The Region of Peel Archives
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Part of the Peel Heritage Complex, the Archives' mandate is to collect, preserve and make available materials which deal with the development of the Region of Peel.
Government records of the former County of Peel, municipal records of the cities of Brampton and Mississauga and the Town of Caledon, land records, census records and a myriad of other unique documents help to make this a centre of research and learning on almost any topic related to the growth of Peel.
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Reference service is available Monday to Friday from
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Reading Room will be closed on Mondays - more info
From photographs taken in the 1860s to film footage of the 1948 Brampton flood, the private manuscripts and government records contained within the Archives offer valuable insights about the evolution of our communities into the bustling and developing municipality that is the Region of Peel today.
 
On Saturdays, the Archives will be open from noon to 4:30 p.m. for Reading Room use only.
Heritage information staff are able to guide researchers through the self-serve resources including a variety of family history files, books and local histories; microfilms of Peel County census records from 1851 - 1901; newspapers of Bolton, Brampton and Streetsville, as well as our finding aids, surname and newspaper indices, photograph contact sheets and the Peel Heritage Complex Resource Library.
The Archives has an extensive collection of documentary material related to the history of Peel, and the individuals and groups that have helped in developing the community. If you have documents or photographs that pertain to a person, family, business, religious group, or society with a Peel connection, please contact us.
If you have a reference question about the Archives collection, please send us an e-mail.
For those who are not able to come to the Archives in person, the Staff can undertake limited research on a fee for service basis. The charge for this service is $25.00 per hour (or part thereof), with a 4 hour maximum per request. Details
Effective Jan. 4, 2010, the Archives Reading Room will be closed on Mondays.
The Reading Room will be open Tuesday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Limited reference service is available on Saturdays, from noon to 4:30 p.m.
This closure will allow us to work on the collection and prepare for the upcoming construction.
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