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Fonds consists of marriage register of Cooksville Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, Mississauga (includes Port Credit), 1857-1870; circuit register of Cooksville Methodist Circuit, Mississauga (includes Burnhamthorpe, Port Credit, Bethesda Church, Sheridan, Springfiled, Carman Church), 1883-1902; Board of Trustee minutes of Bethesda Methodist Church, Mississauga, 1864-1909; records of Cooksville Methodist Church, Mississauga, 1864-1924; records, including baptisms, 1901-1949, marriages, 1896-1934, burials, 1910-1973, of Cooksville Pastoral Charge, Mississauga (includes Cooksville Methodist Circuit, Sheridan, Brittania, Meadowvale), 1896-1973; records, including baptisms, 1952-1989, marriages, 1934-1996, of Cooksville United Church, Mississauga (includes Cooksville Methodist Church ), 1919-1995
Cooksville United Church (Mississauga, Ont.)Fonds consists of records of Eden Wesleyan Methodist Church (includes Switzer’s Station Methodist Church), 1832-1890; financial and statistical reports from Streetsville Methodist Circuit, 1832-1909; records, including baptisms, 1969-1981, marriages, 1975-1995, and burials, 1975-1995, of Eden United Church, Mississauga (includes Eden Wesleyan Methodist Church, Switzer’s Station Methodist Church, Huttonville and Britannia), 1867-1995.
Eden United Church (Mississauga, Ont.)Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, 1957-1975, marriages, 1957-1989, of Erindale United Church, Mississauga, 1947-2011
Erindale United Church (Mississauga, Ont.)Fonds consists of records of Port Credit Methodist Church, 1908-1925, and records, , including baptisms, 1935-1992, marriages, 1912-1998, and burials, 1934-1987, of First United Church, Mississauga (including Port Credit Methodist Church), 1867-1998
First United Church (Mississauga, Ont.)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
Fonds consists of two scrapbooks detailing the activities of the Mississauga chapter of IODE, formerly known as the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. The scapbooks detail the activities of the local chapter, municipal chapter, and the IODE provincially and nationally. The local chapter was involved with organizations including the Senior Citizen's House of the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital, Titchfield High School in Jamaica, Sheridan College, Square One Shopping Centre, Sheridan Mall, Credit Valley Hospital, and others.
Many pages focus on the Mississauga Citizenship Court of the Canadian Ministry of Multiculturalism and Citizenship. During the 1980s and 1990s, they were active in providing catering for the ceremonies. Judges presiding over the court in that era include Kamal Akbarali and Joanne Robertson.
IODE Mississauga ChapterFonds consists of the corporate records of an organization that aimed to create an active living retirement facility in Mississauga.
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Collection consists of material documenting the Lakeview Golf Course collected by Ian Blair, a Mississauga businessman who played the golf course for more than 40 years. Blair was also Chairman of the golf course’s Centennial Celebration Committee. The collection includes letters of congratulation, score cards, photographs, posters, and plaques collected by Blair during his time on the Committee.
Fonds consists of slides focusing on the architecture of Peel County, but including images from elsewhere in the province. While Beck was a resident of northern Chinguacousy Township, now part of the Town of Caledon, her images skew to downtown Brampton. Building types include houses, cabins, churches, schools, train stations, theatres, and mail boxes.
Photographs were taken in all of Peel's townships.
Beck's photos of residences in Brampton include structures on Alexander Street, Centre Street, Church Street, David Street, Elizabeth Street, Ellen Street, John Street, Joseph Street, Isabella Street, Lynch Street, Malvern Court, Main Street North, Maple Street, Market Street, Mill Street, Nelson Street, Rosedale Street, Thomas Street, Queen Street, Vodden Street, Wellington Street.
Ontario locations outside of Peel appear in a variety of files. Known villages and townships include Acton, Arthur, Balsam Lake, Beeton, Belwood, Blue Mountain, Chesley, Clarksburg, Collingwood, Collingwood Township, Egremont Township, Elmwood, Eramosa Township, Erin Township, Essa Township, Glen Williams, Goderich, Grand Valley, Grey County, Guelph, Hamilton, Harriston, Hillsburg, Hope Township, Hornings Mills, King City, Lavender, Lloydtown, Maple, Markdale, Meaford, Melancthon, Milton, Mono Township, Mount Forest, Mulmur Township, Nassagaweya Township, Nelson Township, Neustad, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Norval, Oakville, Orangeville, Orillia, Ospringe, Paisley, Palmyra, Perrytown, Port Perry, Relessey, Stratford, Swinton Park, Toronto, Trafalgar Township, Uptergrove, Uxbridge Township, Weston, West Montrose, Whitfield, and Woodbridge.
Beck, LorenaFile consists of material published and circulated by candidates for positions on Mississauga City Council. Included are Mayor of Mississauga candidates Rick Drennan and Robert Taylor; Mississauga council candidates Dr. Edward J. Blackmore, Dave Cook (incumbent), David Culham (incumbent), Frank Dale, Dr. Angelo Gualtieri, Harold Kennedy (incumbent), Helen Leluk, Mary McKeown, Patricia Mullin, Maja Prentice, Ted Southorn (incumbent), Larry Taylor (incumbent), Wayne Tighe, Ken Wagg, Roy Willis, and Glenn Woolfrey; Peel District School Board candidates Kulwant Bal, Richard Bennett (incumbent), Shirley Campbell, Karen Carstensen, Gail Green, Samir Mahajan, Mani Modi, Mubeen Qureshi, John Walmark (incumbent), and Kelly Zarolia; and Dufferin-Peel Roman Catholic Separate School Board candidates Cynthia Archibald, Barry Curitti, Anthony Carnevale, Peter Ferreira, Joe Hugel, Eugene Madden, Michael A. Perretta, Roy Sanasie, and Jack Smith (incumbent).
Gualtieri's literature is in English, Italian, and Portuguese.
File consists of buttons published and circulated by candidates for positions on Mississauga City Council. Included are Blackmore [Ted Blackmore], Dale [Frank Dale], Maja Prentice, Ted Southorn, and Roy Willis.
File consists of newspaper clippings, some dated, profiling the candidates and wards, as well as a handwritten list of contact information for the candidates.
Series contains campaign material for Mississauga ward 5 by-election candidates Cecil Young and Catherine Soplet. Of 27 candidates, Bonnie Crombie was the winner.
File consists of campaign literature for City of Mississauga candidates for city council Harold Kennedy (incumbent) and for Peel Board of Education trustee D. Garth Burrow.
File consists of campaign literature for City of Mississauga candidates for city and Regional council Tom Blanchard and Margaret Marland. (Councillor Marland would later become an MPP.) Also included are Peel Board of Education trustee candidates Mary Freeman, John O. Hart, and Errol Platt, and Dufferin-Peel Roman Catholic Separate School Board trustee candidates Saundra Glynn and Alfred C. Thompson (incumbent). Trustee candidate Stan Norbett is also included, however material does not identify which board he was contesting.
File consists of campaign literature for City of Mississauga candidates for city and Regional council Rob Bradford, and Mike Krywenky. Bradford's material includes a scrap of paper noting that he sent the items to "key members of Homeowner's Associations." Also included is material for Peel Board of Education trustee candidate Jean Cox, and Dufferin-Peel Roman Catholic Separate School Board trustee candidates Maurice Patrick O'Kelly (incumbent), and Jo-Anne Scharf.
File consists of campaign literature for City of Mississauga candidate for Peel Board of Education trustee John McGibbon (incumbent).