The following archival material was consulted courtesy of the Esquesing Historical Society:

MG1 A2 Esquesing Historical Society Collection

MG1 B1 Elsie Puckering Collection

MG1 B2 William Wright Scott Collection

MG2 A2 Esquesing Township (1818-1973)

MG2 A5 Town of Halton Hills

MG3 A78 Beardmore and Company Limited

MG3 A114 Barber Brothers Paper Mills, Georgetown

MG3 A119 Lawson Mills, Stewarttown

MG3 A187 Fred C. Bonathan, General Blacksmith, Stewarttown

MG3 C2 Halton Hills

MG3 C3 Acton

MG3 C4 Georgetown

MG4 A3 School Section No. 3 – Ashgrove

MG6 A8 James McNabb, Norval

MG6 A13 Thomas Fyfe, Ashgrove

MG6 A16 Elsie Sargent

MG7 A4 Glen Williams Town Hall

MG7 A7 Georgetown Centennial, 1937

MG7 A37 Limehouse Kiln Society

MG8 A15 Ballinafad United Church

MG8 A16 Hillcrest United Church

MG8 A18 Norval United Church

MG8 A30 Norval Presbyterian Church

MG8 D1 Acton Pioneers’ Cemetery, Knox Street, Acton

MG8 D14 Ashgrove United Church Cemetery

MG9 A16 Kennedy

MG9 A85 Adams

MG9 A136 Lawson

MG9 A188 Brain family

MG12 A4 Acton (Before Regional Government - 1974)

Other resources referenced in the exhibit:

Ballantine, Col. Jas. M. “James McNab, Founder of Norval.” Georgetown Herald, 14 June 1944, p. 5.

Brooks, Scott. “Contentious 1973 election saw the birth of Halton Hills.” Halton Hills Today, 28 September 2022.

Cole, Hartley. “They’ve been making superior gloves in Acton since 1868.” New Tanner, 10 January 2008, p. 9.

“Council phases out planning committee.” Acton Free Press, 11 December 1974, p. 15

“Craiglea House.” Canada’s Historic Places, https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=15024.

Dills, Jim, and Gloria Brown. Halton’s Scotch Block: the people and their stories. Milton Historical Society, 2009.

Halton District Women’s Institute. A History and Atlas of the County of Halton. 1970.

“History of Acton Timeline.” Downtown Acton, https://downtownacton.ca/acton-history-old/

“It’s Halton Hills and Hill’s Halton.” Acton Free Press, 3 October 1973, p. 1.

McDonald, John. Halton’s Heritage: William Halton and Halton County. Halton Sketches Pub., 2011.

McDonald, John. Halton Sketches. Dills Print and Pub. Co., 1976.

Rowe, John Mark Benbow. Acton: The History of Leathertown. Esquesing Historical Society, 2002.

Rowe, John Mark Benbow. Georgetown: Reflections of a Small Town. Esquesing Historical Society, 2006.

Rowe, John Mark Benbow. Glen Williams: An Oasis in the Credit Valley. Esquesing Historical Society, 2014.

The Regional Municipality of Halton Act, 1973. Accessed from https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ontario_statutes/vol1973/iss1/72