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From: Ruth Whitehead <>
Subject: Re: [UPP-CAN] LISTOWNER: Tips for Research (Special Collections)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 08:42:38 -0700


Lorine,

What a wonderful list of resources. Thanks.

Ruth

Lorine McGinnis Schulze wrote:

> Hello Fellow Researchers
>
> I have been slowly collecting a list of Special Collections materials
> for Ontario, and the Repositories that house them.
>
> Many of these Collections are invaluable to the researcher in early
> Upper Canada.
>
> The following are general collections of generic interest, but are not
> meant to be considered an all-inclusive list of holdings!
>
> As time permits I will add to this list on our Upper Canada mailing
> list, and these links will also be added to my Olive Tree
> Genealogy's resource pages for Ontario Research at
>
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ontres.htm
>
> Enjoy, and I hope these are helpful to you in your search. :-)
>
> Ontario Special Collections
>
> http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/collectionsp-bin/colldisp/l=0/c=50
>
> John Galt and the Canada Company University of Guelph,
> McLaughlin Library
>
> http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/collectionsp-bin/colldisp/l=0/c=70
>
> Scottish Emigration (Especially to North America and Ontario)
> University of Guelph, McLaughlin Library
>
> http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/collectionsp-bin/colldisp/l=0/h=10/c=41
> Canadian City Directory Collection National Library of Canada
>
> http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/collectionsp-bin/colldisp/l=0/h=10/c=61
> Niagara Collection Brock University, James A. Gibson Library
>
> http://www.brocku.ca/library/services/spcl.htm
> Brock University's Special Collections and Archives - Housed here
> are materials unique to the Niagara Region.
>
> http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/collectionsp-bin/colldisp/c=578/h=10/l=0/s=s
> Masonic Collection Brock University, James A. Gibson Library
>
> http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/collectionsp-bin/colldisp/c=42/h=10/l=0/s=s
> John W.Spurr Military Studies Collection Royal Military College of
> Canada, Massey Library
>
> http://www.hpl.hamilton.on.ca/LOCAL/SPCOLL/ARCHIVES.HTM
> Hamilton Public Library, Special Collections Archival Holdings for
> Genealogists. Some examples of holdings are Militia lists kept by
> Robert Land Jr. during the Rebellion of 1837; Blachford & Wray
> Collection (Funeral home collection from 1851; Hamilton Orphan
> Asylum from 1848, and more!
>
> http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/collectionsp-bin/colldisp/l=0/h=10/c=64
> Ontario Local Studies Collection Queen's University, Douglas
> Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
>
> http://www.mcmaster.ca/library/0docs/readyweb.htm
> Ready Division of Archives & Research Collections McMaster
> University
>
> http://stauffer.queensu.ca/webarch/collecti.htm
> Queen's University Archives - Genealogical Collections, including
> the Dr.H.C. Burleigh Fonds with files on several hundred families in
> the Kingston district.
>
> http://www.wcm.on.ca/archives.html
> Wellington County Musuem & Archives-The Archives is the
> designated repository for the Municipal Records
> generated by the town, township,village and county councils
> consisting of minute books,bylaws, assessment and collectors
> rolls, voters lists,etc.
>
> http://www.lib.uwo.ca/weldon/docs/ben-black.htm
> University of Western Ontario James Alexander and Ellen Rea
> Benson Special Collections, Black History Collection
>
> http://www.vaxxine.com/fa/notlpl/nhrc.htm
> The Niagara Historical Resource Centre - A centralized information
> facility through which the researcher can locate and identify
> specific items in local and non-local repositories.
>
> Lorine
> Lorine McGinnis Schulze
>
>
> The Olive Tree Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/
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