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      A map with many lakes on it. Map of Humphrey Township - 1879

      A map of part of the Township of Humphrey with the names of the people who owned the lots in 1879.

      Map housed at the Brodie Resource Library

      Letter from Martha Dykes (a cousin) to James Pate, sent January 18, 1879. In the letter she discussed her school lessons, and how a girl named Miss Scott went skating and got sick and died. Jessie scott was staying with Martha through the summer. She discussed how the farm was …

      Emily Howard Jennings Stowe (1831-1903) was a teacher and principal, a medical doctor, and a suffragette. Educated at home, Stowe became a teacher in 1846 and graduated from the Provincial Normal School in Toronto, Canada West in 1854. In 1865 Stowe applied to study medicine at the University of Toronto, …

      A letter of Stephen Wright to Amos Wright (25 Oct. 1879).

      Signed by Mayor George Guillet, George Perry and Thomas Gillbard.

      General summary of the Wright family for nine generations from pre-1631 to 1879, with a note of S. Wright addressed to Amos Wright.

      Framed certificate of the Grand Lodge of Canada admitting Charles Fizette as a M.M. in Niagara Lodge, No. 2, Niagara, dated Hamilton, January 11, 1879. A parchment document issued by William Henry Weller, Esquire, Grand Master of The Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Canada in the …

      Dr. Aaron Chamberlain was born in East Oakland, in Brant County, Ontario to Joel and Elvira Main Chamberlain on 7th October, 1829. Aaron attended the Michigan Medical College at the University of Michigan between 1864 and 1865, and the Victoria Royal Medical School in 1867. He would marry Melinda Clark …

      Further accruals are expected. Series descriptions are available. Older records are in fragile condition.

      The records are in fragile condition.

 appeared in Acton Free Press, 19 Jun 1879, p. 2     A two year old son of James Stapley, residing in the 9th concession of Bidney, was drowned on the 9th in a well situated near his father's house....

 appeared in Acton Free Press, 19 Jun 1879, p. 3     VIOLENT DEATH. - Tuesday, John Grieve, 4th concession, Eramosa, was taking down an old barn. One of the bents fell, crushing the skull of Thomas, a son of Mr. Grieve, a man of about 30. He lingered until Wednesday morning of last week, when he died. A framer, whose name …

 appeared in Acton Free Press, 3 Jul 1879, p. 3     FATAL SUNSTROKE. - On Wednesday last 25th ult., about 11 a.m., Mr. George Valinsce, of Nassagaweya, near Cambellville, was sun struck while plowing. A little boy was in the field with him at the time and noticing his strange actions ran to the house to give the alarm. When he, …

 appeared in Acton Free Press, 17 Jul 1879, p. 3     -MRS. RAE, mother of the deputy reeve of Elma, died last week, aged one hundred years....

 appeared in Acton Free Press, 31 Jul 1879, p. 2     Benjamin Brown, aged fourteen years, son of Mr. Jared Brown, farmer, residing on the townline of Stephen and Hay townships, seven miles west of Exeter, met with a sad misfortune while out with his gun on the evening of the 18th inst. He was seen to leave the house, gun …

 appeared in Acton Free Press, 14 Aug 1879, p. 2     LADY KILLED BY A FALLING TREE. Miss Adams, second daughter of Mr. H. P. Adams, of Hanover, was killed instantly by a tree falling on her, which was blown down by the wind. The young lady, with some friends, were on their way to the Blue Springs to hold a …

 appeared in Acton Free Press, 21 Aug 1879, p. 3     -THE death of Mr. James Lynch, who settled in Guelph the year it was founded, 1827, occurred on Saturday, at the residence of Mr. Patrick Ryan....

 appeared in Acton Free Press, 4 Sep 1879, p. 2     A Guelph Lad Drowned in the River Speed. On Friday morning last Henry Lingwood aged 12, and his brother Fred, aged 7, were walking along a stone wall at the foot of Mr. R. Melvin's residence on the River Speed, Guelph, when the little boy, Fred, slipped and fell headlong …