Collection SCA369-GA427 - Sims Family collection.

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Sims Family collection.

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SCA369-GA427

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1.8 m of textual material; 34 photographs : b&w ; 25 x 18 cm or smaller

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(1812-)

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The Sims family were early white settlers of what is now Hawkesville, Ontario. Members of the family are the descendants of Reverend James Sims was born ca.1812 in Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. On June 1, 1836, he married the widow Janet Harvey Robertson and in 1837 came to what is now Canada with a large party of relatives: his father and mother, his wife and step-children Alexander, John and Jane Robertson, his brothers Peter and Andrew Sims, his sister Margaret, and nephews James and Peter Sims.

In 1838 the family settled as squatters on Queen's Bush land near Hawkesville in Wellesley Township. James and Margaret Sims had four children: Janet Sims, (1838-1926), James Campbell Sims (1842-1929), Peter Harvey Sims (1844-1920) and William Andrew Sims (1846-1930). James Sims died October 31, 1880. Both he and his descendants played an active role in the the educational, religious and commercial development of what is now the Region of Waterloo.

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The Sims family collection encompasses records of the Sims and Cook, Davidson and Garden families retained by members of the two family branches that came together when Harvey James Sims and Florence Katherine Roos married in 1902. Their Sims and Davidson forbears were equally significant in the history of the Waterloo-Wellington area and in the growth and development of agriculture, education, business and government. Harvey James Sims and Florence Katherine Roos were deeply involved in their local community of Berlin, (later Kitchener) Ontario and their own records contain significant additions to our knowledge of local personalities and affairs. Harvey was a childhood and lifelong friend of William Lyon Mackenzie King; they wrote and visited each other regularly. King's sister Bella was also a close friend of Florence from school days on.

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Donated in 2019 by the Sims Family.

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Arranged in series as follows:

  • 1.Peter Harvey Sims and Jemima Cook Family
  • 2.George Davidson and Margaret Garden Family
  • 3. Harvey James Sims and Florence Katherine Roos Family
  • 4. Harvey J. Sims: correspondence with William Lyon Mackenzie King
  • 5. Harvey J. Sims : personal correspondence
  • 6. Harvey J. Sims : Chicopee
  • 7. Harvey J. Sims : Library
  • 8. Harvey J. Sims : personal business.
  • 9. Photographs
  • 10. Publications, newspapers
  • 11. Kenneth J. Sims

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Described July 2019 JSB

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