Early Settlement

Contains lots of photographs of early pioneer homes of Tyrconnell. Lots of other content is featured in this scrapbook.

A booklet titled "The Selborne Grist Mill", written by C. Teskey Smith. Contains the history of the Selborne Grist Mill, built in the early 1820s by Jesse Zavitz on a tributary of Kettle Creek, in an area known as Talbot Mills. As the area developed after establishment of the mill, the village was renamed Selborne.

A booklet about the history of Hog's Hollow, which was a community on the south-western outskirts of the city of St. Thomas.

A history of Port Bruce from the early 1800's to 1975. 

A collection of award wining school essays on Elgin County School Sections and Townships written as part of a contest sponsored by the Southern Counties Journal and the Elgin Historical And Scientific Institute in 1896. Contains lots of great early history on the County Of Elgin. 

A look at the early history of Aldborough (now West Elgin) Township.

History of the Paterson family in North Yarmouth. Also contains history on the Paterson Log Cabin which is currently at Dan Paterson Conservation Area.

Letters written by Levi Young (to the Aylmer Express). Introductions by his daughter, Edna Young Johnson written in the early 1940's

History of the Lindsay Family who settled in Malahide in 1841

Full title of this book is "The Life of Colonel, The Late Honorable Thomas Talbot, Embracing the Rise and Progress of the Counties of Norfolk, Elgin, Middlesex, Kent and Essex." The earliest biography of Colonel Thomas Talbot published four years after his passing. The second half of the book contains  descriptions of the various towns and villages in the Talbot Settlement.