Historical Sketches of Victoria County


Bill Parker and the Emily Township Orangemen March on Lindsay July 12, 1846

Downeyville Roman Catholic Church History

More Downeyville Parish History

New St.Luke's Church in Downeyville

Downeyville Reunion - 100th Anniversary

Eldon Donald - Romantic Tragedy in Pioneer Eldon Township

Pioneer experience with wolves near Beaverton

Pioneer experience with wolves and bears in Victoria County

Reminiscences of Eldon by Malcolm Morrison 1926

Pioneer settlement story of Emily township and Omemee village

Historical Sketch of Omemee Village

Historical Sketch of Omemee Village - 1888

Origins of Victoria County Township Names

Story of a voyage in an emigrant ship

Trip to Norland Village - 1892

Reminiscences of Omemee pioneers in the 1920's

History of Christ Church Anglican in Omemee

Poetry of Omemee Village - The Dove

Kinmount Village in the 1880's

Mossom Boyd's Big Island Herd of Polled-Angus Cattle

Coboconk Village in 1905

History of Education in Lindsay

Great Fire of Lindsay - 1861

Early Streets of Lindsay

Lindsay Town in 1912 and History

Legend of Manita

Coboconk Village in 1892

Reminiscences of Old days by the Scugog River

Opening of new Methodist Parsonage in Omemee

Reminiscences of Early Days in Emily by Thomas Cuff

Mossom Boyd Estate in Bobcaygeon - Sold

How Fingerboard was named

Attempted Murder at Bury Green - 1877

Bobcaygeon Independent Newspaper - Visit to Premises

Pioneers of Fenelon Township

Millersmith Community - Emily Township

Frankhill (Emily Township) Poem

Kirkfield Village 1888

Feir Mill - Ops Township

Murder in Lindsay - 1856

Visit to Laidlaw Ranch - 1895

Thurstonia Park - 1906

Pioneer drive to the Lindsay market

Early Pioneer Times in Laxton township

Fenelon Falls Village 1883

Little Britain Village 1888

New homes in Victoria County ~ 1906

The Northern 'Back' Townships

Eldon Township

Fenelon Township

Lindsay and Ops Township

Poetical Sketch of some early Lindsay and Victoria businessmen

Mariposa Township

Omemee and Emily Township

Verulam Township

Jesse Purdy - 1841 Lindsay Letter

Murder in Ops Township

George Calvert Goes to the Fair - Reminiscences

George Calvert - Reminiscences of Early Times in District

John Calvert - Reaboro - Life Sketch

Johnston Bradley - Kansas - Back in Lindsay

Old Time Hunting Trip to Head Lake

John Butler - Lindsay - 108 Years


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