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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

The fonds consists of one ledger compiled by Alexander E. Grant, Woodstock Shoemaker between the years 1905 and 1919.

The fonds consists of various materials relating to the history of the Baechler family, Oxford County (in particular East Zorra Township and the Village of Tavistock) and South Easthope. Such materials include:

 Family History entitled “Life and Times of Andrew Baechler” (two copies)
 Exert from the booklet “A History of the East Zorra Amish Mennonite Church, 1837-1977” re.
 Andrew Baechler (+ copy)
 Deeds, Titles, Mortgages and Ownership of Lot 34, Concession 14, East Zorra Township and Lot 16,
 Concession 3, South Easthope, as well as corresponding family history (property belonged to Joseph
 S. and Anna Baechler)
 Photographs (8) of Andrew Baechler and family
 Business card – A. Baechler and Son, Ford Sales and Service
 Auction Sale Bill for the Baechler estate
 Original and copies of Death Notices – Baechler family
 Newspaper articles related to Andrew Beachler and family
 The Joseph Baechler Family History and Genealogy

Fonds consists of records of Woodstock Methodist Sunday School District (incudes Beachville, Sweaburg, Woodstock, Salford, Oxford Centre, Eastwood, Princeton, Drumbo, Washington, Hickson, Plattsville and Bright), 1915-1921; Missionary Society collection book of Beachville Methodist Circuit (includes Beachville and Folden's), 1911-1918; records, including burials, 1922-1925, of Beachville Methodist Church, 1891-1925; records of Beachville Pastoral Charge (includes Beachville, Sweaburg, and West Oxford), 1908-2015; records of West Oxford Pastoral Charge, 1973, 2015; records of Sweaburg United Church, 1990-2010; and records of West Oxford United Church 1990-2010; records, including baptismal stubs, 1942-1980, and marriages, 1896-1942, of Beachville United Church (includes Sweaburg Methodist Circuit, Beachville Methodist Church, Sweaburg Methodist Church), 1891-2016.

Fonds consists of records, including marriages, 1858-1872, 1896-1921, of Belmont Methodist Circuit (includes Belmont Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, Crampton, Bratt's Church in Westminster Township, Victoria Church in Westminster Township, Avon, Derwent, Harrietsville, Dorchester, Purdy's Church in North Dorchester Township, Manning's Church in North Dorchester Township, Bethel Church in North Dorchester Township, Plaxton's Church in North Dorchester Township, Wesley Church in North Dorchester Township, Nilestown, Mossley, Dereham (now Tillsonburg); records of Belmont Methodist Church, 1878-1922; records, including marriages, 1962-1975, of Belmont Pastoral Charge (includes Belmont Methodist Circuit and Nilestown Methodist Circuit), 1901-1975; baptismal records of Belmont, Harrietsville - Mossley Pastoral Charge, 1929-2006; records, including marriages, 1921-1962, of Belmont United Church (includes Belmont Methodist Church), 1902-1994; records of Nilestown United Church, 1940-1969; and baptisms 1962-1997, marriages 1963-1999, and burial records, 1963-1999 of Harrietsville - Mossley United Church (includes Harrietsville, Mossley), 1962-1999.

The fonds consist of various materials related to Bernadette Smith and including the following:

• Correspondence to Bernadette Smith and Michael Smith
• newspaper clippings and scrapbook on the political career of Bernadette Smith
• Gail Puddicombe’s research papers, notes, correspondence, etc
• Gail Puddicombe’s essay on Bernadette Smith

Fonds consists of Quarterly Conference minutes, of Blenheim Evangelical Association Mission, 1876-1922.

Fonds consists of minutes of Braemar Woman's Missionary Society, 1925-1961 and minutes of Braemar United Church Women, 1962-1995

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

Fonds consists of marriage register of Brownsville Methodist Circuit (includes Brownsville, Delmer, Culloden), 1896-1918; records of Brownsville Methodist Church, 1885-1925; records of Culloden Presbyterian Church, 1861-[ca. 1923]; records, including baptisms, 1905-1955, marriages, 1904-1911, 1919-1956, burials, 1904-1910, 1918-1927, 1942-1956, of Brownsville Pastoral Charge (includes Brownsville Methodist Circuit, Brownsville, Delmer, Culloden), 1896-1965; records of Brownsville-Culloden United Church, Brownsville (includes Brownsville Methodist Church, Brownsville United Church), 1903-1978.

Fonds consists of records of New Durham Methodist Church (includes New Durham Wesleyan Methodist Church), 1853-1915; Board of Trustees minutes of Newark Methodist Church, 1872-1912; Woman's Missionary Society minutes of Burgessville Methodist Church, 1904-1912; records, including baptism/marriage/burial records, 1907-1933, 1943-1978, of Burgessville Pastoral Charge (includes New Durham, Newark, Burgessville Methodist Circuit), including baptism/marriage/burial records, 1907-2010; records of Burgessville United church (includes Burgessville Methodist Church), 1907-1984; Board of Trustees and Congegational minutes of Newark United Church (includes Newark Methodist Church), 1912-1941; and records of New Durham United Church (includes New Durham Methodist Church), 1914-1974.

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.

The fonds consists of one account book (1900-1904) compiled by Daniel Giles, farmer on the 14th Line, East Zorra Township.

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

The fonds consist of Minute Books and Account Books of the shareholders of the East Zorra and Blandford Cheese Manufacturing Co. The Account Books list the rates and prices of each shareholder for the sale of milk, cream, butter and cheese. They also include monthly statements of the amount of milk/cream delivered, etc as well as general receipts and payments. In addition, there is an index prepared by the Oxford Historical Society providing a detailed list of names of the shareholders of the East Zorra-Blandford Cheese Manufacturing Co. and the years of their involvement in the Corporation.

Fonds consists of constitution, congregational minutes, 1872-1906, of Ebenezer Congregational Church, Embro; baptisms, 1927-1943, marriages, 1896-1942, membership records, 1925-1943, annual meeting minutes, 1906-1943, of Ebenezer United Church, Embro (includes Ebenezer Congregational Church).

Fonds consists of circuit register of Tillsonburg Wesleyan Methodist Circuit (includes Tillsonburg, Culloden, Richmond, Brownsville, Dereham Centre, Hatch's Chapel in Bayham Township), 1860-1871; Trustee Board minutes of Eden United Church (includes Eden Methodist Church), 1903-1934

The fonds consists of one Minute Book of the Epworth League from 22 April 1909 – 28 September 1911. In addition, a name index by page has been compiled by Eleanor Gardhouse.

Fonds consists of records of Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, 1843-1872; records, including baptisms, 1888-1891, and marriages, 1858-1885, 1896-1921, of Central Methodist Church, Woodstock, (includes Wesleyan Methodist Chapel), 1854-1924; records, including baptisms, 1852-1885, 1906-1916, marriages, 1855-1857, 1896-1916, and burials, 1906-1916, of Chalmers Presbyterian Church, Woodstock, 1837-1925; records, including baptisms, 1924-2008, marriages, 1935-2008, and burials, 1950-2008, of Chalmers United Church, Woodstock (includes Chalmers Presbyterian Church), 1887-2008; records, baptisms, 1907-2007, marriages, 1896-2007, and burials, 1907-2008, of Central United Church (includes Central Methodist Church), Woodstock, 1853-2010; records, including baptisms 2008-2010, marriages 2008-2010 and burials 2008-2011, of Faith United Church, Woodstock (includes Chalmers and Central United Churches), 2007-2012.

Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, 1865-1879, and marriages, 1865-1939, of Roseville Evangelical Church, 1865-1946 (includes Roseville Evangelical Association and Blenheim Circuit); records, including baptisms, 1879-1958, of Roseville Evangelical United Brethren Church,1839-1967; records, including baptisms, 1972-2013, marriages, 1972-2007, and burials, 1972-2014, of Grace United Church, Roseville, 1902-2015.