Mississauga Library System

Local Archives:
BARNETT, MAJOR JOHN - CLARKSON

All material from the collection of Major John Barnett, Clarkson, Ontario.
  1. J. Barnett dies at 92 was avid historian. January 7, 1972
  2. We salute. Weekly, March 29, 1967
  3. Articles by John Barnett
  4. The Warren Clarkson House as it appeared in the mid 1930's, the same house as it is today, restored by major and Mrs. John Barnett (2 pictures)
  5. The Warren Clarkson House as it was built in 1826 (1 picture)
  6. Canadian Home Journal, March 1937. 4p. articles on restoration - Warren Clarkson House
  7. Stories Houses Tell. newspaper article n.d. on the Clarkson farmstead
  8. Roads - Lakeshore (handwritten notes)
  9. Roads Dundas Street (handwritten notes)
  10. Roads (handwritten notes)
  11. Handwritten notes on the Western Mail Stage and local Clarksonians
  12. An Act to Protect Indian Fishing Rights on the Credit River (handwritten notes)
  13. 5 typed pages dealing with the HAMMOND family
  14. Clippings - Clarkson Area, mostly industries (Mrs. Barnett)
  15. John Button of Buttonville by John Barnett (Ontario History, vol. XXXIX (1947) 15p.
  16. Letter to Mr. Barnett from L. R. Brown May 22, 1964
  17. Western Ontario. History Nuggets. No. 8, 1945. "Recent Trails in Local History" was read before the annual meeting of the Ontario Historical Society held at Kitchener in June 1945 by Major John Barnett. 10p.
  18. Record of a meeting held in the County Court of Peel, Brampton on January 5, 1923, regarding the promotion of new school section.
  19. The South Western Corner of Toronto Township and Lorne Park. 12 p. typescript (given by Major Barnett about 1940 at Community Hall)
  20. The Settlement of the Southern Part of Toronto Township. 9p. Delivered at the Clarkson-Lorne Park Institute meeting, February 2, 1926 by John Henderson
  21. Abstracts of Title. POLLARD, MONGER, CLARKSON, T. MERRIGOLD, S. E. S. JARVIS, KRIBBS-HEMPEL, HENRY GABLE.
  22. Farming a Hundred Years Ago. Typescript. 5 pages.
  23. Typescript. First 2 pages missing. 6 pages on local history.
  24. Toronto Township. 114 and 100 years ago. Typescript. Address given to a local society in Streetsville 1941.
  25. Silas Fletcher, Instigator of the Upper Canadian Rebellion, by John Barnett. Ontario History, Vol. XLI (1949), No. 1, 28 p. 2 copies, one in green bound boars, one stapled.
  26. Photographs - Clarkson area, some names and dates (Filed in Photo collections)
  27. Photographs, n.d., no names, stage productions
  28. Photographic proofs, n.d. no names
  29. Season's Greetings. An Old Fireplace Story. 1964 by John and E. Barnett, Clarkson
  30. "Our Ain Fireside" and Home of the Prestons. Front of House, 1892. - 2 photos
  31. Local Government in early days. 1 original typescript. 1 retyped copy
  32. 12 pages of handwritten notes on the Clarkson area by B.E. BARNETT from 13 Nov. 1968 and 17 March 69 plus numbered map and street names. 1 typed copy of notes.
  33. "A Relic of Old Decency" by John and Blanche E. Barnett. 1963.
  34. Notes by Trudy Mann on "Recent Trails in Local History" by Major John Barnett, a lecture delivered at Kitchener June 1945.
  35. Old barn rich with local history starts new life at Erindale Park. Mississauga News 10 Aug. 1988.
  36. Focus. Reconstruction of the 163 yr. Old Clarkson-Barnett Barn. Mississauga News 10 Aug. 1988.
  37. Notes from articles by Major John Barnett
  38. Cards listing the information in the Barnett Scrapbooks.
  39. Typescript of examples made by Major Barnett from The Life and Journals of Kah-ke-Wa-Quo-Na-By by Rev. Peter Jones.
  40. An early red school house and its century-old record book, by John Barnett, Ontario History, Vol. XLVIII (1956), No. 1