Peel in 1967
Libraries, schools, a college, a university, demolitions, a hockey tournament, and the end of Toronto Township.
Category Archives: Collection Highlights
Staff favourites: The Township of Toronto Benchmark Book
Archivists here are often asked “What is your favourite record in the collection?” This can be a challenging question to answer, given that there are so many wonderful records in our […]
Controlling disease: the fight against rubella, measles, polio, and typhoid
Typhoid, rubella, polio, and measles: we look through the collection at how these disease were recorded in archival records.
5 things in the Peel Archives about eating
Peel’s Archives, like many municipal archives, covers the food story from farm to table. Let’s take a bite out of the collection, looking at documents and photographs that tell five stories about […]
From mud to pavement: the early history of Peel roadways as told by our records
By Kyle Neill, Senior Archivist I have long harboured a fascination with the history of the road network in the Peel area. We often take for granted the vast network […]
5 environmental things in the Peel Archives
With Earth Day approaching, can records relating to the environment be found in the Region of Peel Archives collection? While we don’t have the papers of any household names from the Canadian […]
5 funny things in the archives collection
From cheeky war posters to the world’s tightest roundabout, we look at five things in the archives that are funny.
