page_title: Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives
section_title: Archives
hierarchical_section_title: Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives / Sections / Archives
caption_attribution_description: English: PAMA building
context_page_description: The Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives is a museum, art gallery, and archives for the Regional Municipality of Peel and are located in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Previously, it was the Peel Heritage Complex. Its facilities were originally the Peel County Courthouse, Brampton Jail, a land registry office, and a county administration building. It is opposite Gage Park and Brampton City Hall.
  In March 2010, the Peel Heritage Complex closed for extensive renovations and expansion. The spaces reopened in 2012, with significantly larger and include more public space. It was originally scheduled to reopen in fall 2011. The facility rebranded as Peel Art Gallery, Museums and Archives.
context_section_description: Primarily, the Region of Peel Archives collection includes municipal documents for the Region of Peel, City of Brampton, City of Mississauga, and Town of Caledon, and the former County of Peel. Also includes records from the former townships: Albion, Caledon, Chinguacousy, Toronto Gore and Toronto. Included are by-laws, minutes, planning documents, land records, assessment and collectors rolls, committee records, etc.
  Beyond these municipal documents, the archives collects documentary material related to the history of Peel, and the individuals and groups that have helped in developing the community. Major photography collections include newspaper photographer Russell K. Cooper, commercial photographers Cecil Chinn and Cecil Henry, the Luker family collection, and glass negative collections from Robertson Matthews, the Brampton portrait studio, and the McLeod family.
  The Region of Peel Archives also houses the records of various organizations, including the Bruce Trail Conservancy.
  The archives records are only available weekdays, while the reading room is also available Saturdays. The reading room offers microfilm of family history files from the William Perkins Bull collection, select area newspapers, land records, census records from 1851/52-1911, Peel County Wills and Surrogate Court records, the "Tweedsmuir histories" of the local Women's Institutes, et cetera. Various genealogical publications, such as family histories, newspaper indexes, cemetery transcriptions as well as a selection of local history books are available.
caption: One of the PAMA buildings, formerly the Peel County Court House
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