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The reading room offers microfilm of family history files from the William Perkins Bull collection, select area newspapers, land records, census records from 1851/52-1911, Peel County Wills and Surrogate Court records, the "Tweedsmuir histories" of the local Women's Institutes, et cetera.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1935–1940) Region Geographic locations Civil structures Schools Buildings AB: Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School, Okotoks; BC: Buchan Creek [104] Buchan Inlet [105] Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park [106] Tweedsmuir North Provincial Park and Protected Area [107] Tweedsmuir Peak [108] Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary ...
The Tweed Forest Fire District was founded by the former Ontario Department of Lands and Forests (now the MNR) in 1922 as one of 17 districts to help protect Ontario's forests from fire by early detection from fire towers. The headquarters for the district were housed at Hungerford Road in town.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. June 15 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, ski pioneer and supercentenarian (d.1987) August 2 – Albert Hickman, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d.1943) August 21 – Winnifred Eaton, author (d.1954) August 22 – François Blais, politician (d.1949)
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC DL (/ ˈ b ʌ x ən /; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
Scotch Block is an unincorporated community in Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. [1]Settlers arrived in the early 1800s, and Scotch Block encompassed approximately 35 square kilometres (10 sq mi) of agricultural land in southwestern Esquesing Township.
William James de L'Aigle Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir (10 January 1916 – 29 June 2008), also known as William Tweedsmuir, was an English peer and author of novels, short stories, memoirs and verse. He was the second son of the writer and Governor General of Canada , John Buchan .
George VI and Mackenzie King in London, May 1937. While in London, Mackenzie King brought up the monarch taking a royal tour of Canada.. Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir, in an effort to foster Canadian identity, conceived of a royal tour by the country's monarchs; the Dominion Archivist (i.e., official historian) Gustave Lanctot wrote that this "probably grew out of the knowledge that at his ...