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        CA ON00395 C.0004 · Collection · 1812-1953, predominant 1833-[ca. 1878]

        Most of the records consist of letters written to Mark Young Stark and his wife, Agatha, in Dundas. Correspondents include friends and family in Scotland or friends and colleagues in Upper Canada. Of the Scottish letters, those from Stark’s stepmother (Mary Bannatyne) and aunt (Grace Young) are the most numerous. Some letters predate Stark’s immigration to Canada in 1833. Other letters were written to his wife and to their daughter, Mary Ann, after Stark’s death in 1866. Topics addressed in the letters revolve around personal and family news but occasionally touch on current events, including politics and ecclesiastical affairs.

        Stark, Mark Young
        Martha Ann Kidd fonds
        CA ON00334 F90 · Fonds · 1817-1997

        Research collection of Martha Anne Kidd, local Peterborough historian, relating to her work with Peterborough Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (PACAC), Peterborough Historical Society, Peterborough Planning Committee, as well as numerous research notes and papers on the preservation of historic buildings, the Ontario Heritage Act, and Heritage Canada..

        Series A Historical Preservation in Ontario (Files 1-101), 1932, 1967-1991

        Series B Heritage Planning in Peterborough (Files 102-166), 1962-1991

        Series C Heritage Tourism and Promotion (Files 167-230), 1968-1978
        Includes brochures for many committees promoting heritage and tourism, particularly in Central and Eastern Ontario; documents related to the Roy Studio Collection promotion(1996-1998); original sketches and planning with Tim Jackson (1984); Heritage Peterborough (1985-1987); Jackson Park Pagoda Project (1987) including historical research from the 1890s.

        Series D Historic Properties (Files 231-300)
        Photographs, historical research and materials relating to streetscapes and identified houses and buildings in Peterborough and surrounding areas; includes information from CIHB and HABS, c. 1970; PACAC bylaws (1974-1986)

        Series E Peterborough Biographies (Files 301-400)
        Historical research on Peterborough individuals, (including all architects) and families as well as records relating to the Peterborough Historical Society.

        Series F Mixed Items (Files 401-461)
        Highlights include: Dobbin Index to Industries (1913), Dr. Hutchison Register of Births (1817), Langton Letters (1834-35), Prime Time Profiles.

        Series G Peterborough Despatch (Files 462-564)
        Copies of news articles (1848-1860) on subjects such as: Peterborough Town Council, bylaws, elections, politics, Peterborough people, agriculture, amusements, businesses, organizations, fires and fire brigade, military, religion, sports, transportation; births, marriages, deaths

        Series H Ashburnham Maps and Plans (Files 565-580), 1850-1903

        Series I Peterborough Fire Insurance Plans (Files 581-600), 1882, 1889, 1911, 1929
        Also includes Peterborough County and Town maps

        Series J Martha Ann Kidd and the Heritage Movement (Files 601-657)
        News features on Martha Ann Kidd, correspondence; papers relating to her husband, Kenneth Kidd, a professor of Archaeology at Trent University.

        Series K Ashburnham and Peterborough City Collector’s Rolls and Directories (Files 658-702)
        Copies of Ashburnham Collector Rolls (1861-62), copies of Ashburnham Directories (1858, 1864, 1865-66, 1870, 1876, 1883-84, 1894-95, 1897, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914), copies of Ashburnham Assessment Rolls (1874, 1882, 1889, 1899, 1900), copies of Ashburnham Voter’s Lists (1863, 1878), copies of Peterborough City Directories (1851, 1858, 1870-71, 1876, 1883, 1888, 1895, 1897, 1913).

        Series L Peterborough Street Index (Files 703-772) Photographs and descriptions to various properties.

        Series M Peter J. Stokes Photographs (Files 773-779), 1969
        Photographs and negatives relating to the downtown district of Peterborough.

        Series N Photographs and Postcards (Files 780-834)
        A vast photograph and postcard collection depicting residents, properties, and events in Peterborough townships including Lakefield, Chandos, Harvey, Otonabee/Keene, Asphodel, Dummer, Douro, Smith/Ennismore as well as Stoney Lake. Materials relating to surrounding counties such as Victoria and Northumberland should also be mentioned.

        Series O Negatives (Files 835-924)

        Series P Street Series (Files 925-1407), 1970s
        Collection includes historic summaries of various street names in downtown Peterborough, as well as a detailed street by street pre-1890 building inventory featuring many photographs of Peterborough properties as well as owner history.

        Series Q Canadian Inventory of Historic Buildings (CIHB) Reports (Files 1408-2863)

        Series R Mixed Items (Files 2864-)

        Kidd, Martha Ann, 1917-2012
        CA ON00156 DA TD/CTLC · Collection · 2007

        This collection comprises documents received in response to an Access to Information request addressed to Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) by the Corporation of the Town of Deseronto, Ontario, in 2008. The request asked for copies of documentation submitted as part of the Culbertson Tract land claim of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and upon which the decision to allow the claim had been based.

        The documents in this collection are all photocopies of materials located in public archives in Canada. The materials range in date from 1779 to 1959 and record the interactions between the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and the British and Canadian governments, in relation to lands, from the time of their departure from the Mohawk Valley to the mid-twentieth century.

        Fonds · 1877 - 2009

        Fonds consists of records created or collected by members of the prominent Gordon family of Port Credit during the course of their personal and professional lives.

        While the records span three generations of the Gordon family, the fonds centres on the personal and professional records of George W. Gordon. His records, as well as smaller bodies of records created by four of his children, Lillian, Rhena, Francis (Frank), and Douglas Wilden, came into the care of his granddaughter, Sandra (Gordon) Moore who partially organized them and conducted related family research. Moore’s own records and those of her ancestors have therefore been treated as an organic whole and no attempt has been made to split the body of records into separate fonds; however, series are described in terms of the family member to whom records pertain (see below for series listing).

        George W. Gordon’s records include a substantial number of letters dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century from members of the Wingfield, Beamish, and Gordon family members and acquaintances, relating to daily life in small Ontario settler and farming communities such as Utterson, Allensville, Port Credit, Springfield-on-the-Credit (now Erindale) as well as larger centres such as Hamilton and Toronto. Some letters came from further afield in the North West Territories, England, and the US. Domestic and personal records collected or created by Gordon also include administrative records related to fraternal organizations (Masonic and Orange Lodges), household receipts, farming expense accounts and diaries, land and financial records, and various ephemera.

        The fonds also contains a significant body of records emanating from George W. Gordon’s role as justice of the peace and magistrate for Port Credit, including marriage licence applications, administrative records related to the Toronto Hamilton Highway Commission, and police court records. The latter include completed forms such as summons, warrants, and complaints, correspondence and signed statements made in court relating to criminal charges and civil infractions.

        Records created by Gordon’s children, Lillian, Rhena, Frank, and Douglas Wilden include correspondence, photographs, ephemera, family research, and professional records related to teaching. Lillian Gordon’s records include a significant amount of mid-twentieth-century correspondence with suitors located in Ontario, the US and Germany.

        Sandra Moore’s records contain a substantial amount of family research, including correspondence with relatives and records offices in North American and the United Kingdom. Her records include extensive documentation of the Beamish family of which one branch settled in Springfield-on-the-Credit.

        Fonds comprises the following series:

        Series 1: Wingfield correspondence
        Series 2: Beamish correspondence
        Series 3: Gordon family correspondence
        Series 4: George W. Gordon domestic and personal records
        Series 5: Lillian Gordon records
        Series 6: Rhena, Frank, and Douglas Wilden Gordon records
        Series 7: Sandra Moore (nee Gordon) records
        Series 8: Gordon family photographs
        Series 9: Gordon oversize records
        Series 10: Gordon professional records

        Gordon family, Port Credit
        Olive Doran fonds
        CA ON00334 F321 · Fonds · 1870-1994

        The papers consist of the genealogical records compiled by Olive Doran especially during the 1980s and 1990s.

        A. Families, vols. 1 to 10, files 1-275, 3.2 metres, 1980-1994: Files include family trees, photographs, correspondence, relating to the following families in particular: (see below) . Photographs are interfiled in many places, and some of these date from as early as 1920s.
        B. Cemeteries, vols 10-11: Includes copies of Ontario Genealogical Society inventories,
        C. Research, vols 11
        D. Publications, vol 12
        E. News clippings, vol. 13 and 14
        F. Photographs, vol. 15 to 23

        Doran, Olive
        Fonds · 1971-2010

        The fonds is arranged in two series:
        Application Files series, 1971-1986
        Minutes series, 1971-2010

        Elgin County Land Division Committee
        Burwell Family fonds
        Fonds · ca. 1800-1982

        The Burwell Family fonds is primarily comprised of the peronal and buisness papers of Hannibal Burwell (1825-1886), his son, Alfred E. Burwell (1871-1943) and his daughter Hannah Alberta Eliza Burwell (1864-1929), later Mrs. David Williams.
        •There are 20 related artifacts including two family bibles, a portable writing desk belonging to Hannibal's father, Mahlon Burwell (1783-1846), a prominent surveyor, Justice of the Peace and MLA, Albert Burwell's South Africa War medals and volunteer service medals and a portrait of Mahlon's daughter Louisa Burwell (1818-1834).
        •The fonds is divided into the following series:
        •-Associated Artifacts series, ca. 1800-1914
        •-Books series, 1808-1931
        •-Personal Documents and Ephemera series, 1810-1932
        •-Financial and Real Estate series, 1861-1886
        •-Correspondence series, 1863-1887

        Burwell (family)
        Township of Whitby fonds
        CA ON00329 F 2012 · Fonds · 1837-1968

        Fonds consists of the official records of Whitby Township, including Council Minutes, 1852-1967; By-laws, 1850-1967; Board and Committee Minutes, 1884-1966; Assessment and Collectors Rolls, 1848-1968; and Clerk-Treasurer's Records, 1837-1967.

        Whitby (Ont. : Township)
        Town of Whitby fonds
        CA ON00329 F 2011 · Fonds · 1855-1966

        This fonds consists of the official records of Whitby, including Council Minutes, 1855-1960; By-laws, 1855-1966; Board and Committee Minutes, 1861-1954; Assessment and Collectors Rolls, 1855-1960; Board of Health Records 1934-1957; Court Records, 1928-1955.

        Whitby (Ont.)
        CA ON00210 75 · Fonds · 1947-2006

        Fonds consists of records documenting the activities, programs, finances, operation and history of the Jewish Vocational Services. Included are meeting minutes, photographs, correspondence, surveys, reports, financial statements, certificates, bulletins, newsletters, newsclippings, press releases, anniversary books, and one DVD.

        Jewish Vocational Services of Toronto
        CA ON00210 9 · Fonds · 1925-1982

        Fonds contains the records of the Toronto Office (Central region) of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada. The fonds consists primarily of textual records: minutes, correspondence, financial records, reports, immigration files, naturalization case files, social service case files and the records of attempts to trace missing individuals. There are also photographs of special events, speakers and arriving immigrants.

        The fonds represents an important resource for the study of Canadian Jewry, especially when taken in conjunction with the JIAS National Office records at the Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives in Montreal, and those of the Western Office at the Library and Archives of Canada. It documents the means by which a particular Canadian ethnic community has dealt with the problems of rescue, settlement and government relations. These records also offer insight into the relationship between the Toronto Office and the other branches of JIAS, and invite comparison with similar agencies in the United States, as well as those of other ethnic groups in Canada.

        The material collected includes information about the countries of origin, transportation routes, settlement and employment patterns of Jewish immigrants to Canada in the twentieth century. The documents also touch upon important related issues such as advocacy, sponsorship, admission processes, health and social problems.

        These records cover several waves of immigration following the Second World War: Holocaust survivors in the late 1940s, Sephardic (North African) and Hungarian Jews in the 1950s, Russian and Czechoslovakian Jews in the 1960s, and additional Russians in the 1970s.

        The records also contain significant information for those researchers looking to conduct genealogical research into Jewish immigrants and their descendants.

        The fonds has been arranged with one sous-fonds, which contains the records of the National JIAS office in Montreal. In total there are 17 series. The Toronto office (main fonds) series are: 1. Board of Directors and Executive Committee Minutes; 2. Annual meeting proceedings; 3. Reports; 4. Legal ; 5. Administration; 6. JIAS Committees; 7. External committees; 8. Financial ; 9. Arrivals; 10. Immigration case files; 11. Social service assistance case files; 12. Photographs; 13. Miscellaneous. The National Office sous-fonds is divided into the following series: 1. National executive meeting minutes; 2. National annual meeting proceedings; 3. National annual reports; 4. Publications; and Photographs.

        Canadian Jewish Congress
        CA ON00154 2004.23-2004.23.2.22 · File
        Part of Tom Long Local History Collection (Second Accrual)

        File consists of the plans for the Eastview Heights Subdivision, Part Lots 5 & 6 and part of the road allowance between Lots 6 & 7, Con 2, Township of Hope. Key on left side give dimensions of lots. Copy was registered with the Registry Office on 9 Jan 1969; and Proposed Longview Plan of subdivision owned by Port Hope Development Company Limited. Eastview Heights is Part of Lots 5 & 6, and part of the road allowance between Lots 6 & 7, Con 2, Township of Hope. Area is now part of the town of Port Hope. Topographic and rough plan of subdivision. Removed from "Port Hope Dev. Co. - Eastview" file, Long Cabinets.

        White Family Farm Collection
        CA ON00154 2014.74-2010.1 · Series
        Part of Doherty Collection

        Series consists of land records and other documentation regarding the White Family Farm, 30 Marsh Road. It includes: (1) Deed of Land, Grantor: Lydia Foott, Grantee: Cornelius Crossley, 18 Oct 1892; (2) Deed of Land, Grantor: Cornelius Crossley, Grantee: Joseph F. White, 5 Apr 1898; (3) Copy of Land Survey, J.W. Pierce; (4) Let's Make History project duotang folder (about White Farms property).

        CA ON00154 2014.74-2016.14.4.3 · Item
        Part of Doherty Collection

        Item is a pamphlet advertising for building lots located in the Cranberry Heights and Pinegrove Subdivisions in northwest Port Hope, c1950s. The pamphlet includes contact information for Long Bros., the exclusive agents for the development, as well as a map of the area. The subdivisions include the following streets: Jane Street, Freeman Drive, Scriven Boulevard, Jocelyn Street, Ralston Drive, Trefusis Street, Southby Place, Victoria Street, Heneage Street, and Keith Place.

        CA ON00154 2007.34-2007.34.1.61 · File · 1870
        Part of George Brogdin fonds

        File consists of correspondence regarding the sale and rental of property to D. Chisholm, 1870. It is unclear who this is in regards to as George Brogdin died in 1868.

        Brogdin, George
        CA ON00154 2007.34-2007.34.1.33 · File · 1857
        Part of George Brogdin fonds

        File consists of common pleas and notice of trial of Francis Henry Bruton vs. Robert Orr, 14 Mar 1857. Francis Henry Bruton was represented by George Brogdin.

        Brogdin, George
        CA ON00154 2007.34-2007.34.1.32 · File · 1857
        Part of George Brogdin fonds

        File consists of legal papers in the case of Bruton vs. Molson, and includes a title search of Lot 3, Concession 2, Hope. Francis Henry Bruton was represented by Brogdin and Thomas Molson by James Scott.

        Brogdin, George