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Tweedsmuir Community History Collections (Stoney Creek, ON: Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario), 1957     Tweedsmuir History Scrapbook captures and preserves a history of local community. It contains information on a variety of topics including local Women's Institute Branch, early settlers in the area, agricultural practices, local schools and churches, and prominent personalities.

    Tweedsmuir Histories were perhaps the first “organized”, although amateur approach to recording local history. The idea was articulated by Susan Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir, who was the wife of John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir, and Governor General of Canada in 1935-1940. This digital collection contains materials from the scrapbook compiled by the ...