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This microfilm contains records created or collected by local
government while performing their duties. Primarily created between 1845 and 1900, these records include:
assessment and collector's rolls; local
census records (pre-1851); voters lists and
poll books; and local Town and Township council
records.
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Introduction
As mentioned above, this microfilm contains records created or
collected by local government while performing their duties. Primarily
created between 1845 and 1900, these records include: assessment
and collector's rolls; local census records (pre-1851);
voters lists and poll books; and local
Town and Township council records. These microfilm reels
represent only a small portion of the Archives' holdings of Municipal
records. Contact the Archives
about other early Ontario municipal records.
Use the table below to identify
the pre-1850 district or post 1850 county
that you are interested in. Clicking on the appropriate
district or county link will take you to a breakdown of the records
available for that jursidiction.
Once you have identified the reel(s) of film that you wish to
view, you may:
- Consult the reel(s) at our reading room on the main floor
of 77 Grenville Street in Toronto.
- From the Interlibrary Loan Department of your public library,
order the appropriate microfilm reel(s). Quote the MS
number and the appropriate reel #.
These reels can not leave the borrowing library, so make sure
to order them from a library that has a microfilm reader.
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Definitions
The following definitions will help define the content of these
records:
- Minutes: a record summarising the business
discussed by a municipal council or committee. Minutes can include
appendices containing the relevant reports and correspondence.
- By-laws: an order or regulation relating
to local government, passed by a municipal council or committee,
which is enforceable by the courts.
- Aggregate Assessment: an official census
or survey by the clerk of the peace of a district. While often
listing detailed statistical information, aggregate assessments
contain no names.
- Census: an official enumeration of households
and inhabitants within a defined geographical area, with related
demographic and economic statistics, and certain information
schedules such as industry and agriculture.
- Assessment Roll: an official valuation by
household, owner, or tenant of real property or assets for the
purpose of municipal taxation, with related statistics, such
as lot sizes. Later in the nineteenth century, these records
were often used by municipalities to record utility charges,
licences, etc.
- Collector's Roll: similar to the information
found in assessment rolls, to which is added a record of payments
received from the owners for taxes due on rateable property.
- Special Assessment: based on rateable property
(a poll tax), levied on inhabitant householders and collected
to pay the county member of the house of assembly, often for
the member's attendance the previous year to the levy date.
- The abbreviation "n. d." means
"no date".
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Microfilm Listing by District/County
Location |
Description of Records |
Amaranth
Township, Dufferin Co. |
Municipal Records, 1855-1900. |
Eastern
District
(later part of the United Counties of Counties of Stormont,
Dundas and Glengarry) |
Road Reports
Road Petitions
School Petitions
Miscellaneous Papers concerning roads, schools, and
finances in 1814-1850. |
Fitzroy
Township, Carleton Co. |
By-laws and Minutes, 1850-1855. |
Gore District |
Census & Assessment Rolls, 1816-1850. |
Johnstown
District |
Census |
Newcastle
District |
Census & Assessment Rolls, 1803-1850. |
Niagara
District |
Census & Assessment Rolls, 1828-1849. |
Niagara,
Town of
(later Niagara-on-the-lake) |
Local Municipal Records, 1845-1914. |
North
Monaghan Township, Peterborough Co. |
Assessment & Collectors' Rolls
Voters Lists
Poll Books
Other Municipal Records, 1852-1886. |
Ottawa
District
(later part of the United Counties of Prescott &Russell) |
Census & Assessment Rolls |
Pittsburgh
Township, Frontenac Co. |
Local Municipal Records, 1842-1936. |
Trafalgar
Township, Halton Co. |
Assessment and Collectors' Rolls
Treasurers' Accounts
Record Book
Auditors' Reports. 1823-1899. |
United
Counties of Northumberland and Durham |
Census
Assessment & Collectors' Rolls, 1849-1870. |
Waterloo
District |
Assessment & Collector's Rolls,
1841-1855. |
Wellington
District & Wellington Co. |
Municipal Records. |
Western
District |
Census, Assessment & Collectors
Rolls
Land Schedules
Returns of School Rates |
Western
District |
Minutes
By-Laws
Election Returns
Poll Books
Voters Lists
Correspondence
School Records
Schedule of Lands. |
Western
District and Essex Co. |
Asssesment Rolls, 1843-1926. |
Wolfe
Island Township, Frontenac Co. |
Assessment Rolls 1868. |
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