Item consists of a postcard of a parade in Brampton, possibly on Main Street South.
Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, 1849-1858, of Amaranth Methodist Mission (includes Orangeville, Melville, Garafraxa Township, Cataract), 1849-1884; records, including baptisms, 1852-1880, of Orangeville Primitive Methodist Circuit (includes Orangeville, Providence Church in East Garafraxa Township, Bethel Church in Amaranth Township, Salem Church in Amaranth Township, Bethesda Church in Amaranth Township, Ebenezer Church in Laurel), 1852-1886; records, including marriages, 1896-1920, of First Avenue Methodist Church, Orangeville, 1876-1921; records, including baptisms, 1904-1933, marriages, 1904-1945, burials, 1904-1932, of First Avenue United Church, Orangeville, 1904-1948.
First Avenue United Church (Orangeville, Ont.)Fonds consists of records created or collected by members of the prominent Gordon family of Port Credit during the course of their personal and professional lives.
While the records span three generations of the Gordon family, the fonds centres on the personal and professional records of George W. Gordon. His records, as well as smaller bodies of records created by four of his children, Lillian, Rhena, Francis (Frank), and Douglas Wilden, came into the care of his granddaughter, Sandra (Gordon) Moore who partially organized them and conducted related family research. Moore’s own records and those of her ancestors have therefore been treated as an organic whole and no attempt has been made to split the body of records into separate fonds; however, series are described in terms of the family member to whom records pertain (see below for series listing).
George W. Gordon’s records include a substantial number of letters dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century from members of the Wingfield, Beamish, and Gordon family members and acquaintances, relating to daily life in small Ontario settler and farming communities such as Utterson, Allensville, Port Credit, Springfield-on-the-Credit (now Erindale) as well as larger centres such as Hamilton and Toronto. Some letters came from further afield in the North West Territories, England, and the US. Domestic and personal records collected or created by Gordon also include administrative records related to fraternal organizations (Masonic and Orange Lodges), household receipts, farming expense accounts and diaries, land and financial records, and various ephemera.
The fonds also contains a significant body of records emanating from George W. Gordon’s role as justice of the peace and magistrate for Port Credit, including marriage licence applications, administrative records related to the Toronto Hamilton Highway Commission, and police court records. The latter include completed forms such as summons, warrants, and complaints, correspondence and signed statements made in court relating to criminal charges and civil infractions.
Records created by Gordon’s children, Lillian, Rhena, Frank, and Douglas Wilden include correspondence, photographs, ephemera, family research, and professional records related to teaching. Lillian Gordon’s records include a significant amount of mid-twentieth-century correspondence with suitors located in Ontario, the US and Germany.
Sandra Moore’s records contain a substantial amount of family research, including correspondence with relatives and records offices in North American and the United Kingdom. Her records include extensive documentation of the Beamish family of which one branch settled in Springfield-on-the-Credit.
Fonds comprises the following series:
Series 1: Wingfield correspondence
Series 2: Beamish correspondence
Series 3: Gordon family correspondence
Series 4: George W. Gordon domestic and personal records
Series 5: Lillian Gordon records
Series 6: Rhena, Frank, and Douglas Wilden Gordon records
Series 7: Sandra Moore (nee Gordon) records
Series 8: Gordon family photographs
Series 9: Gordon oversize records
Series 10: Gordon professional records
Item consists of a real photo technique postcard of the Gage Park gazebo.
Item consists of a photographic postcard showing a view of Main Street North, looking south. This includes the trees on the west side of the street, opposite the church. Grace was a Wesleyan Methodist congregation.
Fonds consists of records of Brampton Wesleyan Church, 1864-1888; records of Grace Methodist Church, Brampton, 1889-1925; records, including baptisms, 1926-1957, marriages, 1902-1952, burials, 1926-1991, of Grace United Church, Brampton (includes Grace Methodist Church), 1902-1995
Grace United Church (Brampton, Ont.)Item consists of a photograph of a school class. Verso reads: "Grade III, June 1930?; Top row: Monica Bonham, Margaret Christie, Bernice Kee, Gladys Harris, Christina Crowley, Rose Borcna, Dora Welk, I. Sprowl, Mary McDonald; Second row: Ross Tommy, Gordon Rowatt, Edward Kee, Tony Franze, Bill Whaley, Joe Keane, Walter Coram, Ted Herd, Jackson Cunningham, Joe? John Bansero; Third row: Catina [Brant?], Jean McKay, Fanny Milburn, Jean Goldthorpe, Cathleen Craighton (Julia), Miss Green, Rita Therney, Olive Miles, Annie Harper, Gladys Cook; Bottom row: George Woodall, Julius Smith, Rodney Pinkney, Victor Arthur, [Arthur Rowatt?], George Welk, Cleveland Harris, Austin Hepton, Edward Heron, Joe Perrin".
Fonds consists of circuit register of Grahamsville Methodist Circuit (includes Grahamsville, Ebenezer Church in Toronto Township, Stanley Mills, Smithfield), 1899-1907; Epworth League minutes of Grahamsville Methodist Church, 1918-1923; records, including baptisms, 1922-1936, marriages, 1902-1945, burials, 1922-1936, of Grahamsville Pastoral Charge (includes Grahamsville Methodist Circuit, Grahamsville, Palestine, Harrison's Church in Chinguacousy Township, Mount Olivet), 1902-1962; records of Harrison's Church in Chinguacousy Township (includes Harrison's Methodist Church), 1920-1956; records of Palestine United Church (includes Palestine Methodist Church), 1923-1962; records, including baptisms, 1954-1959, marriages, 1954-1959, burials, 1954-1959, of Grahamsville United Church (includes Grahamsville Methodist Church), 1883-1967
Grahamsville Pastoral Charge (Ont.)Series consists of a watercolour painting, not dated, and a photograph of John Forster, ca. 1880.
Item consists of a postcard with a black and white photograph and a colour illustration, reading "From the land of the maple".
Atkinson Bros.Item consists of a postcard with a black and white photograph and a colour illustration, reading "From the land of the maple".
Atkinson Bros.Fonds consists of records of Harrison's United Church, Chinguacousy Township, 1931-1983.
Harrison's United Church (Chinguacousy Township, Ont.)Item consists of a generic postcard of cattle and a red flag, on which Brampton's name has been added. The colourized photograph shows brown, spotted cows, which would suggest Guernsey, Ayrshire, or Red and White Holstein; it is likely, however, that they are actually simply unnecessarily colourized Holsteins.