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A short video of the S.S. Keewatin from April 28, 2023 going under Bridge 21 in Port Colborne, the day it traversed though the Welland Canal toward Hamilton for repairs, until it will eventually end up at Kingston where it will function as a museum…

Colour photographic postcard of the Main Street Bridge lifted to allow a ship from Canada Steamship Lines to pass on the Welland Canal, c. 1950s. Photo looking north-west from Merritt Park.

Colour photographic postcard of a ship going past the old aqueduct on the Welland Canal, undated, possibly 1960s. Taken from the Main Street Bridge.

Original illustration in black ink of the Welland Water Works Pumping Station, which operated on the Welland River near West Main Street between 1888 and 1915. Illustration undated.

Typewritten pages of an autobiography by L.D. Raymond. The text would have been handwritten sometime between 1880-1890, and was copied with a typewriter at an unknown date.

Lorenzo Dulmage Raymond was the first Crown Attorney, Clerk of the Peace,…

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.

Scanned copy of the short booklet titled "Source Books for a Study of the History of Welland County" by Louis Blake Duff, February 1, 1943.

Louis Blake Duff (1878-1959) was the prominent scholar and historian for Welland. This booklet was owned by…

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

Biographical text written by Louis Blake Duff from the book "Welland Centennial 1858-1958" by the Corporation of Welland, about his rememberances and the importance of David Ross to early Welland.

A newspaper article on Ross Beard painting murals in Oshawa, and with Beard discussing his painting process.