Elgin County

Included in this booklet are 50 locations/towns in Elgin highlighting the churches with a write up of each one.

Contains a history of the Elgin County Holstein Club.

A checklist of butterflies found in Elgin County from 1910 to 1985.

A short history of the Elgin County Courthouse Cannons.

A collection of award wining school essays on Elgin County School Sections and Townships written as part of a contest sponsored by the Southern Counties Journal and the Elgin Historical And Scientific Institute in 1896. Contains lots of great early history on the County Of Elgin. 

Prepared in 1930 by F.S. Thomas, Agricultural Representative, and J.A. Charlton, Assistant Representative. An overview of the climate, soils, topography, demography, and market conditions of Elgin County. Includes map of Elgin County soil types.

Fourth-Year Thesis by G.N. Procunier. Ontario Agricultural College, 1944.

The daily journal of Gilbert Anger, a Bayham Township farmer, from March 27, 1901 to April 14, 1912.

Includes Elgin association of Baptist churches: A History. October 1967, Section 1; First Southwold Baptist Church, 1821-1902; Iona Station Baptist Church, 1903-1965, Section 2; Eden Baptist Church, Hundredth Anniversary, Section 3

Souvenir booklet of Bayham Township's Centennial. Contains a history of the township.

Biographies of Doctors in Elgin County compiled in a scrapbook by Dr. James Wellington Crane.

A list and profile of birds in Elgin County.

Diary thought to by kept by F. G. Stanbury who served during the Boer War

A history of the Children's Aid in Elgin County.

County Of Elgin Directory is contained within this Almanac.

Photocopy of Canadian Home Journal Calendar for 1863 and County of Elgin Directory, compiled by Archibald McLachlin. Inscribed with the name Henry Roe, so copy may have been made from his original copy.

An index to Canadian Patents of Elgin County from 1824 to 1872.

Exhibition programme from The Vancouver Art Gallery, April 2-May 1, 1977. 

Colonel Thomas Talbot by The Ryerson Canadian History Readers.

Typed pages containing the evidence taken from the Coroner's Inquest of the murder of William Hendershott, by coroner Eliphalet W. Gustin, taken on December 17, December 21, and December 27-28, 1894.

To define the duties of the Standing Committee of Management, Inspector, Keeper, Matron and Physician for the superintendence, care and management of the House of Industry and Refuge of the County of Elgin and to prescribe Rules and Regulations for the Govern-ment thereof

Booklet features an overview of the agriculture and Industry of the townships and communities of Elgin County,

Bicycle tour of Elgin County with local history essays and suggested bike routes.

Sketches of doctors in Elgin County.

History of the name origin for various places in the townships East Elgin.

Contents Include: Outline and development of the association, list of churches in the association, general history, meetings, and minutes.

This file contains various documents relating to the transfer of trusteeship in the Elgin County Book of Remembrance from the Regimental Chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire and its deposit in the St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, 1930-1972. Includes indenture signed November 8, 1930.

A listing of the names and service of Elgin County men and women who served in the First World War

Transcribed by Joseph O’Gorman, Elgin County Museum, 2015

History of various places and people of interest in Elgin County as part of a historic walking tour. Contains also lots of general history of St. Thomas and Elgin County.

Register of the Names of all Paupers, Vagrants, and Idiots received into the House of Industry and Refuge for the County of Elgin", 1876-1897.

Includes a "List of Children for whom homes have been secured by the Inspector of the County of Elgin House of Industry and Refuge", 1887-1893 

Includes a Cemetery Plot Plan for Inmates.

List of visitors to the Elgin County House of Industry. Includes visitor number, date, name, place of residence, and some entries include comments.

Booklet contains a history of the Elgin County Junior Farmers' and Junior Institute from 1922 to 1972.

Book contains annual report of the Elgin County Library, 1979. Report is dedicated to the architecture and history of Port Stanley and includes "Port Stanley's Heritage Discovered" by Linda Pearse, with illustrations by Robert Ballantine, and "The Selborne Grist Mill" by C. Teskey Smith.

Book contains annual report of the Elgin County Library, 1981. Report also includes "Beneath the Surface: History of Belmont" by Heather Hudson, with illustrations by J.O. Radford.

Booklet describing materials found in the museum.

A booklet produced to mark the opening of the Elgin Military Museum in 1982. Contains an overview of the mandate of the museum, Elgin County military history, and some of the museum's collections.

Presentation of Colours to the First Battalion The Elgin Regiment by Colonel, the Honourable Herbert Alexander Bruce, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario, Canada on behalf of The 25th Elgin Regiment Chapter, Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, St. Thomas, Ontario, June 28, 1936.

Compiled by D.T. McCall. Booklet telling the story of Alanson Pease and his wife and the Americansoldier who was killed when a rifle exploded. Probably compiled in the late 1940's. Includes map.

This issue of Evolution of Schools: From Quill to Computer focuses on schools in Bayham Township.

This issue of Evolution of Schools: From Quill to Computer focuses on schools in Malahide Township.

This issue of Evolution of Schools: From Quill to Computer focuses on schools in South Dorchester Township.

This issue of Evolution of Schools: From Quill to Computer focuses on schools in the town of Aylmer.

This issue of Evolution of Schools: From Quill to Computer focuses on schools in Yarmouth Township.

Part One and Two of the Frank L. Farley biography. Published in "The Cardinal" newsletter by The McIlwraith Ornithological Club, London's Nature Club.

Early directory for St. Thomas and Elgin County.

Book made to commemorate fifty years of the Ontario District of Optimist International. Elgin County community's are featured in the book.

Guidal's Atlas of Elgin County, ca. 1918. Includes maps showing South Dorchester, Bayham, Malahide, Yarmouth, Southwold, Dunwich and Aldborough.

This Pamphlet provides information to the public about hospital service.

An article from the 'Municipal World' September 1904 issue. Describes the management and infrastructure of the Elgin County House of Industry, such as its' water supply, drainage, buildings, heating, cottages, laundry, inmates, maintenance, farm stock and crops, and meals.

Typed copy of Colonel Mahlon Burwell's journal. August 16, 1814 to January 15, 1815.

The full title of this book is "Life of Colonel Talbot and the Talbot Settlement, its rise and progress , with sketches of the public characters, and career of some of the most conspicuous men in Upper Canada, who were either friends or acquaintances of the subject of these memoirs." A favourable biography of Thomas Talbot written by Talbot's longtime friend Edward Ermatinger. 

Typescript copy of last will and testament of Mahlon Burwell, dated April 29, 1846.

A provisional annotated list of the mammals of Elgin County, Ontario, reported from the beginning of European settlement until the present time.

1902 directory for Elgin County shown among other counties. 

Booklet prepared to accompany the Nominal Roll presented at the reunion to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the departure of the 91st Battalion overseas.

From a series which consists of papers and essays prepared for and/or presented to the Elgin Historical Society and its predecessor the Elgin Historical and Scientific Institute. 

"Elgin Women's Work During the Great War" by Hattie Robinson, 2001. Address by Hattie Robinson to: "Women's Historical Society" describing the work done by Elgin County Women's groups to raise funds for relief efforts and support materials for "Comfort Boxes" sent to soldiers at the front. Not dated.

Hattie Robinson served as Secretary of the Elgin Branch of the Canadian War Contingency Association (C. W. C. A.) during their First World War activities.

Photograph album dated July 13, 1869 containing 39 photographs documenting the family of Phineas Drake and his descendants, Southwold Township, later London, Ontario.

Contains a history, as well as photos, and local advertising, for the village of Port Burwell.

The official souvenir program sold at the 1985 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show held September 17-21, 1985 in the vicinity of St. Thomas, Ontario. Programs were produced and sold under the authority of the Merchandising Committee of the Local Committee for the 1985 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show.

Full title of this book is "The Life of Colonel, The Late Honorable Thomas Talbot, Embracing the Rise and Progress of the Counties of Norfolk, Elgin, Middlesex, Kent and Essex." The earliest biography of Colonel Thomas Talbot published four years after his passing. The second half of the book contains  descriptions of the various towns and villages in the Talbot Settlement.

A history of the London & Port Stanley Railway.

A history of the Middlemarch Apple Grove Grange

Photographic study of Elgin County in celebration of the bicentennial of Ontario in 1984. Produced by Art Gallery St. Thomas-Elgin and Printed by Elgin Blueprint, St. Thomas.