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21 Nov. 1979 (Reproduction)
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1851, 1861 (Creation)
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- Canada West. Victoria County Census.
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4 microfilm reels
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Victoria County, formally established in 1860, is comprised of the Townships of Bexley, Carden, Dalton, Eldon, Emily, Fenelon, Laxton, Digby, Longford, Manvers, Mariposa, Ops, Somerville, and Verulam. The town of Lindsay in Ops Township is the county seat. The County is bordered in the north by the Muskoka District, in the east by Haliburton and Peterborough Counties, in the south by Lake Scugog and the Regional Municipality of Durham, and in the west by Durham and Simcoe Counties. It is 2 169 km square in area. The land in Victoria County was first opened for settlement in 1821 and the first settlers were mainly Irish, both Protestant and Catholic, and Scottish Presbyterians. By 1880, lumbering was firmly established as the main industry in the county. Quickly the region was stripped of its forests, and it wasn't until the 1920's that an interest in reforestation developed. Today, Victoria County is a prime grain producing region. As well, chemical industries and tourism make up the present day economic picture of the county. (Taken from: Mika, Nick and Helma. "Places in Ontario, Part III." Belleville: Mika Publishing Company, 1983.)
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The Microfilm are copies of the Library and Archives Canada decennial, nominal census for the County of Victoria, 1851 and 1861. Also included on the microfilm are the nominal census for Stormont County, 1861 and Waterloo County, 1861.
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The microfilm was purchased from the Library and Archives Canada via Professor Al Brunger, Department of Geography, Trent University.
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For related records see other census records in this collection. Associated material located at Library and Archives of Canada.
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Microfilm. Set 32.
FINDING AID
1851 Census
Reel 1 (P.A.C. film #C-11753):
Victoria County, 1851
Mariposa Township
Ops Township
Emily Township
Eldon Township
Fenelon Township
Bexley Township
Verulam Township
Somerville (not settled, taken with Bexley)
1861 Census
Reel 2 (P.A.C. film #C01075):
Stormont & Victoria Counties, 1861
Stormont County
Cornwall Township
Finch Township
Osnabruck Township
Roxborough Township
Agricultural census - Stormont County
Victoria County
Anson County
Bexley Township
Carden Township
Dalton Township
Digby Township
Eldon Township
Reel 3 (P.A.C. film #C-1076):
Victoria County, 1861
Victoria County
Eldon County
Emily Township
Fenelon Township
Hendon Township
Laxton Township
Lindsay Town
Lutterworth Township
Macauley Township
Draper Township
Mariposa Township
Ops Township
Somerville Township
Verulam Township
Reel 4 (P.A.C. film #C-1077):
Victoria & Waterloo Counties, 1861
Victoria County
Verulam Township
Agricultural census - Victoria County
Waterloo County
Berlin Village and Goal
Dumfries N. Township
Galt Town
Hamburg Village
Hespeler Village