If your family was at all prominent in the Niagara Peninsula area you may find them listed in one of the following books. These materials are available for in-library use only, at the Victoria Avenue Library. Due to the rarity and nature of these materials they are not made available through the InterLibrary Loan system.
LHC 971.351 G865 "Annals of the Forty". Grimsby Historical Society Papers and Records, No. 1-10. LHC 971.339C775 Coombs, A.E. History of the Niagara Peninsula. 2nd ed. located at: LHC 971.339 C775H Ref 920.071 Dic Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 12 volumes,(1000-1900). LHC 920.0713 Dic Dictionary of Hamilton Biography. LHC 929.3713 Ell Elliot, Noel Montgomery. People of Ontario 1600 - 1900 : alphabetized directory of the people, places and vital dates, 3 Volumes. LHC 920.071 Can Morgan, Henry James. The Canadian men and women of the time, (1898). REF 920 M821 Morgan, Henry James. The Canadian men and women of the time. (1912). LHC 929.2 059G The Ontario Genealogist and Family Historian 1891- 1901, Volumes 1 - 12. LHC 929.37133 Rei Reive, Dr. W.G. Historical and Genealogical Notes. LHC 920 R796 Rose, George Maclean. A Cyclopaedia of Canadian biography, being chiefly men of the time.