Research/ Genealogy

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The museum is here to help you. If you are interested in searching the museum archives or looking for family members who once lived in Callander and area, the museum can help. Below is a list of resources the museum has to help you in your search for family members.


Museum's Genealogical Sources
  • Smith Mill employee lists from 1886- 1964
  • Newpapers
  • Cemetery Records
  • Census
  • Photographs
  • Orange Lodge Records
  • Settlement Land Maps

    Research with our Historical Records
  • Video sources
  • Reeve & Mayor documents of 1887- 2004
  • Shipping/Lumber and Public School folders
  • WWI History in Callander
  • Scrapbooks
  • Doug Mackey's "Heritage Perspectives"
  • Backgroung Information on Dr. Dafoe/ Stan Guinard/ The Dionne Quints and the Morrison Legacy
  • Nippissing's John Fraser Reports
  • Photo's pertaining to "When Hollywood Came to Callander"

    And the Museum now offers the use of our Ancestry.com program to facilitate your genealogical search. This great program is available to you to use, all you have to do is contact us to reserve a time-slot.
    Call us at (705) 752-2282 or email us at museum@callander.ca

    Updated on: May. 17, 2010