We are offering a Property History Workshop during the November meeting of the Elgin County OGS on November 13th at 7pm at the Elgin County Administration Centre, 450 Sunset Drive, in the basement training room (Rm. No. 25). We hope that you can join us!Please register by contacting Gina Dewaele at gdewaele@elgin.ca or at 519-631-1460 ext. 154.
We are offering three Property History Workshops in March! We hope to see you at one of the following:
-the West Lorne Library on March 5th at 1:30pm.
-the Port Burwell Library on March 21st, at 2:00pm
-the Dutton Library on March 25th at 1:30 pm.
We request that you register in advance by contacting Amber at amandich@elgin.ca or 519-631-1460 ext. 127. If you are a library patron, you may also register through Elgin County Library’s event calendar here: https://sierra-app.elgin.ca/iii/calendar/month?lang=eng
Please join us for Property History Workshops at the Shedden Library on November 13, at 6pm, or at the Aylmer Library on November 15, at 5:30pm. Also, join us for a Family History Workshop at the Dutton Library on November 27 at 6:30 pm. We request that you register in advance by contacting Amber at amandich@elgin.ca or 519-631-1460 ext. 127. If you are a library patron, you may also register through Elgin County Library’s event calendar here: https://sierra-app.elgin.ca/iii/calendar/month?lang=eng
Are you interested in learning about the history of your home? Join Elgin County’s Archivist Assistant to discover local and online resources, and learn how to access and interpret early township land records. We hope that you can join us at: Belmont Library on September 25th at 2pm OR at Springfield Library on September 27th at 2pm. Spaces are limited, so we ask that you please register in advance. You can register by following this link to the library’s event calendar: https://bit.ly/2w60qMe. If you have any issues with registration, or have any questions about this event, please contact Amber Mandich at amandich@elgin.ca or at 519-631-1460 ext. 127.
The survey and settlement maps are two separate collections that detail the early geography and settlement patterns of the Talbot tract, a stretch of land along the north shore of Lake Erie.
Are you a railway enthusiast? We are currently processing the collection of the late Ken Verrell and have recently added over 1500 photographs of trains and locomotives to our online database.
