Once you are reasonably sure they lived in Peel county you will find these resources a big help in finding MORE information:

• Always check your OWN local and central library.  Sometimes local libraries have Ontario censuses which can be a very good start on your genealogy search.  Census information will give you the name of the head of the home and any other people living with them and their ages.  Depending of which census you are looking at, it can also give you place of birth, ethnicity, exact age, type of home, job description, marital status, year came to Canada -- all sorts of goodies!  Your own library may also have the Marriage index for earlier marriages for Peel County.

• Mississauga Central Public Library

An excellent place to start your search!  The Ruth Konrad Collection of Canadiana is a well-spring of information for Peel County.  The friendly staff at the Mississauga Library are available to help you in your search.  You will find books, photographs, slides, pamphlets, press clippings and maps, chronicling the growth of this community from before European settlement.  Because of the unique nature of the collection, many out-of-print materials and valuable items, the Collection is for reference use only in the Canadiana Reading Room.   Also available here are: Ontario Census records from 1841 to 1901, local newspapers on microfilm including the Streetsville Review, the Mississauga News, the Mississauga Times, and the Port Credit Weekly, the Toronto Township Papers on microfilm, and Toronto Township Council Meeting minutes 1844-1970 on microfilm.


• Region of Peel Archives                                                   Available here are:  the Wm. Perkins Bull collection, census returns, directories, education records, land records, maps, municipal records, newspapers, photographs and photographers, surname indices, Tweedsmuir histories, vital statistics, wills, and other local history sources in Peel.

• The Archives of Ontario                                                                                           Here at the Archives you can search for your own birth registrations (1869-1901), death registrations (1869-1925), and marriage registrations (1801-1915) for the province of Ontario.  You'll also find divorce decrees, wills, census records, newspapers from across the province, boat lists, and a well-spring of interesting information for an Ontario family search!

• The North York Central Library -- Canadiana Collection -- an excellent collection of newspapers on microfilm, Ontario censuses, and basic genealocical information for a search anywhere in Ontario.  Although emphasis is on local history, I have found this collection to be very, very good and always worth a trip up to Yonge and Sheppard.

• The Ontario Genealogical Society -- check out the Peel page.  Plus, you might find a meeting happening close by!

• Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid -- you can search many of Ontario's cemeteries RIGHT NOW on-line!
• 1837 Home District Directory -  The Home District does include Peel County.
• Euro-info -- need to find an old relative and not sure the address or phone number?
• You can search the  Ontario 1871 Census on-line too!
• Sometimes residents of southern Peel County often moved about within  Halton County too.
• Download Personal Ancestral File 4.0 for FREE at Family Search!!!  It is a fabulous genealogy program!
• Do you have your own webpage for a Peel County family?

• NEW!  Peel County now has an e-mail list for questions and discussions about Peel County genealogy.  You can subscribe to the list here.

Visit our Peel County Query Page