General Historical or Primary Sources (Publications)

This section lists various published historical sources available online or through Markham, Vaughan or other public or university libraries.

Thornhill, 1793-1963: A history of an Ontario Village. FitzGerald, Doris M., 1963.

Old Time Thornhill. FitzGerald, Doris M., 1970. (Archive.org login required)

Thornhill Bicentennial Photo Album. Weaver, Alf & Laura, 1994.

The History of Vaughan Township. Reaman, George E., 1971.

Markham Remembered : A Photographic History of Old Markham Township. Ed., Champion, Mary B, 1988.

Markham 1793-1900. Markham District Historical Society, 1979. Ed., Champion, Isabel.

The Heritage Years: Thornhill, Vaughan Township, 1796 to 1900. Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee for the Thornhill Area, Town of Vaughan, 1979.

The Journals of Mary O’Brien 1828-1838, Ed., Miller, Audrey Sunders, 1968. (Archive.org login required)

An Irish Saint : the life story of Ann Preston (“Holy Ann”), Bingham, Helen E.. [1908?]

A Thornhill Farm, French, Michael (1970) (Archive.org login required)

Bond Lake and the highlands of York, Thornhill, Richmond Hill, Aurora, Newmarket, and intermediate points, via the Metropolitan Railway Co., and Bond Lake to Schomberg via the Schomberg and Aurora Ry Co. [microform] : guide and time table [1904]. (Archive.org)

Notebooks : Thoreau MacDonald. MacDonald, Thoreau, 1980.  (Archive.org login required)

A boy all spirit : Thoreau MacDonald in the 1920s. Sabean, John W., 2002.  (Archive.org login required)

The Life and Letters of the Rev. George Mortimer: M.A. Rector of Thornhill in the Diocese of Toronto, Canada West. Armstrong, John, 1847. (Archive.org)

Observations on professions, literature, manners, and emigration in the United States and Canada: made during a residence there in 1832. Fidler, Isaac, 1833. (Archive.org)

Early Days in Richmond Hill: A History of the Community to 1930 (electronic edition). Stamp, Robert M., 1991.

The Thornhill Circle: JEH MacDonald and His Associates. The Varley Art Gallery of Markham, 2006 (Reproduced with permission from the Varley Art Gallery of Markham).

History of Toronto and county of York, Ontario, containing an outline of the history of the Dominion of Canada, a history of the city of Toronto and the county of York, with the townships, towns, villages, churches, schools, general and local statistics, biographical sketches, etc., etc (1885):

Volume 1

Volume 2