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These finding aids include inventories, lists and other descriptions that will provide you with a better idea of what resources are available at the Bruce County Archives. To clarify, a fonds is a body of records of any kind that were made, used and retained by a person or group during the course or personal or business activities. A fonds differs from a collection in that a collection describes a body of materials brought together with some unifying characteristic such as a postcard collection or a hockey card collection.

Please check back periodically. We will add more finding aids to this page as they are created.

Cemetery Locator & Finding Aid

The Bruce County Genealogical Society and the Bruce & Grey Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society have transcribed tombstones in many of the cemeteries in Bruce County.  Click on the link to find which cemeteries have been transcribed and where they are.

County of Bruce Finding Aid
The Bruce County Fonds consists of Administrative records for the United Counties of Huron, Perth and Bruce (1850-1852), the United Counties of Huron and Bruce (1853-1866), the County of Bruce Provisional Council (1857-1866), and the County of Bruce (1867-2008). Fonds consists of departmental records for the County of Bruce from 1850-2008 and comprises the following series: Administration, Council & Legislative Services, Development & Planning, Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, Justice, Legal, Protection & Enforcement Services, Social & Health Care Services, Transportation Services.

Family Histories
The Bruce County Reading Room has a host of Family Histories. Please use the find feature in Adobe to see if your family name is mentioned.

Guide to Census and Vital Statistics Records
Microfilm copies of Census Records and Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes and Registrations.

Guide to Holdings – Reference Boxes
A collection of reference material from A to Z.

Guide to Local Newspaper Holdings
Microfilm copies of local newspapers.

Kincardine Newspapers
Inventory of Kincardine Newspapers at the Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre

Military Oral History Videos
Interviews completed between 2005 and present of local veterans around Bruce and Grey Counties. These videos are available to be viewed at the Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre in the Reading Room.

The Leeder Family Fonds
100 years of the Leeder Family of Saugeen Township. From pre immigration times to post Second World War (1834-1949) the Leeder Family kept their personal and business records.

The Vance Family Fonds
Military history of Thomas Vance and postcard correspondence of the Vance Family of Arkwright (1865-1930).