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Record Book, County Court of the County of Elgin
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Don Cosens Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1874-1910
- Accession Number
- 2018-58
- Storage Location
- M5 S2 Sh7 B6 F4
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Don Cosens Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2018-58
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M5 S2 Sh7 B6 F4
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1874-1910
- Series
- Don Cosens Collection - Elgin County Local History series
- Physical Description
- 1 volume
- Scope and Content
- Record book for the County Court of the County of Elgin, with entries from 1874-1910.
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Schools and Churches of Dunwich
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Don Carroll Collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1880-1926
- Accession Number
- 2014-11
- Storage Location
- M5 S4 Sh2 B4 F7
- Other Title Info
- Title taken from original file title created by Don Carroll.
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Don Carroll Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 2014-11
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M5 S4 Sh2 B4 F7
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1880-1926
- Series
- Don Carroll Collection - Research files series
- Physical Description
- 0.2 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains records relating to the history of schools and churches of the Township of Dunwich. Includes a typed copy of the history of Dunwich schools taken from “A Pioneer History – Elgin County – James S. Brierly 1896,” copies of indentures, a copy of a photograph showing student of School Section No. 6 in 1926, and a statement of assessment for school sections in Dutton and Dunwich.
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Elgin County House of Industry/ Elgin Manor fonds
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County House of Industry/ Elgin Manor fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- moving images
- cartographic material
- Date Range
- 1876-2004
- Accession Number
- 2001-04
- 2003-27
- Storage Location
- R4 S1 Sh2
- R4 S1 Sh3 B1
- W6 B2
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County House of Industry/ Elgin Manor fonds
- Creator
- Elgin County House of Industry
- Elgin Manor
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Accession Number
- 2001-04
- 2003-27
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Archives Storage Rm. 110
- Storage Location
- R4 S1 Sh2
- R4 S1 Sh3 B1
- W6 B2
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- moving images
- cartographic material
- Date Range
- 1876-2004
- Physical Description
- 1.2 m of textual records
- 174 photographs : b&w and col.
- 33 photographs : col. slides
- 2 maps
- 1 videocassette
- History / Biographical
- In accordance with the provisions of By-Law Number 269 enacted June 18, 1875, Elgin County Council authorized the purchase for $3,000 of fifty acres of land in Lot 39 North on Talbot Road East, two miles west of St. Thomas in the Township of Southwold from John Cole for the purpose of establishing an "industrial farm" and "House of Industry and Refuge." By-Law Number 276, enacted December 30, 1875, appointed the following officers to administer the House of Industry and Refuge: William McKay, County Clerk, Inspector; Michael Hunsberger and his wife Sarah Ann Hunsberger, respectively Keeper and Matron; Leonard Luton, Physician. By-Law Number 276 also established rules for inmates, including provisions forbidding passage "beyond the limits of the Industrial Farm unless by the permission of the Keeper" and authorizing "punishment", including "solitary confinement" for rules violations. Attendance by inmates at Sunday religious services was compulsory: those absent without permission were subject to "prompt and severe punishment."
The House of Industry and Refuge for the County of Elgin opened in February, 1876, making Elgin one of the first counties in Ontario to establish such a facility. The original building was enlarged in 1891 with the construction of a third wing, which was used to house the female inmates. Initially the facility housed 32 inmates, increasing to 50 by 1903 when an additional 50 acres of adjoining land were purchased at a cost of $4,250. Residence in the County of Elgin was usually required for admission, but "transients requiring immediate attention" were occasionally committed as well. Admissions were subject to the approval of the Inspector and a committee of three appointed annually by County Council. Inmates were committed for various reasons, including "idiocy", destitution, sickness, old age, physical disabilites such as paralysis and blindness, "intemperance" (drunkenness), homelessness (vagrancy), and pregnancy out of wedlock. Orphans and children whose parents were in jail or had abandoned them were also admitted. Inmates participated in maintaining the building, working the land, and making most of their own clothing and bedding. Expenses were partially offset by the sale of farm produce. In 1903, the farm produced, among other crops, 24 bushels of wheat, 50 tons of hay, 510 bushels of oats, 266 bushels of barley, 70 barrels of apples, 40 hogs, 22 turkeys, 100 chickens and 1,249 pounds of butter.
In 1946 the facility was renamed the Elgin County Home. By 1954 the facility was a provincially certified home for the aged known as Elgin Manor. In 1962, it became apparent that the 86-year-old building was obsolete. In January 1963, Elgin County Council approved plans to build a new 90-bed facility on the same site, at an estimated cost of $650,000. Following the demolition of the original building, construction began on July 17th, 1963, and residents were transferred to the new 90-bed capacity Elgin Manor on May 26, 1964. Elgin Manor was enlarged by the construction of a 60-bed addition, which opened in October 1969. The 1964 building was replaced by a new facility, also on the same site, in August 2003.
- Custodial History
- Most of the fonds was transferred directly from Elgin Manor.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of records relating to the operation of the Elgin County House of Industry and Elgin Manor Home for the Aged.
Elgin County House of Industry records include visitors' registers, 1876-1964; registers of inmates, 1876-1947; time books, 1894-1945; physician's books, 1890-1953; photographs of the building; and miscellaneous documents including a commitment certificate.
Elgin Manor records include visitors' registers, 1964-1989; daily journals, 1984; records of staff and committee meetings, 1980-1989; 25th Anniversary material, 1989; photographs and slides of the building and staff; and copies of the facility's newsletter.
Fonds is organized into the following series:
1. Elgin County House of Industry
2. Elgin Manor
- Name Access
- Elgin County House of Industry
- Elgin Manor
- Subject Access
- Homes for the Aged
- Access Restriction
- Access to records identifying patients/inmates is restricted subject to provisions of the Ontario Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Ontario Personal Health Information Protection Act.
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Bailiff Process Book for the 4th Division Court in the County of Elgin
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Duncan Richard Hale Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1885-1891
- Storage Location
- R4 S5 Sh3 2
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Duncan Richard Hale Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- R4 S5 Sh3 2
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1885-1891
- Physical Description
- 1 volume
- Custodial History
- The donor's great-grandfather was the County of Elgin's Bailiff at the time this volume was created. The donor purchased the volume from a public auction sale during the execution of an estate in the donor's family.
- Scope and Content
- A Bailiff Process Book for the 4th Division Court in the County of Elgin, 1885-1891. Placed inside the book is typed document that outlines the Phrenological Chart of D. McGregor.
- Subject Access
- Court records
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Constables' Association of the County of Elgin Ontario, 1897 - ByLaws
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Vertical File Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Date Range
- 1897
- Accession Number
- 99-7
- 2003-17
- Storage Location
- Box 16, File 49
- R5 S6 Sh2 B1
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Vertical File Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-7
- 2003-17
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 16, File 49
- R5 S6 Sh2 B1
- Date Range
- 1897
- Scope and Content
- - By-Laws and Rules and Regulations of the Constables' Association of the County of Elgin Ontario, 1897
- - small booklet ( 2 copies)
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1891
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1891
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 6, File 6
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 6, File 6
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1891
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- jail; court house; House of Industry; Registry Office; Richmond, Port Burwell,
- Culver and Burger bridges (Bayham); McIntosh bridge; School Sections Southwold;
- 25th Battalion; jailer's residence; schools
- - dates 1891
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1891
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1891
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 5, File 12
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 5, File 12
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1891
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- jail plan; London and Port Stanley Gravel Road; bridge near Delaware M.C.R.
- station; jailer's residence; House of Industry; lock-ups (jails); McIntosh
- bridge; Bothwell bridge; schools; bridge between North and South Dorchester;
- Cook's Mill bridge; Dutton High School time table; St. George Street, Kain's,
- Orwell and Miller bridges; number of bridges by township survey
- - dates 1891
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1892
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1892
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 5, File 13
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 5, File 13
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1892
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- House of Industry; school examiners; St. Thomas Collegiate Institute; Port
- Burwell bridge; schools; county dr. names; Registry Office
- - dates 1892
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1892
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1892
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 5, File 14
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 5, File 14
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1892
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- House of Industry; London and Port Stanley Gravel Road; schools; road at
- Grovesend; jail; court house; West Elgin Farmer's Institute; bridges at Kain's,
- Orwell, Mapleton; Port Burwell, Cook's Mill, Port Stanley, McIntosh, St. George
- Street, Vienna, Gillett, between Bayham and Middleton, between Yarmouth and
- Westminster, Bothwell, Jamestown
- - dates 1892
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1893
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1893
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 5, File 15
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 5, File 15
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1893
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- London and Port Stanley Gravel Road; House of Industry; Duncan McLarty lease;
- railways and water courses; Port Stanley harbour; Ferguson vs. Elgin County
- - dates 1893
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1893
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1893
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 8, File 6
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 8, File 6
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1893
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- S.S. No. 12, Southwold; Ferguson vs. Elgin County; Ashton vs. Elgin County; High
- Schools; Public School Inspector's report; London and Port Stanley Gravel Road
- report; Ashton and Pineo vs. Elgin County; schools; House of Industry report
- (printed copy of 1890 & 1891 report); jail; Registry Office; West Elgin Farmer's
- Institute; bridges at St. George Street, Port Burwell, McIntosh, Kain's,
- Robbins, Gillett, Port Stanley, Bayham-Middleton town line, Belmont, town line
- between Bayham and Oxford
- - dates 1893
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1894
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1894
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 8, File 2
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 8, File 2
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1894
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- House of Industry; Ashton and Pineo vs. Elgin County; Prohibition Plebiscite;
- County Bridges definition; High Schools; Elgin Historical and Scientific
- Institute
- - dates 1894
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1894
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1894
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 8, File 3
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 8, File 3
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1894
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- Prohibition Plebiscite; Collegiate Institute; Model School 1891, 1892, 1893;
- High Schools; House of Industry; jail; Registry Office; band stand in court
- house park; Elgin Historical and Scientific Society; schools; West Elgin
- Farmers' Institute
- - dates 1894
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1895
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1895
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 9, File 1
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 9, File 1
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1895
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- toll roads; Ontario Agricultural College; House of Industry
- - dates 1895
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1895
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1895
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 9, File 2
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 9, File 2
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1895
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railroad; Wilson vs. Elgin County (high school);
- hawkers and pedlars; House of Industry; Thomas Williams Home; Amasa Wood
- Hospital; jail; Children's Shelter; Public School Inspector's Report; Port
- Burwell harbour; Port Stanley liquor licence; schools; Bridges - Zavitz,
- McIntosh, Graham Road, between Yarmouth and Westminster, Beaver Creek, between Malahide and Dereham, Coyne Road, Mapleton
- - dates 1895
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1896
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1896
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 9, File 3
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 9, File 3
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1896
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- accounts; tenders
- - dates 1896
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1896
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1896
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 9, File 4
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 9, File 4
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1896
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- janitor and court crier position; London and Port Stanley Gravel Road; Registry
- Office; telephones in county buildings; jail; county districts
- - dates 1896
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1896
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1896
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 9, File 5
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 9, File 5
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1896
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- S.S. No.11, Aldborough; House of Industry; county divisions; Children's Aid Society;
- jail; cannons at court house; Public School Inspector's Report; High Schools;
- Lots 21, 22, 23 road South Gore, Bayham; Bridges - Coyne Road, Belmont, Malahide-Dereham, Vienna, Wardsville, Port Stanley, Graham Road, Beaver Creek, Yarmouth-Westminster
- - dates 1896
- - cannon
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1897
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1897
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 8, File 7
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 8, File 7
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1897
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- Tait Bridge; county council election results; London and Port Stanley Gravel
- Road; House of Industry road; Registry Office
- - dates 1897
- - divided into two parts, August 17, 1999
- - one page has had the letterhead removed - August 17, 1999
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Correspondence and Documents Filed By The Elgin County Clerk 1897
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1897
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Location
- Box 8, File 8
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-2
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 8, File 8
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1897
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence and Documents Concerning the Following Subjects:
- London and Port Stanley Gravel Road; House of Industry; jail; court house;
- schools; high schools; Bridges - Wardsville, White, Red, Kingsmill, Lynhurst,
- Bayham-Middleton, Port Stanley, Mill Creek, Coyne Road, Robbins, Ling, McInnes, Hughes Street; resolution passed for public schools
- - dates 1897
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