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Black and white halftone photograph of the Hydraulic Suction Dredge "Primrose" working on the fourth Welland Canal, c. 1920. From the booklet "Welland Ship Canal (Under Construction)" by the Department of Railways and Canals.

Black and white halftone photograph of land being reclaimed with excavated material during construction on the Welland Canal, Section No. 5, c. 1920. From the booklet "Welland Ship Canal (Under Construction)" by the Department of Railways and Canals.

Black and white halftone photograph of rock being blasted while constructing the fourth Welland Canal, c. 1920. From the booklet "Welland Ship Canal (Under Construction)" by the Department of Railways and Canals.

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…

Scanned copy of the 25-page booklet titled "Thorold Parish Centennial 1813-1913."

It contains a short history of the church community in Thorold from 1813 to 1913 and includes illustrations and photographs of prominent members of the…

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…

Three black and white photographs showing troop departures from the Michigan Central Station in Welland during World War 1, c. 1914-1918.

Scan of a copy of the first survey of the Welland Canal undertaken by Hiram Tibbet, an American engineer, May 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…

Colour photograph of the new Welland County Bookmobile parked at the Welland County Library, c. 1960.

It would later be purchased by Welland Public Library and operated by that institution from 1972-1979, when they replaced it with another…