Upper Canada / Canada West

Accounts

Howison, John. Sketches of Upper Canada, Domestic, Local and Characteristic: To which are added practical details for the information of emigrants of every class; and some recollections of the United States of America. Second Edition. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd (1822). Available from Google Books.

Smith, William Henry. Canadian Gazetteer: Comprising statistical and general information respecting all parts of the Upper Province or Canada West. H.W. Roswell 1846. Available from the Internet Archive  https://archive.org/details/smithscanadianga00smit

— Canada: Past, present, and future. Volume 1. Toronto: Maclear. (1851). Available from the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/canadapast01smituoft

— Canada: Past, present, future: Being a historical, geographical, geological and statistical account of Canada West. Vol II Toronto: Thomas Maclear (1851). Available from the Internet Archive  https://archive.org/details/canadapast00smituoft

Smith, William Wye. Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Grey for 1865-66. Toronto 1865. Available from the Internet Archive. Original is held in the University of Toronto and was from the estate of  J. Stuart Fleming. https://archive.org/details/gazetteerdirecto00smit_0

Directories

Brown’s Toronto City and Home District Directory 1846-47  http://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/pdfs/541681.pdf

Smith, William Wye. Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Grey for 1865-6. Toronto Globe Steam Press (1865) Available from  Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/gazetteerdirecto00smit_0

Ontario’s Vernon Directories, being digitized by Ontario Ancestors. Currently (August 2019) 191 directories have been captured over various years – some in early 1900s – and several Ontario cities – but none for Owen Sound.
https://ogs.on.ca/vernons-directories/

Local Histories

Mulvany, Charles Pelham. History of Toronto and the County of York.  Toronto, Ontario: C Blackett Robinson. (1885)
https://archive.org/stream/historyyork01unknuoft#page/-194/mode/2up/search/vaughan

Reaman, George Elmore. A History of Vaughan Township. Vaughan Township Historical Society. (1971) Available from University of Calgary, Libraries and Cultural Resources Collections  https://cdm22007.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p22007coll8/id/338284/rec/5

Grey & Bruce Counties

Beckett, Wilmer G.. Wilkinson, A.W.. History of Derby Township 1839 to 1972. Owen Sound: Richardson, Bond and Wright Ltd. (1972). Available at University of Calgary https://cdm22007.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p22007coll8/id/930239/rec/16

Marsh, Edith Louise. A History of the County of Grey.  Owen Sound: Fleming Publishing Co. (1931). Available from University of Calgary https://cdm22007.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p22007coll8/id/454709/rec/2

Robertson, Norman. The History of the County of Bruce and of the minor municipalities therein, province of Ontario, Canada. Toronto, Ontario:  W Briggs (1906).  Available at Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/historyofcountyo00robe

Stephens, A.M. The Early Days of Owen Sound. Owen Sound Sun (1892) – microform  https://archive.org/details/cihm_13892

Warrilow, Betty; Siegrist, Betty; Shouldice, W. Bev (editors). Beautiful Stoney Keppel including the Village of Shallow Lake, 1855-1986.  Owen Sound. Available from University of Calgary https://cdm22007.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p22007coll8/id/151092/rec/32

Parry Sound District

Hamilton, W.E. Guide book and atlas of Muskoka and Parry Sound districts. Toronto. H.R. Page (1879) – microform digitized – https://archive.org/details/cihm_06378

Kirton, Everott. History of the East Parry Sound District (c 1965)  Document available through University of Algoma. http://archives.algomau.ca/main/sites/default/files/2009-220_001_017.pdf

Magnetawan Women’s Institute. Looking Back with the Magnetawan Women’s Institute: A selection of stories from their Tweedsmuir History. (c. 1995) – image copy = http://images.ourontario.ca/almaguin/81972/data?n=

Maps

In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian Atlas Digital Project at McGill University. County atlases from 1874 and 1881 with searchable database of names of property owners.  http://web.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/default.htm

Historical Maps of Toronto, compiled by Nathan Ng  http://oldtorontomaps.blogspot.ca/ Especially note the entry for  1858 WS Boulton: Atlas of the City of Toronto and Vicinity. Compiled by Nathan Ng.   http://oldtorontomaps.blogspot.ca/2013/01/1858-boulton-map-of-toronto.html

[updated 3 August 2019]