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      This indenture confers water privileges on the raceway located near William Street. The sellers are listed as Hiram Capron and his wife, Mary Capron, and the buyers as Hugh Finlayson, James Montgomery, and George McVicar, owners of a tannery.

      The ink in the original document is badly faded, rendering it difficult to read. For this online edition, the colours have been altered in order to enhance legibility; as a consequence, the colour reproduction is not authentic. An unaltered scan of one page has been included as a sample of …

      The original document is written with ink on parchment. Some of the ink has faded significantly, harming legibility; the contrast has been enhanced in this online edition in order to improve legibility. As a result, colour reproduction is not authentic.

      The Marriages page from the Bell Family Bible listing the marriage of Lewis Tyrell to Jane Gains on Aug. 31, 1849 at Culpepper Court House, Virginia. This Bible was in the possession of the Richard Bell Family of St. Catharines, Ontario. Ancestors of the Bell family include former American slaves …

      Second page of Illuminated address presented “To The Most Reverend John Walsh, D.D., Archbishop of Toronto, from the Catholic Clergy of Toronto. Presented on Nov. 10th 1892”, the addresses were commissioned to mark the 25th Anniversary of Bishop Walsh's Episcopal Ordination. The addresses are Hand illuminated with the inscription, "Designed …

      Third page of Illuminated address presented “To The Most Reverend John Walsh, D.D., Archbishop of Toronto, from the Catholic Clergy of Toronto. Presented on Nov. 10th 1892”, the addresses were commissioned to mark the 25th Anniversary of Bishop Walsh's Episcopal Ordination. The addresses are Hand illuminated with the inscription, "Designed …

      Cover page of Illuminated address presented “To The Most Reverend John Walsh, D.D., Archbishop of Toronto, from the Catholic Laity of Toronto. Presented on Nov. 10th 1892”, the addresses were commissioned to mark the 25th Anniversary of Bishop Walsh's Episcopal Ordination. The addresses are Hand illuminated with the inscription, "Designed …

      Dedication page of Illuminated address presented “To The Most Reverend John Walsh, D.D., Archbishop of Toronto, from the Catholic Laity of Toronto. Presented on Nov. 10th 1892”, the addresses were commissioned to mark the 25th Anniversary of Bishop Walsh's Episcopal Ordination. The addresses are Hand illuminated with the inscription, "Designed …

      First page of Illuminated address presented “To The Most Reverend John Walsh, D.D., Archbishop of Toronto, from the Catholic Laity of Toronto. Presented on Nov. 10th 1892”, the addresses were commissioned to mark the 25th Anniversary of Bishop Walsh's Episcopal Ordination. The addresses are Hand illuminated with the inscription, "Designed …

      Second page of Illuminated address presented “To The Most Reverend John Walsh, D.D., Archbishop of Toronto, from the Catholic Laity of Toronto. Presented on Nov. 10th 1892”, the addresses were commissioned to mark the 25th Anniversary of Bishop Walsh's Episcopal Ordination. The addresses are Hand illuminated with the inscription, "Designed …

      Third page of Illuminated address presented “To The Most Reverend John Walsh, D.D., Archbishop of Toronto, from the Catholic Laity of Toronto. Presented on Nov. 10th 1892”, the addresses were commissioned to mark the 25th Anniversary of Bishop Walsh's Episcopal Ordination. The addresses are Hand illuminated with the inscription, "Designed …

      Decreed at the IV Lateran Council in 1215 and enshrined in Canon Law 51, the original intention of banns was to prevent clandestine marriages. By the Council of Trent in 1563, the provisions governing marriage banns was made more precise. The names of the contracting parties were now announced publicly …

      Decreed at the IV Lateran Council in 1215 and enshrined in Canon Law 51, the original intention of banns was to prevent clandestine marriages. By the Council of Trent in 1563, the provisions governing marriage banns were made more precise. The names of the contracting parties were now announced publicly …

      In the Archdiocese of Toronto, original parish registers are not available to the public. Please DO NOT contact parishes for access to these registers. Other Resources Death and burials are not sacraments and are therefore not formally recorded by all parishes. In Ontario, official death records are kept by the …

      In the Archdiocese of Toronto, original parish registers are not available to the public. Please DO NOT contact parishes for access to these registers. Other Resources Death and burials are not sacraments and are therefore not formally recorded by all parishes. In Ontario, official death records are kept by the …

      In the Archdiocese of Toronto, original parish registers are not available to the public. Please DO NOT contact parishes for access to these registers. Other Resources Death and burials are not sacraments and are therefore not formally recorded by all parishes. In Ontario, official death records are kept by the …

      In the pioneer era of the early 19th century, when Catholic cemeteries had not yet been established within the Archdiocese of Toronto, Catholics were buried in private family plots or in public cemeteries. In either case they were usually deprived of resting in consecrated ground. By the 1820s and 1830s, …