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Fonds consists largely of records created and collected by members of the Magrath family, including the Reverend James Magrath and his children, in the course of administering and occupying their farming estate (called Erindale) on the Credit River. Fonds includes correspondence, legal and financial records and ledgers, and plans of the estate and environs. There is also a small amount of material added to the fonds by later descendants of the family, including family histories and annotated transcriptions of the earliest Magrath correspondence.
The bulk of the correspondence consists of personal letters between family members, including James Magrath and his children, and most is written to Charles Magrath while on a trip to Ireland. Letters are largely concerned with family and personal affairs.
Note that the Magrath family correspondence includes occasional references to the activities of the First Nations (Mississauga Anishinaabe) people of the Credit area at that time referred to as the Credit Indians. The nature of these references is influenced by the perspective and prejudices of the Magraths.
The fonds comprises the following six series:
Series 1: Correspondence
Series 2: Legal records
Series 3: Financial records
Series 4: Family history records
Series 5: Erindale Estate maps and plans
Series 6: Transcriptions
Item consists of a postcard of Main Street South, looking north from John Street.
Item consists of a real photo postcard of the residential area on Main Street North, above Church Street.
Postcard photographed looking south on Main Street South.
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Item consists of a real photo postcard of Main Street South, Brampton, looking south.
Note that the postcard was mislabeled by its creator. A. L. Cook drug store and telephone was located at 44 Main Street North, and jeweler J. S. Beck was located at 50 Main Street North.
Item consists of a real photo postcard of Main Street North, Brampton, looking south from the railway bridge. The station itself is not seen in the image.
Item consists of a photograph postcard showing Main St, Brampton, on top of an image titled "Picturesque Canada: Before the Leap" of Aboriginal people Hiawatha and Minnehaha.
Hiawatha, or Haiëñ'wa'tha, was leader of the Onondaga, or the Mohawk, or both in pre-Colonial times. Minnehaha is a creation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, for the poem The Song of Hiawatha (1855).
Item consists of a photographic postcard of downtown Brampton, showing the British Union Jack, Canadian Red Ensign, and a coat of arms. Inscribed "Copyrighted by Atkinson Bros. 1905".
Atkinson Bros.
Item consists of a photographic postcard is a colourized image of Main Street North in Brampton, at Queen Street, looking south.
Item consists of a postcard of Main Street South, looking south. Image includes a billboard for J. G. Taylor Men's Furnishings and Senate Cigar Store, with the image of a pack of Wrigley's Spearmint gum.
Item consists of a postcard of a residential area on Main Street North, presumably north of Church Street.
