Elgin County

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

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. 

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

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.

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

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

1902 directory for Elgin County shown among other counties. 

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.

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

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