FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
What are your hours?
How are you funded?
What is in your collection?
What about the architecture of the building?
Who is involved?
How are you funded?
What is in your collection?
What about the architecture of the building?
Who is involved?
What are your hours?
Tuesday-Friday
1:00-5:00 pm
First Saturday of the month (October-May)
9:00 am -1:00 pm
ALL OTHER TIMES BY APPOINTMENT
Please note: Periodical closures of the Archives do occur. Please call or email before visiting if you are coming from a distance.
1:00-5:00 pm
First Saturday of the month (October-May)
9:00 am -1:00 pm
ALL OTHER TIMES BY APPOINTMENT
Please note: Periodical closures of the Archives do occur. Please call or email before visiting if you are coming from a distance.
How are you funded?
The funding received by the Port Hope Archives is divided into four categories: grants, municipal funding, memberships and fundraising.
The Port Hope Archives has been privileged to receive funding provided by the Municipality of Port Hope, and greatly appreciates past funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. The Archives depends on renewal of annual memberships, which assists the PHA in covering operating costs, particularly the purchase of archival safe containers and materials to house and protect the collection.
To do your part in preserving the Municipality of Port Hope’s history, contact the Archives to take out an annual membership.
Donations from private individuals and businesses are always welcomed and may be made at the Archives by cheque, cash and money order. Tax receipts are issued for donations of $25 or more.
For more information on our funding, click here.
The Port Hope Archives has been privileged to receive funding provided by the Municipality of Port Hope, and greatly appreciates past funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. The Archives depends on renewal of annual memberships, which assists the PHA in covering operating costs, particularly the purchase of archival safe containers and materials to house and protect the collection.
To do your part in preserving the Municipality of Port Hope’s history, contact the Archives to take out an annual membership.
Donations from private individuals and businesses are always welcomed and may be made at the Archives by cheque, cash and money order. Tax receipts are issued for donations of $25 or more.
For more information on our funding, click here.
What is in your collection?
Mandate: The Port Hope Archives collects, preserves and provides public access to historic documents relating to the Municipality of Port Hope (including: the former Town of Port Hope and Hope Township).
Our collection includes:
Photographs
Business records (i.e. ledgers, minute books, etc.)
Genealogical resources (i.e. family histories, bibles)
Municipal records
Personal papers collections
Maps & Blueprints
Local history publications
For more on our resources available, click here.
Our collection includes:
Photographs
Business records (i.e. ledgers, minute books, etc.)
Genealogical resources (i.e. family histories, bibles)
Municipal records
Personal papers collections
Maps & Blueprints
Local history publications
For more on our resources available, click here.
What about the architecture of the building?
17 Mill Street North was built in 1871 as the Registry Office for East Durham. The building is currently used as the Port Hope Archives. The building’s architecture follows the uniform plan approved by Order-in-Council, 9 March 1868. The building is designated under the Ontario Heritage Act.
In 1868, Kivas Tully (1820-1905) was appointed the first Architect and Engineer of Public Works for the Province of Ontario. In this capacity, he produced the familiar design for many of the registry offices across the province.
The architectural plans were lithographed and supplied by the Commissioner of Public Works for distribution to municipal councils. According to the Report of the Commissioner of Public Works for 1869, only three registry offices had been completed by that date: St. Catherines, Cobourg and Pembroke.
“These uncomplicated looking buildings are decidedly complex structurally, as they were intended to be fireproof. The doors, windowsills and lintels were cast iron. Within a rectangular plan, three semi-cylindrical vaults of brick – technically barrel vaults – were constructed side by side, each nearly 18 feet high and roughly 2 feet thick. These were arranged to run across the width of the structure, generally with access through the first chamber to the clerk’s office in the second and with storage in the third. The location of the separate compartments, though not their form, is often indicated on the sidewalls into three bays. The front-end wall is generally treated as a blind arcade enclosing round-arched openings and fully articulated orders, with trim in stone or patterned brick. The arcade is expressive but not, as one might think a ghost of the vaulted interior, as the faults are arranged transversely.” [“A Short History on the Design of County Registry Offices”, The Land Registrar Volume 6, No. 1, October 1981.]
In 1868, Kivas Tully (1820-1905) was appointed the first Architect and Engineer of Public Works for the Province of Ontario. In this capacity, he produced the familiar design for many of the registry offices across the province.
The architectural plans were lithographed and supplied by the Commissioner of Public Works for distribution to municipal councils. According to the Report of the Commissioner of Public Works for 1869, only three registry offices had been completed by that date: St. Catherines, Cobourg and Pembroke.
“These uncomplicated looking buildings are decidedly complex structurally, as they were intended to be fireproof. The doors, windowsills and lintels were cast iron. Within a rectangular plan, three semi-cylindrical vaults of brick – technically barrel vaults – were constructed side by side, each nearly 18 feet high and roughly 2 feet thick. These were arranged to run across the width of the structure, generally with access through the first chamber to the clerk’s office in the second and with storage in the third. The location of the separate compartments, though not their form, is often indicated on the sidewalls into three bays. The front-end wall is generally treated as a blind arcade enclosing round-arched openings and fully articulated orders, with trim in stone or patterned brick. The arcade is expressive but not, as one might think a ghost of the vaulted interior, as the faults are arranged transversely.” [“A Short History on the Design of County Registry Offices”, The Land Registrar Volume 6, No. 1, October 1981.]
Our lovely archives' building!
Who is involved?
Archivist: Erin Walsh (B.A.H., MISt.)
Board Chair: Pamela Robinson
Vice-Chair: Marielle Lambert
Treasurer: John Bennett
Secretary: David Doherty
Board Members: Barbara Coleman, Evelyn Conn, David Elliott, Peter Hunt, Empty Chair
Board Chair: Pamela Robinson
Vice-Chair: Marielle Lambert
Treasurer: John Bennett
Secretary: David Doherty
Board Members: Barbara Coleman, Evelyn Conn, David Elliott, Peter Hunt, Empty Chair
