McCullough Collection
A collection of tear sheets from the Spectator from September 30, 1930 to December 31, 1943 of the weekly articles on local history compiled by Charles Robert McCullough (1865-1947) There is a detailed listing of the articles by date and title.
[There are small gaps in the collection.]
September 27, 1930 - December 31, 1932
September 27, 1930 Forgotten Files of Old Time Hamilton Papers (#1)
October 4, 1930 " (#2)
October 18, 1930 " (#4)
October 25, 1930 Brock and Queenston Heights
January 17, 1931 Tales of the Gore Balance (#1)
January 24, 1931 More Tales of the Gore Balance (#2)
January 31, 1931 " (#3)
February 7, 1931 " (#4)
February 14, 1931 " (#5)
February 21, 1931 With the Colors at the Front or the Affair at Ridgeway (#1)
February 28, 1931 " (#2)
March 22, 1931 Tales of the Gore
May 16, 1931 Burlington Heights in History (#1)
May 23, 1931 " (#2)
May 30, 1931 " (#3)
June 3, 1931 " (#5)
June 20, 1931 " (#6)
June 27, 1931 " (#7)
July 4, 1931 " (#8)
July 6, 1931 " (#4)
July 11, 1931 " (#9)
July 18, 1931 " (#10)
August 29, 1931 Romantic Ravines
September 5, 1931 Burlington Heights in War Time (#16)
September 12, 1931 Burlington Heights in History (#17)
September 19, 1931 " (#18)
September 26, 1931 " (#19)
October 3, 1931 " (#20)
October 10, 1931 " (#21)
January 9, 1932 The Fighting Fleets on Freshwater (#1)
January 16, 1932 " (#2)
January 23, 1932 Sir James Lucas Yeo, R.N., K.C.B. (#1)
January 30, 1932 " (#2)
February 6, 1932 " (#3)
February 13, 1932 " (#4)
February 20, 1932 " (#5) Yeo Cannonades Camp at Grimsby
February 27, 1932 " (#6) The Affair at the Forty
March 5, 1932 " (#7) A Precipitate Retreat
March 12, 1932 " (#8) Yeo Raids Great Sodus
March 19, 1932 " (#9) Battle of Ball's Farm
March 26, 1932 " (#10) Mr. Speaker's Wig
April 2, 1932 " (#11) Burlington Heights Threatened
April 9, 1932 " Long Guns and Short
April 16, 1932 The Count De Puisaye (#1)
April 23, 1932 " (#2)
April 30, 1932 " (#3)
May 7, 1932 " (#4)
May 14, 1932 Abigail Becker (#1)
May 21, 1932 " (#2)
May 28, 1932 The O'Reillys of Old (#1)
June 4, 1932 " (#2)
June 13, 1932 The Davises of Bygone Days (#1)
June 18, 1932 " (#2)
June 25, 1932 The Smiths of Glanford
July 2, 1932 The Battle of Deonasadeo
July 9, 1932 Two Old-Time Stories
July 16, 1932 The Honorable John Willson (#1)
July 23, 1932 " (#2)
July 30, 1932 When Panagini Played
August 6, 1932 The Formation of Burlington Beach
August 13, 1932 The Colony of Niagara and Cognate Things
August 20, 1932 Slave Days in Canada (#1)
August 27, 1932 " (#2)
September 3, 1932 " (#3)
September 10, 1932 " (#4)
September 17, 1932 " (#5)
September 24, 1932 Tales of Thayendanegea (#1)
October 1, 1932 " (#2)
October 8, 1932 " (#3)
October 15, 1932 " (#4)
October 22, 1932 " (#5)
October 29, 1932 " (#6)
November 5, 1932 George Black and Train Communication
November 12, 1932 The Baronet of Burlington Terrace
November 19, 1932 Felix Farley's Bristol Journal
December 3, 1932 Dundas in Distant Days
December 10, 1932 The Spirit of Canada
December 17, 1932 An Artillery Officer's Diary (#1)
December 24, 1932 " (#2)
December 31, 1932 The Burkholders of Barton
January 7, 1933 - December 28, 1935
January 7, 1933 Rae of the Arctic (#1)
January 14, 1933 " (#2)
January 21, 1933 " (#3)
January 28, 1933 " (#4)
February 4, 1933 " (#6)
February 11, 1933 " (#5)
February 18, 1933 New From An Old Chateau (#1)
February 25, 1933 " (#2)
March 4, 1933 " (#3)
March 11, 1933 " (#4)
March 18, 1933 " (#5)
March 25, 1933 'In Days of Yore' Being Extracts From Old Files of the Hamilton Spectator (#1)
April 1, 1933 " (#2)
April 8, 1933 " (#3)
April 15, 1933 " (#4)
April 22, 1933 Indian Art in Place Names (#1)
April 29, 1933 " (#2)
May 6, 1933 A Destroyed Nation
May 13, 1933 Addison of Old St. Mark's (#1)
May 20, 1933 " (#2)
May 27, 1933 " (#3)
June 3, 1933 The Romance of a Song (#1)
June 10, 1933 " (#2)
June 17, 1933 John Byron of the Navy (#1)
June 24, 1933 " (#2)
June 30, 1933 " (#3)
July 8, 1933 Two Cameronians
July 15, 1933 Affairs of Honor (#1)
July 22, 1933 " (#2)
August 5, 1933 " (#4)
August 12, 1933 " (#5)
August 19, 1933 " (#6)
August 26, 1933 " (#7)
September 9, 1933 Indian Tales (#2)
September 18, 1933 " (#3)
September 23, 1933 " (#4)
September 30, 1933 " (#5)
October 7, 1933 A Night at Nahneetis (#1)
October 14, 1933 " (#2)
October 21, 1933 " (#3)
October 28, 1933 The Black Sixties (#1)
November 4, 1933 " (#2)
November 11, 1933 Young Finan's Journal (#1)
November 18, 1933 " (#2)
November 25, 1933 " (#3)
December 2, 1933 " (#4)
December 9, 1933 Romantic Betsy Bigley (#1)
December 16, 1933 " (#2)
December 23, 1933 " (#3)
December 30, 1933 Laura Bell of Belfast and Elsewhere
January 6, 1934 Madame Rachel
Annals of the Gore (1827, 1828, 1829) Series
January 13, 1934 - December 14, 1935
Articles numbered in Roman numerals from I to C
[missing: XXXIX, LXXIV, LXXV]
Also within this time period:
January 20, 1934 Bartlett of Brigus
November 16, 1935 Two Distinguished Artists
December 21, 1935 Some Seventy Years Ago (#1)
December 28, 1935 " (#2)
January 4, 1936 - December 31, 1938
January 4, 1936 Some Seventy Years Ago (#3)
January 11, 1936 First Century of Canadian Journalism (Series) (#1)
January 18, 1936 " (#2)
January 25, 1936 " (#3)
February 1, 1936 " (#4)
February 8, 1936 " (#5)
February 15, 1936 " (#6)
February 22, 1936 " (#7)
February 29, 1936 " (#8)
March 7, 1936 " (#9)
March 14, 1936 " (#10)
March 21, 1936 " An Earlier Spectator (#11)
March 28, 1936 " Two Ancient Newspapers (#12)
April 4, 1936 " Mackenzie and The Colonial Advocate (#13)
April 11, 1936 " The Stormy Petrel of Journalism (#14)
April 18, 1936 " The Hamilton Free Press (#15)
April 25, 1936 " Hamilton Papers of 100 Years Ago (#16)
May 2, 1936 " Spectator's Founder Arrives (#17)
May 9, 1936 " Spectator Files of 'Forty-Six' (#18)
May 16, 1936 " Smiley's First Editorial (#19)
May 23, 1936 " A Spectator Leader of 'Forty-Six' (#20)
May 30, 1936 " Historic Eighteen-Forty-Six (#21)
June 6, 1936 " From a Niagara Newspaper of 1820 (#22)
June 13, 1936 " Spectator - 90 Years Ago (#23)
June 20, 1936 " Spectator Annals of 'Forty-Six' (#24)
June 27, 1936 " Hamilton Sidelights in 1846 (#25)
July 4, 1936 " Our Files of 'Forty-Six' (#26)
July 11, 1936 " Almost a Century Ago (#27)
July 18, 1936 " Extracts From An Early Edition (#28)
July 25, 1936 " Ninety Years Ago Today (#29)
August 1, 1936 " Spectator Files of 'Forty-Six' (#30)
August 8, 1936 " Back to 'Forty-Six' (#31)
August 15, 1936 " Spectator News of Ninety Years Ago (#32)
August 22, 1936 " Spectator of 'Forty-Six (#33)
August 29, 1936 " From a Spectator of Long Ago (#34)
September 5, 1936 " In Eighteen Forty-Six (#35)
September 12, 1936 " Old Spectator Files (#36)
September 19, 1936 " The Spectator in 'Forty-Six (#37)
September 26, 1936 " Some Ninety Years Ago (#38)
October 3, 1936 no article published
October 10, 1936 First Century of Canadian Journalism (Series)
Spectator File of 'Forty-Six (#39)
October 17, 1936 " Spectator Columns of 1846 (#40)
October 24, 1936 " Spectator Files of 'Forty-Six (#41)
October 31, 1936 " Spectator of Ninety Years Ago (#42)
November 7, 1936 " Old Time Editor En Tour (#43)
November 14, 1936 " Back in Forty-Six (#44)
November 21, 1936 " A Spectator of September 19, 1846 (#45)
November 28, 1936 " In the Days of Elgin (#46)
December 5. 1936 Ellen Osler's Memorial
December 12, 1936 First Century of Canadian Journalism (Series)
Files of 'Forty-Six (#47)
December 19, 1936 The Spectator's First Christmas
December 26, 1936 Boxing Day
January 2, 1937 The Spectator's First New Year
January 9, 1937 First Century of Canadian Journalism (Series)
Back in the Forties (#48)
January 16, 1937 The Spectator in Retrospect
January 23, 1937 News of Long Ago
January 30, 1937 Paola Brown, the Town Crier (#1)
February 6, 1937 " (#2)
February 13, 1937 The Saint's Anniversary
February 27, 1937 Looking Backward
March 6, 1937 Advertisers of 'Forty-Six
March 13, 1937 The Old College (#1)
March 20, 1937 " (#2)
March 27, 1937 The Hamilton Charivari
April 3, 1937 Terry Branigan's Chronicles (#1)
April 10, 1937 " (#2)
April 17, 1937 " (#3)
April 24, 1937 The Tragedy of Jane McCrea
May 1, 1937 Peeps Into the Past. A Coast Conflict of '58 (#1)
May 8, 1937 " Publicity and Pioneers (#2)
May 15, 1937 " Honest Joe Rymal (#3)
May 22, 1937 " Peeps Into the Past (#4)
May 29, 1937 " In the Days of Monck (#5)
June 5, 1937 " The Trent and Other Troubles (#6)
June 12, 1937 " News and Views of '62 (#7)
June 19, 1937 " An Old Editor Talks (#8)
June 26, 1937 " Bird-Lovers and Others (#9)
July 3, 1937 " A Coleridge Forecast (#10)
July 10, 1937 " Sydney Smith and Others (#11)
July 17, 1937 " Back in the Sixties (#12)
July 24, 1937 " Artemus Ward and Others (#13)
July 31, 1937 " Echoes of Olden Days (#14)
August 7, 1937 " "Partisans, Profiteers, Patriots" (#15)
August 14, 1937 " Good Old Times? (#16)
August 21, 1937 " When North Fought South (#17)
August 28, 1937 " Freedom for Slaves (#18)
September 4, 1937 " Kings, Commoners and Cables (#19)
September 11, 1937 " Politics and Piety (#20)
September 18, 1937 " Charles Heavysege and Others (#21)
September 25, 1937 " While Neighbours Fought (#22)
October 2, 1937 " Poets, Press and Patriots (#23)
October 9, 1937 " The Glengarrian and Others (#24)
October 16, 1937 " The Thunderer and Other Things (#25)
October 23, 1937 " Elizabethan and Other Stories (#26)
October 30, 1937 " Princes and Pioneers (#27)
November 6, 1937 " The Martyred McGee (#28)
November 13, 1937 " Robinsons, Loyalists (#29)
November 19, 1937 Some Seventy Years Ago
November 27, 1937 Zealand of the Navy (#1)
December 3, 1937 " (#2)
December 11, 1937 Peeps Into the Past Series. Back in the Sixties (#31)
December 18, 1937 Christmastide of 'Fifty-Seven
December 18, 1937 Anglo-American Affairs in 1863
December 24, 1937 Jane McCrea
December 31, 1937 Peeps Into the Past. What Somerville Said (#34)
January 8, 1938 " Imperial Mexico (#33)
January 15, 1938 " News of 'Sixty-Three (#35)
January 22, 1938 " Principally About Princes (#36)
January 29, 1938 " "Farmer George" (#37)
February 5, 1938 " Fragments of History (#38)
February 11, 1938 " Garrick As Sherlock Holmes (#40)
February 19, 1938 " Seventy-Five Years Ago (#39)
February 26, 1938 " An Eminent Statesman (#41)
March 5, 1938 The Doanes. An Historic Family (#1)
March 12, 1938 " (#2)
March 19, 1938 Peeps Into the Past. Poetry and Physic (#42)
March 26, 1938 " Courts and Colleges (#43)
April 2, 1938 Redmen's Relics (#1)
April 8, 1938 " (#2)
April 16, 1938 " (#3)
April 23, 1938 Peeps Into the Past. Historical Review (#44)
April 29, 1938 " Press, Pulpit and People (#45)
May 7, 1938 On the Road
May 14, 1938 Land of Hope
May 21, 1938 Local History (#1)
May 28, 1938 " (#2)
June 4, 1938 " (#3)
June 11, 1938 Peeps Into the Past. War Talk in the Sixties (#46)
June 18, 1938 " Hamilton Steeplechase, 1983 (#47)
June 25, 1938 " The Way Westward (#48)
July 2, 1938 Albert Bigelow, Benefactor
July 9, 1938 "A Musician's Scrapbook" (#1)
July 16, 1938 Peeps Into the Past. Harriet Annie and the Editors(#49)
July 23, 1938 "A Musician's Scrapbook" (#2)
July 30, 1938 Peeps Into the Past. Pen and Sword (#50)
August 6, 1938 "A Musician's Scrapbook" (#3)
August 13, 1938 Peeps Into the Past (#51)
August 20, 1938 "A Musician's Scrapbook" (#4)
August 27, 1938 Peeps Into the Past. Some Seventy Years Ago (#52)
September 3, 1938 The First Four Georges (#1)
September 10, 1938 " (#2)
September 17, 1938 " (#3)
September 24, 1938 " (#4)
October 1, 1938 "A Musician's Scrapbook" (#5)
October 17, 1938 The Romance of Language (#2)
October 22, 1938 " (#3)
October 29, 1938 "A Musician's Scrapbook" (#6)
November 5, 1938 Peeps Into the Past. Warriors - White and Red (#53)
November 12, 1938 " Author of Wacousta, and Others (#54)
November 19, 1938 " In the Seventies and Eighties (#55)
November 26, 1938 " Henry, Lord Brougham (#56)
December 3, 1938 " Trotting and Taxes (#57)
December 12, 1938 " An Old Treaty and Other Things (#58)
December 17, 1938 " A Cricket Match of '63 (#59)
December 24, 1938 " An Old Commentator (#60)
December 31, 1938 " Kindling Thoughts and Other Things (#61)
January 7, 1939 - December 28, 1940
January 7, 1939 Peeps Into the Past. Forty-Nine and Following Years(#62)
January 14, 1939 " Fruit, Finance and Fighting (#63)
January 21, 1939 Roman Imperialism (#1)
January 28, 1939 " (#2)
February 4, 1939 Peeps Into the Past. War Clouds of the Sixties (#64)
February 11, 1939 Debtors of Other Days
February 18, 1939 Peeps Into the Past (#65)
February 25, 1939 " The Ambassador Enquires (#66)
March 4, 1939 Shy Man of Science (#1)
March 11, 1939 " (#2)
March 19, 1939 Peeps Into the Past. Several Celebrities (#67)
March 25, 1939 " The Pioneers (#68)
April 1, 1939 " Tom Talbot (#69)
April 8, 1939 " XIII Battalion Received Colours, 1863 (#70)
April 15, 1939 " Taxes, Tobacco and Temperance (#71)
April 22, 1939 " Afternoon of April 22, 1845 (#72)
April 29, 1939 The Band Refugees
May 6, 1939 Nathaniel Pettit, U.E. (#1)
May 13, 1939 " (#2)
May 20, 1939 The Van Everys of Flamboro
May 27, 1939 The Old Mill and Its Builders
June 3, 1939 An Armentieres Adventure
June 10, 1939 Peeps Into the Past. Some Seventy Years Ago. (#73)
June 17, 1939 Billy Green the Scout
June 24, 1939 An Editor's Diary
June 30, 1939 The Dream of Dominion Day
July 8, 1939 An Editor's Diary (#2)
July 15, 1939 " (#3)
July 22, 1939 The Stage (#1)
July 29, 1939 " (#2)
August 5, 1939 " (#3)
August 12, 1939 Looking Backward
August 19, 1939 Indian Tales. Thayendanegea (#1)
August 26, 1939 " (#2)
September 9, 1939 Old Time Letters. Peter Jones Correspondence (#1)
September 16, 1939 " (#2)
September 23, 1939 " (#3)
September 30, 1939 " (#4)
October 7, 1939 " (#5)
October 14, 1939 " (#6)
November 4, 1939 Golf and Golfers (#1)
November 11, 1939 " (#2)
November 18, 1939 " (#3)
November 25, 1939 Jean Baptists Rousseau (X) (#1)
December 1, 1939 " (#2)
December 9, 1939 " (#3)
December 16, 1939 The Hungry Year
December 30, 1939 Loyalists of Long Ago (#1)
January 5, 1940 " (#2)
January 13, 1940 From Colonel Gourlay's Files (#1)
January 20, 1940 " (#2)
January 27, 1940 " (#3)
February 3, 1940 Wanted: An Historical Society (#1)
February 10, 1940 " (#2)
February 17, 1940 Hamilton's Part in Telephonic History (#1)
February 24, 1940 " (#2)
March 2, 1940 The Old Bands
March 9, 1940 Hamilton Town in 1833 (#1)
March 16, 1940 " (#2)
March 23, 1940 " Town and Town Fathers (#3)
March 30, 1940 " Hamilton Happenings in 1835
April 6, 1940 Humanity Martin
April 13, 1940 A Hamilton Explorer
April 20, 1940 Daily Spectator and Journal of Commerce
April 27, 1940 Victor of the Marathon
May 4, 1940 Town Annals of 1836
May 11, 1940 Some Old Stone Houses (#1)
May 25, 1940 More Stone Houses (#2)
June 1, 1940 Hospitalization in Hamilton
June 8, 1940 "A Lady With a Lamp"
June 15, 1940 Historic Burlington Heights
June 29, 1940 An Ancient Mariner (#1)
July 6, 1940 " (#2)
July 13, 1940 Home of Hamilton's First Senator
July 20, 1940 More Old Stone Houses
July 27, 1940 Back in the Fifties
August 3, 1940 Admiral Saunders
August 10, 1940 Some "Might Have Beens"
August 17, 1940 A Royal Visitor
August 24, 1940 Tales of Courage
August 31, 1940 Tales for the Times (#1)
September 7, 1940 " (#2)
September 14, 1940 " (#3)
September 21, 1940 " (#4)
September 28, 1940 " (#5)
October 5, 1940 " (#6)
October 12, 1940 " (#7)
October 19, 1940 " (#8)
October 26, 1940 " (#9)
November 2, 1940 " (#10)
November 9, 1940 Story of an Old Cartoon (77th Wentworth Regiment)
November 16, 1940 Valiant Hearts
November 23, 1940 Looking Backward and Forward
November 30, 1940 Gallant Gentlemen and Others
December 7, 1940 An Anniversary
December 14, 1940 Leaders and Misleaders
December 21, 1940 "Mansion House of Liberty"
December 28, 1940 Chivalry and Chicanery
April 5, 1941,
January 3, 1942 - April 11, 1942,
January 2, 1943 - December 31, 1943
April 5, 1941 London Landmarks
January 3, 1942 The British Spirit
January 17, 1942 Sutherlands Hamilton
January 24, 1942 The Stage Coach Age
January 31, 1942 The Old Crystal Palace
February 7, 1942 Hamilton Newspaperdom (1869)
February 14, 1942 Hamilton in Fifty-Seven
February 21, 1942 Back to the Fifties
February 28, 1942 Old Time Advertisers
March 7, 1942 The Old Verandas - and Other Things
March 14, 1942 The Old Bookshops
March 21, 1942 The Open Door - A Medley of Memories (#1)
March 28, 1942 " (#2)
April 4, 1942 " (#3)
April 11, 1942 The Old Gore Bank
January 2, 1943 Crozier of the Terror. Recalling the Franklin Expedition (1845-1848) (#1)
January 9, 1943 " (#2)
January 16, 1943 Dear Old Dundas
January 23, 1943 More Brief Biographies
January 30, 1943 Choirs of Fifty Years Ago (#1)
February 6, 1943 " (#2)
February 13, 1943 Neighbourhood Names
February 20, 1943 Hotel on Wheels
February 27, 1943 Boarding Round
March 6, 1943 Scouting and Transport in War
March 13, 1943 Past Years...Being Some Reminiscences of Charles R. McCullough (#1)
March 20, 1943 " (#2)
March 27, 1943 " (#3)
April 3, 1943 Old Days - Old Ways (#1)
April 10, 1943 " (#2)
April 17, 1943 " (#3)
April 24, 1943 " (#4)
May 1, 1943 A Great Queen's Father
May 8, 1943 The Pioneers (#1)
May 15, 1943 " (#2)
May 22, 1943 The Monuments
May 29, 1943 The Pioneers (#3)
June 5, 1943 " (#4)
June 12, 1943 " (#5)
June 19, 1943 An XVIII Century Magazine
June 26, 1943 Hamilton's First Settlers
July 3, 1943 A Tribune of '83
July 10, 1943 A Spectator of 1852 (#1)
July 17, 1943 " (#2)
July 24, 1943 Old Time Advertisers
July 31, 1943 The Hungry Years
August 7, 1943 Heroine of 1812
August 14, 1943 Tales of the Great
August 21, 1943 A Descant on Doctors
September 4, 1943 Gentleman Johnnie Burgoyne
September 11, 1943 Story of Jane McCrea
September 18, 1943 Castle Dangerous
September 25, 1943 The Moores and Others
October 2, 1943 Just Seventy Years Ago (#1)
October 9, 1943 " (#2)
October 16, 1943 A Visit to Dundurn
October 23, 1943 A Brilliant and Beloved Bishop
October 30, 1943 A Canadian Leonidas (#1)
November 6, 1943 " (#2)
November 13, 1943 The Carrolls of Rockbay (#1)
November 20, 1943 " (#2)
November 27, 1943 Ninety-Nine Years Ago
December 11, 1943 Wits, Wags and Bigwigs
December 18, 1943 Tales That Were Told
December 24, 1943 Christmas Eve and Day, 1852
December 31, 1943 New Year's Eve and Day, 1852-1853