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Dora and George Snider collection [Textual record]

  • CA CoV Archives M013.41
  • Collection
  • 1912-1998

Collection consists of various historical write-ups on villages (Edgeley, Sherwood, Langstaff, Maple, Coleraine, Purpleville, Elder's Mills, Woodbridge, Vellore, Carrville, Concord, Hope, Kleinburg, Patterson, Pine Grove, Teston), genealogical histories (Stong, Jackson), and issues of The York Pioneer and Canadian-German Folklore.

John Stegmann Collection [Textual records]

  • CA CoV Archives M988.2
  • Collection
  • 1834, [ca. 1970]

Collection consists of biographical excerpts from various sources concerning John Stegmann. Born in 1754 in Hesse, he served against the American rebels in the Revolutionary War; thereafter settled in York, taking up employment as a surveyor; died in wreck of schooner Speedy in 1804. Collection includes 1834 bible belonging to John Stegmann's son, George.

Jonathan Scott fonds [Textual record]

  • CA CoV Archives M011.40
  • Collection
  • 1833-1933

Collection consists of indentures, agreements, insurance policies, correspondence, last will and testaments, and a land survey for Lot 25, Concession 10 owned by Jonathan Scott in Nashville. Also includes 4 printouts of images Guylaine emailed to the Archives depicting House Yarrow in Nashville, the wedding in 1928 of Roberta Zella Scott and Frank Nattress, and Mrs Arabella Emma Scott (nee Erb) who was born in Nashville and for whom Nashville, Ontario was named. She was the wife of Jonathan Harries Scott. Also included is a family tree "Descendants of Jonathan Scott", also emailed to Archives by Guylaine Petrin. Also included is photocopy of the will of Jonathan Scott, 1884 (found by Guylaine in the Archives of Ontario).

McGillivray family collection [Textual records and other material]

  • CA CoV Archives M011.15
  • Collection
  • ca. 1890-2009

Collection consists of 2 photographs of the McGillivray family from the late 1800s, birthday congratulations in the form of certificates presented to various members of the Maginn and Peterman families (descendants of the original McGillivray pioneers who settled in Vaughan), a write-up of the McGillivray family history, photoprints of teh Maginn homestead and McGillivray family members, and photocopies of various newspaper clippings regarding McGillivray family deaths.

Ruth Reesor collection

  • CA CoV Archives M990.22
  • Collection
  • 1940-1962

Collection consists of eclectic assortment of records, consisting of summary of assets and plot index of the Edgeley Burying Grounds, newspaper clippings relating to significant events, as well as a well-documented account of the Superior Propane explosion of August 5th, 1962. Copies of Henry Horne's 1896 "Early Settlers on This Line" and Mabel Burkholder's "Palitinate Settlements in York County" are also included in the collection as well as the Ontario Historical Society's "Papers and Records - Volume 37" from 1945.

Terry Goodwin collection

  • CA CoV Archives M995.21
  • Collection
  • Copied 1995

Collection consists of three items: memoir of William Vaughan, originally published in 1839, with only the title page copied for reference purposes; the collector's compilation of his family tree purporting to trace descendancy to Benjamin Vaughan (one of the signatories of the Paris Peace Treaty of 1784 and City of Vaughan namesake); and an unpublished history of the so-called "Baker Homestead", located on lot 11, concession 2, Vaughan.

Vaughan Historical Reference Files [Textual record material]

  • CA CoV Archives Ref. 15
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1800-2011]

Collection consists of general reference files containing histories on many of Vaughan's communities as well as brief histories on a variety of historic structures and buildings throughout Vaughan.

Vaughan Township pioneer collection : [1844-1855]

  • CA CoV Archives M989.29
  • Collection
  • Photocopied 1989

Collection consists of textual records and broadside reflecting economic and social life in Vaughan and York County generally: excerpts from Burrows and Ferguson family papers, 1844; Vaughan Anti-bacchannalian Society minute book, 1852-1853; Henry Porter commercial records , 1854-1855.

White family collection [Textual record]

  • CA CoV Archives M011.11
  • Collection
  • [Photocopied 2011]

Collection consists of genealogical material on the White family which immigrated to the town of York in 1795 and later settled in Vaughan Township.