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Vaughan Township Churches Collection

  • CA CoV Archives M991.34
  • Collection
  • 1959-1986, predominant 1978-1984

Collection consists of research notes, draft and final manuscripts, correspondence, financial documents, reports, and photographs generated as a result of the Society's compilation and publication of monograph: Somerville, Patricia, and Macfarlane, Catherine, eds. A History of Vaughan Township Churches (Maple, 1984). Fonds chronicles history of the churches and congregations of Vaughan from 1803 to 1984.

Gord Ingram fonds

  • CA CoV Archives M993.10
  • Fonds
  • [1946?-before 1962]

Fonds consists of photoprints that depict Superior Propane Company facility in Maple prior to 5 Aug. 1962 explosion that destroyed the former, the plant being originally built in 1947; and Dr. F.W. Routley, who practiced medicine in Maple from 1909 to 1922, and for 27 years was chief executive officer of the Canadian Red Cross Society, and contributerd to the Blue Cross Plan for hospital care which began in 1941 (latter is undated). Textual material consists of a copy of an official certificate issued by the British Secretary of War to Corporal William Charles Ingram of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps around 1946 in recogintion of publication of former's name in the London Gazette on 1946 April 4 for distinguished wartime service, as mentioned originally in and Official Despatch for distinguished service.

Town of Vaughan Cemetery Advisory Committee fonds

  • CA CoV Archives RG 8A
  • Fonds
  • 1897-1986

Fonds consists of plans, sketches, photoprints, slides, correspondence, legal documents, minutes, burial permits and death certificates, and case files.

Jesse Bryson fonds [Textual record and Graphic material]

  • CA CoV Archives MG 9
  • Fonds
  • 1841-1990, predominant 1905-1976

Fonds consists of Vaughan Township Council minutes, 1930; voters lists 1958, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1970; annual report of Council, 1947, 1964; report of Waterworks Committee, 1964; and sundry material. Numerous legal documents relating to the Bryson property, east half of lot 34, concession 7 are present; these include the original deed conveying the subject lands to James McMurchy in 1841, as well as the last will and testament of James and Archibald McMurchy, respectively. Also present is advertising material re: Vaughan Industrial Acres, and a report on historically and architecturally significant structures in Vaughan, 1975, and a biographical sketch of Major "Lex" Mackenzie. Images depict the class of 1916 of the Agricultural Short Course offered by the Ont. Ministry of Agriculture, the Maple Cattle Breeders Association, 1946, and architecture and streetscapes in Vaughan Township, 1920-1976; (predominantly 1975-1976). A number of the photographs appear to be formatted for the production of G. E. Reaman's 1971 monograph re: Vaughan Township. A small aggregate of early 20th century postcards relating to Vaughan and Woodbridge collected by Jesse Bryson round out the fonds. The records donated by the Brysons in 2000 are composed of Vaughan Council minutes from 1867-1972; correspondence; electoral boundary maps; Vaughan Township by-laws(1850-1983) and policies; reports from the Vaughan Planning Department; election brochures; voter lists; community pamphlets for events in which Jesse either participated or attended; papers from the Soil Conservation society of America, the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, York County Federation of Agriculture, and Black Creek Pioneer Village; Vaughan Treasurer Accounts from 1893-1905; Vaughan Auditors Reports; planning reports from the C.N.R. Railyard; 2 1918 photographs from the Agricultural Short Course; pamphlets and papers from the International Plowing Match; reports from the Purpleville School Board of Trustees; posters and letters concerning the Vaughan Liquor Vote of 1963; records from the Vaughan Museum Committee; annual reports from the York Central Hospital; letters and reports from the Soil Conservation Society of America; tax assessments from 1921-1970; letters from the Agricultural Institute of Canada; programs from the opening of the Bloorview Children

Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Thornhill, Ontario [microform] : [registers] : 1831-1863

  • CA CoV Archives M992.2
  • File
  • Microfilmed 1991

File consists of microfiches. Transcriptions of original baptismal, marriage, and burial registers of the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Thornhill, the tenth oldest parish in the Diocese of Toronto, established in 1830. An index of all names appearing in the register transcriptions (participants, witnesses, etc.) is included.

Cemetery records collection [microform] : [York County] : [1969-ca. 1980]

  • CA CoV Archives M991.28
  • Collection
  • Microfilmed [ca. 1985]

Collection consists of lists of interments compiled 1969-ca. 1980; dates of interment range from ca. 1800 to 1980; Vaughan area cemeteries included in collection: Carrville United Church, Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery (Thornhill), Richmond Hill Presbyterian Cemetery, Pine Grove Congregational Cemetery, Knox Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Old St. Stephen's Cemetery for the German Episcopal Congregation, Presbyterian Cemetery (Maple), Edgeley Mennonite Cemetery, Hillcrest Cemetery (Woodbridge), Christ Church Anglican Cemetery (Woodbridge), Woodbridge Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, St. Paul's Presbyterian Cemetery, Nashville Cemetery (Zoar Primitive Methodist), Reupard's Settlement Pioneer Burying Ground (Sherwood), Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery (Purpleville), Hope Primitive Methodist Cemetery.

Maple United Church Cemetery Board fonds [Textual records]

  • CA CoV Archives M987.6
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1971, predominant 1929-1971

Fonds consists of Cemetery Board minutes, financial documents, including a journal of plot purchases and a set of acount books, plot indexes (with ocassional accompanying photograph of cemetery within) and a combined plot index/burial register, flower planting plan; perpetual care fund records, memorial day programmes, legal documents, correspondence, and cemetery rules and regulations. Evidence in plot indexes suggests presence of burials in cemetery predating founding of cemetery board (i.e. pre-1871).

Edgeley Mennonite Church Burying Ground Board of Trustees fonds

  • CA CoV Archives M987.2
  • Fonds
  • 1896-1978

Fonds consists financial documents, plot indexes, interment indexes, plot surveys, minute books, legal documents, cemetery rules and regulations, and notes on Burkholder family members buried here, and Mennonite Divisions of the cemetery; also includes 3 plot plans (2 include names of interees), [ca. 1960].

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