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          Fonds · 1903 - 2011

          The fonds consist of various materials related to the activities of the Admiral Vansittart Chapter of the IODE and is arranged into the following series and subseries:

          Series 1: Administration
          Subseries A: Minute Books
          Subseries B: Annual Reports
          Subseries C: Financial Records
          Subseries D: Membership
          Subseries E: Constitution and History

          Series 2: Citizenship Ceremonies

          Series 3: Captain Andrew Drew Junior Chapter

          Series 4: Sponsorship Programs
          Subseries A: Old Crow, Yukon
          Subseries B: Westwood High School, Stewart Town, Jamaica

          Series 5: Opportunity Shop
          Subseries A: Operations
          Subseries B: Finances
          Subseries C: Opportunity Tea and Coffee + One Party
          Subseries D: Shop Schedules

          Series 6: Special Events
          Subseries A: Meetings
          Subseries B: Anniversaries
          Subseries C: IODE Week
          Subseries D: Chapter Teas
          Subseries E; Honor Student Dinners
          Subseries F: Centennial Fashion Show
          Subseries G: Founders Day / Old St. Paul’s
          Subseries H: Scrapbooks
          Subseries I: Miscellaneous

          Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. Admiral Vansittart Chapter
          Item · 1907-2021

          The fonds consists of following series and relate to history of the Oxford North Women’s Institute:

          Series 1: Minutes (1907-2006)
          Series 2: Tweedsmuir Scrapbooks (1910-2021)
          Series 3: Programmes (1910-2018)
          Series 4: Photographs ([before 1920], 2015)

          Braemar Women's Institute
          Item · 1922-2018

          The fonds consists of records related to the history and development of the Brookdale Women’s Institute. Additionally, the fonds contains information and records pertaining to the communities in Southern Oxford County.

          It is arranged into the following series and subseries:

          Series 1: Brooksdale Tweedsmuir Volumes 1-5 (1820-2011)

          Series 2: Women’s Institute Miscellaneous (1909, 1918, 1920, 1923-2017)

          • Subseries A – Quilts
          • Subseries B – Programs

          Series 3: Scrapbooks (1984-2000)

          Series 4: Tweedsmuir History (2001-2017)

          • Subseries A – 2001-2002
          • Subseries B – 2003-2004
          • Subseries C – 2005-2007
          • Subseries D – 2008-2009
          • Subseries E – 2010
          • Subseries F – 2011-2012
          • Subseries G – 2013-2014
          • Subseries H – 2015-2016
          • Subseries I - 2017

          Series 5: Brooksdale Minute Books (1922-2018)

          Brooksdale Women's Institute, Oxford District, Southern Area
          Fonds · 1974-1995

          The fonds consists of records related to the history and activities of the Brownsville Optimist Club formerly located in Brownsville, Ontario. They are arranged into the following series and subseries:

          Series 1: Charter Banquet, 1 June 1974

          Series 2: Executive Officers’ Photographs
          File 1: 1974 - 1980
          File 2: 1980 - 1990
          File 3: 1990 - 1995

          Brownsville Optimist Club
          1955-1999

          The fonds consist of various materials related to the activities of the Woodstock Branch of the Canadian Federation of University Women and is arranged into the following series and subseries:

          Series 1 – Constitution, By-laws, Pamphlets, Historical Notes (1955-1999)

          Series 2 - Membership

          a) General Membership (1956-1999)
          b) Executive (1965-1999)

          Series 3 – Reports: Financial and Committee (30 April 1956 – 8 December 1999)

          Series 4 – Correspondence
          a) General Correspondence (7 March 1957 – 30 September 1987)
          b) General Correspondence (4 October 1987 – 13 December 2000)
          c) Scholarship Correspondence (24 October 1986 – 19 May 1999)
          d) Scholarship Correspondence (7 June 1999 – 8 October 1999)

          Series 5 – Report (September 1967 – September 1998)

          Series 6 - Bingo/Lottery Licenses (31 December 1992 – 8 December 1999)

          Series 7 – Bulletins (September 1966 – December 1984)

          Series 8 – Disbandment (28 April 1999 – 4 June 1999)

          Canadian Federation of University Women – Woodstock Branch
          Collection · 1857-2011

          This collection consists of yearbooks; annual reports; newsletters, handbooks; prize lists; constitutions and by-laws; board of director information; lists of presidents; correspondence; a newspaper clipping; programmes; show announcements; booklets; emblems; publications; hand-written notes; a petition; rules and regulations; proceedings of an annual convention; show books; bulletins; pamphlets; articles; a presentation; and member lists.

          Crawford Family fonds
          Fonds · 1800 - 2007

          The fonds consist of records related to the history of the Crawford family. They are arranged into the following series and subseries:
          Series 1: Diaries
          Subseries A: Benjamin Benedict Crawford (1800, 1810-1859)

          • This Series consists primarily of diaries of Benjamin B. Crawford. These include a diary of a trip to Upper Canada in 1800, as well as yearly diaries from 1810 to 1859. Diary entries relate to; the weather; farm activities; social events in the community; births, marriages and deaths of his family and his neighbours; experiments with crops and prices of supplies and produce; Kings County court sessions; the Rebellion of 1837; elections; and services in the Anglican church in the Ingersoll area. Daniel Nathan Crawford, the eleventh child of Benjamin Benedict Crawford, continued his father’s diary during the latter’s final illness, and after his death for the remainder of 1859.
          • This subseries also includes transcripts of a majority of the diaries, made by Blanche Crawford, in 1938.

          Subseries B: James Augustus Crawford (1865-1882)

          • The diaries of James Augustus Crawford, a son of Benjamin Benedict Crawford, note farm duties, and family and community activities.

          Subseries C: Leeman Wallace Crawford (1877)

          • The diary of Leeman Wallace Crawford (son of James Augustus Crawford, and a carriage- maker at London), contain entries describing his work, with some references to politics, and family and community affairs.

          Subseries D: Charles W.A. Crawford (1848-1875)

          • The diaries of Charles W.A. Crawford contain description of his daily work, including purchases, sales, and debts related to his farming businesses. These diaries have been transcribed by a member of the Crawford family.

          Subseries E: Eliza Georgina Crawford Nichols (1930-1945)

          • The diaries of Eliza Georgina Crawford continue daily musings of people and events.

          Series 2: Correspondence [18-- ] – [1995] (not inclusive)

          • Includes correspondence of various members of the Crawford family concerning personal and family matters. Letters also include correspondence to/from Ruth (nee Crawford) Ellis regarding family genealogy.

          Series 3: Writings of Christopher Colin Crawford (ca. 1880s)

          • Includes unpublished manuscript writings (poetry and prose). Tiles are as follows:
            Poems:
            Battle of Queenston Heights
            India’s Golden Gate
            The Lamb
            Lines Written on the death of late Mrs. H. Guppy
            The Metis
            The Rockies
            The Shanly Boy
            Prose:
            Along the Bow
            Camp Life on the Bow River
            Chinook Winds
            A Frontier Town
            Infidelity
            Latest Mining News from British Columbia
            On Leaving Silver City
            Montana
            The Serpent
            A Visit to Morley
            Winter, 1885-1886
            A Word about the Provincial Agricultural Exhibition of Asaboia

          Series 4: Genealogy ([18-- ] – 2007)

          • A very complete and detailed genealogy of the generations of the Crawford family in North America beginning with John and Jane Henderson Crawford, whom arrived in Connecticut, United States from Ireland. It contains dates and places of birth, marriages and deaths; details on families into which Crawfords married; and often a description of the individuals the early genealogy was prepared in 1927 by Mrs. Olive Arnold Crawford of Ingersoll, Ontario, with the assistance of certain relatives, while the later and more complete family history was completed by Ruth Ellis.
          • Includes research papers and notes, newspaper clippings, and photographs, as well as a copy of “The Crawford Family” by Ruth Ellis.

          Series 5: Almanacs (1761, 1814-1853)

          • Contains New Brunswick, New England, Maine, Canada West Farmer’s Almanacs, and several Medical Almanacs. These are arranged alphabetically according to the locality for which they were calculated. Occasionally, a diary was bound into an Almanac, and these volumes have been stored with the diaries.
          Members of the Crawford family
          Fonds · 1925-1934

          The fonds consists of records related to the operations of Loyal Dereham Centre Lodge No. 179, between 1925 and 1934. It is arranged into the following series and subseries:

              Series 1: Minutes
          Series 2: Finances
          Subseries A: Financial Statements
          Subseries B: Receipts
          Series 3: Correspondence
          Series 4: Membership
          Dereham Centre Lodge No. 179
          Item · 1950 - 1955

          The fonds consists of records related to the East Nissouri Jr. Institute and include minutes as well as miscellaneous items related to their activities.

          East Nissouri Jr. Women's Institute
          1830s-1990s

          The collection consists of various materials relating to the Vansittart family (specifically Vice Admiral Henry Vansittart) and to the early history of Woodstock. It includes newspaper clippings, land documents, wills and other legal style documents, photographs, booklets and essays as well as a framed miniature portrait and military cross. Subject Files are as follows:

          • Admiral Henry Vansittart
          • Vansittart Family
          • John George Vansittart
          • George Henry Vansittart
          • Vansittart Legal Documents
          • Land Documents (Lot 15, Concession 1, Township of Blandford)
          • Vansittart Homes (Eastwood Park and Bysham Park)
          • Old St. Paul’s Church
          • Andrew Drew
          • Vansittart Avenue
          • Miscellaneous Local History (including the Old Stage Road)
          • Correspondence of George A. Calder
          Calder, George
          1971-1978, 1997

          The collection consists of 11 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings related to:

          File 1: Utting-McKinney Northgate Towers High Rise, Woodstock. – 1971-1974.
          File 2: Goff High Rise Application Huron Street, Woodstock. – 1971-1975.
          File 3: Happening ’73, Woodstock. – 1973.
          File 4: Ingersoll Avenue Reconstruction, Woodstock. – 1973-1978.
          File 5: Devonshire Avenue Subdivision, Woodstock. – 1974-1975.
          File 6: Woodstock District Chamber of Commerce. – 31 January – 31 December 1974. (includes Happening ’74)
          File 7: “Save the Golf Course”, Woodstock Golf Club. – 1974-1977.
          File 8: Admiral Riddell Development Limited Condominiums – Northgate Towers, Woodstock. – 1976.
          File 9: Woodstock District Chamber of Commerce. – 1975-1976. (includes Happening ’75)
          File 10: Goff Application for Zoning By-law change on Huron Street, Woodstock. – 1976.
          File 11: Innerkip Area Ratepayers Association. – 1977-1978, 1997.

          Calder, George
          Series · 1946 - 1989

          The fonds consists of records related to the Grace Patterson Women's Institute and include minutes and scrapbooks. The fonds consists of the following series:

          Series 1: Minutes
          Series 2: Finance
          Series 3: Tweedsmuirs and Scrapbooks
          Series 4: Programmes
          Series 5: Miscellaneous

          Grace Patterson Women's Institute
          Item · 1873-1963

          The fonds consists of one ledger consisting of minutes and financial information of the Harrington Branch, Upper Canadian Bible Society dated 10 December 1873 – 5 May 1963.

          Harrington Bible Society
          Fonds · 1874-1990

          The fonds consists of the following series:

          Series 1: Membership Records

          Series 2: Financial Records

          Series 3: Death Cards for Members

          Hayden Lodge No. 152 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.)
          Ingersoll Probus Club fonds
          Item · 1999-2015

          The fonds consist of various materials related to the activities of the Ingersoll Probus Club and is arranged into the following series and subseries:

          Series 1: Administration
          Subseries A: Minute Books
          Subseries B: Financial
          Subseries C: Membership
          Subseries D: History and Governance

          Series 2: Functions, Events and Activities
          Subseries A: Correspondence
          Subseries B: Newsletters
          Subseries C: Social Gatherings
          Subseries D: Photographs
          Subseries E: Miscellaneous

          *More recent Financial Records of the Ingersoll Probus Club have been kept by the Archives for tax purposes. They may be destroyed after 2023.

          Ingersoll Probus Club
          1977-1985

          The fonds consists of various materials relating to the establishment and administration of the Innerkip Ratepayers Association. Such materials include:

          Application for Facilities Rental - 1985

          By-laws and Resolutions – 1977

          Correspondence from G.A. Calder, Barrister & Solicitor - 1984

          Directors’ Register – 1977-1984

          Expenditures and Receipts – 1977-1984

          Letters Patent – 1977

          List of Members – 1977, 1980-1982

          Minutes of Meetings – 1977-1984
          Innerkip Area Ratepayers Association
          1953, 1978 and 2003

          The fonds consists of various materials related to the centennial celebrations of the Village of Innerkip: 1953 Centennial, 1978 Silver Centennial and 2003 Homecoming Weekend. Such materials include:

          1953 Centennial:
          Programme for the Melrose Presbyterian Church Centennial Services

          Souvenir Programme entitled Innerkip Centenary (two copies)

          Guest Book/Scrapbook

          1978 Silver Centennial:
          Bumper sticker

          Correspondence and schedule of events

          Financial records

          Guest/Register Books

          Newspaper clippings

          Photographs (b/w and colour)

          Programme for Innerkip’s Silver Centennial

          Souvenir Booklet

          2003 Homecoming Weekend
          Articles and schedule of events published in What’s On Woodstock Magazine

          Brochure

          Souvenir Booklet (two copies)

          Innerkip Centennial Celebrations
          Innerkip Community fonds
          1854-1994, nd.

          The fonds consists of various materials related to the history of the Village of Innerkip. Such materials include:

          Brochure entitled “Take a walk through time” A walking tour of homes and historic buildings. – ca. 1991.

          Correspondence. – 1870, 1898, 1940

          Front roll card for St. John Sunday School. – 1910.

          Ladies Aid Birthday Calendar, Presbyterian Church. – 1948.

          Local History Books:
          “A History of Blandford Township” by George Oliver. – 1966.
          “The Early Days of Innerkip District” by Zella M. Hotson. – 1952.
          “History of the Village and neighbourhood of Innerkip” by Zella M. Hotson. – nd.

          Maps:
          Topographic Map of Woodstock and Area. Original survey 1908; revised 1935.
          Whiteprint map of Oxford County. - ca 1950s

          Membership card for the United Church Women, Innerkip United Church. – 1962.

          Miscellaneous:
          The story of an old house, lot 15, Vincent Survey – Innerkip. – 1962.
          List of former residents of Innerkip. – nd.
          List of teachers and students of S.S. No. 10 East Zorra. – nd.

          Newspaper clippings. – 1854, 1967, 1978, nd.

          Photographs. – 1909, 1955-6, 1959, 1963, 1967-9, 1978, 1989, 1991, nd.

          Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid programme booklet. – 1944.

          Prize List for the Annual School Fair for East Zorra Township. – 1932.

          Programmes:
          Innerkip Annual Decoration & Memorial Service. – 1990.
          Innerkip Cemetery Decoration and Memorial Service. – 1994.
          Innerkip Centennial and Old Boys’ Reunion. – ca. 1967.
          Innerkip Centennial Celebrations. – 14-16 July 1967.
          Innerkip Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Society, 90th Anniversary. – 1991.
          27th Annual Innerkip Cemetery and C.O.F. Decoration Service. – 2 August ?

          Scrapbook for the Innerkip Unit of the Red Cross. – 1939-1946.

          Township of Blandford Minutes of the Meetings of Blandford Council. – 1961.

          Innerkip Community
          Innerkip West 4-H Club fonds
          ca. 1972-1992

          The fonds consists of a Treasurer’s Book (ca. 1972-1992) and a Scrapbook of various materials related to the operation and activities of the Innerkip West 4-H Club between the years 1980-1982. Such materials include:

          Attendance sheets

          Awards Programmes

          Minutes of the Meetings (or Secretary Reports) of the Innerkip West 4-H including such groups as the Homemaking Club, Munchkins, “Breadwinners”, Quilting Club, Etiquette for the 80’s, Social Recreation, etc.

          Newspaper clippings

          Photographs including the Innerkip 4H Club “What shall I wear” group

          Treasurer’s Book – ca. 1972-1992

          Innerkip West 4-H Club
          John Gruszka fonds
          Item · ca. 1890 - 1980s

          The fonds consists of records related to local businesses, schools, churches, and built heritage in Woodstock, Ontario, as well as materials related to other communities within Oxford County. It is arranged into the following series and subseries:

          Series 1: Photographs & Postcards
          Sub-series A: Postcards
          Sub-series B: Souvenir Postcard Booklet
          Series 2: Businesses
          Sub-series A: Woodstock
          Sub-series B: Ingersoll
          Series 3: Ephemera
          Series 4: Stamp Collection
          Series 5: Scrapbooks

          John Gruszka