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Publications
Publications that can be ordered from our society are listed
below, followed by instructions on how to purchase these publications.
At the bottom of this page are
other publications related to Bruce County genealogy and history, with
separate purchasing instructions.
Go to Publications Order Form
Prices are subject to change without notice.
PUBLICATION
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PRICE
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MAPS
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Grey Bruce (Ontario, Canada) Visitor's Map. This map shows
the lots and concessions of Grey and Bruce Counties, as well as the
township boundaries pre 1998 amalgamation.
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not available
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DIRECTORIES List the towns and villages with a
brief history of each, including churches, schools, trades, etc., as well
as the distance to the nearest larger centre. Also listed are residents
and their occupations.
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Lovell's 1871 Directory - Bruce County
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out of print
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Lovell's 1871 Directory - Bruce, Grey and Huron Counties
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20.00
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William
W. Evans Bruce County Gazetteer and Business Directory 1880 - 1881.
Bruce County Genealogical Society reproduction. 214 pages. This is a
complete reproduction of the original Gazetteer & Directory of Bruce
County printed in 1880, with the addition of a Bruce County map of
townships prior to the 1998 amalgamations showing location of all lots
and concessions within the county as well as towns, villages and
hamlets. There is a description of the political boundaries,
topographical features, land cleared and value of crops. The townships
are alphabetical with an historical sketch of both townships and
villages, followed by owners or tenants on all farm lots, plus business
people in said villages and towns. Included also are many business ads
from that era.
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40.00
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CENSUS
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1851 Bruce County Census - all townships. Includes Bruce
County map showing the townships prior to 1998 amalgamations.
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34.00
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VOTERS LISTS List of Voters' names, with their
lot and concession number. A valuable 'between census'
reference.
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Bruce Township Voters' Lists 1865, 1867, 1869
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16.00
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Bruce Township Voters Lists' 1870 - 1874
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28.00
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Town of Walkerton Voters List' 1887
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11.00
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Teeswater Voters List 1897. Includes Bruce County map
showing the townships prior to 1998 amalgamation.
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9.00
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CHURCH RECORDS
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Baptisms - St. Andrew's Church, Saugeen Township and North
Bruce Church, Bruce Township, 1872 - 1918
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5.00
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Arkwright Methodist Church Register, Baptisms, Marriages and
Burials
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14.00
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CHURCH HISTORY
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St. Andrew's Church History - Saugeen Township, 1870 - 1962
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6.00
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Invermay Methodist Cemetery - The Church and Local
Settlement, by Doug Richards
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out of print
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VITAL STATISTICS
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Bruce Township Death Registrations 1879 - 1899
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12.00
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LOCAL AND FAMILY HISTORIES
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Forgotten Lives - Early History of a Coastal Village, by
John Weichel. A history of Southampton.
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30.00
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An Historic Album of Paisley, Ontario,
by the Paisley
Centennial Book Committee, 1974
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15.00
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The History of Elderslie Township 1851 - 1977
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not available
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Tara Before 1981
- A history for Tara's 100th anniversary, by Bruce Miller
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20.00
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The
Millers' Tale, by Bruce Miller of Tara, Ontario.
This book is 250 pages long, spiral bound, has 195 pictures and
other illustrations (about 30% in colour), 100 stories (the prime focus
of the book) and a family tree for each line. The Millers' Tale
starts with fourteen great great grandparents and traces each line down
to the author and his siblings. Family names include Aiken / Moffet,
Brown / Johnson, Greig / Calder, Langstaff / Morran, McLean / Follis,
Miller / Langstaff, Tighe / Tighe. All books autographed. |
35.00 + 10.00 postage |
Chesley Past and Present 1880 - 1980, by Chesley Centennial Committee,
1980
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not available
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Independent Order of Oddfellows and Rebekahs, Port Elgin
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12.00
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NEWSLETTER
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Bruce Bulletin (4 issues per year, 1990 - 2002). Specify
year.
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5.00
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NEWSPAPER TRANSCRIPTIONS
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Lucknow
Sentinel (newspaper) Births, marriages, deaths - 1875 - 1899.
The town of Lucknow is in southern Bruce County, and the Lucknow Sentinel
newspaper carries birth, marriage and death announcements for
the surrounding area, which includes the northern part of Huron
County as well as the southern part of Bruce County.
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16.00
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Lucknow Sentinel (newspaper) Births,
marriages, deaths - 1890 - 1905. |
20.00 |
Paisley Advocate (newspaper) Births, marriages, deaths -
1871 - 1900.
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21.00 |
Paisley Advocate (newspaper) Births, marriages, deaths -
1901 - 1910. Includes Bruce County map showing the Townships prior to 1998
amalgamation.
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31.00
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Paisley Advocate (newspaper) Births, marriages, deaths -
1911 - 1921. Back in print. Includes
County map.
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22.00
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Paisley News (newspaper) Births, marriages, deaths - Sept.
1899 - Sept. 1900.
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17.00
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CEMETERIES
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Albemarle Township |
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Edgehill Cemetery, Colpoy's Bay |
16.00 |
Red Bay |
4.00 |
Amabel Township
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Allenford
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3.50
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Balsam Grove
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8.00
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Louck's
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2.50
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Spring Creek
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3.50
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St. Mary's Updated
to the end of 2008
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4.00
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Zion Updated to the
end of 2008
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15.00
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Arran Township
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Arkwright
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2.50
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Christ Church Anglican
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3.50
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Elsinore
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4.50
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Henderson
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7.00
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Hillcrest Tara Cemetery.
Updated to include burials from April, 2000 to April, 2004. Includes
Bruce County map showing the townships prior to 1998 amalgamations. |
34.50 |
Invermay Methodist
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2.50
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Mausette Family
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2.50
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Mount Hope
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3.50
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Brant Township
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Anglican Pioneer
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2.50
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Brocklebank German
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3.50
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Brocklebank Methodist
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2.50
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Calvary (R.C.), Walkerton
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15.00 |
Early German Baptist
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2.50
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North Brant Presbyterian
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3.00
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Old Presbyterian
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2.50
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Pioneer Presbyterian
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3.00
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Walkerton Cemetery |
27.00 |
Bruce Township
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Evangelical United Brethren
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3.50
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Glammis Pioneer
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1.50
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Goodman
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1.50
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Inverhuron
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3.50
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Lovat Cemetery |
7.50 |
McLean Family
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2.50
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Port Bruce
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8.00
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Queen Hill
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3.50
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Smith Family
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1.50
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Willow Creek
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2.00
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Culross Township |
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Sacred Heart -
Teeswater. Includes Bruce County map showing the townships prior to 1998
amalgamations. |
9.00 |
Smith's Cemetery |
5.50 |
Teeswater
(Protestant). Includes Bruce County map showing the townships prior to
1998 amalgamations. |
22.00 |
Eastnor Township
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New edition
Eastnor Cemetery
Transcribed in 2012
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20.00
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Stokes Bay
Cemetery |
5.75 |
Elderslie Township
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New
Chesley Cemetery
Transcribed in 2012 |
25.00 |
Ebenezer
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3.50
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Paisley Cemetery |
10.00 |
Rusk's Cemetery. Researched by Mary
I. MacKay |
5.00 |
St. Andrews
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8.00
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Vesta |
2.75 |
Greenock Township
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Baptist
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10.50
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Campbell-Thompson
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1.50
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Cargill-Pinkerton
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3.50
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Greenock Methodist
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1.50
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Greenwood
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2.50
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Holy Trinity Cargill
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3.50
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Jackson
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1.50
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Purdy |
10.00 |
Mary Immaculate
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7.00
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St. Anne's Riversdale |
10.00 |
Stark Vale Updated
to the end of 2008
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8.50
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Huron Township |
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Pine River Cemetery |
7.00 |
Ripley Cemetery |
15.00 |
Kincardine Township
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Kincardine Township Small
Cemeteries. Includes Bruce County map showing the townships prior to
1998 amalgamations. |
6.00 |
Armow now included in
Kincardine Twp Small Cemeteries
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out of print
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St. John's Bervie now
included in Kincardine Twp Small Cemeteries
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out of print
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Bervie Methodist now
included in Kincardine Twp Small Cemeteries
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out of print
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Bervie Presbyterian now
included in Kincardine Twp Small Cemeteries
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out of print
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Tiverton
Cemetery |
20.00 |
Kinloss Township |
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New
South Kinloss Cemetery Transcribed in 2012 |
14.00 |
St. Edmunds Township |
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Dunk's Bay Cemetery. Includes Bruce
County map showing the townships prior to 1998 amalgamations.
Revised in 2015. |
7.50 |
The History of
the Crane River Settlement and McVicars Cemetery transcriptions.
Includes Bruce County map showing the townships prior to 1998
amalgamations. |
7.50 |
Saugeen Township
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Brown Family
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1.50
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Burgoyne
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5.00
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Rawn Family
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1.50
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St. Patrick's
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3.50
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Sanctuary Park (Port Elgin)
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out of print
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Southampton New
Revised 2011
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20.00
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Southampton Pioneer
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8.00
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CHARTS & TOOLS
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Family Tree Scrapbook
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5.00
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Pedigree Chart
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1.00
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Family Sibling Chart (5 generations).
This chart folds neatly into your 3 ring binder and consists of your
ancestors and their siblings. It is a great
way of displaying family (especially the brothers and sisters of your ancestors). This
17" x 22" chart could also be mounted on the wall.
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3.00
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Family Group Records - package of 25
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3.00
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Ancestral Research Register, Volume I.
This is a compilation of surnames being researched by our members. The information is
extracted from Members' Research Forms.
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4.00
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Ancestral Research Register, Volume II.
This is a compilation of surnames being researched by our members. The information is
extracted from Members' Research Forms.
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out of print
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If any publication listed above is no longer available we will return your cheque and
provide you with an estimate of when the publication will be available again. We apologize
for any inconvenience this may cause.
Go to Publications Order Form
Please make your cheque or money order payable to:
Bruce County Genealogical Society,
P.O. Box 1083, Port Elgin, Ontario, N0H 2C0, Canada.
Postage and handling charges are as follows:
Within the province of Ontario:
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1 to 2 items $5.95
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3 to 4 items $6.95
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5 to 6 items $8.95
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7 to 8 items $9.95
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9 or more items $10.95
Elsewhere in Canada, add $3.00.
U.S. orders please send in U.S. funds.
Note: The following publications cannot be ordered from the Bruce
County Genealogical Society. Ordering information is included with each
publication listed below.
ADVENTURES AT LOCH ARRAN RESORT
by Dianne J. Ferris. An historical fiction
based on the experiences of Dianne Ferris (Cowtan)
and family when they owned and operated Loch Arran
Resort on Arran Lake in the 1980s. The book
includes a history of Loch Arran Resort. Soft
cover, 550 pages including 11 pages of colour
photographs. Price: $25.00 - Shipping: To be
determined, depending on destination. To order,
please contact Dianne Ferris:
[email protected]. "The
call of the loon, the winter isolation and the
shoreline of Arran Lake become backdrops to the
Cowan family’s exciting journey in this historic
Canadiana saga. The reader will relate to Joan and
Dan Cowan, hard-working people who are dedicated to
building a life for their children. But the Cowan’s
are willing to take an extra risk, to gamble their
finances, their love and even their sanity as they
struggle to make a living off the land, providing a
taste of nature to anyone who can pay. Adventures at
Loch Arran Resort, is an historical fiction that
will immerse the reader into the natural Canadian
environment through vivid imagery and detail. Lively
dialogue and intriguing experiences await the
reader, who will be left hopeful for the tide to
turn in this story of a Canadian family’s struggle."
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Joseph Kieffer and Maria
Magdalena Stutter Family History
by Jerry and Helen Kieffer Nearly 400 years of
history, almost 600 pages including an all name
index; more than 300 photos, wills, marriage records
from the 1860s, easy to follow trees, personal and
family stories, newspaper articles and obituaries;
histories of communities: Stoufflenheim, Alsace,
France; New Germany (Maryhill), Waterloo County; and
Pilkington Township; Bruce and Grey Counties.
Softcover $35.00 and hardcover $43.00 plus shipping
if applicable. To order contact Jerry and Helen
Kieffer (519)925-9052 or
[email protected].
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All Our Yesterdays - Volume Two, 1854 - 2008 -
A History of the Municipalities of Teeswater and
Culross. This book can be purchased at the South Bruce
Municipal Office, Teeswater ON N0G 2S0. The
price is $50, not including shipping. The book
weighs about 5 pounds. All cheques should be made
payable to: Teeswater-Culross Historical
Committee. This is truly a beautiful book
crammed with information and pictures. There are 684
pages.
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Historic Saugeen & Its Métis
People. Published (2006) by the Saguingue Métis
Council (Chartered Community Council of the Métis Nation of
Ontario). Edited by Patsy Lou Wilson McArthur. ISBN
0-9737620-0-4. Price $30.00 plus $8.00 shipping and handling,
Canadian funds, by cheque or money order payable to Saguingue
Métis Council. Copies available from The Saguingue Métis
Council, Box 1582, Port Elgin, Ontario, N0H 2C0. Or contact for
additional information: [email protected] (519-797-2160) or
[email protected] (519-832-2183). A collection of articles and
photos which includes the History of fur trading at Saugeen and
in Lake Huron; Métis Family History, the Charter of Rights and
Freedoms and Canada's Constitution of 1982; The Saugeen
Territory - Early Explorers & Others To the Mid-19th Century;
Families of Historic Saugeen; and Families of Historic Owen
Sound and Big Bay. Contributors include Métis descendants of the
Saugeen Territory's fur trade families - Dr. David T. McNab, Jim McLay, Pat McArthur, and others about the Great Lakes. (165
pages, bound, two-colour UV-coated cover)
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The
History of the Township of Brant 1854 - 1979. Published by the
Brant Township Historical Society in 1979 to mark the 125th anniversary
of the township. Edited by Laura Gateman. Price $12.00. Copies are still
available and can be ordered from the Brockton Municipal Office, 100
Scott St. Box 68, Walkerton ON NOG 2V0, Tel. (519) 881-2223, Toll free
(1-877-885-8084), or from Holst Office Supplies, 231 Durham St. East,
Walkerton, ON NOG 2V0, Tel. (519) 881-0031. Includes list of Crown
deeds, list of 1851 settlers and histories of several of the earliest
families.
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Connections, Centennial History of Municipality of La Vallee, Rainy
River District. Order from Township of La Vallee, P.O. Box 99,
Devlin, Ontario P0W 1C0. Phone 807-486-3452. Fax 807-486-3863. Price $80
($70 for book + $10 for postage).
The Municipality of La Vallee in the Rainy River District celebrated its
Centennial year in 2004. Though not incorporated until that year it was
opened for settlement by the Dominion of Canada about 1892. Settlers
from eastern Ontario began to flood into this area called New Ontario,
described by some as a complete wilderness. The lure of free land was a
major enticement.
To commemorate the settling of this land and honour the pioneers a
centennial committee (most of them descendants of the early settlers)
worked for several years to publish a history book telling the stories
of as many of these people as possible. Many of these people came from
the Ripley, Lucknow and Kincardine areas. Since
some of the families were related, the book came to be called
CONNECTIONS and many more family connections were discovered in its
writing. These hardy people took up no easy task in taming this new land
and the trip itself was difficult. Some travelled by train and boat to
the Port Arthur region where they then journeyed over the historic
Dawson Trail to Fort Frances, an early fur trading post, then finding
their way to homesteads further down the Rainy River. Once the steamship
routes became more common settlers travelled to Rat Portage (Kenora) by
CPR rail. Some had boxcars full of goods; others came with just a few
possessions and tools. They boarded steam-powered ships to travel across
Lake of the Woods and down the Rainy River, encountering dangerous
rapids and other hazards to dock at Emo or Big Fork. Barges towed behind
carried household goods, farm machinery and animals. The story of these
steamships themselves is exciting and interesting. Most of the earliest
settlers were of British and Scottish descent. Some of them were
descendants of the people that were part of the Lewis
Settlement in Huron Township. Names of some of the settlers
were: McLeod, McDonald, Matheson, McRitchie, McKay, McLay, McTavish,
McLean, Nicholson, Smith, Saunders, Martin, McLennan, Roulston and
others such as Strachan, Barker, Ross, Watson Hughes, McFayden,
McNevin and Miller. It is interesting to note that Burriss,
one of the townships, accepted only settlers from the United States for
the first few years. Devlin and Woodyatt, the other two townships, were
settled mainly by people from eastern Ontario of Methodist and
Presbyterian background. "Connections" contains the local history as
well as the stories of hardship, loss, disaster and ... triumph,
determination and resourcefulness of people making new homes in anew
land. There are many pictures throughout the book that help to tell the
tale of clearing the land to make a living. Connections is a hard cover
book containing over 400 pages and is beautifully bound with a burgundy
cover and gold lettering.
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1851 Exiles - Story of the Lewis Settlement in Huron Township.
Victims of Scotland's infamous Highland Clearances, the settlers were
evicted from their crofts on the Hebridean island of Lewis in 1851 by
landlord James Matheson and then transported overseas where they put
down roots together in a block of farms in the centre of Huron Township,
Bruce County. The group was successful in maintaining their Gaelic
language and culture well into the 20th century. Order from Torquil
Productions, P.O. Box 303, Kincardine, Ontario N2Z 2Y8 Canada, WEBSITE:
www.torquil.net, EMAIL:
[email protected], Toll-Free
Telephone: 1-877-489-4693
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The
Talking Bricks of John Hallman by Garn Karn.
Price $11.50. To order, please contact the author at: The Brick Guy,
telephone (519) 422-3980, or (416) 466-3903.
The author collects and researches old bricks with names, initials or
pictures, especially from Bruce and Grey Counties.
John Hallman operated a brickyard in Hanover, Ontario [in Grey
County, near the southeast corner of Bruce County] in the late 1800s
and early 1900s. His principal competition was the F. Riechan brickyard,
also of Hanover. Within a 20 mile radius there were a dozen brickyards
making brick for local construction. Many of the yellowish brick
buildings of the 1875 - 1920 vintage in Hanover area were likely of
brick produced locally by Hallman or Riechan. Many of the Hallman bricks
have the Hallman name imprinted in the depression (frog) in the brick.
Other bricks have a picture or design that is known to be a Hallman mark
imprinted in the frog. These marked bricks turn up when a brick wall is
torn down, as the marks cannot be seen on the exposed brick face. The
book includes photographs of Hallman bricks from the author's
collection.
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Centreville Church,
The Old Country Church. Book of Memories of the Centreville
Church 1909 - 1970.
Includes the historical beginnings of Methodism in Eastnor Twp and Lions
Head; a list of first members 1909 - 1911; many family photos, and
Sunday school and other church photos; a list of weddings and known
funerals.
Hardcover. 210 pages. Also available on CD. Price: book $49.00; CD
$29.00. Order from: The Inside Story Bookstore, Box 219, 551 Berford
Street, Wiarton ON N0H 2T0. Telephone (519) 534-0572.
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Greenock Township 150 Years.
A re-print of the original history, with corrections and additions.
Price is $35.00 plus postage. To order, contact Ian Gibbons, R.R. # 4,
Walkerton, Ontario, Canada N0G 2V0. Telephone (519) 881-1990.
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Mary MacKay has just published her sixth book
in a series about the lives of early Colonsay settlers in the
Paisley, Elderslie Twp, Arran Twp & Saugeen Twp area of Bruce County,
Ontario. The proceeds from the sale of these books has gone to
the restoration of Rusk's Cemetery in Elderslie Township, where
many of the Colonsay immigrants are buried. The restoration was completed
in 2004. Mary is a past president of the Bruce
County Genealogical Society, and is currently President of the
Bruce County Historical Society.
“Down Petticoat Lane” is the story of
Kate McEachern Darroch and her neighbours, the Smiths, McNeills,
McArthurs, McLeans, McDonalds and Galbraiths, who were pioneer
settlers in the area.
Kate's father, Archie McEachern, left Colonsay when he was young
and went to Prince Edward Island. When Kate was only three,
Archie and his family came to Ontario to join his mother,
brothers and sisters who had emigrated directly from Colonsay.
Kate's husband, Charles Darroch, also went to Prince Edward
Island before joining other Colonsay families in this part of
Ontario.
From the day of her marriage in 1872, Kate Darroch’s life was
full of surprises and tragedies, clouded by an extremely
reclusive husband and enriched by the neighbours who helped her.
Her four children gave her a purpose in life and her friends
gave her the will to live. It will bring a tear to your eye and
a smile to your lips. The experiences of the women in this small
pioneer settlement will keep you spell bound.
"Down Petticoat Lane" is a narrative and not intended to
be a genealogy, however readers with an interest in any family
chronicled in the book could contact the author at
[email protected].
Other books in this series still available are:
Book III “Tatters In My Life” tells the very unusual
story of Kirsty McCalder who left behind her husband and small
daughter in Mariposa Township and came to Concession 1 Arran
Township with her brother Donald Galbraith. The fact that she
was pregnant when she came and that her husband signed an
agreement and sent her money every year until 1894 adds to the
puzzle. You must read the book to find the answer.
Book IV “I Think We’ll Go Too” is the story of Flora
McNeill, her children and grandchildren and the many lives she
touched as a pioneer in Prince Edward Island and Elderslie
Township. Widowed eight years after settling on Concession 13,
Elderslie Township, her indomitable spirit sustained her through
difficult times for ninety-three years. Of her sixty-one
grandchildren, only six remained in Ontario, and only one of
them has descendants living in Elderslie today.
Book V “The Scooptown Diary”. The diary of Hugh Blue
opens the window and allows the reader to peek into the lives of
the families of Hugh and Angus Blue and their four sisters who
came with their spouses and divided a one hundred acre farm into
five small units and lived there the rest of their days,
clearing the land and raising their families.
Additional information about the Rusk Cemetery
restoration project, and the earlier books in this series can be
found here.
The books are
available from the author at 519-353-5544 for $12 each plus $2
postage or $40 for the set. Mail requests may be sent to:
Mary MacKay
Box 16,
Paisley, Ontario CANADA
N0G 2N0
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Kith and Kin of Kinloss: a history
of the settlement of Kinloss Township
Published as 2 volumes, over 1,100 pages long, and contains
approximately 2,000 photos. Sold Out
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Bruce County's Townships
(before 1998 amalgamations)
Albemarle Township
Amabel Township
Arran Township
Brant Township
Bruce Township
Carrick Township
Culross Township
Eastnor Township
Elderslie Township
Greenock Township
Huron Township
Kincardine Township
Kinloss Township
Lindsay Township
Saugeen Township
St. Edmunds Township
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