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Bullfrogs and watersnakes : 200 years Yonge, 1796-1996 : the birth of Yonge Street / produced by Heritage Richmond Hill ; edited by Mike Brillinger ; narrated by Allan Skeoch

  • CA CoV Archives M997.31
  • Item
  • ca. 1997

Item consists of a videocassette. Video focuses on the history of Yonge Street from its original use as an Ojibwaty trail providing a means to avoid the swamps of Holland Marsh and the Humber River Valley. Solid coverage of Simcoe's role in the development of Yonge Street as a military and commerical artery.

City Archives Memory Project [Textual record and other material]

  • CA CoV Archives MG 55
  • Collection
  • 2013-2014

Collection consists of manuscripts with people's memories of growing up or living in Vaughan. Includes stories and memories of buildings, people, businesses, roads, storms, schools, churches, etc. Some responders even included copies of images and artwork.

City of Vaughan Council fonds (RG 1)

  • CA CoV Archives RG 1
  • Fonds
  • predominant 1849-2014

Fonds consists of records that reflect the functions and activities of Council as a legislative and regulatory body in legal matters, taxation, justice and public protection, education, public health and welfare, finance, public accountability and planning. Records include, but are not limited to: working papers, minutes and resolutions, by-laws, reports to Council, and Court of Revision Records. The fonds chronicles Council activities and functions, and documents decisions and deliberations, and relationship with the civic administration, the Province of Ontario, the County of York, the Village of Woodbridge before 1971, and the Regional Municipality of York after 1971.

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City of Vaughan Engineering Services Department Fonds

  • CA CoV Archives RG 17
  • Fonds
  • 1995-2003

Fonds consists of aerial photographs that cover the entire City of Vaughan and include images of streets and highways, rivers, railway lines and stations, hospitals, community centres, subdivisions, conservation areas, public attractions, reservoirs, factories and plants, lumber yards, airfields, fairgrounds, and shopping centres. Also included are "indexes" for each year which make finding a particular photograph or area of Vaughan quite easy. Also included is a Leroy Lettering Set which was used for mechanical lettering on maps and drawings in the Engineering Services Dept until 1995/96 at which time computers took a more prevalent role in the department's business functions. Also included are a polar planimeter which was used to determine metric area, and a case containing fifty-five railroad curves which were used in the design and layout of roads.

Elder's Mills Women's Institute fonds

  • CA CoV Archives MG 22
  • Fonds
  • 1949-2010

Fonds consists of minute books of the agency for the period 1949 to 2010, and a microfilm copy of the community Tweedsmuir history, microfilmed in 1984. The institute minutes include integral financial statements noting receipts and disbursements, as well as lists of officers and directors, and attendance registers. The Tweedsmuir history is composed of eight topical elements: mills, including the origin of the place name Elder's Mills, family histories and biographies, photographs, maps of original land owners, and Indigenous History; the Elder's Mill's Women's Institute, including organizational history, personal histories of membership, membership lists, etc. ; churches; schools, including Elder's Mills (School Section #15), Vaughan School (Lower Ninth) (School Section 13), Mackenzie Senior Public School, and a brief history of schools in the western half of Vaughan; roads and fences; farms, from the 7th to the 9th concession, community organizations; and services, including the Woodbridge and Vaughan Telephone Company, Woodbridger Hydro-Electric Power Commission, Toronto Grey and Bruce Railway; also included is a roll of Elder's Mills residents who served in His Majesty's Forces in World War I.

History of Vaughan Township, 1794-1840 : [unpublished Masters thesis] / by Leo Johnson

  • CA CoV Archives M989.62
  • Item
  • 1965

Item consists of an unpublished thesis. The work elucidates early history of Vaughan Township from intial European settlement in the wake of the American Revolution to 1840; as such predates advent of local government, which was implemented in 1850; provides analysis of topography, transportation, settlement patterns, economic development, the general pioneer social experience and their interconnection; also comments on impact of War of 1812 and 1837 Rebellion on Vaughan Township.

Interpretive road beats: Vaughan Township, ca. 1879 [Cartographic material] / by E. Ruth Redelmeier

  • CA CoV Archives M997.5
  • Item
  • 1996

Item consists of a map. Map delineating road beats in Vaughan Township, ca. 1879. Road beats were divisions of the Township delineated for the purpose of facilitating the administration and actual execution of road maintenance in compliance with local statutes of labour. The latter were in place in lieu of municipal taxation for the purposes of road maintenance, and involved obligations on the part of property owners to undertake road work, with the time requirements being directly proportional to the assessed value of a given property. The data utilised in the compilation of the map was gleaned from the Vaughan Township statute of labour returns.

Jean A. Bryson fonds [Textual record and other material]

  • CA CoV Archives MG 25
  • Fonds
  • 1901-2007, predominant 1950-1970

Fonds consists of Jean Keffer artwork from 1935; correspondence regarding the annual Campbell, Keffer, Cameron, and Snider family reunions; Jean

John and Doris Neufeld fonds [Cartographic material]

  • CA CoV Archives M996.23
  • Fonds
  • 1904-1963

Fonds consists of three maps of Maple dated 1904, 1936, and 1963 which depict the layout of the community as well as the names and locations of various businesses and farms.

Kleinburg photograph collection : [ca. 1890-1935]

  • CA CoV Archives M992.24
  • Collection
  • Copied 1992

Collection consists of images of Kleinburg. Images depict various aspects of late-19th to early-20th century Kleinburg including Old Mill Race, Mill Pond, Mills, bridge over Humber, Arch Bridge, Kleinburg Dam, construction of Hwy. 27, various streetscapes (for the most part relating to Main St.), etc.

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