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Corn, wheat, & maple syrup : the Baker family story 1800-1998

  • CA CoV Archives M000.4
  • File
  • ca. 1999

File consists of two videocassettes. Items chronicle the history of one of Vaughan's founding families, the Bakers, who first settled in the area in 1800. The Bakers journeyed from Somerset County, Pennsylvania and lived in Vaughan until 1998. At that time, 3 generations of the Baker family returned to Pennsylvania due to the encroachment of development on their traditional way of life.

Watson family fonds [Textual records]

  • CA CoV Archives M002.6
  • Fonds
  • 1874-1884

Fonds consists of correspondence, receipts, and bills acquired by the Watson family from their business dealings with the Patterson & Bros. Co.

Chapman family fonds [Graphic material, objects]

  • CA CoV Archives M003.5
  • Fonds
  • [187-?]

Fonds consists of two photographs, one of Thomas Chapman (1827-1880) and one of his wife, Isabella (1831-1879). Fonds also includes a long black skirt, a black beaded bodice, and a short black beaded jacket which belonged to Isabella.

Constable family fonds [Textual record]

  • CA CoV Archives M008.4
  • Fonds
  • 1842-1943, predominant 1842-1900

Fonds consists of indentures, land deeds, tax assessments, correspondence, insurance forms, by-laws, leases, notices, ledgers, and bank books. Fonds also includes the last will and testaments of Jacob Snider and James Mathewson.

The Baker-Atkinson family [Textual record]

  • CA CoV Archives M009.12
  • Item
  • [19-?]

Item consists of a history of the Baker, Atkinson, and Bassingthwaighte families, with particular emphasis on Margaret Baker and George Atkinson and the hardships they endured as pioneers.

Keffer family fonds [Graphic material]

  • CA CoV Archives M009.14
  • Fonds
  • 1800-1980

Fonds consists of ca. 130 photographs of the Keffer family and the various families into which they married.

Dr. Thomas Dixon Keffer fonds [Textual record and other material]

  • CA CoV Archives M009.15
  • Fonds
  • 1943-1996

Fonds consists of a manuscript detailing the life of Dr. Thomas Keffer, two letters written by Dr. Thomas Keffer to his wife in 1873, his essay on beds written in 1867, and a medical instrument possibly used for bloodletting.

Marwood family fonds [Textual record]

  • CA CoV Archives M009.18
  • Fonds
  • 1812-1967

Fonds consists of a history of the Marwood family, a family tree, the last will and testament of William Marwood from 1847, and correspondence.

History of the County of York Ontario [Textual record]

  • CA CoV Archives M009.22
  • File
  • 1885

File consists of two volumes detailing the history of the County of York and its inhabitants. The first volume covers the history of the area from pre-historic times to confederation and gives an account of each of the County's townships and villages. The second volume gives biographies of individuals and families that lived in the County of York.

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