Local History
The first phase of the newspaper digitization project is now complete. Many thanks to the Friends of the Library, Donna Field, and the Homecoming Committee, the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport (OLCF Grant), Archives of Ontario, and Our Digital World for making this project possible.
West Grey Library Newspapers is where our new birth, marriage, death (BMD) database is located as well as the following newspapers.
(West Grey births, deaths and marriages from 1859 - 1902 & 1907 - 1914.)
We only have been granted permission to have the newspapers digitized to 1968.
Local history books, cemetery records, West Grey Industry clippings and family histories to name a few to assist you with your search are available in West Grey Library branches. Please contact your local branch for more details.
The Library also has the following material:
West Grey Library Newspapers is where our new birth, marriage, death (BMD) database is located as well as the following newspapers.
(West Grey births, deaths and marriages from 1859 - 1902 & 1907 - 1914.)
We only have been granted permission to have the newspapers digitized to 1968.
- Durham Chronicle Digital Copies 1867-1968
- Durham Chronicle Indexes
- Durham Standard Digital Copies 1859-1863
- Durham Standard Indexes
Local history books, cemetery records, West Grey Industry clippings and family histories to name a few to assist you with your search are available in West Grey Library branches. Please contact your local branch for more details.
The Library also has the following material:
- Cemetery records (Local History Room)
- Family histories (Local History Room)
- Newspapers (on microfilm)
- Genealogy reference books
An index to obituaries from 1897 to 1950 in the "Hanover Post", now "The Post".
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters
This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
Genealogy
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Ontario Newspapers
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