Research Resources

Archives

The museum's archival collection includes local land deeds, directories, maps, newspaper clippings, audio and video items and genealogy materials. Please contact us to make an appointment to arrange a research visit.

613-253-7013
[email protected]

While not all files are extensive, we currently have holdings with information on the following Surnames:

Ackerman/Allen/Allan/Argue/Armstrong/Asselstine/Bagg/Barker/Baird/Baker/Bates/Begley/Bell/Bennett/Bond
Boulton/Bowes/Box/Brebner/Broom/Brown/Buchanan/Buffam/Burgess/Burns/Caldwell/Campbell/Cavers/Chilcott
Coleman/Cliff/Conn/Cook/Cornell/Couroux/Coward/Cram/Culbertson/Dack/Davis/Dawson/Dickie/Docket/Dolan
Doucett/Dowdall/Drummond/Duff/Dummert/Dunham/Dunlop/Dunn/Edwards/Ferguson/Findlay/Flett/Fuller/Flint
Floyd/Gardiner/Garson/Gillies/Gladish/Godfrey/Graham/Gratton/Gray/Hamilton/Hastie/Hawkins/Henderson/Hicks
Holmes/Hooper/Houston/Hurd/James/Johnston/Kellough/Kells/Kidd/Kramer/Lalonde/Lang/Lavallee/Leech/Leslie
Lim/Lowry/Kennedy/Kenny/Knox/MacDougall/Mason/Matthews/McArthur/McDiarmid/McEwen/McFadden/McFarlane
McIntosh/McLaren/McLean/McMullan/McNabb/McNeely/McRostie/McTavish/May/Merritt/Miller/Moffatt/Muldowan
Moore/Morphy/Morris/Morton/Mostyn/Movshovitz/Muff/Muirhead/Munro(e)/Murphy/Neelin/Neilson/Nelson/Nesbitt
Nichols/Nowlan/Okilman/Patterson/Pattie/Peden/Pierce/Poole/Powell/Preston/Rattray/Richardson/Rintoul/Roe
Rosamond/Robertson/Salter/Schwerdtfeger/Scollon/Scott/Sibbett/Sibbitt/Sinclair/Snedden/Splaine/Stacey/Stewart
Stuart/Struthers/Sumner/Taber/Taylor/Tucker/Umphrey/Upsdell/Warren/Watchorn/Watt/Welsh/White/Whyte/Willis
Willoughby/Wilson/Woodcock/Wright/Wylie/Young

Library

The Museum has an extensive library of books pertaining to local history, Canadian history, Museum Studies, Antiques and Collectibles Reference Guides,  and Military History. Please contact us to make an appointment to arrange a research visit.

Photographs

We have close to 4,000 photographs in our collection; all are catalogued by subject matter into our searchable database.
High resolution scans are available to purchase at a cost of $5 per image.
Please contact us to make an appointment to arrange a research visit.

Oral History Project

This series of interviews were filmed by Jeff Maguire and Jerry Flynn in 2012/2013.
Dvd's are available to borrow. Subjects interviewed are:

• Denzil Baird
• Bill and Lois Bennett
• Barbara Sinclair Blaney
• Mary and Wally Cook
• Larry "Squeak" Edmonds
• Bill and Betty Ann Findlay
• Orm Giles
• Gerald Hastie
• Eleanor Henderson
• Ralph Langtry
• Monte Milford
• Frank Mills
• Tex Morris
• Art Quartermain
• Ted and Shirley (Levine) Sheinfield
• Bob Stacey
• Margery White
• Irma Gardiner Willoughby
• Ivan Gardiner
• Trudie Dickie
• Vic Gilmour
• Dietor Jeschor
• Mary Kolsters
• Ron Roe
• Doug and Bev Smith
• John Southwell
• Wayne Drummond

Useful Local History Links:

The Roy Brown Society:
www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjY6cyjterwAhXGUt8KHccZBuAQFjAAegQIAxAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.captroybrown.ca%2F&usg=AOvVaw3LHeY7huqQ9xTH9TNzL4zn

Heritage Carleton Place (focus on built heritage and managed by the Municipal Heritage Committee)
www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiLnff_terwAhVlTd8KHSv6DnsQFjAEegQIAxAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheritagecarletonplace.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw27rqQjtN3FEiiGtRzmE1jC