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Brief historical account regarding where Welland city councils have met, from 1858 when it was a village to then-present 1971.

Information was compiled by David G. Barrett who was Welland City Clerk at the time.

A history regarding the Town Bell of Welland, compiled by Welland City Clerk David G. Barrett, c. 1981.

The second file is a clipping from the November 20, 1980 edition of the Welland Tribune, with David Barrett discussing plans for displaying the…

A brief history of the telephone in Welland, from 1877-1958. It was written by Bell Telephone Company's then-Public Relations Officer (for the Welland branch on Division Street) Jack Haskett.

The second file is a newspaper clipping from the…

24-page booklet written by the Pelham Women's Institute titled "Tweedsmuir Village History," c. 1951. It concerns the history of Pelham and its citizens and institutions.

The second file is a typewritten manuscript with the same information,…

Complete scanned copy of a special souvenir edition of the Welland Telegraph, August 22, 1902.

In the introduction the edition is described as thus:

"In publishing this special edition the Telegraph was inspired with the idea of presenting to…

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.

Booklet entitled "Niagara District Portrait Album and Souvenir," c. 1932. Published by C.B. Reece of Fenwick, it contains mostly advertisements of contemporary businesses in Niagara, along with a number of photographs of the Fenwick Fair, where the…

Reproduction of a report of the first survey for the Welland Canal, from William Hamilton Merritt to Major Hillier, c. 1823.

It consists of two letters from William Hamilton Merritt to Major Hillier, dated June 2, 1823 and September 22, 1823,…

Magazine article on the history of St. Lawrence Seaway and Welland Canal, from the August 1881 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine.

Harper's was a New York City-based publication, and the article is 21 pages long, titled "Water Routes from…

Complete scanned copy of the 35-page booklet titled "The Centenary of the Welland Canal" by Ernest Alexander Cruikshank, published in November 1924 by the Tribune-Telegraph Press.

It celebrates and examines the origin of the first Welland Canal…