The Township Papers is a huge, strange collection of documents at the Ontario Archives. It is sorted by township, concession, and lot or the equivalent for urban areas. It is a collection of documents that belong to a piece of land and do not obviously belong in any other government files. As a result there is no way to forecast what might be found there. It could be nothing, or it could be a letter giving a multi-generation genealogy. Mostly it covers pre-1870 although some later documents have been added to it.
The original documents, in RG 1-58, occupy 72 metres of shelf space. They have been microfilmed – 541 reels worth – and are available in the self-serve area at AO, labelled MS658.
The reel numbers for Peterborough County municipalities are:
Anstruther 14
Asphodel to C2 L1 W1/2 20
rest 21
Belmont to C5 L26 W1/2 32
rest 33
Burleigh 55
Cavendish none
Chandos 71
Douro to C1 L25 107
rest 108
Dummer to C4 L23 112
rest 113
Ennismore 133
Galway 153
Harvey 182
Methuen 301
Monaghan to C4&5 L21 307
rest 308
Otonabee to C3 L35 371
rest 372
Peterborough Town 392 and 393
Smith to C6 L7 444
C6 L7 to WCR L7 445
WCR L7 to end 446