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Item consists of the story of Sarah Saunder's parents, George Holland born in Yorkshire, England in 1812, and Olivia Kellam, born in Leicestershire, England in 1817. The Kellam family settled in Vaughan Township in 1829 and George and Olivia met in Toronto. They married Dec. 30, 1833. They later moved to Goderich, Ontario and then back to Vaughan and then to Haldimand County. Story provides insight into the hard and dangerous life of the early pioneers and their encounters with local wildlife and Indigenous History as well as their experience as Rebels during the 1837 Rebellion.

Fonds consists of a family tree that traces the Phillips family back to Jacob Phillips (1794-1879) and Sarah Kaake (1794-1884) and includes the birth, marriage and death dates, occupations, and locations of births, marriages, residences, deaths and internments of the descendants of the Phillips as well as that of those who married into the family. Also includes two pictures, one of Margaret and William Caldwell and the other of Jesse Edgar Phillips and Margaret Josephine Agar. Chronology of Jacob Phillips by Guylaine Petrin also included as well as photocopy of a broadside advertising the auction sale of farm stock of Edgar Phillips in 1949. Also includes David Phillips' 2012 article in Families publication "The Family of Jacob Phillips and Sarah "Sally" Kaake of Etobicoke: An Overview", magazine Families with published article, launch party edition of his article, copy of United Empire Loyalist Association certificate, and a reproduction of a photograph from 1939 depicting Jesse Edgar Phillips and his sons.