Wilfrid Arnold Burbidge and Pearl Anderson United Church missionaries to Korea. Wilfrid Arnold Burbidge was born in Nova Scotia in 1897. He was educated at Mount Allison and Victoria College (earning the degrees B.A. and B.D.), and ordained as a Methodist minister. He was sent to Korea by the Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board of The United Church of Canada, where he was effective in religious as well as agricultural improvement. He was evacuated in 1941, and served the Scotland Pastoral Charge and Grace United Church, Hamilton. He retired to Toronto in 1967, and continued to serve, first as hospital chaplain at Riverdale Hospital, and then as the first minister of the Korean United Church. Wilfrid Arnold Burbidge died in 1978. Pearl Anderson was born at Westmeath, Ontario on January 13, 1900. She was educated at the Normal School in North Bay and the Presbyterian Deaconess Training School in Toronto. In 1923, Pearl Anderson was appointed to Korea by the Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church. In 1926, she resigned to marry Rev. Wilfrid Arnold Burbidge. Mrs. Burbidge died in 1997.
Bruce Lawrence Burwick was originally from Malahide, 1st Concession, near Lakeview Line. He died in 1986. Margaret is his second wife.
Bruce's first wife Eula Kennedy, of near Calton. Bruce had twin boys from first marriage: Joe lives in London, Jim lives in Brantford. Margaret and Bruce had one daughter, Margaret, who lives in Kitchener.
William Burdick was a Veterinary Surgeon in Malahide. He married Araminta Chute in 1894, in Malahide, 1st Concession. Araminta's parents were Richard and Elizabeth Chute. They lived in Chesaning, Michigan when first married, but returned to Malahide. William received veterinary training in Guelph.
The Burwell family emigrated to Upper Canada in the aftermath of the American Revolution, settling in the Niagara District in Bertie Township. A son, Mahlon Burwell, born in 1783, trained as a provincial land surveyor and came to Port Talbot in 1811 to work for the District's Crown Land Agent, Thomas Talbot. He surveyed most of the townships in the London and Western Districts and laid out the town plot of London. He was appointed to several key offices in the district including Registrar, was the Chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions, the regional government of the day, and was elected several times to the Colonial Assembly. He was regarded as the region's contribution to the Family Compact.
•He married Sarah Haun in 1810 and together they had 8 children. Several of his sons rose to positions of local significance within their communities, including Isaac Brock Burwell of Caradoc, John Burwell of Port Burwell, a community founded by his father, Hannibal the creator of this collection and Hercules, who succeeded him as Registrar of Middlesex.
•Hannibal took over Mahlon's estate in Elgin County near Port Talbot and lived there with his family until 1871 when he moved the family to London. There he entered the city's elite, supporting the Church of England as had been the family's tradition. Hannibal's daughter Hannah married Rev. David Williams, destined to become the Bishop of Huron and the Archbishop of Ontario.
•Of Hannibal's sons, only Alfred E. is represented in this collection. He received his father's papers and associated artifacts which after his own death in 1943, passed to his niece Mary Gweno Williams (later Mrs. K. Boughner) and thence to her daughter, the donor, Rebecca Boughner.
Ian Cameron was a graduate student at York University studying with Professor Clara Thomas, and his wife Sandy was a don at York in the late 1960s. They were in England while Ian completed his M.A. thesis on D.H. Laurence, as well as working on his own fiction. The Camerons moved into Elm Cottage in 1969, to look after the children of writer Margaret Laurence. Ian Cameron's ancestors may include Kate Towney and Arbuthnot Cameron, who were associated with Victorian writer John Ruskin. The Camerons were one of the early families who settled Vaughan Township and has held annual family reunions and picnics
Born in the Parish of Kirkmichael, Glassary, Argyleshire, Scotland, Donald Cameron immigrated to Caledon Township, Upper Canada in 1819. He moved to Vaughan Township in 1824. The Cameron family descendants have since resided in various parts of Vaughan Township, most notably at Vellore, where J.J. Cameron established the very successful Cameron Road Cart Company. On lot 30, concession 5, Donald Cameron operated the "Vaughan Township Door Yard". The family was also present on lot 17, concession 6 (Archibald Cameron). The Camerons were also major shareholders in the Union Telephone Company (Vaughan Township, Ont.).
The Camerons were a prominent family in Toronto, Ontario active in politics, medicine and the law in the nineteenth century.
In 1819, John McAlpine and Nancy (Foy) Cameron and their two sons, Duncan and John, immigrated to the Dundas district, Upper Canada, from Scotland. On 2 October 1822, Matthew Crooks was born at Ancaster. Sometime after Nancy Cameron's death, the family moved to Toronto, where by 1834, John had become the first permanent Clerk of the Assembly.
Sir Matthew Crooks Cameron attended Upper Canada College from 1838 to 1840, when an accident at a shooting incident led to injuries that cost him his leg. Cameron pursued a legal career, as had his older brothers, and articled with Joseph Clarke Gamble and William Henry Boulton. Cameron was called to the bar in 1849 and practiced in partnership with Boulton, William Cayley, Daniel McMichael, Edward Fitzgerald, and Alfred Hoskin. Cameron was created a QC in 1863 and elected a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1871.
Cameron was elected to represent the St. James Ward on the Toronto City Council in 1859. In 1861 he ran for both mayor of Toronto and Member for Ontario North, defeated in the former and successful in the latter race, defeating Joseph Gould. Cameron represented the Conservative interest. Although Cameron was defeated by William McDougall in the general elections of 1863, when McDougall sought re-election in 1864 in order to accept the post of provincial secretary, Cameron defeated him. Cameron was against Confederation from 1864 until 1867.
In spite of his opposition to Confederation, once it was in place, he accepted the post of provincial secretary and registrar in the Sandfield Macdonald ministry in Ontario, where he also represented the Toronto East riding. His bid in 1867 to also represent Ontario North in the federal government was not successful. In 1871 Cameron gave up the post of provincial secretary and became the Commissioner of Crown Lands, a post he held only briefly, until the fall of the Sandfield Macdonald government later that same year. He remained in the Ontario Legislature, however, as first leader of the Ontario Conservatives.
Cameron's political career ended when he was sworn in as a puisne judge of the Court of Queen's Bench in 1878. He went on to become the chief justice justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1884. In 1887 he was made a Knight of the Bath and died less than three months later, on 25 June 1887
Charlotte Ross (Wedd) Cameron, born 12 October 1830 in Maidstone, Kent, was the fourth child of Amy Charlton and William Wedd. She had one older sister, Amy Charlton, and two younger, Mary Cornwall and Elizabeth Winder. Her brother William was the oldest sibling and her other brother, Edward Charlton, died in infancy. Charlotte married Matthew Crooks Cameron on 1 December 1851. They had six boys (two of which died in infancy), including Irving Heward, and three girls. Charlotte died on 14 January 1868.
Irving Heward Cameron was born on 17 July 1855 in Toronto. Although he studied law, he chose medicine as his profession and became a prominent surgeon. He was a founding member of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine and of the Canadian Journal of Medical Sciences. For thirty years he was Professor of Surgery at the there and chief surgeon at the Toronto General Hospital. He was also a President of the Canadian Medical Association and an Honorary Fellow in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. During the First World War he served as a surgeon at the Duchess of Connaught's Canadian Red Cross Hospital and elsewhere. After the war he remained a consulting surgeon to the Department of National Defense, not being demobilized until 1920. Cameron married Elizabeth A.M. Wright on 27 December 1876. After his wife's death in 1902, he married again on 1 July 1920: to Jessie Elizabeth Holland (widow of the late John Ross Robertson). Cameron died 15 December 1933.
Elizabeth A.M. (Wright) Cameron was the daughter of Dr. H.H. Wright [and, of course, Mrs. Dr. H.H. Wright]. Born 22 September 1853. Died 28 August 1902. They had two children: Matthew Crooks and Evelyn Charlotte Ross.
Matthew Crooks Cameron was born 30 November 1878. Cameron was a lawyer, and was appointed a King's Counsel. He died 24 May 1954.
Evelyn Charlotte Ross Cameron was born 11 January 1881. She married Steuart Temple Blackwood on 22 November 1905. Evelyn died on 14 February 1964.
No. 3 (Fighter) Wing was formed at Zweibrucken, Germany on 2 February 1953. It consisted of No. 427 (Fighter) Squadron, No. 434 (Fighter) Squadron and No. 440 All Weather (Fighter) Squadron). It relinquished its specialized fighter designation on 1 March 1963 and was integrated into the Canadian Armed Forces on 1 February 1968.
Originally from Scotland, the Carnegie family came to Upper Canada in the early nineteenth century, where two of its members served as Conservative politicians in Ontario.