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Original landowners on Yonge Street : [site plan]

  • CA CoV Archives M988.21
  • Item
  • [n.d.]

Item consists of a site plan that indicates property locations, names, and date of land acquisition of first landowners of lots 26-40, con. 1, Vaughan Township; each property consisted of approximately 200 acres.

Photographs of Daniel and Isaac Reaman : [ca. 1870, 1918]

  • CA CoV Archives M989.24
  • File
  • Copied 1989

File consists of photographs. Individuals of Swiss descent who traced their lineage in Vaughan Township to John Reaman, who purchased lot 15, concession 2 in 1804; descendants of Reaman family continue to reside in City of Vaughan.

Pioneering with Billy [Textual record] / Mary Cassar

  • CA CoV Archives M999.12
  • Item
  • 1999

Item consists of a manuscript detailing the genealogy and lives of the Jarrett family. The account covers roughly 200 years of history and provides extensive information on the lives of English farmers and Canadian pioneers.

Plain and fancy - a tour through Vaughan, Markham, King, and Gwillimbury Townships / by Carolyn Neal

  • CA CoV Archives M989.67
  • Item
  • [ca. 1970]

Item consists of a support document for tour of architectural structures attributable to the "plain people" - Mennonites, Dunkards, Quakers, Amish, and Maravians - who settled in above-noted areas during the early 1790's to 1820's; includes brief history of said denominations; bulk of document comments upon building methods and materials, architectural styles favoured, and general architectural and historical significance of a number of structures.

Population records [Textual records]

  • CA CoV Archives M009.27
  • File
  • 1850-1852

File consists of a folder of textual records. Includes General Table of Population by Origin and Religion (1851), Aggregate Return of the Inhabitants of the Several Townships of the County of York (1850), and an Agricultural Census for Vaughan Township (1852).

Rural resource use of Vaughan Township : York University, Geography Department : [unpublished academic essay] /by Hugh A. Cook

  • CA CoV Archives M991.1
  • Item
  • 1969

Item consists of delineation of land use in Vaughan Township in 1969. Categories include vacant or used as riding stables, rented farms, mining, estates, conservation areas and golf courses, residential and commercial, industrial, market gardening, "real" farms, and miscellaneous. Chronicles the inception of the transformation of the area from rural-agrarian to industrial-commercial; includes field notes constituted of concession maps indicating occupancy and land use.

Ruth Reesor Biography

  • CA CoV Archives Ref. 14
  • Item
  • 2003

Item consists of a monograph. Biography of Ruth Reesor, whose ancestors (the Baker family) moved to Vaughan Township in 1816. In addition to chronicling the experience of the author and the Baker and Reesor families in Vaughan, the work documents the tremendous social and economic changes that occurred in Vaughan during the early to late 20th century.

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