We have completed the scanning of original documents relating to the Township of Wellesley. We now have about 12,000 pages of new material  organized and available on our site. They include minutes of various groups from 1866 to 1965, plus Tax Assessment Rolls from 1854 to 1889. 
Check it out here! ​​​

Ontario Archives "Township Papers" now available at familysearch.org

This series of documents house at the Archives of Ontario consists of a "miscellaneous group of land-related records, which have been arranged by township name, then by concession and lot or by town name and lot number." For more information click here. 

Through an agreement with the Archives of Ontario, FamilySearch is making Ontario's Township Papers available on their website for free. They are filed alphabetically, and can be found at the following links: To access them, you must sign into or create a free account with FamilySearch.  Please note that these records have not yet been indexed or transcribed, but hold a wealth of information, so is worth it for any researcher to check them out!

Wellesley Tax Assessment Rolls
​1854-1889

Wellesley Township Tax Assessment Rolls in the Waterloo Region Archives have been scanned with their assistance and permission. Only available here in digital form. 

Waterloo County was incorporated in 1853, so 1854 was the first tax year. The rolls represent very early information about life in the township. 

The forms change over time, but they list - name, age, occupation, Freehold (land owner) Householder (tenant), number of acres, value of real property and personal property, income, statute labour, number of people in the family, religion, livestock and more​. They are a gold mine of information!

Click here to access the rolls. 

WTHHS Historical Room - 
Closed Until Further Notice

In accordance with Region of Waterloo guidelines, our historical room will not be open on our regular open Saturdays until further notice. Check this space for updates. Stay safe! Stay healthy

 WTHHS Meetings and Minutes

We are having a Zoom meeting on Monday, December 14, at 2 pm. please let me know if you would like to join us. 

Click here to read minutes of our past meetings. 

Join us - it's free! membership  form is here.

Online Donations - We do not charge for our research time, but if the information we provide is useful to you, please consider making a donation to our historical society through the Township of Wellesley's website. 

Township Council History 

We are working on a full list of the members of the Wellesley Township  Council.  To see the list, please click here. 

Waterloo County council has been well documented by Elizabeth Bloomfield and Linda Foster in their book "Waterloo County Councillors: A Collective Biography," (c) 1995 Caribou Imprints. The list of councillors and biographies posted here have been published with the kind permission of Dr. Bloomfield. ​

To access the list of Wellesley councillors who served on the Waterloo County Council, please click here. 

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