The Fort Erie Historical Museum's archives offer a central repository for the community's history. People, businesses, churches and organizations donate their documents and photographs to the archives or allow us to make copies so they are available to everyone.



Visit our Archives:
The archives is located at the Fort Erie Historical Museum, Ridgeway. Click here for contact information.

The best time to do research is either Wednesday morning or Sunday afternoon, but you are welcome anytime the Museum is open.

Can't Come in Person:
The Museum will attempt to provide information in response to verbal or written requests. Research requests requiring less than five minutes of staff time will be carried out free of charge. More complex requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis with appropriate fees.

Research requests can be sent or phoned:

The Fort Erie Historical Museum
P.O. Box 339
Ridgeway, Ontario
L0S 1N0
905-894-5322
e: museum@forterie.on.ca

In this section you'll find:

• Resources by Subject
• Research Policy
• Reproduction Policy
  
  Resources by Subject

The Fort Erie Historical Museum's Archives contains over 28,600 pages of archival material on a variety of topics, including the following:

• Archaeology
• Agriculture
• Commerce
• Customs
• Bridges
  
• Marine
• Railroad
  
• Public Services
• Municipal Government
• Utilities
• Personal Accounts/Diaries
• Crystal Beach Amusement Park
  
• Erie Beach Amusement Park
  
• Disasters and Tragedies
  
• Directories (Provincial Directories, Fort Erie Businesses,
  Telephone Listings)
• Military (Fenian Invasion, Fenian Safety Committee meetings, Property Damage Claims, War of 1812, Rebellion of 1837, World War I, World War II)
• People (Black History, Natives, First Nations people
  Ethnic populations - multiculturalism, United Empire Loyalists)
• Families
  
• Communities: Amigari
  Bertie Township land grants
  Bertie Township early settlement
  Bertie Township maps
  Bay Beach
  Black Creek
  Bridgeburg
  Buffalo Heights
  Cresent Beach
  Crystal Beach village planning and development
  Crystal Beach village history
  Crystal Beach News
  Crystal Beach
  Fort Erie early settlement pre 1900
  Neighbourhoods
  Waterloo, Fort Erie Mills
  Lake Erie shore
  Point Abino
  Point Abino Lighthouse
  Ridgeway
  Snyder / New Germany
  Stevensville
  Waverly Beach
• Churches: All Saints
  Anglican Episcopalian
  St. Paul's, St. John's, St. James' Chapel
  St. John's Anglican Church
  Baptists
  Brethren
  British Methodist Episcopal
  Free Methodists
  Holloway Bay Memorial Chapel
  Knox Presbyterian Church
  Lutheran
  Mennonite
  Pentecostal
  Presbyterian
  Society of Friends (Quakers)
  Salvation Army
  Roman Catholic
  Turning Point Ministry
  United
  United Brethren in Christ
  Windmill Point Church of Christ Disciples
  Women's Missionary Society
• Schools: School Boards
  S.S. No.1, Bertie
  S.S. No.1, Fort Erie
  John Street Alley School
  Douglas School
  Mather School
  General Vanier School
  Victoria School
  Amigari School
  Phipps Street/Rose Seaton School
  Wintemute/Fort Erie Public School
  Bridgeburg/Fort Erie High School
  Elsie English Memorial School
  S.S. No.1, Willoughby
  S.S. No.2, Bertie
  S.S. No.3, Bertie
  S.S. No.4, Bertie
  S.S. No.5, Bertie
  S.S. No.6, Bertie
  S.S. No.7, Bertie
  S.S. No.8, Bertie
  S.S. No.9, Bertie
  S.S. No.10, Bertie
  S.S. No.11, Bertie
  Ridgeway Public School
  Bertie Public School
  Ridgeway and Crystal Beach High School
  S.S. No.12, Bertie
  S.S. No.13, Bertie
  S.S. No.14, Bertie
  Crystal Beach Public School
  Our Lady of Victory Catholic School
  St. Michael’s Catholic High School
  St. Philomena Catholic School
  Our Lady of Peace Catholic School
  Our Lady of Grace Catholic School
  St. Joseph’s Catholic School
  St. Barnabas (Thompson Rd.)
  Golden Harvest Christian Academy
  Erie Christian Academy
  Niagara Christian College
  Rural Schools

• Research and Reproduction Policies
  
  To view the research policy, click here
  To view the reproduction policy, click here.