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Stegman (family)
Family · ca. 1790 -

Family was descended of John Stegmann, a Hessian mercenary who served the British Crown, holding the rank of captain, during the American Revolution, thereafter settling in BNA, and becoming Deputy Surveyor General of Upper Canada in 1790. The family inherited from the above several thousand acres in Vaughan Township in the Pine Grove and Kleinburg areas, with George, John's youngest and only surviving son, owning several grist mills and becoming Vaughan's first postmaster in 1846.

Stephenson (family)
Family

Frederick Clark Stephenson (1864-1941) was the secretary of young people's foreign missions groups in the Methodist and United Church. He was born near Bowmanton, Ontario. After studying at Albert College, Belleville and Trinity Medical College, Toronto, he applied to work in foreign missions. He began his work as organizer of the Student Missionary Campaign in 1894 and then became the first and only Secretary of the Young People's Forward Movement for Missions, 1906 to 1925, and of the Young People's Missionary Education Committee from 1925 to 1936. Annie Devina Watson (1862-1939) worked in missions as editor, writer, teacher, and speaker. She married F.C. Stephenson in 1896 and worked in for the above mission organizations as well as the Woman's Missionary Society and the General Board of Missions until her death.

Stevens Family
021 · Family · 1902 - present (in Canada)

Robert Thomas Stevens [Roberto Tomaso Stefanizzi] was born in Cellara, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy on February 23, 1896 to Gaetano Stefanizzi and Gaetana Caliguiri. At the age of 6, he immigrated to Canada with his uncle Francesco Steffanzzi (aka Frank Stevens d. 1941 age 70) in 1902 while the rest of his family remained in Italy.

As a teenager during the first world war, Stevens operated a commissary at Nobel for the explosives plant employees. Stevens enjoyed being an entrepreneur and in 1918, he decided to venture into the film industry by becoming the manager of the Regent Theatre at 23 Elm Street East in Sudbury. (By 1925, the Regent Theatre was located at 71-75 Elm Street East.) His theatre business thrived and over the years, Stevens expanded his business with the acquisition of additional theatres in Sturgeon Falls, Creighton Mine and Sault Ste. Marie. For a few years, Stevens also owned a theatre in Espanola.

On December 4, 1923, Robert Stevens married Florence Boucher, a nurse originally from Whitefish, Ontario. The ceremony was held in Little Current, Ontario. They had six children; Joseph 'Robert' Guy (1924-1968), 'William' Alfred (1926-1988), 'Thomas' Joseph, Anne Marie (1930-2004, married name Ripley), John, and Margaret Theressa.

During the second world war, Robert Stevens, along with many other Italian-born Canadians, was closely monitored by authorities. On August 24, 1940, Stevens was a patient at St. Joseph’s Hospital, suffering from a slight ailment. At 10 a.m. he was arrested on charges, under the Defence of Canada Regulations, for during August 14 to 20, 1940 “making statements intended to, or likely to, prejudice recruiting, training, discipline and administration of His Majesty’s forces,” and “making statements intended to, or likely to, cause disaffection to His Majesty.” He was escorted from his hospital room to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters for questioning. Afterwards, he was taken to the courthouse. Stevens was denied bail by the Magistrate and placed in a prison cell at the Sudbury District Jail until his trial three days later. Stevens plead guilty to the first charge and was fined $25. The second charge was dropped.

Robert Thomas Stevens became ill in January 1943 and passed away at St. Joseph's Hospital in Sudbury on February 13, 1943 at the age of 46.

Stone (family)
Family

Jean and Alfred Stone were United Church missionaries to Japan. Jean Gillespie was born in Parry Sound in 1900. She attended Normal School and the Methodist National Training School. In 1925, she was appointed to Japan as a missionary and in 1931, resigned to be married to Alfred Stone. After being widowed in 1954, Jean Stone served as Secretary to St. Luke's United Church in Toronto. She died in 1987. Alfred Stone was born in Highgate, Ontario, in 1902. He attended Victoria University and was ordained in 1926. He served as a missionary in Japan. Rev. Stone died in Japan in 1954 as a result of a ferry boat accident

Stringer, Isaac O.
Family · 1866-1934

Isaac O. Stringer (1866-1934) received a B.A., 1891 from University College, Toronto, and B.D. from Wycliffe College in 1892. He was ordained deacon in 1892, priest in 1893 and then stationed at Fort McPherson in Peel River from 1892-1897 as a Church Missionary Society (C.M.S.) missionary. In the summer of 1895, Stringer took a leave of absence for a year, returning to Ontario for deputation work and to marry Sarah Ann Alexander (Sadie), March 10, 1896. After graduation from high school, Sadie studied shorthand and later worked as a secretary in New York City. She received a diploma in nursing from Grace Hospital in Toronto and studied at the Toronto Anglican Women's Training School. After spending a year together at Fort McPherson, the Stringers moved to Herschel Island in the Arctic Ocean and lived there among the Inuit from 1897-1901. Suffering acutely from eyestrain, Stringer took his family back to Ontario in the fall of 1901. In 1903, Bishop Bompas of the Diocese of Selkirk called him to serve as a C.C.C.S. (Colonial and Continental Church Society) missionary at Whitehorse, Yukon. Eventually, Stringer became Bompas' successor in the Diocese which changed its name to Yukon, Dec. 17, 1907, serving until 1931 when he became Archbishop of Rupert's Land. He died suddenly on Oct. 30, 1934 at Winnipeg.

Tallman (family)
Family

The Tallman family were primarily farmers who lived in and around Grimsby and Beamsville, Ontario after emigrating from the United States following the American Revolution in the late 18th century.

Tate and Innes families
Family · 1906-1978

The daughter of Donald and Jane (McKay) Innes, Johanna Marguerite Innes was born on the family farm, located on Lot 27, Concession 4, West Zorra Township, on February 4, 1907. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she passed her “entrance papers” in 1921 and successfully completed five years of high school in 1926. She completed her education with teacher training at Stratford Normal School in 1927. Before marriage, she completed six years of teaching, beginning at Maplewood, before moving to Wildwood School in 1928. During those two years she boarded in the home of John and Ethel Rolson, where she would meet her future husband, Rolston, who was the nephew of the couple. She continued her teaching career in East Zorra Township at Facey’s School on the 17th line.

The son of George and Mary (nee Rolston), Rolston Tate was born on his parents’ farm in East Nissouri Township on January 22, 1906. He married Marguerite Innes on April 27, 1935, at the Innes farm in West Zorra Township. Following their wedding trip to Windsor, Ontario, the couple settle on the Rolston’s family farm on the eighth line of East Nissouri.

On May 17, 1937, their son Donald George Tate was born and five years later his younger brother, Barry Rolston Tate was born on September 14, 1942.

Over the years, they expanded the farm’s operations including increasing the size of the dairy herd up to eighteen milking cows in 1944, building a new silo to store corn silage, and installing electricity. Sadly, in 1944, Rolston Tate was diagnosed with cancer and passed away on June 27, 1944. The funeral was conducted by Rev. Aldworth of St. Marys United Church. Following Rolston’s passing, Marguerite and the boys moved to Living Springs, north of Fergus, Ontario where she resumed teaching. In 1947, the family returned to the family farm in East Nissouri Township, and Marguerite continued to teach in various schools across the region before eventually retiring in 1972.

Following her return to the family farm, Marguerite married Joseph Hammond and the family would settle in St. Marys, Ontario. However, this union did not last long as Joseph passed away in 1953. Marguerite remained in St. Marys until 1969 when she moved to the Village of Thamesford. In 1976, she was diagnosed with cancer and passed away on April 18, 1978. She was buried beside her first husband, Rolston, in the St. Marys Cemetery.

For a more detailed history of the family, please see Series 1 of this fonds for more information.

Taylor (family)
Family

John Thomson Taylor (1870-1955) was a Presbyterian/United Church missionary to India. He was born near Galt, Ontario. In 1899, he married Harriet Ellen Copeland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. The same year, the Taylors went to India to work as missionaries. Rev. Taylor served as Principal of the Theological Seminary at Indore. He retired from the United Church in 1945.

Templin (family)
Family

The Templin family were owners of the Fergus, Ontario newspaper the Fergus News-Record which they purchased in 1902. John Charles Templin (1879-1939) was an owner and editor of the local Fergus newspaper, the Fergus News-Record during the early twentieth century. Hugh Templin (1895-1970) took ownership of the Fergus, Ontario newspaper the Fergus News-Record in 1939.

Tett, Benjamin (family)
Family

The Tett family owned mills and property in Bedford Township, Ontario during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

13-003 · Family · 1890-1959

The Theodore Thorne Hamilton family is associated with the earliest settlement of the Bobcaygeon area and later relocation to western Canada, where Theodore Thorne Hamilton was a telegraph operator with the Canadian National Railway. Hamilton was born 10 April 1890 in Bobcaygeon and died 3 August 1959. While in western Canada, he resided in Eudako, British Columbia.