Check out the Markham Library for its selection of books and publications related to Markham's history. Some excellent titles include:

General

• "Markham Remembered - A Photographic History of Old Markham Township"
  Author: The Markham District Historical Society, Editor - Isabel Champion
  1988
  
  
• "Markham 1793-1900"
  Author: Markham Historical Society, Editor- Isabel Champion
  1979
  
  
• "Rural Roots- Pre-Confederation Buildings of the York Region of Ontario"
  Author/Publisher: Mary Byers, Jan Kennedy, Margaret McBurney and the Junior League of Toronto
  1976
  
  
• "Canadian German Folklore - Pioneer Hamlets of York County- Historical Sketches 1956-1977"
  Author/Publisher: The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Canada
  1977
  
  
• "Canadian German Folklore - More Pioneer Hamlets of York"
  Author/Publisher: The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Canada
  1985
  
  
• "Markham- Our Life Our Community"
  Author/Publisher: Michael Lai
  2005

Thornhill

• "Thornhill Bicentennial Photo Album 1794-1994"
  Author/Publisher: Society for the Preservation of Historic Thornhill
  1994
  
  
• "Thornhill Heritage Conservation District Plan 1986 (An Overview of Thornhill’s History)"
  Author/Publisher: The Town of Markham, Development Services Commission
  1986

Markham Village

• "Markham Village Heritage Conservation District Plan (History of the Area)"
  Author/Publisher: The Town of Markham, Development Services Commission
  1990

Unionville

• "Unionville Heritage Conservation District - The District Study (History of the Study Area)
  Author/Publisher: The Town of Markham, Development Services Commission
  1997

William Berczy

• "German Pioneers of Toronto and Markham Township - The Story of William Moll Berczy"
  Author: Historical Society of Mecklenburg Upper Canada Inc.
  1976
  
  
• "Berczy"
  Author: Mary Macaulay Allodi, Peter Moogk, Beate Stock
  National Gallery of Canada
  1991
  
  
• "First Three Generation Charts of the Markham Berczy Settler Families"
  Author/Publisher: Markham Berczy Settlers Association
  1994