. Burgar, considered Welland's oldest settler, May 23, 1890.

Black and white photograph of the three grand old men of Effingham, c. 1920.

Affectionately so called by the local citizens of Effingham's past, they are from left to right: William Norris (1842-1927), Peter Ward (1847-1924), George Beckett…