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1901-1986 (Creation)
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- Allison, Gordon Henry, 1914-1993
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4 cm of textual records
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Gordon Henry Allison (1914-1993), was born in Hamilton, Ontario. He was educated at SS #1 Glanford and Caledonia High School and, thereafter, qualified as a teach at Hamilton Normal School. He taught elementary school in Amherstburg while taking extension course degrees from the University of Toronto and McMaster University. He returned to Hamilton in 1953 to teach English at Delta Secondary School. After retiring from Delta, he turned his energies to searching local archives and records. At his church, Barton Stone United, he compiled extensive archives on church members going back to 1811, assembled pictures and biographies on every minister the church ever had, and researched every person buried in the cemetery. He worked as an editor on several historical publications and compiled histories of dozens of the earliest Mountain families and all of the Ryckman's Corners pioneers. For the last seven years of his life Allison read every edition of The Hamilton Spectator from 1846 to 1893, and transcribed every birth notice, marriage announcement, death account and obituary. He died 3 February 1993 in his Ryckman's Corners home at the age of 79. Allison never married and had no survivors.
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This material forms part of the General Council program of the United Church of Canada Archive.
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Fonds consists of an extensive list of burials (inc. photos, obituaries) at Barton Stone United Church Cemetery from 1901-1986. The list was compiled from inscriptions on tombstones, newspaper notices, cemetary-board records (1901-1936), church burial register (1933-1951 and 1951-1986).
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