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• Named for Anne Langton who settled in the Sturgeon Lake area. Her journals were written in 1837-1846 and published in 1950 as A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada. She was an artist and teacher of settler's children. The name was approved at Board of Governors meeting, May, 1965. Langton House is part of Traill College.

• The Town of Lindsay is located twenty-seven miles west of Peterborough, on the Scugog River in Ops Township. It is the county town of Victoria County. The Township of Ops was surveyed in 1825 by Colonel Duncan McDonell and Lots 20 and 21 in the 5th Concession were reserved for a town site. The same year settlers began to come to the region and by 1827, the Purdy's, an American family, built a dam on the Scugog River at the site of present-day Lindsay. The following year they built a sawmill and in 1830, a grist mill was constructed. A small village grew up around the mills and it was known as Purdy's Mills. In 1834, surveyor John Huston plotted the designated townsite into streets and lots. During the survey, one of Huston's assistants, Mr. Lindsay, was accidently shot in the leg and died of an infection. He was buried on the river bank and his name and death were recorded on the surveyor's plan. The name Lindsay remained as the name of the town by government approval. Lindsay grew steadily and developed into a lumbering and farming centre. With the arrival of the Lindsay/Port Hope Railway in 1857, the town saw a period of rapid development and industrial growth. On June 19 of the same year, Lindsay was formally incorporated as a town. In 1861, a fire swept through the town and most of Lindsay was detroyed with hundreds of people left homeless. It took many years for Lindsay to recover from this disaster. Today Lindsay is a well established town, situated within an agricultural community. Due to the town's close proximity to several lakes, Lindsay is often referred to as the

• Named after the late Hugh A. Mackenzie; there is a plaque acknowledging the “generous support of the family...which made it possible”; he was a business consultant, sportsman, and interested in many aspects of the arts; “Mr. Mackenzie's son, Hugh Mackenzie, Jr., is one of Canada's outstanding young artists”; he was a brother of Mrs. George Douglas, Lakefield; the building first opened as a gallery in 1971; the gallery closed and later the building became used as office space.
• To be used for records about the building, not the administrative unit.

Use for: 755 George St.

• Located at 755 George St. Was part of Peter Robinson College.

• The province of Ontario became known by that name upon entering Confederation in 1867. It was first referred to as Upper Canada in 1791 when the province was created by an Act of the British Parliament, and subsequently, as Canada West from 1841 to 1867.