Reference Library Listing
NOTE: Categories are not placed alphabetically on the shelves
ARCHITECTURE
LOCAL HISTORY
BIOGRAPHIES
MEDICINE/PIONEER
LIFE
CANADIAN HISTORY
MUSEUM REFERENCE
CERAMICS
NATIVE
CRAFTS
NIAGARA HISTORY
DESIGN &
FURNISHINGS
DIRECTOR’S
COLLECTION
ONTARIO HISTORY
OVERSIZE
EDUCATION
PENN. GERMAN
MENNONITE
FARMS & GARDENS
TEXTILES
FASHION/COSTUMES
TOOLS
FINDING GUIDES
TOYS & GAMES
FOOD HISTORY AND
COOKBOOKS
VICTORIAN/EDWARD
IAN
GENEALOGY
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(Listed in order of Shelving, left to right, top to bottom)
NB: OHS = Ontario Historical Society
CAA = Canadian Automobile Association
AASLH = American Association for State and Local History
OGS = Ontario Genealogical Society
OMA = Ontario Museums Association
PGFSO = Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario
PGS = Pennsylvania German Society
CCI = Canadian Conservation Institute
CANADIAN HISTORY
“The Invasion of Canada, 1812 – 1813”- Pierre Berton
“Explore Canada” – CAA
“The Story of the Butler’s Rangers.” – OGS APCC-94-011
Canadian Geographic Journal, November 1952 (Contains “Path Masters & Pound
Keepers” by Ruth Home)
“Canadian-American Relations Along the Detroit River” – Albert B. Corey
“History of Canadian Canners, 1903 - 1986”
“How Canada Got its Capital.” – Nadja Corkman
“Documentary History of Canada, 1812 – 14, Vol. IX “
“First in Canada”
“I Give You My World” – G.H. Dobrindt
“Fathers of Confederation Portfolio”
“Guide to Canada’s National Parks” – Parks Canada
“Winter Studies and Summer Rambles, Vol. 3”
“Illustrated History of Canada” – Edited by Craig Brown
“Town Hall Tonight” – Walter McRaye
“Story of Canada’s Currency”
“The Provinces”
“Welcome to National Parks” – Environment Canada
“Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa”
“A Social History of Canada” – George Woodcock
“County Maps” – Public Archives Canada
“Canadian History for Dummies.”
“Canada’s Historic First Iron Castings.” – Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources.
MUSEUM REFERENCE
“ The Canadian Museums Movement” Carl E. Guthe and Grace M. Guthe
“Historical Societies and Their Museums” Ian Kerr-Wilson
“Learning From Objects” – Gail Durbin, Susan Morris, Sue Wilkinson
“Mostly About Museums” – A.E. Parr
“Museum Colloquium Proceedings, 1996, 1997” – Ontario Museums Association
“Museums Directory of the United States and Canada”, 1961 and 1965
“Significant Treasures” – Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums
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“Practical Evaluation Guide: Tools for Museums & Other Informal Educational Settings”
– Judy Diamond
“A Feasibility Study for Stabilization, Exhibit & Programming at The Fry House, Jordan
Museum” – by Jon K. Jouppien
“Jordan Historical Museum of the Twenty Site Master Plan” – Lundholm & Associates
“Jordan Historical Museum Policies”
“Archeology and the Historical Society” – J.C. Harrington
“Interpretation of Historic Sites.” - William T. Alderson, Shirley Payne Low
“Costume Display Techniques.” – Karyn Jean Harris
“Museum Mannequins.” – Margot Brun, Joanne White
“An ABC of English Useage.” – H.A. Treble & G.H. Vallins
“A Concise Dictionary of Correct Englsih.” – Compiled by B.A. Phythian
“Good English and How to Write It.” – G.H. Vallins
“Your Voice and How to Use It Successfully.” – Cicely Berry
“Introduction to Museum Work.” – G. Ellis Burcaw
ONTARIO HISTORY
“Loyal She Remains: A Pictorial History of Ontario” – Empire Loyalists of Ontario
“Approaching Ontario’s Past Writing History” – Jacques Goutor
“Approaching Ontario’s Past” – OHS
“Approaching Ontario’s Past: The Card-File System of Note Taking.” – OHS
“Approaching Ontario’s Past: The Artifact: What Can It Tell Us About The Past?.” –
OHS
“Archeology and The Law in Ontario” – Ministry of Culture and Recreation
“For Home and Country: The Centennial History of Women’s Institutes in Ontario” –
Linda M. Ambrose
“The History of Dundurn Castle and Sir Allan MacNab” by Melville Bailey
“Elgin County.” – George Thorman, Ralph Parker
“Fort George: A Short History.” – Parks Canada
“Folk Treasures of Historic Ontario.” – Terry Kobayashi, Michael Bird, Elizabeth Price
“Ghost Ships! The Hamilton and Scourge: Historical Treasures form the War of 1812.”
Emily Cain
“Christmas in Ontario.” - Cheryl MacDonald
“Life in Ontario: A Social History. “ – G.P. de T. Glazebrook
“Men of Upper Canada: Militia Nominal Rolls, 1828 – 1829.” – Edited by Brice S. Elliot,
Dan Walker, Fawne Stratford-Devai
“Sources for Loyalist Research in Queen’s University Archives, 1983”
“The Story of the Norfolk Historical Society, 1900- 1975”
“Ontario: A Guide to National Parks, Historic Parks and Heritage Canada” – Parks
Canada
“Ontario: An Informal History of the Land and Its People” – Ministry of Education
“Historic Ontario: Old Upper Canada.” – Department of Travel and Publicity for the
Province of Ontario
“Ontario’s Heritage: A Celebration of Conservation.” OHF
“Ontario History, June 1966” Featuring an article about “The Late Ruth Home.”
“Paths of History in Perth and Huron.” – British Mortgaged & Trust Company
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“Reptiles of Ontario.” – Royal Ontario Museum
“Tales of North Toronto, Vol. 2.” – Lyman B. Jackes
“Views of Toronto in Verse.” – Tish P. Sass
“Ontario Historic Sites, Museums, Galleries and Plaques.” – Ministry of Culture and
Recreation
“While the Women Only Wept: Loyalist Refugee Women in Eastern Ontario.” – Janice
Potter-MacKinnon
“Cobourg, 1798 – 1948.” – Edwin C. Guillet
“Walpole Township.” – Rev. Kenneth Brueton
“Wines of Ontario.” – William F. Rannie
“Historical Chronology of Highway Legislation in Ontario, 1774 – 1961.” – Department
of Highways.
“Loyalist Ancestors: Some Families of the Hamilton Area.” – Hamilton Branch, UEL
“I Come from the Valley: The Ottawa Valley.” – Joan Finnigan
“Huron County in Pioneer Times.” – James Scott
NIAGARA HISTORY
“Holdings of Grimsby Archives – 2005”
“West Lincoln: Our Links With the Past.” – West Lincoln Historical Society
“Immigration and Settlement in the Niagara Peninsula: Proceedings, 3rd Annual History
Conference, Brock University.”
“History of the Niagara Portage.” – J. Boardman Scovell
“Forest, River, Early Settlers: A Little History of early Settlement of the Area Now
Within the City of Niagara Falls, Ontario to the Year 1800.” – Niagara Falls Public
Library
“The Documentary History of the Campaigns Upon the Niagara Frontier in 1812 – 1814,
Vols. II – VIII.” Lundy’s Lane Historical Society
“Butler’s Rangers: The Revolutionary Period.” – E. Cruikshank
“Butler’s Rangers: The Settlement of Niagara.” – E. Cruikshank
“Butler’s Rangers.”
“Advertisements For Various Merchants in Niagara Area.”
“The Niagara Peninsula: A Pictorial Record.” – Charles P. deVolpi
“Annals of the Forty: Nos. 1 – 10.” Grimsby Historical Society
‘Slavery and Freedom in Niagara.” – Michael Powell, Nancy Butler
“The War of 1812, Vols. 1 -4.” – Bob Foley
“St. Catharines A-Z.” – St. Catharines and Lincoln Historical Society
“Recollections of St. Catharines, 1837 – 1902.” – St. Catharines Historical Museum
“Holdings of Grimsby Archives, 2005.”
“St. Paul Anglican Church, Fort Erie 1821 – 1981.”
“Crown Grant 1784 – 1869, Lincoln & Welland Counties.” – Thomas Kennedy
“Niagara’s Shipbuilding Heritage from 1828 to Port Weller Dry Docks.”- Skip Gillham
“Township No. 2: Mount Dorchester, Stamford.” – Ernest Green
“Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority: A Quarter Century.”
“Niagara Speaks.” – Wesley Frank Nunnamaker
“Niagara Speaks Again.” – Wesley Frank Nunnamaker
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“The Niagara Escarpment: From Tobermory to Niagara Falls.” – William Gillard,
Thomas Tooke
“Niagara Falls: The Story of a River.” Walter M. Towell
“Index to the 1871 Census of Ontario: Lincoln, Welland, Niagara.” OGS
“Mini Atlas of Early Settlers: Niagara, 1782 – 1876.”
“Chronicles of Wainfleet Township: 200 Years of History.” – Wainfleet Historical
Society
“Niagara.” – Ralph Greenhill, Thomas D. Mahoney
“The Great Swivel Link: Canada’s Welland Canal.” Roberta M. Styran, Robert R. Taylor
“As It Is In Heaven: A Story of the Niagara Peninsula.” – David Stouck
“Flames Across the Border, 1813 – 1814.” – Pierre Berton
“Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes.” – Jeremy Elwell Adamson
“Ride Through the Garden of Canada: A Short History of the Hamilton, Grimsby &
Beamsville Electric Railway Co.” – Wm. E. Blaine
“The Story of Smithville.” - Frank E. Page
“Index to West Lincoln: Our Links with the Past.” – Jane Mulkewich
“Niagara Historical Society No. 11: Reminiscences of Niagara.”
“An Annotated Nominal Roll of Butler’s Rangers 1777-1784 with Documentary
Sources.” – Lieutenant Colonel William A. Smy
“ Butler’s Rangers.”
“Misc. Collection of Papers Pertaining to the Niagara Peninsula.”
“Songs of the Vale.” – A. Sutherland Bain
“Lincoln at Bay: A Sketch of 1814.” – Ernest Green
“The Poetry of Old Niagara.” – K. McCabe
“Lake to Lake: Lini Grohl’s Niagara.”
“Scruples of Conscience: The War of 1812 in the Sugarloaf Settlement” – Donald G.
Anger
“ Beyond the Great Water.” – G.F. Anderson
“Pathways to Peace: Art Studies of Upper Canada during the War of 1812.” – Linda
Stanley.
“History of the Niagara Peninsula.” – A.E. Coombs. Historical Foundation, Montreal.
1950. Donated from The Estate of Harry P. Cavers.
LOCAL HISTORY
“Inventory of Buildings: Clinton Twp, Louth Twp, Lincoln Co., 1967.”
“Lincoln History Club Bulletins: 1983 - 1992.”
“Sequent Occupation in the Lower Valley of the Twenty Mile Creek, Louth Township,
Lincoln County, Ontario: 1800 – 1905.” – Colin Keates Duquemin
“1881 Census, Clinton Township, Lincoln County.” OGS
“Winery Information.”
“Stone From the Mountain.” - William F. Rannie
“Niagara Historical Society: Nos. 20, 29, 40, 42.”
“Walker Hall Tearoom.” – Patricia Boyle
“The Wardells and Vosbergs: Records of a Loyalist family.” – David Stouck
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“Souvenir Old Boys and Girls Reunion, Campden, Lincoln County, June 30 – July 1
1907.”
“Rittenhouse School and Gardens, Jordan Harbour, Lincoln County, Ontario.” – Harvey
M. Gayman
“The Land of Promise: The Settlement at the Twenty.” Ben. E. Jansen
“A Social History of the Mennonite Community at the Twenty Mile Creek, Ontario, 1820
– 1870.” Valerie J. Korinek
“Jordan Station Public School: 1886 – 1982.”
“Crown Grants 1784 – 1869, Lincoln & Welland Counties.” - Thomas Kennedy
“A History of Vineland.” – Lawrence Moyer
“Frog Lake Massacre: The Life and Adventures of Theresa Gowanlock.” Lawrence
Moyer
“From Tintern to Frog Lake: Theresa Johnson Gowanlock’s Tragic Story.” – A.N.
(Sandy) Dickie.
“Louth Township Schools.”
“Schools Town of Lincoln 1784 – 1984.” – Heather A. Troup
“An Area of Historical Interest in the counties of Lincoln and Welland, Ontario.”
“Louth Township Citizen’s Centennial Committee: Local History Manuscript.”
“Cave Springs Farm: In Lore and Legend.” - William F. Rannie
“Souvenir Book: Beamsville and Clinton Old Boys and Girls Reunion 1957.”
“The Homes on the Hill: The Albright Story.” - W.F. Rannie
“Lost Childhoods: “Home” Children from Abroad.” – William F. Rannie
“Twenty Twenty Hindsight: Stories and Recollections of the Days before yesterday in the
Twenty Area, Niagara..”
“Balls Falls Conservation Area: Scenic and Historic Heritage.”
“Lincoln County: 1856 – 1956.”
“Lincoln: The Story of an Ontario Town.” – William F. Rannie
“Celebrating A Century of Success: 1906 – 2006 by the Horticultural Experiment Station,
Vineland and the University of Guelph.”
“Vineland Growers Cooperative Limited.”
“Horticultural Experiment Station and Products Laboratory: The First Fifty Years.”
“Cave Springs Farm: Fact and Fancy about One of the Historic Places of the Niagara
Peninsula.” – W.F. Rannie
“Louth Township: Its People and Past.”
“The Louth Harbour Shipping Company. “- Barbara Coffman
“Mrs. Simcoe’s Diary: Extracts Relating to Places in the Town of Lincoln.”
“Rev. Daniel Hoch and the Shake –Up in the Mennonite Church.” – Pat High
“The Exodus to Canada: includes photograph of Henry High.” – Pat High
“Dancing in the Sky: The Royal Flying Corps in Canada.” – C.W. Hunt
“Royal Flying Corps: Borden to Texas to Beamsville.” – William E. Chajkowsky
Duotang Binders:
“Homes of Lincoln: Vols. 1 & 2”.
“Memories of my Childhood in Beamsville, 1900 – 1909: Helen Whipple, Savannah,
New York – 1982.”
“Canadians Awarded the Medal of Honour in the U.S. Civil War.”
“Land Title Vocabulary.”
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“Balls Falls Historical Park: Listing of Documents Photocopied and Microfilmed for
Public Viewing.”
“1828 Census: Clinton, Louth, Grantham, Thorold.”
“The Secrets of Cave Springs.”
“Early Craftsmen in Our Town.”
“Craftsmen in Jordan.”
“Friendship Wallhanging, Jordan, 1983.”
“Roll of Captain Jacob A. Ball’s Company, July 11, 1812.”
“Papers of the Surrogate Court of Lincoln County, 1794 – 1813.”
“County Marriage Registers, 1858 – 1869- Vol. 19.”
“Statement of Fines and Costs imposed by and Ordinary Court Martial held in Jordan on
the 4th day of October, 1851: 3rd Battalion, Lincoln Militia.”
“Some Early Industries at the Twenty.” – Barbara F. Coffman
“Township of Louth Bylaws, 1875.”
“1st Regiment of Lincoln Militia, Dec. 6th 1837 – Jan. 18th, 1838.”
“Jordan School House Minute Books: 1847 – 1919, 1926 – 1945.”
“Catalogue of the Rittenhouse Library.” – Annie R. Fry
Churches & Cemeteries:
“Obituaries from the Town of Lincoln: Copied from Goldie Aston’s Scrapbooks.”
“Baptists of Beamsville: 1788 - 1988.” Marion Whitman Dawdy
“A Church Upon the New Testament Alone: the History of the Beamsville Church of
Christ, 1832 - 1982.”
“Presbyterianism in Beamsville.”
“1809 - 1975: Rockway Presbyterian Church.”
“The Church on the Hill: Our First Hundred Years. Vineland Missionary Church, 1881 –
1981.”
“50th Anniversary: Vineland United Mennonite Church: 1936 – 1986.”
“Jordan Station United Church: 100th Anniversary, 1859 – 1959.”
“From His Fulness: 1932 – 1982. Vineland Mennonite Brethren Church.”
“Churches & Cemeteries.” – Corlene Taylor
“Hansler Cemetery.” Lester J. Wilker
“Jordan Mennonite Cemetery: Index of Grave Markers.”
“Mennonite Cemetery: Jordan Historical Museum of the Twenty.”
“Jordan Mennonite Cemetery, Also Known as Haines’ Cemetery.” - OGS
“Jordan Mennonite Cemetery, or Haines’ Cemetery.”
“Mennonite Cemetery, Jordan Ontario. Jordan Historical Museum of the Twenty.”
“Bradt Burial Ground.”
“Wills Cemetery.”
“Cemeteries: Eden, Abandoned, Dean.”
“St. John’s Anglican Church cemetery, 320 Main Street, Port Dalhousie, ON.” – OGS
“Cemeteries: Mountview (Campden), Lymburner (Caistor), Friends (Fort Erie).”
“Vineland Mennonite Cemetery, 1798 – 1984.” Albert W. High
“Campden Mennonite Cemetery.”
“Vineland Mennonite Cemetery.”
“Vineland Mennonite Cemetery, OGS # 6271.”
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“Cemeteries of the Town of Lincoln.”
“Churches Town of Lincoln: Lincoln History Club.”
“Churches in Lincoln.”
“Their Richest Inheritance: A Celebration of the First Mennonite Church, Vineland
Ontario, 1801 – 20012.” – Laureen Harder
“History of St. John’s Church, Jordan and the Parish of Louth.”
GENEALOGY
Genealogy Reference:
“Jordan Museum Bible Collection Deposited in the Archives of the Jordan Historical
Museum of the Twenty, Louth Township, Ontario.” – OGS
“History of Ipswich, MASS.” – Thomas Franklin Waters
“Genealogical research Directory, National and International, 1989.” – Keith A. Johnson,
Malcolm R. Sainty
“Local History: How to Gather It, Write It, and Publish It.” – Donald Dean Parker
“Bible Pages.” – OGS
“ Index to Families named in Lincoln: The Story of an Ontario Town by William F.
Rannie.”
“Some Sources of Information for Genealogists.”
“Genealogical research in the Netherlands.”
“Brock University Library Holdings in Genealogy, Family History, 1981.”
“Some Genealogical resource Centres of the Immediate Area.”
“Index to Local History Collection, Lincoln Public Library.”
“Published Family Genealogies: A List of Holdings in the Niagara Library System,
1983.”
“Ancestor Research Register.”
“Genealogy Research Index.”
“Genealogy Charts: Fretz, Fry-Wisamer, Funk, Grobb, High, Hipple, Housser,
Meyer, Nash, Albright, Rittenhouse, Wismer, Culp, Hunsberger, Kratz, Lederach,
House.”
“Family Files Held in Smithville Archives.”
“Family Histories Deposited in Archives, Jordan Historical Museum.” – Ruth Smith
“Family Histories Found in Bibles. Jordan Historical Musuem.” – Ruth Smith
“Misc. Collection of Papers Pertaining to the Niagara Peninsula.”
Family Names (cross-referenced by title only):
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B
“Beam Family History.”
“Bradt Family History.”
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C
“Comfort Family Genealogy.”
“John Comfort of New Marlborough, New York and Niagara Township, Ontario.”
“Descendants of John Strong 1838 – 1910 and Emily Jane Comfort 1845 – 1899 of
Tintern, Ontario.” – Milton A. R. Strong
“The Canadian Corson Family.”
“Corwin Family Tree.”
“Culp History.” – Linton E. Love
“Culp Family Direct Line Ancestors of Magdalena Culp.” – Linton E. Love
“Culp – Kolb Family History.” – Linton E. Love
“Kolb Family Direct Line Ancestors of Mary Kolb.” – Linton E. Love
“Culp Family Genealogy: Rev. David Culp – Son of Christopher 1784 – 1871.”
“Culp Family & Church of Christ Register.”
“Andreas Kolb, 1749 – 1811.” – Mary Jane Lederach Hershey
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E
“Ecker History.”
F
“Foster Family.” – Maggie Parnall
“Fretz Family Coloring Book. No. 1.”
“Fretz Family History. “ – Linton E. Love
“Fretz Family Direct Line Ancestors of Dinah and Elizabeth Fretz.” – Linton E. Love
“Fretz Family History, Vols. I – IV.” – Fretz Family Association
“Fry Family History.” – Linton E. Love
“Samuel Fry: Life and Legacy.” – Larry W. Rittenhouse
“Fultz Genealogy.”
“Descendants of Adam Haynes (1754 – 1814) & Elizabeth Frolick (1754 – 1837).”
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“Gilmore Family Genealogy.”
“Descendants of Cornelius Moore and Elizabeth Grandon, Vol. 2. “
“Index Descendants of Cornelius Moore and Elizabeth Grandon, Vol. 2. “
“Grobb Family Direct Line Ancestors of Orpha Grobb.” – Linton E. Love
“Grobb Family History.” – Linton E. Love
“Grobb/Grubb Family History.” – Linton E. Love
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“The Willows: Haynes House.”
“Haynes Family (Heins, Hanes, Haines), 1747 – 1967.”
“Haybes (Heins, Haines, Hanes) Family Genealogy.”
“Descendants of Adam Haynes (1754 – 1814) & Elizabeth Frolick (1754 – 1837).”
“Henry Family.”
“Hunsberger.”
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“Honsberger History: Wray’s Recollections bring the past to life.” – Margaret Comfort
“Family Tree of Merle Honsberger.”
“Hunsberger Family Direct Line Ancestors of Susan Hunsberger.” – Linton E. Love
“Hunsberger Family History.” – Linton E. Love
“Huntsman Family Genealogy.”
“Hoch- High Family in United States and Canada.” – J. Hampton Hoch
“Horning Family History.” – Linton E. Love
“Tilman R. Housser Family Gathering, c. 1905, Campden.”
“Housser Genealogy.”
“House (Haus) Family.” – Maggie Parnall
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J
“Descendants of Jeremiah Johnson.”
K
“Memoirs of the Keefer Family.”
“Kolb Family Direct Line Ancestors of Mary Kolb.” – Linton E. Love
“Dielman Kolb: Father of the First Mennonites in Canada.” – Gary Culp
“Culp – Kolb Family History.” – Linton E. Love
“Andreas Kolb, 1749 – 1811.” – Mary Jane Lederach Hershey
L
“Lane Family Genealogy.”
“Lindaberry Family Genealogy.”
“Two Families United: Love and Smith.” – Linton E. Love
M
“Abraham Martin History Genealogy.”
“Descendants of Barnabas McIntee.” – Ken and Bev Marazzo
“Descendants of Robert Michener.”
“Michener Family History.”
“Misener Family Papers.”
“Descendants of Cornelius Moore and Elizabeth Grandon, Vol. 2. “
“Index Descendants of Cornelius Moore and Elizabeth Grandon, Vol. 2. “
“Pioneer Jacob Moyer and the Contribution of his Family to the Twenty.” – Lawrence
Moyer
“Christian Tilman Moyer Account Books.”
“The Moyer Family History.” – Dorothy Winger
“The Exodus to Canada. (Moyer, Meyer).”
“Index to Ledger of Tilman/Dilman Moyer, Clinton, Aug. 1841.”
“Meyer Families Direct Line Ancestors of Agnes Meyer, Barbara Meyer.” – Linton E.
Love
“Meyer/Moyer Family History.” – Linton E. Love
“Moyer Family History, Vols. 1 & 2.”
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N
“A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of William Nash.” – Rev. A.J. Fretz
O
“Oldham Family.”
“Overholt Family.”
P
“Combined Genealogy of Christian Price U.E. and Jacob Price.”
“Purdy Family.” – Maggie Parnall
Q
R
“The Reesor Family in Canada: A Trail Through the Centuries.”
“Rittenhouse Family History, Vols. 1 – 3.” – Linton E. Love
“Rittenhouse Family.” – Daniel. K. Cassel
“Rittenhouse Family Direct Line Ancestors of Anna Rittenhouse.” – Linton E. Love
“Rittenhouse Town: A Journal of History.”
“Micheal F. Rittenhouse’s Ciphering Book, April 6, 1845 – January 1, 1854.” – Larry
W. Rittenhouse
“Rittenhouse Family Tree: Descendats of Michael Rittenhouse, 1786 – 1852.”
“Rittenhouse History and Genealogy.”
“Rittenhouse Mill and the Beginnings of Papermaking in America.” – James Green
S
“Siebenpfeiffer/Sevenpiper/Sevenpifer Family History.”
“Descendants of John Strong 1838 – 1910 and Emily Jane Comfort 1845 – 1899 of
Tintern, Ontario.” – Milton A. R. Strong
“Smith Family History.”
“Smith Family History.” – Linton E. Love
“Two Families United: Love and Smith.” – Linton E. Love
“Precious Memories: Abraham & Mary Smith.” – Ruth & Florence Smith
“Silas Smith, U.E.L. And His Descendants.”
“Snure/Snor/Schnur Data File.”
“Jacob Snure Family Tree.”
T
“Tallmans of New Jersey.”
“Cornelius Tyson Descendants 1652 – 1986.” – Genevieve A. Kerr-Tyson
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V
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W
“A Genealogical History of the Wismer Family.” – Clara Wismer Fulton
“Margaret Wismer Family.”
“Wismer Family.”
“Ten Generations of Wismers, 1684 – 1981.” Richard Douglas Wismer
XYZ
“Peter Zimmerman Family. 1742 – 1830.”
“Zimmerman Collection.”
Grouped References:
“Eight Old Canadian Families.” – John Honsberger (Honsberger, Boyle, Faught,
Hughes, Lawson, Osborne, Johnson, Sheridan, Lovekin, Atkinson, Bates).
“Area Families: Althouse, Moyer, Foster, Fretz, Wismer, Fluhrer, Gregory.”
“Notes and Histories of Area Families, 1 & 2.”
“Rittenhouse, Kratz, Moyer, Frey.”
“Interviews: Coffman, Dickie, Morton, Moses, Thompson, Whitty.”
“Interviews: Coffman, Corbett, Dickie, Morton, Moses, Thompson, Whitty, Wismer,
Ryckman.”
ARCHITECTURE
“Victorian Architecture: Two Pattern Books.” – A.J. Bicknell, W.T. Comstock
“At Home in Upper Canada.” – Jeanne Minhinnick
“The Living Past of America.” – C. Vanderbilt, Jr.
“A Field Guide to American Architecture.” - Carole Rifkind
“Vernacular Architecture in Ontario.” - Architectural Conservancy of Ontario
“Selected Bibliography for the Conference on Vernacular Architecture in Ontario,
Brantford, Ontario. 1992.”
“The Sensible Rehabilitation of Older Houses.”- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.
“New Life for an Old House.” - Harris Mitchell
“Reading a Building: Colonial.” – AASLH
“Researching Heritage Buildings.” – Environment Canada
“The Buildings of Canada.” – Parks Canada
“A Modest Mennonite Home: The Story of the 1719 Hans Herr House, an early colonial
landmark.” – Steve Freisen
“Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings.” – Rudy J. Favretti and Joy Putnam
Favretti
“Our Vanishing Landscape.” – Eric Sloane
FARMS & GARDENS
“Garden of Dreams: Kingsmere and Mackenzie King.” – Edwinna von Baeyer
“Pioneer Gardens at Black Creek Pioneer Village.” – Eustella Langdon
“The Incredible Tree.” – G. Herbert Lash
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“Herbs and Herb Gardens.” – Jill Davies
“Herb Uses and Recipes.”
“Herb Recipes.”
“Herb Garden.”
“How to Grow Herbs.”
“Herbs: How to Select, Grow and Enjoy.” – Norma Jean Lathrop
“British Garden Flowers.” – George M. Taylor
“Old Fashioned Farm Life Colouring Book.” – A.G. Smith, Peter H. Cousins
“Living Historical Farms: A Walk into the Past. “ – John Schlebecker
“A Farm in the Family: The Many Faces of Ontario Agriculture over the Centuries.” –
John & Monica Ladell
“The Farmhouse: Classic Homesteads of North America.” – Nancy L. Mohr
“The Farm: Life in Colonial Pennsylvania.” – James E. Knight
“The Importance of Family Farm Animals.” – Helen Wismer
“ Animals on the Farm.” – Feodor Rojankovsky
“The Barn: A Vanishing Landmark in North America.” – Eric Arthur, Dudley Witney
“Agriculture and Farm Life in the Niagara Peninsula: Proceedings, 5th Annual History
Conference, Brock University, 1983.”
“Beekeeping.”
CRAFTS
“Straw Plait.” – Jean Davis
“Baskets and Basketmaking.” – Alastair Heseltine
“Baskets.” – Nancy Schiffer
“Early American Crafts & Hobbies.” – Raymond F. & Marguerite W. Yates
“A Handbook of Pyrography or Burnt Wood Etching.” Mrs. Maud Maude
“Paper Crafts.”
“Pioneer Crafts.” – Barbara Greenwood, Heather Collins
“Pioneer Projects.” – Bobbie Kalman
“Cut and Assemble Paper Dollhouse Furniture.”
“The Complete Encyclopedia of Crafts.”
“Young Crafts.” – Sue Walker
“Craft and Hobby Fun.”
“Preserving Our Handcrafts.”
“Early Artisans.” Bobbie Kalman
“A Splendid Harvest.” – Michael Bird, Terry Kobayashi
“A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists.” - Michael Bird, Terry Kobayashi
“Many Voices: A Study of Folklore Activities in Canada and their Role in Canadian
Culture.” – Carole Henderson Carpenter
“Folk Treasures of Historic Ontario.” – OHF
“Home Crafts.” – Bobbie Kalman
“’Twas Ever Thus: A Selection of Eastern Canadian Folk Art.”
“Early American Wood Carving.” – Erwin O. Christensen
“Gothic Scripts.” – Tom Gourdie
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TEXTILES
“Ukrainian Embroidery Designs and Stitches.” - Ukrainian Women’s Association of
Canada
“Vegetable Dyes: Make Your Own.” – Douglas Leechman
“Natural Dyes and Home Dyeing.” – Rita J. Adrosko
“The Textile Tools of Colonial Homes.” – Marion L. Channing, Walter E. Channing
“Weaving and Dyeing Processes in early New York.” – Virginia D. Parslow
“The Domestic Manufacturer’s Assistant And Fanily Directory in the arts of Weaving
and Dyeing.” J. & R. Bronson (1817)
“Notes on Carpet Knotting and Weaving.” – Victoria and Albert Museum
“Stool Seating.”
“Tablet Weaving.” – Marjorie and William Snow
“Your Hand Weaving. “ Elsie G. Davenport
“Your Rug Making.” – Klares Lewes, Helen Hutton
“Patchwork.” – Pamela Clabburn
“120 Patterns for Traditional Patchwork Quilts.” – Maggie Malone
“The Pennsylvania Deutsch Folk Art in Quilting.” – Helen Wismer
“Exhibit Themes for Spinning Wheels.”
“The Legacy of the Great Wheel.” – Katy Turner
“The Magic of Spinning.” – Marion L. Channing
“Step by Step Spinning and Dyeing.” – Eunice Svinicki
“Ontario’s Heritage Quilts.” – Marilyn I. Walker
“Patchwork.” – Averil Colby
“Keep Me Warm One Night.” – Harold and Dorothy Burnham
“The Whole Craft of Spinning.” – Carol Kroll
“The Care and Feeding of Spinning Wheels.” – Karen Pauli
“Natural Wool Dyes and Recipes.” – Ann Milner
“Modern Lace Designs.” – Veronica Sorenson
“The Story of Linen.” – William F. Leggett
“American Samplers.” – Ethel Stanwood Bolton, Eva Johnston Coe
“Where Do Things Come From? Cotton.”
“Crochet Edging and Insertions.”
“Fabric Facts.”
“Sewing, Darning and Patching.” Della Hughes
“Samplers.” – Pamela Clabburn
“Needlework Tools.” Eleanor Johnson
“McCall’s Needlework Crafts.”
“Larousse Encyclopedia of Embroidery Techniques.” – Gay Swift
“Hand Processing Wool in America.”
“The Art of Hooked Rug Making.” – Martha Batchelder
“Ontario Handwoven Textiles.”
“Canadian Textiles, 1750 – 1900”
“Primary Textile Industry in Canada.”
“The Craft of the Weaver.” – Ann Sutton, Peter Collingwood, Geraldine St Aubyn
Hubbard
“Sample Book: Wool & Natural Fibres.”
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“Forgotten Pennsylvania textiles of the 18th and 19th centuries.” – Marjie Thompson,
Kathleen L. Grant, Alan G. Keyser
“Eight Hands Round: A Patchwork Alphabet.” By Ann Whitford Paul
“The Quilt-Block History of Pioneer Days.” By Mary Cobb
CERAMICS
Binder: Culp Pottery Dig
Binder: Lent Pottery Dig
“The Jordan Pottery Site: Red Earthenware Pottery and House of Benjamin Lent, ca.
1836 – 1841, Vols. I & II” – David Rupp, Brock University
“Report on Culp Pottery Works Site.” – Ruth Tracy
“The Daniel Orth Site.” – H.L. Crowfoot
“Pottery in Canada.” – Ruth Home
“Early Ontario Potters: Their Craft and Trade.” – David L. Newlands
“Early Canadian Potters.” – David L. Newlands
“Early Slip-Decorated Pottery in Canada.” – D.B. Webster
“Ceramics for the Potter.” – Ruth M. Home
“Pottery Production Processes.” The Ceramic Industry
FOOD HISTORY AND COOKBOOKS
“Mennonite Community Cookbook.” – Mary Emma Showalter
“Nothing More Comforting: Canada’s Heritage Food.” – Dorothy Duncan
“Make a Cake.”
“Let’s Bake Bread! A Book of Receipts.” – OHS
“Dutch Cookbook., Vols. 1 & 2.” – Edna Eby Heller
“Old Fashioned Recipe Book.” – Carla Emery
“Consuming Passions: Eating and Drinking Traditions in Ontario.” – OHS
“Coffee.”
“A Nineteenth Century Christmas Dinner.”
“Canadians at Table: A Culinary History of Canada.” – Dorothy Duncan
“Boyertown Area Cookery.”
“Sauerkraut Yankees.” – William Woys Weaver
“Cooking Pennsylvania Dutch.” – A. Monroe Aurand Jr.
“Cooking with the Pennsylvania Dutch.” – A. Monroe Aurand Jr.
“A Taste of History: The Origins of Quebec’s Gastronomy.” – Marc Lafrance, Yvon
Desloges
“Herbs and Pennsylvania Germans.” – Bertha Reppert
“Goschenhoppen Historians Folk Festival Cookbook.”, 1994, 1989
“Victorians At Table.” – Hilary Abrahamson
“Serve it Forth: Festive Desserts from the nineteenth century adapated for modern times.”
– OHS
“14th Annual Recipes for the Herb Tea garden of the Penn-Cumberland Garden Club:
Dutch Treat including the traditional Seven Sweets and Seven Sours.”
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Binder: various Pennsylvania German recipes
“Selected recipes from the Genesee Farmer.” – Lynne Belluscio
“Food Preservation Before the Mason Jar.” - Nancy Torgerson
“Food in History.” – Reay Tannahill
“Food for the Settler.” – Bobbie Kalman
“Favourite Pickles & Relishes.” – Andrea Chesman
“Making Cheese, Butter & Yogurt.” – Phyllis Hobson
“Pennsylvania Butter Tools and Processes.” – Bucks County Historical Society
“Modern Cookbook.” – K. Camille Den Dooven
“Hearth and Home: Women and the Art of Open Hearth Cooking.” – Fiona Lucas
“Macdonald was late for Dinner: A Slice of Culinary Life in Early Canada.” – Patricia
Beeson
“Pioneer and Mennonite Cook Book.”
“Pennsylvania German Customs & Cookery.” – Beatrice Miller Snyder
“The Frugal Housewife’s Manual.” – A.B. of Grimsby
“Steeped in Tradition: A Celebration of Tea.” _ Frances Hoffman
“Sweet Memories: A Collection of Dessert Recipes Taken from the Archives of the
Jordan Historical Museum.” Compiled by Elinore Thorburn and Helen Booth
PENN. GERMAN MENNONITE
“A Simple Grammar of Pennsylvania Dutch” – J. William Frey
“On the Trail o f the Early Plain Folk in Lincoln, Welland & Haldimand Counties.”
“Ken’s Quotes.” – Kenneth Moyer
“1954 Tourist Guide through Dutch Country.”
“The Three Brothers: A German Folktale.” – Carolyn Croll
“Pennsylvania Dutch Farm to Cut Out and Assemble.” – Edmund V. Gillon Jr.
“Rural Pennsylvania Clothing.” – Ellen J. Gehret
“Ontario Fraktur.” – Michael S. Bird
“Pennsylvania Dutch Patterns: 50 Different designs.” – Jane Zook
“Pennsylvania Dutch Colouring and Design Book for All Ages.” – Olive Zehner, R.D.
Dunkelberger
“Mennonite Attire over 400 Years.”
“The Homespun Textile Tradition of the Pennsylvania Germans.” – Ellen J. Gehret
“The Early Pennsylvania German Four Square Garden in Ontario.” – Helen Wismer
“A Treasury of American Folk Patterns.” Ellen S. Sabine
“Folk Art of Rural Pennsylvania.” – Frances Lichten
“American Folk Decoration.” – Jean Lipman
“Sauerkraut and Enterprise.” – Edna Staebler
“Mennonites in Ontario.” – Marlene Epp
“The Palatines: From the Rhineland to a New Land 1708 – 1710.”
“Hex, No!” – Alfred L. Shoemaker
German Canadian Review. Vol. IX, No. 1, Autumn 1956
“Growing Up Mennonite: Stories by the People.” – Menno Klaus
“Germantown and Its Founders.”
“History of the Mennonites of the Franconia Conference.” – J.C. Wenger
“German English Dictionary.” – Karl Bruel
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“English German Dictionary.” – Karl Bruel
“From Pennsylvania to Waterloo: Pennsylvania German Folk Culture in Transition.” –
Susan M. Burke, Matthew H. Hill
“In the Dutch Country.”
“Detweiler’s Meetinghouse: A History of Mennonites near Roseville, Ontario.” – Reg
Good
“Search for Identity: Canadian Mennonite Culture Toward the Late Twentieth century.” –
Greta Hildebrand
“Amsterdam before 1811: Church and Civil Records.”
“Christmas in Pennsylvania.” – Alfred L. Shoemaker
“The Bucks County Scrapbook of Old Roads and Towns.” – Charlotte Stryker Pervy
“Bernese Anabaptists.” – Delbert Gratz
“Little Known Facts about the Amish and the Mennonites.” – Ammon Monroe Aurand.
Jr.
“20 Most Asked Questions about the Amish and Mennonites.” – Merle and Phyllis Good
“The Amish: The Enduring Spirit.” – Leslie Ann Hauslein
“The Tramp Room.” – Nancy-Lou Patterson
“Signs and Symbols in Christian Art.” – George Ferguson
“A Guide to Waterloo County.” Waterloo Trust & Savings Company
“Rosanna of the Amish.” – Joseph W. Yoder
“ Plain Buggies: Amish, Mennonite and Brethren Horse-Drawn Transportation.” –
Stephen Scott
“Pennsylvania Spirituals.” – Don Yoder
Pennsylvania Folklife, Summer 1962 – Plain Garb
“A Study of the Dress of Old Franconia Mennonites, 1700 – 1953.” – Mary Jane Hershey
“The Pennsylvania Dutch Country.” – Alfred L. Shoemaker
“The Pennsylvania Barn.” – Alfred L. Shoemaker et al.
“My Old Order Mennonite Heritage.” – Mary Ann Horst
“Mennonites in Canada, 1786 – 1920.” – Frank H. Epp
“The Lower Jordan Valley Pennsylvania German Settlement.” – David G. Williams
The Mennonite Quarterly Review, July 1953
“Out of the Storied Past.” – M. Burkholder
“Mennonite History.”
“Benjamin Eby Day Book, 1822 – 1853.” – Translated by Isaac Horst
“Mennonite Migration from Southeastern Pennsylvania.” – Joel D. Alderfelder
“Handschriften: Handwritten Forms in Germanic Waterloo County.” – Nancy-Lou
Patterson
“An Introduction to Mennonite History.” – Cornelius J. Dyck
“Early Life of the Pennsylvania Germans.” – A. Monroe Aurand Jr.
“Home Life of the Pennsylvania Germans.” – A. Monroe Aurand Jr.
“The Pennsylvania German Collection: Philadelphia Museum of Art.”
“The Folk Art of Pennsylvania Dutchland.”
“The Pennsylvania Germans: A Celebration of Their Arts 1683 – 1850.” – Beatrice B.
Garvan & Charles F. Hummel
“Bucks County Fraktur.” – Cory M. Amsler
“Pennsylvania German Fraktur.”
“Hans Herr.”
“The Gift is Small, The Love is Great.” – Frederick Weiser
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“Christopher Dock: Colonial Schoolmaster.” – Gerald C. Studer
“Folklore and Folklife.” Edited by Richard M. Dorson
“The Early Industry of Ontario: Examining the Formative Role Played by German“Speaking Settlers.” By Rolf A. Piro
“Mennonite Furniture: A Migrant Tradition, 1766 - 1910.” – Reinhild Janzen.
PGFSO Publications:
 Vol. 1
 Vol. 2
 Vol. 3: “Uncle Hannes and Levi.”
 Vol. 4: “Pioneers of Waterloo.”
 Vol. 5
 Vol. 6: “Pioneer Hamlets of York.”
 Vol. 7: “Tales of the Twenty.”
 Vol. 8: “Samuel Fry the Weaver and Mennonites of the Twenty.”
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Vol. 9: “More Pioneer Hamlets of York.”
Vol. 10: “Three Pennsylvania German Pioneer Homesteads in Ontario.”
Vol. XI: “A Localized Study of P.G. Dialect in Waterloo County.”
Vol. XII: “At Your Own Risk.”
Vol. XIII: “Those Enterprising Pennsylvania Germans.”
Vol. XIV: “A House of Dreams: Wellesley to Hespeler 1870 – 1910.”
Vol. XV: “Diaries of our Pennsylvania German Ancestors 1846 – 1925.”
Vol. 16: “Check Rein.”
Vol. 17: “The Conestoga Trail: Pennsylvania to Upper Canada in the Early
1800’s.”
Vol. 18: “Early Life & Times in the Twenty including the Life and Legacy of
Samuel Fry.”
Vol. 19: “Over Mountains and Valleys: Letters Received from Bishop Christian
Reesor of Markham, 1859 – 1915.”
Vol. 20: “It Was All Worthwhile: The Life & Times of Roy and Clara Snyder.”
Vol. 21: “Lorna (Shantz) Bergey: Her Literary Legacy
40th Anniversary Booklet
50th Anniversary Booklet
60th Anniversary Booklet
PGS Publications:
 1970: “Mennonite Attire Through Four Centuries.”
 Vol. VI, 1972: “The Pennsylvania German Family Farm.” Amos Long, Jr.
 Vol. VII, 1973: “The ABC Books of the Pennsylvania Germans.”
 Vol. VIII, 1974: “Pennsylvania German Secular Folksongs.”
 Vol. IX, 1975: “A Book of Pennsylvania German Verse.”
 Pastors and People, Vol. I, 1979: “Pastors and Congregations.”
 Vol. XIV, 1980: “Something for Everyone, Something for You.”
 Pastors and People, Vol. II, 1981: “The History.”
 Eighteenth Century Emigrants, Vol. I, 1983: “The Northern Kraichgau.”
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1984: “This is the Way I Pass My Time.”
Eighteenth Century Emigrants, Vol. II, 1985: “The Western Palatinate.”
Vol. XXI & XXII, 1989: “The First Century of German Language Printing in the
United States of America, Vols. I & II
Vol. XXV, 1991: “Samplers of the Pennsylvania Germans.”
Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society, Vol. 18, 1984.
“Pennsylvania Life” magazine, June 1954 – Spring 1975.
“Pennsylvania Life” Index
“ALHFAM Bulletin, Vol. XXXI, No. #3, “One Size Does Not Fit All.” – Helen Booth
EDUCATION
“The American One-Room Schoolhouse.” – Henry J. Kauffman
“Schools and Education.”
“The One-Room School in Canada.” – Jean Cochrane
“School Days: The One-Room Schools of maritime Canada.” – George Peabody
“The Victoria School House.: A Sense of Community.” – Daniel Rainey & Helen
Tompkins
“Rural Schools of Haldimand.” – Cheryl MacDonald, Mary Sheppard and Dana Stavinga
“Victorian School- House Architecture.”
“Syrup Pails and Gpher Tails: Memories of the One-Room Schoolhouse.” – John C.
Charyk
“The School.” – Jean Cochrane
“Wilson MacDonald Memorial School Museum Education Programme.”
“Textbooks Authorized for Use in the Elementary Schools of Ontario, 1846.”
“To School! To School!”
“I Remember the One-Room School.” – Myrtle Fair
“Public School Geography.”
“Plans for Rural School Buildings: With Estimates of Cost and Forms of Specifications
and Agreements. 1909 Ontario Department of Education.”
“The Ontario Teacher: A Historical Account of Progress 1800 – 1910.” J.G. Althouse
“Report of the Minister of Education, Province of Ontario for the Year 1908.”
“Report of the Minister of Education, Province of Ontario for the Year 1907.”
“The Old Log School.” – Gavin Hamilton Green
“The Moyer School: The First School on the Banks of the Twenty.” – Ben E. Jansen
“Learning and Teaching Through Arts and Crafts.” – Alan Cotton and Frank Haddon
“Asperger Syndrome: A Practical Guide for Teachers.” – Val Cumine, Julia Leach, Gill
Stevenson
“Heritage Schoolhouse: Education Programmes Guide.”
“Early Schools.” – Bobbie Kalman
“The Manuscript Collection: Toronto Board of Education.”
“Going to School in Ontario: The Urban Primary School 1850 – 1930.” – Dana Johnson
“A Hundred Necessary Rules of Conduct for Children.” – Christopher Dock (1764)
“Historic Zion Schoolhouse, SS# 12: A Teacher’s Guide.”
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“Canadian Education: A History.” – J. Donald Wilson, Robert M. Stamp, Louis-Philippe
Audet
“Dear Teacher…” – Federation of Women Teachers Associations of Ontario
“Among Country Schools.” – O.J. Kern
“Hints and Suggestions on School Architecture and Hygiene with Plans and Illustrations.
Minister of Education, 1886.” – J. George Hodgins
“Education in the Niagara Peninsula.” Tenth Annual History Conference, Brock
University
“1849 – 1999: Sesquicentennial Scrap Album, School District No. 5 of Gaines.”
Cobblestone Society Museum, New York.
TOOLS
“The Historical Supply Catalogue.” – Alan Wellikoff
“Whatsits in Canada.” – The Dusty Miller
“Tools and Gadgets.” – Bobbie Kalman
“Dictionary of Woodworking Tools.” – R.A.Salman
“The Apprentice: History Crafts and People at Colonial Williamsburg.”
“The Cabinetmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg.”
“Cane Seats for Chairs.” – Ruth B. Comstock
“Woodworking Tools.” – Philip Walker
“A Museum of Early American Tools.” – Eric Sloane
“The Boy’s Book of Trades and The Tools Used in Them.”
NATIVE
“The Golden Book of Indian Crafts and Lore.” – W. Ben Hunt
“The Fletcher Site - Early Historic Neutral.”
“The Iroquois.” – Frank Gouldsmith Speck
“The Thunder Bird Tootooch.” – W.L. Webber
“Our Totem Poles: A Souvenir of Vancouver.”- George H. Raley
“Council Fires.” – Elsworth Jaeger
“The Canadians: Blackrobe, Birthright, Bloodbrothers, Patriots.” – Robert E. Wall
“Canadians of Long Ago.” – Kenneth E. Kidd
BIOGRAPHIES
“Roland Michener: The Last Viceroy.” – Peter Stursberg
“A Capitalist Romance: Singer and the Sewing Machine.” – Ruth Brandon
“A Colonial Advocate: The launching of his Newspaper and the Queenston Career of
William Lyon Mackenzie.” – Chris Raible
“Edison’s Open Door: The Life Story of Thomas A. Edison.” – Alfred O. Tate
“The Golden Thread.” – Louisa M. Thompson
“Janet Carnochan.” – John L. Field
“Laura Secord.” – Cheryl MacDonald
“The MacArthur Heritage: The Story of an American Family.” – Barbara Graymont
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“F.S. Pepperdene: Pioneer Radiologist & X-Ray Martyr.” – Marion D. Cameron
“Thomas Keefer.” – Larry Murphy
“Uncle Abram: A Very Singular Moote.” – Elinor Mawson
“William Hamilton Merritt.” – John M. Bassett, A.R. Petrie
DESIGN & FURNISHINGS
“19th Century Art.” – Robert Rosenblum and H.W. Janson
“World Furniture.” – Helena Hayward
“Currier & Ives: Printmakers to the American People.” – Harry T. Peters
“Treasury of American Design. Vol. 2.” – Clarence P. Hornung
“Heritage: A Romantic Look at Early Canadian Furniture.” – Scott Symons
“The Index of American Design.” – Erwin O. Christensen
“300 Years of Kitchen Collectibles.” – Linda Campbell Franklin
“Shaker Furniture: The Craftsmanship of an American Communal Sect.” – Edward
Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews
“The Williamsburg Collection of Antique Furnishings.”
“Canadian Silver, Silverplate and Related Glass.” – Doris and Peter Unitt
“Canadian Country Furniture, 1675 – 1950.” – Michael S. Bird
“The Furniture of Old Ontario.” – Philip Shackleton
“The Heritage of Upper Canadian Furniture.” - Howard Pain
“American Decorative Arts: 360 Years of Creative Design.” – Robert Bishop and Patricia
Coblentz
The magazine Antiques, Sept. 1983: contains, “Ontario Fraktur” – Michael S. Bird
“Antiques at Colonial Williamsburg.” – Antiques Magazine
“Floorcloths, Oilcloths and Linoleum.”
“Tinware: Yesterday and Today.” - Elmer L. Smith
“Pewter in Pennsylvania German Churches.” – Donald M. Herr
“Dowry: Eastern European Painted Furniture, Textiles, and Related Folk Art.” – Mingei
International Museum
“Handy Things to Have Around the House: Oldtime Domestic Appliances of Canada and
the United States.” – Loris S. Russell
“Collecting Canada’s Past.” – Jean & Elizabeth Smith
“A Heritage of Light: Lamps and Lighting in the Early Canadian Home.” – Loris S.
Russell
“Early Furniture in Ontario & The Atlantic Provinces.” – Henry and Barbara Dobson
“Much More Early American Pattern Glass.” – Alice Hulett Metz
“The Ontario Tradition in York County: Mennonite Furniture.” – Lynda Musson Nykor
and Patricia D. Musson
“The Origins and Craft of Antique Tin & Tole.” – John Player
“The Wheat Pattern: An Illustrated Survey.” – Lynne Sussman
“In A Canadian Attic.” – Gerald Stevens
“1984 Official Canadian Coin Guide.”
Early American Life, August 1984, “Fraktur for the Collector.” – Ellen E. Coogan
Wiser’s Canadiana Collection, Interim Report
“All About Ontario Tables. “ – Elizabeth Ingolfsrud
“All About Ontario Beds. “ – Elizabeth Ingolfsrud
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“All About Ontario Chairs. “ – Elizabeth Ingolfsrud
“All About Ontario Cupboards. “ – Elizabeth Ingolfsrud
“All About Ontario Desks. “ – Elizabeth Ingolfsrud
“American Decorated Chairs.” – Shirley Spaulding Devoe
“Early Ontario Furniture.” – Gerald Stevens
“Early Ontario Glass.” – Gerald Stevens
“Waddington’s The Adam Haynes Collection.”
“Lighting the Pioneer Ontario Home.” – L.S. Russell
“Drinking Vessels.” – Buffalo Historical Society
“Splint Seats for Chairs.” – Ruth B. Comstock
“Rush Seats for Chairs.” – Ruth B. Comstock
“Unitt’s Price Guide to Clocks in Canada.”
“Smoking Antiques.” – Amoret and Christopher Scott
“Early Furniture in Upper Canada Village.” – Jeanne Minhinnick
“Domestic Bygones.” – Jacqueline Fearn
“The Romance of the Heating Stove.” – George MacLaren
“The Story of Furniture.” – Gordon Russell & Jacques Groag
“American Historical Flasks.” – Helen McKearin
“Antique Furniture expert: How You Can Identify, Date and Authenticate.” – Peter Philp,
Gillian Walkling
“American Interiors from Colonial Times to the Late Victorians.” – Harold L. Peterson
“Treen to Cherish.” – Marjorie E. Gage
“The Coming of Treen.” – Mark Rees
FASHION/COSTUMES
“Victorian Fashions & Costumes from Harper’s Bazaar, 1867 – 1898.”
“Men’s Fashion Illustrations from the Turn of the Century.” – Jean L. Druesedow
“Children’s fashions, 1860 – 1912. 1065 Costume Designs from “La Mode Illustree.” “ –
JoAnne Olian
“Collars, Stocks, Cravats: A History and Costume Dating Guide to Civilian Men’s
Neckpieces. 1655 – 1909.” – Doreice Colle
“Corsets and Crinolines.” – Norah Waugh
“Fashion From Ancient Egypt to the Present Day.” – Mila Contini
“American Victorian Costume in Early Photographs.” – Priscilla Harris Dalrymple
Binder: “The Ladies Home Journal, May 1907.” & “Harper’s Bazaar, November 1908.”
“Fashionable Dresses of 1867 with Description and Illustrations.” Dorothy K. Burnham
(Royal Ontario Museum)
“Modesty to Mod: Dress and Underdress of Canada.” Royal Ontario Museum
“Women’s Fashions of the Early 1900’s.”
“Everyday Dress of the American Colonial Period: Colouring Book.” – Peter F. Copeland
“Clothing in English Canada, Circa 1867 to 1907.” – Eileen Collard
“18th Century Clothing.” – Bobbie Kalman
“In Step with Fashion: 200 Years of Shoe Styles.” – Norma Shephard
“Lingerie: Two Centuries of Luscious Design.” – Norma Shephard
“An Illustrated History of Hairstyles, 1830 – 1930.” – Marian I. Doyle
“Sears, Roebuck & Co. 1908.”
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“Patterns for Theatrical Costumes: Garments, Trims and Accessories from Ancient Egypt
to 1915.” – Katherine Strand Holkeboer
“Distaff Sketch Book: A Collection of Notes and Sketches on Women’s Dress in
America, 1774 – 1783.” – Robert L. Klinger
“Sears, Roebuck & Co. 1907.”
“T. Eaton Co. Limited, 1901.”
“Hairstyles and headdresses of the Victorain, Edwardian and Ragtimes Eras.” – Catherine
Bishop
“Men’s Attire for Centennial Celebrations, circa 1860’s 0- 1920’s.”
“The Mode in Costume.” – R. Turner Wilcox
“The Mode in Hats and Headdress.” – R. Turner Wilcox
“Victorian Costume and Costume Accessories.” – Anne M. Buck
“Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey.” – Alison Gernsheim
“English Costume of the 17th Century.” – Iris Brooke
“English Costume of the 18th Century.” – Iris Brooke
“English Costume of the 19th Century.” – Iris Brooke
“Styles and fashion: A Pictorial Handbook.” – Mary D. Tranquillo
“The Quaker: A Study in Costume.” – Amelia Mott Gummere
“Children’s Costume in England, 1300 – 1900.” – Phillis Cunningham & Anne Buck
“The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Fashion.” – Ludmila Kybalova, Olga Herbenova, Milena
Lamarova
“Women’s Costume in Ontario (1867 – 1907.)” – K.B. Britt
“English Fashions.” – Victor Ross and John Mortimer
“Cut My Cote.” – Dorothy K. Burnham (Royal Ontario Museum)
“Fashion Accessories.” – Eleanor Johnson
“Discovering Old Buttons.” – Primrose Peacock
“Early Clothing in Southern Ontario.” Eileen Collard
“Costumes for Canada’s Birthday: The Styles of 1867.”
“Costume Reproduction: Women’s 19th Century Dresses.” – Sarah Walker
“The Delineator: September 1907.”
“To Clothe the Common Man. A Hand-Sewn Shirt.” – Joel Monture
“Women’s Fashions of the Early 1900s.”
“Making Historical Costumes.” – Sarah Walker
VICTORIAN/EDWARDIAN
“Victorian Style.” – John Crosby Freeman
“Victorian Stencils.” – Edmund V. Gillon Jr.
“Victorian Advertisements.” – James Laver
“Victorian Christmas.” – Bobbie Kalman, Barbara Bedell
“The Victorian Toymaker with Practical Instructions.”
“Victorian Ornaments: Eleven Projects.” – Elspeth
“Victorian Entertaining.” – John Crosby Freeman
“Victorian Entertainment.” – Alan Delgado
“Victorian Parlour games.” – Patrick Beaver
“A Victorian Book of Days.”
“The Edwardians.” – Roy Hattersley
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“Edwardians: London Life and Letters, 1901 – 1914.” – John Paterson
“A Victorian Lower Album.” – Henry Terry
“Much to be Done.” Frances Hoffman, Ryan Taylor
“Victorians At Home and Abroad.” – Paul Atterbury, Suzanne Fagence Cooper
“The Victorian Home.” – Bobbie Kalman
MEDICINE/PIONEER LIFE
“Harness in the Parlour: A Book of Early Canadian fact and Folklore.” – Audrey
Armstrong
“Making Fire with Flint and Steel.” – James Townsend and Joe Lee
“The Blacksmith in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg.”
“The Village Blacksmith” – Jocelyn Bailey
“Straw and Straw Craftsmen.” – Arthur Staniforth
“The Village Cooper.” – K. Kilby
“The Homemakers.” – Leonard Everett Fisher
“Pioneers: Challenges from the Past.” – Margot Griffin
“What Is It? A Gallery of Historic Phrases.” – Lorraine O’Byrne
“Tobacco, Pipes and the Pleasure of Pipe Smoking.”
“Backhouses of the North.” – Muriel E. Newton-White
“Sulphur & Molasses: Home Remedies and Other Echoes of the Canadian Past.” –
Audrey Armstrong
“Wives and Mothers, School Mistresses and Scullery Maids: Working Women in Upper
Canada 1790 – 1840.” – Elizabeth Jane Errington
“The Blacksmith in Upper Canada.” – William N.T. Wylie
“Living in Colonial America.” – National Parks Visitor Series
“Early Settler Activity Guide.” – Elizabeth Stenson
“Pioneer Home Life.” – Maggie Parnall
“Remedies and Cures.” – Helen Wismer
“Visiting a Village.” – Bobbie Kalman
Various Songs, edited for Friends of Fort George
“Early Travel.” – Bobbie Kalman
“Early Stores and Markets.” – Bobbie Kalman
“Early Settler Children.” – Bobbie Kalman
“Early Christmas.” – Bobbie Kalman
“An Old Fashioned Christmas.” – Clarence P. Hornung
“The Modern Housekeeper’s Guide with Special reference to Coal and Wood Cookery.”
“Pioneer Arts and Crafts.” – Edwin C. Guillet
“Pioneer Days in Upper Canada.” – Edwin C. Guillet
“Daily Life on the Wagon Trail.” – Paul Erickson
“Conestoga Wagon: Masterpiece of the Blacksmith.” – Arthur L. Reist (2nd copy in
Director’s office)
“Early Bibles of America- 1908.” – John Wright
“A Better Place – Death and Burial in Nineteenth Century Ontario” – Susan Smart
TOYS & GAMES
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“Discovering Corn Dollies.” – M. Lambeth
“Early North American Dollmaking.” – Iris Sanderson Jones
“Two Hundred Years of Pennsylvania Dolls.” – Marie Ketterman
“Funmakers.” – Audrey McKim, Jennifer McKim
“Playthings of Yesterday.”
“The Folkways Omnibus of Children’s Games.”- Iris Vinton
“Over 230 Handicraft Projects for Children.”
“Boys and Girls Come out to Play.”
“Kate Greenaway’s Book of Games.”
“Paper Toymaking.” – Margaret W. Campbell
“Canadian Children’s Annual, 1979.”
“Children’s Crafts: Fun and Creativity for Ages 5 – 12.”
“The Victorian Toymaker with Practical Instructions.”
“From Days Gone By: Ornamental Toys and Other Pastimes.”
“The Wonderful World of Toys, Games and Dolls., 1860 – 1930.” – Joseph J. Schroeder,
Jr.
“Early Pleasures and Pastimes.” – Bobbie Kalman
“Nineteenth Century Christmas Presents.”
Various articles relating to settler life, bound together.
OVERSIZE
“American Home Pattern Book.”
“The Canadian Poster Book.”
“Classic American Quilts.” – Thos. K. Woodard & Blanche Greenstein
“The Gardener’s Catalogue of Food Gardens: Indoor, Outdoor and under Glass.”
“Know Your Forest Trees.” – Department of Lands and Forests
“A Shopper’s View of Canada’s Past.”
“A Young People’s History of Toronto.”
“The Good Guide: A Sourcebook for Interpreters, Docents and Tour Guides.” – Alison L.
Grinder, Sue. E. McCoy
“Some Welstead Roots.” – W. Gordon Welstead
Scrapbook of early museum newspaper clippings
“1876 Historical Atlas of Lincoln & Welland.”
Director’s Collection (Located in Director’s Office: available by request.)
ARCHITECTURE
“Smokehouses in the Lebanon Valley.” – Amos Long Jr.
“Early Domestic Architecture of Pennsylvania.” – Eleanor Raymond
“Architecture of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country 1700 – 1900.” – Henry J. Kauffman
“Built Heritage in Schools.” – Ministry of Culture and Communications
“The Conservation of Heritage Interiors.” – Canadian Conservation Institute
“A Guide to Heritage Structure Investigations.” – Ministry of Culture and Recreation
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GENERAL REFERENCE
“Getting The to Give a Damn: How to Get your Front Line to Care about the Bottom
Line.” – Eric Chester
“Committees.” – Phyllis Bentley
“Roberts Rules of Order.”
“A Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800’s.” – Marc McCutcheon
LOCAL HISTORY
“Roads, Prohibition and Charity in the Fifties.” – Ruth M. Home
“Methods of Election and Problems of Education in the Fifties.” – Ruth M. Home
“Souvenir Old Boys and Girls Reunion, Campden 1907.”
“Rittenhouse School & Gardens.” – Harvey M. Gayman
“Twenty Twenty Hindsight: Stories and Recollections of the days before yesterday in the
Twenty area, Niagara.”
“Lincoln: The Story of an Ontario Town.” – William F. Rannie
“Jacob Fry Family Research: - Sara Byers
“12 Hours That Saved A Country”: The Battle of Queenston Heights, October 13th,
1812.” Cameron Porteous (Draft copy)
“The Lady and the Manor.” – William F. Rannie
MEDICINE/PIONEER LIFE
“Conestoga Wagon, 1750 – 1850.” – George Shumway, Edward Durell, Howard C. Frey
“Pioneer Life Among the Loyalists in Upper Canada.” – W.S. Herrington
“Pioneer Settlements.” – Edwin C. Guillet
MUSEUM REFERENCE
“The Green Museum.” – Sarah S. Brophy and Elizabeth Wylie
“Basic Principles of Artifact Storage.” Albert Museums Association
“Guide to Ontario Museums.” – O.M.A.
“Ethics Guidelines.” -Canadian Museums Association
“Subject Indexing for Archives.” Bureau of Canadian Archivists
“The Care of Historical Collections.” – Per. E. Guldbeck
“Preventative Conservation in Museums.” – Canadian Heritage
“A Primer on Museum Security.” – Caroline K. Keck et al
“A Bibliography on Historical Organization Process, Vols. 1 & 2.”
“Starting Right: A Basic Guide to Museum Planning.” – Gerald George and Cindy
Sherrell-Leo
“Exhibits for the Small Museum.” – Arminta Neal
“Conservation Concerns: A Guide for Collectors and Curators.”
“So You Want a Good Museum: A Guide to rhe management of Small Museums.” – Carl
E. Guthe
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“The Evaluation of Historic Buildings.” Parks Canada
The Repair and Preservation of Records.” - Adelaide E. Minogue
“The Manual of Museum Planning.” – Gail Dexter Lord, Barry Lord
“Bookbinding & Conservation by Hand.” – Laura S. Young
“Identify, Protect, Promote: Strengthening Ontario’s Heritage.”
“On the Road Again: Developing and managing Traveling Exhibitions.” – Rebecca A.
Buck and Jean Allman Gilmore
“Museum Mannequins.” – Margot Brunn and Joanne White
“Well-Preserved: Ontario Heritage Foundation’s Manual of Principals and Practice for
Architectural Conservation.” – Mark Fram
“Organizing Archival Records: A Practical Method of Arrangement & Description for
Small Archives.” – David W. Carmichael
“Ruth Home: An Extraordinary Woman for Her Time.” – Margaret Machell
“Cyclical Maintenance for Historic Buildings.”
“Heritage Energy Conservation Guidelines.” Ministry of Culture and Communications
“Exhibition Techniques: Travelling and Temporary.” – James H. Carmel
“Recreating the Historic House Interior.” – William Seale
“CCI: Museum Lighting.”
“CCI: Relative Humidity: Its’ Importance, Measurement and Control in Museums.”
“Keeping Our Own House in Order: The Importance of Museum Records.” – Carole
Schwartz
“Museum Collections: Policy Guidelines for Acquisitions and deaccessions.” – OMA
“Museum Collections Storage.” – John D. Hilberry and Susan Kalb Weinberg
PENN. GERMAN MENNONITE
“Pennsylvania Dutch American Folk Art.” – Henry J. Kauffman
“Horne’s Pennsylvania German Manual: How Pennsylvania German is Spoken and
Written; For Pronouncing, Speaking and Writing English.” – Abraham R. Horne
“Bibliography of Mennonite and Amish Folklore and Folk Arts.”
“The Pioneer Cooking Fireplace.”
Various articles on PA German Historic House programming.
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