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Fonds · 1903 - 2011

The fonds consist of various materials related to the activities of the Admiral Vansittart Chapter of the IODE and is arranged into the following series and subseries:

Series 1: Administration
Subseries A: Minute Books
Subseries B: Annual Reports
Subseries C: Financial Records
Subseries D: Membership
Subseries E: Constitution and History

Series 2: Citizenship Ceremonies

Series 3: Captain Andrew Drew Junior Chapter

Series 4: Sponsorship Programs
Subseries A: Old Crow, Yukon
Subseries B: Westwood High School, Stewart Town, Jamaica

Series 5: Opportunity Shop
Subseries A: Operations
Subseries B: Finances
Subseries C: Opportunity Tea and Coffee + One Party
Subseries D: Shop Schedules

Series 6: Special Events
Subseries A: Meetings
Subseries B: Anniversaries
Subseries C: IODE Week
Subseries D: Chapter Teas
Subseries E; Honor Student Dinners
Subseries F: Centennial Fashion Show
Subseries G: Founders Day / Old St. Paul’s
Subseries H: Scrapbooks
Subseries I: Miscellaneous

Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. Admiral Vansittart Chapter
A.E. Grant Company fonds
Fonds · 1905-1919

The fonds consists of one ledger compiled by Alexander E. Grant, Woodstock Shoemaker between the years 1905 and 1919.

Grant, Alexander E.
Arthur E. Clayton fonds
Item · [after 1915]-1929

The fonds consists of records related to the life of Arthur E. Clayton, with many relating to his time at Olney Friends School in Barnesville, Ohio. It is arranged into the following series:

    Series 1: Correspondence
Series 2: Photographs
Series 3: Miscellaneous
Arthur Evan Clayton
Baechler Family fonds
Fonds · ca. 1820 - 2007

The fonds consists of various materials relating to the history of the Baechler family, Oxford County (in particular East Zorra Township and the Village of Tavistock) and South Easthope. Such materials include:

 Family History entitled “Life and Times of Andrew Baechler” (two copies)

Exert from the booklet “A History of the East Zorra Amish Mennonite Church, 1837-1977” re.
Andrew Baechler (+ copy)

Deeds, Titles, Mortgages and Ownership of Lot 34, Concession 14, East Zorra Township and Lot 16,
Concession 3, South Easthope, as well as corresponding family history (property belonged to Joseph
S. and Anna Baechler)

Photographs (8) of Andrew Baechler and family

Business card – A. Baechler and Son, Ford Sales and Service

Auction Sale Bill for the Baechler estate

Original and copies of Death Notices – Baechler family

Newspaper articles related to Andrew Beachler and family

The Joseph Baechler Family History and Genealogy

Baechler, Andrew
Beachville Community fonds
1922-1955

The fonds consists of various materials related to the history of the Community of Beachville and include the following series:

Series 1: Police Village of Beachville
A: Minutes – 1922 – 1955

Series 2: Beachville Hydro Electric System
A: Minutes – 1917-1980
B: Financial – 1912-1960
C: Meter Registers – ca. 1950s – 1983

Series 3: South-West Oxford Public Utility Commission (P.U.C.)
A: Minutes – 1980-1995

Trustees of the Police Village of Beachville
Bernadette Smith fonds
Fonds · ? - 1956

The fonds consist of various materials related to Bernadette Smith and including the following:

  • Correspondence to Bernadette Smith and Michael Smith
  • newspaper clippings and scrapbook on the political career of Bernadette Smith
  • Gail Puddicombe’s research papers, notes, correspondence, etc
  • Gail Puddicombe’s essay on Bernadette Smith
Smith, Bernadette
Betty McArthur fonds
Item · 1949-2002, nd.

The fonds consist of various materials related to the career of Betty McArthur including reproductions of her pen and ink sketches of scenes of Woodstock and photographs taken by her of Woodstock homes as well as photos of herself painting. In addition, the fond includes several miscellaneous items including copyright for her book “Fine Lines Around Woodstock”, a programme of a 1996 Show at the Woodstock Art Gallery of her work, and newspaper articles.

McArthur, Betty
Item · 1907-2021

The fonds consists of following series and relate to history of the Oxford North Women’s Institute:

Series 1: Minutes (1907-2006)
Series 2: Tweedsmuir Scrapbooks (1910-2021)
Series 3: Programmes (1910-2018)
Series 4: Photographs ([before 1920], 2015)

Braemar Women's Institute
Brooksdale Church fonds
Item · 1872-1997

The fonds consists of records related to the day-to-day activities of the Brooksdale Presbyterian Congregation and St. Andrews United Church, Brooksdale between the years 1872 and 1997 and are arranged into the following Series:
Series 1: Minutes
Series 2: financial
Series 3: Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
Subseries A: Minutes
Subseries B: Financial
Series 4: Ladies Aid
Series 5: Choir
Series 6: Sunday School
Series 7: Honour Rolls

St. Andrew's Church (Brooksdale, Ont.)
Item · 1922-2018

The fonds consists of records related to the history and development of the Brookdale Women’s Institute. Additionally, the fonds contains information and records pertaining to the communities in Southern Oxford County.

It is arranged into the following series and subseries:

Series 1: Brooksdale Tweedsmuir Volumes 1-5 (1820-2011)

Series 2: Women’s Institute Miscellaneous (1909, 1918, 1920, 1923-2017)

  • Subseries A – Quilts
  • Subseries B – Programs

Series 3: Scrapbooks (1984-2000)

Series 4: Tweedsmuir History (2001-2017)

  • Subseries A – 2001-2002
  • Subseries B – 2003-2004
  • Subseries C – 2005-2007
  • Subseries D – 2008-2009
  • Subseries E – 2010
  • Subseries F – 2011-2012
  • Subseries G – 2013-2014
  • Subseries H – 2015-2016
  • Subseries I - 2017

Series 5: Brooksdale Minute Books (1922-2018)

Brooksdale Women's Institute, Oxford District, Southern Area
Fonds · 1974-1995

The fonds consists of records related to the history and activities of the Brownsville Optimist Club formerly located in Brownsville, Ontario. They are arranged into the following series and subseries:

Series 1: Charter Banquet, 1 June 1974

Series 2: Executive Officers’ Photographs
File 1: 1974 - 1980
File 2: 1980 - 1990
File 3: 1990 - 1995

Brownsville Optimist Club
Bud Case fonds
Item · 1960’s -

The fonds consists of various materials relating to the history of Oxford County and is broken down into the following Series and Subseries:

Series 1: Photographs
a) Gordon Pittock Dam Project (+ contact prints and negatives)
b) John Meathrell Bridge Project
c) Water Pollution Control Plan Ext No. 3, Admiral Street, Woodstock (contact prints and negatives)
d) Aerial photographs

  • Conservation Authorities/Dams
  • Gordon Pittock Dam
  • City of Woodstock and surrounding areas
  • Road/Bridge Construction work
  • e) General

  • Bridges
  • C.P.R. Main line relocation Pittock Dam
  • Drainage Maps
  • Kelsey-Hayes Canada
  • Miscellanous
  • Oxford County/City of Woodstock
  • Woodstock Fairgrounds

Series 2: Plot plans / Building site plans

  • for farms and properties in Oxford County and other Ontario Counties

Series 3: Maps and Plans
a) Drains
b) General (including a City of Woodstock map dated 1907)
c) Reference Plans
d) Roads

Case, Bud
1955-1999

The fonds consist of various materials related to the activities of the Woodstock Branch of the Canadian Federation of University Women and is arranged into the following series and subseries:

Series 1 – Constitution, By-laws, Pamphlets, Historical Notes (1955-1999)

Series 2 - Membership

a) General Membership (1956-1999)
b) Executive (1965-1999)

Series 3 – Reports: Financial and Committee (30 April 1956 – 8 December 1999)

Series 4 – Correspondence
a) General Correspondence (7 March 1957 – 30 September 1987)
b) General Correspondence (4 October 1987 – 13 December 2000)
c) Scholarship Correspondence (24 October 1986 – 19 May 1999)
d) Scholarship Correspondence (7 June 1999 – 8 October 1999)

Series 5 – Report (September 1967 – September 1998)

Series 6 - Bingo/Lottery Licenses (31 December 1992 – 8 December 1999)

Series 7 – Bulletins (September 1966 – December 1984)

Series 8 – Disbandment (28 April 1999 – 4 June 1999)

Canadian Federation of University Women – Woodstock Branch
Charles C. Carryer fonds
Item · 1860-1869

The fonds consists of ledger no. 3 compiled by Charles C. Carryer, Saddler etc. of Woodstock, Ontario between the years 1860 and 1869.

Carryer, Charles Caleb
Claxton Ray fonds
Item · 1968-1983

The fonds consists of two bulb and plant propagation record books spanning the years 1968-1983.

Claxton Ray
Cowing Family fonds
Item · 1917-1938, 1951

The fonds consists of three farm account books belonging to Emery Cowing and Robert Cowing, of East Zorra Township.

Cowing family
C.P. Harrison fonds
Item · 1889 - 1894

The fonds consists of two wage record books compiled by C.P. Harrison, Cabinet Maker between 1889 and 1894.

Harrison, Charles Poole
Collection · 1859-1956

The fonds consists of 1 land deed belonging to John Dunlop, East Zorra Township dated 1859 and five photographs related to the Craigowan Estate and Oxford Golf and Country Club.

Crawford Family fonds
Fonds · 1800 - 2007

The fonds consist of records related to the history of the Crawford family. They are arranged into the following series and subseries:
Series 1: Diaries
Subseries A: Benjamin Benedict Crawford (1800, 1810-1859)

  • This Series consists primarily of diaries of Benjamin B. Crawford. These include a diary of a trip to Upper Canada in 1800, as well as yearly diaries from 1810 to 1859. Diary entries relate to; the weather; farm activities; social events in the community; births, marriages and deaths of his family and his neighbours; experiments with crops and prices of supplies and produce; Kings County court sessions; the Rebellion of 1837; elections; and services in the Anglican church in the Ingersoll area. Daniel Nathan Crawford, the eleventh child of Benjamin Benedict Crawford, continued his father’s diary during the latter’s final illness, and after his death for the remainder of 1859.
  • This subseries also includes transcripts of a majority of the diaries, made by Blanche Crawford, in 1938.

Subseries B: James Augustus Crawford (1865-1882)

  • The diaries of James Augustus Crawford, a son of Benjamin Benedict Crawford, note farm duties, and family and community activities.

Subseries C: Leeman Wallace Crawford (1877)

  • The diary of Leeman Wallace Crawford (son of James Augustus Crawford, and a carriage- maker at London), contain entries describing his work, with some references to politics, and family and community affairs.

Subseries D: Charles W.A. Crawford (1848-1875)

  • The diaries of Charles W.A. Crawford contain description of his daily work, including purchases, sales, and debts related to his farming businesses. These diaries have been transcribed by a member of the Crawford family.

Subseries E: Eliza Georgina Crawford Nichols (1930-1945)

  • The diaries of Eliza Georgina Crawford continue daily musings of people and events.

Series 2: Correspondence [18-- ] – [1995] (not inclusive)

  • Includes correspondence of various members of the Crawford family concerning personal and family matters. Letters also include correspondence to/from Ruth (nee Crawford) Ellis regarding family genealogy.

Series 3: Writings of Christopher Colin Crawford (ca. 1880s)

  • Includes unpublished manuscript writings (poetry and prose). Tiles are as follows:
    Poems:
    Battle of Queenston Heights
    India’s Golden Gate
    The Lamb
    Lines Written on the death of late Mrs. H. Guppy
    The Metis
    The Rockies
    The Shanly Boy
    Prose:
    Along the Bow
    Camp Life on the Bow River
    Chinook Winds
    A Frontier Town
    Infidelity
    Latest Mining News from British Columbia
    On Leaving Silver City
    Montana
    The Serpent
    A Visit to Morley
    Winter, 1885-1886
    A Word about the Provincial Agricultural Exhibition of Asaboia

Series 4: Genealogy ([18-- ] – 2007)

  • A very complete and detailed genealogy of the generations of the Crawford family in North America beginning with John and Jane Henderson Crawford, whom arrived in Connecticut, United States from Ireland. It contains dates and places of birth, marriages and deaths; details on families into which Crawfords married; and often a description of the individuals the early genealogy was prepared in 1927 by Mrs. Olive Arnold Crawford of Ingersoll, Ontario, with the assistance of certain relatives, while the later and more complete family history was completed by Ruth Ellis.
  • Includes research papers and notes, newspaper clippings, and photographs, as well as a copy of “The Crawford Family” by Ruth Ellis.

Series 5: Almanacs (1761, 1814-1853)

  • Contains New Brunswick, New England, Maine, Canada West Farmer’s Almanacs, and several Medical Almanacs. These are arranged alphabetically according to the locality for which they were calculated. Occasionally, a diary was bound into an Almanac, and these volumes have been stored with the diaries.
Members of the Crawford family