Claire Wilton, Author at The Toronto Anglican

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Claire Wilton is the diocese’s archivist.

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An old parish register with a worn cover.

Old registers find good home in the Archives

Claire Wilton August 28, 2025

The diocesan Archives is asking congregations to bring their old, fragile or inactive parish registers to Synod for transfer to the Archives, where they can

A group photo of dozens of young people sitting and standing in front of a church. Text says "Toronto A.Y.P.A. Diocesan Conference, Orillia, Ontario, 1957."

How to care for parish records

Claire Wilton April 28, 2023

As part of its mandate, the Diocese of Toronto Archives collects and makes accessible the records of the parishes in the diocese. These records must

A man wearing latex gloves handles pages of an old parish register.

Archives restores fragile registers

Claire Wilton December 29, 2022

From 1986 until 1994, the Diocese of Toronto’s Archives had a conservation program in place wherein short-term contracted conservators carried out treatments on various registers,