Archival Collections
Our archival holdings include both municipal and private collections covering the history of Grey County.
Highlights of the collection:
- Municipal records for former & current townships
- Over 70 Grey County Women's Institute branch collections
- Index to Vital Statistics microfilm for Ontario and registration reels for Grey County 1869-dates of restriction
- 1851 (index only), 1861, 1871, 1881, & 1901 censuses
- Cemetery transcriptions
- Agnes Campbell Macphail Information
- Information on local industries, particularly the William Kennedy & Sons Foundry from Owen Sound
- Land Copy Books, circa 1850-1956
- Local newspapers
- Township histories (many are available for purchase in our Gift Shop)
- Bruce and Grey Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society Surname Collection, c. 1919-1965 (also contains family histories)
