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Scanned copy of the "Niagara Historical Society, No. 9" booklet, c. 1902.

The Niagara Historical Society published their research/speeches regularly in these volumes, of which the Welland Public Library has most between 1-44.

Volume 9…

Scanned copy of the book "Third Report from the Select Committee appointed to examine and enquire into the management of the Welland Canal" c. 1836.This 575-page government report now functions as an in-depth history of the First Welland Canal. An…

Scanned copy of the book "The Canadian Canals: Their History and Cost" by William Kingsford, c. 1865. The Welland Canal is featured on pages 58-79.

Scanned copy of the book "Biography of William Hamilton Merritt" by J.P. Merritt, c. 1875.

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…

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,…

Early Welland citizen Jacob Ryan recounts history of the area, from 1835-1911. Article from the October 24, 1911 edition of the Welland Telegraph.

In the article it states he was born in 1827 in Wainfleet, and moved to farmland on what was later…

Three black and white photographic prints of William Hamilton Merritt. The first is his portrait, and the second and third pictures show him pointing out over the Welland Canal. Undated.

Black and white photographic print of a special page of The Welland Telegraph, from Jan 1, 1918. It lists A. Hendershot as the first Mayor of Welland, elected in 1878. Moses Betts, who was Reeve of Welland in the year of Confederation in 1867. M.…