The Old Registry Office

This is actually the second Registry Office since an earlier office was located at the corner of Hunter and Light Streets. Built in 1876, with additions in the mid-1950s, this building originally had three vaulted areas:

• the first section was for public use

• the next area was the Registrar’s Office

• the final space was used for the storage of land records

At one time the office of the Children’s Aid Society and then a section of the Health Unit were located in this building. Now the Oxford Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society and the Oxford Historical Society have their offices there.

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