This fonds consists of 575 bound volumes of Victoria County administrative and financial records and court records. It includes 228 local business journals, day books, ledgers, County council material, criminal justice accounts and court documents.
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This fonds consists of the following minutes and by-laws of the Proceedings of the Municipal Council of the United Counties of Peterborough & Victoria:
- Minutes of the proceedings of the Municipal Council of the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, 20 June 1853
- By-laws and proceedings of the Municipal Council of the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, 20 June 1854 - within the by-laws section, parts of pages 19-22 have been cut away
- By-laws and proceedings of the Municipal Council of the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, 19 June 1855 (up to and including page 24)
- Minutes of the proceedings of the Municipal Council off the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, Special Session, 10 January 1856; minutes of Council of 29 January 1856; minutes of Council of 6 March 1856 (within by-laws section, parts of pages 39- 444 have been cut away); minutes of Council of 17 June 1856
- Minutes of the proceedings of the Municipal Council of the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, Special Session, 27 January 1857
- Minutes of the proceedings of the Municipal Council of the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, 27 January1857; minutes of Council, Special Session, 18 February 1859; minutes of Council, 16 June 1857; minutes of Council, special Session, 6 October 1857
Fonds consists of records documenting the Stinson family, primarily the legal and political career of T.H. Stinson. Family records include Christmas cards, wedding invitations, family portraits, travel records (postcards, booklets, photographs), and Ella Stinson's (nee Robson) correspondence.
Fonds is organized into series by the three accessions making up this fonds. Please see series level descriptions for further detail.
Stinson, T.H. (Thomas Hubert)This fonds consists of draft manuscripts and research notes for the book "From County Trust To National Trust" published in 1988 by Roy Russell Merifield; annual reports for Victoria and Grey Trust and affiliated merged trust companies; company and media biographical sketches of company officers and directors; correspondence to and from company president Walter Harris 1968 to 1971; photocopies of press clippings relating to the collapse of the Atlantic Acceptance/British Mortgage and Trust Company and the Hughes Royal Commission.
Merifield, Roy RussellThis item is a photocopy of the last will and testament of Mossom Boyd, written May 7, 1880 and probated August 27, 1883.
Boyd, MossomThis collection consists of miscellaneous ledgers and legal documents of businesses, doctors, etc. in Peterborough, surrounding counties and areas in southern Ontario.
Brown, DavidThe fonds consists of a collection of deeds, bonds, land grants, indentures, mortgages, writs and conveyances from the following townships and municipalities: Ops, Cavan, Manvers, Mariposa, Emily, Eldon, Cambray, Fenelon, Lindsay, Toronto, Monaghan, Somerville.
Moore, R.I.This fonds consists of correspondence, reports, notes and other records relating to the provincial election of 1937, federal election of 1940, Progressive Conservative party conventions of 1938 and 1942, Port Hope conference of 1942, meetings of the Dominion Conservative party in 1944 and 1946. It also includes material regarding the murder trial of John Schell, 1923-25 (C.G. Frost most important early case) and to municipal and school board affairs, Lindsay, 1936-47.
Frost, Cecil Gray