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Black and white photographic print of a collage of portraits of the Officers and Council of the Welland Board of Trade, 1907. From left to right, top to bottom: C. H. Hanson; B. J. McCormick; D. Ross; Col. Raymond; John Goodwind; Alex Griffiths; G.…

Black and white photographic print of a plaque commemorating Louis Blake Duff, who died in 1959. An inscription says "A true scholar and a gifted editor, publisher and author; eminent historian and inimitable humorist."

Black and white photograph showing construction of the Niagara Street (formerly known as North Main Street) Bridge, Welland, April 18, 1932.

The Niagara Street Bridge would officially open on April 21, 1932 as part of the Welland Day…

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.

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.

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

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…

Brief biography of Louis Blake Duff of Welland.

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

9-page handwritten manuscript titled "Recollections of my first two years both as a British Emigrant and observer of Welland in the early 20th Century" by Walter Gower. Not dated, but probably written in the 1970s. He gives a personal account of many…