Photographing Brampton: The Betty Odlum fonds
In 2016 the Region of Peel Archives was thrilled to accept the records of Brampton resident Betty Odlum. Betty was a skilled amateur photographer who spent most of her life […]
Category Archives: Collection Highlights
“From Hemisphere to Hamlet:” Research on the Indigenous peoples of the County of Peel and North America within the Wm. Perkins Bull fonds
Note: A version of this article appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of the Archives Association of Ontario’s (AAO) themed issue of Off the Record focusing on “Archives and Indigenous […]
The creation of the County of Peel, 1851-1867
This year the Region of Peel is commemorating both the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Dominion of Canada as well as the establishment of our forerunner, the County […]
Peel in 1967
Libraries, schools, a college, a university, demolitions, a hockey tournament, and the end of Toronto Township.
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 […]
