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University Women's Club (Vaughan, Ont.). Canadian Federation of University Women [Textual record and other material]

  • CA CoV Archives MG 56
  • Fonds
  • 1971-2019

Fonds consists of minutes, agendas, correspondence, treasurer reports, newletters, photos, recipe and dinner booklets, programs and pamphlets, and records from various charitable events in which the Club was involved. Also includes Kleinburg Spirit Newsletters for 1997-2007. Second accession received in August of 2015, containing additional operational records from the UWC, including working drafts of "Roads, Walks and Streams", records relating to Godaughter Mrs. Livia Fekete, and notes and programs from various events. Ten books and pamphlets were also received in this accession regarding meeting rules and leadership.

Accession M019.8 consists of 20 cm of textual records, 2 books, a sign, a banner, 2 CDs and a stamp, with ink pad. The CDs are of the CFUW Vaughan 40th Anniversary, which occured in May 2012. The titles of the books are Proudly She Marched: Training Canada

Vaughan Historical Reference Files [Textual record material]

  • CA CoV Archives Ref. 15
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1800-2011]

Collection consists of general reference files containing histories on many of Vaughan's communities as well as brief histories on a variety of historic structures and buildings throughout Vaughan.

Vellore Women's Institute fonds [Textual record and other material]

  • CA CoV Archives MG 1
  • Fonds
  • 1835-1994, predominant 1960-1990

Fonds consists of minute books, 1915-1982, delineating deliberations, decisions, and activities of the Vellore Women's Institute, as well as occasionally citing the names of members and officers; and Vellore Tweedsmuir history (present in original and microform). Main topical subjects addressed in the latter include: Vellore Women's Institute and its contribution to welfare and development of the community; general community history including geography and topography of the locale; municipal government; agriculture; architecture; education; trade and commerce; histories of individual farms and families; religion; experiences of the community in Canada's wars including namers of volunteers in both conflicts; the Vellore Literary Society; the Vellore Band; transcribed reminicences of such individuals as Mrs. Ann Davidson, and Elizabeth Ann Snider; (extensive coverage of Rutherford Barn Raising, 1929; as well as history of hamlet of Teston; and Purpleville School (S.S #11).
The 2002 accrual consists of the papers from the Woodbridge Agricultural Fair and the Canadian Association of Exhibitions; minute books of the Vellore Women

Women's work in the home : Woodbridge, Ontario, 1885-1895 : [unpublished academic essay] / Lynn Berry

  • CA CoV Archives M993.17
  • Item
  • 1992

Item consists of an essay written as part of work required for credit for Masters History course 5560.06; explores the kinds and nature of work performed by women within their households, and in the course thereof provides evidence that does much to refute traditional notions vis-a-vis women's roles in the nineteenth-century North American workplace specifically, and society generally. Work focuses on Annie Haslem, a butcher in Woodbridge, and is based entirely upon documentary evidence housed at the City of Vaughan Archives; the Woodbridge fonds is the primary source consulted.

Woodbridge agricultural society fonds [multiple media]

  • CA CoV Archives MG 3
  • Fonds
  • 1876-2001, predominant 1960-1989

Fonds consists of correspondence, administrative files, by-laws, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, financial documents, membership lists, fair program and prize lists, legal documents, advertising and promotional material, videocassettes, photoprints, postcards, posters, and ephemera. Most records generated as a result of administration of the Woodbridge Fair with subject matter including Miss Woodbridge Pageant, space requests, general activities, exhibits, Woodbridge Fair Parade, Woodbridge Centennial, livestock judging, etc. M999.9 accession constituted of the Woodbridge Fall Fair papers such as programs, posters, applications for permits, newspaper clippings, correspondence and photographs. The remnants of a tin time capsule from 1924 that was opened in 1997 are also included along with the contents of the time capsule including: 1921-1924 Woodbridge Fair prize lists and letters written by Daniel C. Longhouse. Fonds also includes papers from the Burwick Women

York West District Tweedsmuir history

  • CA CoV Archives M995.20
  • File
  • Compiled 1966-1994

File consists of a tweedsmuir history that details all aspects of the functions and activities of the subject agency; particular emphasis on biographical data on membership and officers. Also of note is the presence of brief histories of all of the various constituent local branches of the district institute delineating activities, achievements, officers, etc. Includes numerous photographs.

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