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The Research Policy Committee was established in 2002 as a committee of the Senate.

The Special Appeals Committee was established in 1968 as a committee of Senate.

The Special Review Committee was established in 1973 as a committee of Senate [2]. It is not found on official listings. It came about as a result of President Nind’s proposals for change in 1973. According to Cole, “David Kettler, of the politics department, knew that it was necessary at such a university-wide mas meeting to have some firm and coherent proposal in everyone’s hands to keep debate under control … They came up with a university’s usual answer to any problem: set up a committee – a Special Review Committee, composed of four students, four faculty and a member of the support staff, chaired by Walter Pitman. The committee was to examine all aspects of the university’s operations with a view to cutting costs and to report in a plenary session of the university before reporting to Senate” [1]. The Special Review Committee issued an interim report in the Autumn of 1973.

The Student Awards Committee replaced the Admissions, Enrolment and Student Awards Committee in 2007 (2007-2008) as a subcommittee of the Academic Planning Committee, a committee of Senate, and subsequently as a subcommittee of the Academic Planning and Budget Committee (2009-2018).

In 1990, a Presidential Advisory Committee on Teaching Awards was established. The recommendation was to replace the Symons Teaching Awards with a Committee on Teaching Awards. [1] In 2001, the Teaching Awards Committee was a subcommittee of the Teaching and Learning Support Committee of Senate.

The Travel Grants Committee was disbanded in 1992 when, under the collective agreement, TUFA travel grants were incorporated into research grants.

The Undergraduate Studies Committee was established as a committee of Senate in 1965 with broad responsibilities for the planning direction of the University’s program in undergraduate studies. In 1970, it became a subcommittee of the Academic Development Committee, a committee of Senate. In 2002 it was recommended that this committee replace the Academic Development Committee.

From 1966 to 1973, John Leishman was Controller and, from 1971, also Vice-President (Finance). The office was split in 1973 and there was a Vice-President (Finance) and a Controller (Peter Lewis). John Earnshaw became Vice-President (Administration and Finance) in 1981 as John Leishman moved to the position of Executive Vice-President (External Relations and Financial Affairs). John Earnshaw held the office until August 1991. Nancy Sullivan became Vice-President (Finance and Administration), 1991-1994. For further information about the office and its leadership over the years, see A.O.C. Cole, Trent: The Making of a University, pp. 126-129; D'Arcy Jenish, Trent University: Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence, 2014; and the annual course calendars (available in the Archives Reading Room).

This position was renamed from the previous Vice-President (Academic) at the same time as the title "Provost" was detached from the Vice-President (Academic) and attached to the position of "Dean and Provost". Several additional changes to this title have taken place over the years.

The Women’s Studies Program at Trent University was established in 1987. The first Chair was Prof. Christl Verduyn. As an interdisciplinary program, Women's Studies draws on the insights and methodologies from a wide variety of disciplines such as history, literature, psychology, sociology, politics and anthropology.

The Trent Valley Navigation Company, Bobcaygeon, Ontario, was incorporated in 1883. Mossom Martin (Mossie) Boyd was the president of the company and he and his brother William owned nearly all of the stock. The company consisted of a fleet of a half dozen steamboats which operated along the waterways surrounding Bobcaygeon, carrying passengers and freight from Lindsay to Coboconk, Sturgeon Point, Fenelon Falls and Bobcaygeon. At Lindsay there was a connection with the Grand Trunk Railway. In the most productive years (after the turn of the century) revenue was almost evenly divided between passenger and freight transportation. The Company closed in 1915, precipitated by the death of Mossom Boyd the previous year.

The Trent Valley Woollen Mill was located in Campbellford, Ontario on the shore of the Trent River at the turn of the 20th century.

In 1994, Trent entered into several agreements with Sir Sandford Fleming College for the provision of joint degree and non-degree programs. The Trent-Fleming joint programs extend educational opportunities by combining theory and practice in a number of professional and career fields.

The Trent-Fleming Trail Studies Unit (TSU) was started in 1992 to address a lack of research into trails. TSU was a joint initiative between Sir Sanford Fleming College and Trent University. TSU was directed by Professor John Marsh of Trent University and Dr. Al McPherson of Sir Sanford Fleming College. TSU was in operation from 1992-2022 and held 3400 publications regarding national and international trails in their library. TSU also engaged in research projects, conferences, committees, and public education on trails.

The aims of TSU included:

• Conduct research on trails, trail use, trail management, trail interpretation, trail impact.
• Offer courses relating to the development, planning, management and interpretation of trails.
• Develop interpretation materials and services and services relating to trails
• Assemble documentation on trails, trail studies, trail interpretation, and produce bibliographies relating to trails.

Throughout its tenure, TSU hosted conferences, created local guides on trails, consulted on trail-related projects on a national and international level, led numerous research projects, and supported student research via graduate theses, and undergraduate course work and honours theses.

The Trotter family lived on a farm in Lindsay, Ontario at the turn of the century.

Major William Sansome Tucker was a noted British physicist who excelled in the area of physics known as sound phenomena.

The Tuer family originated in or around Liverpool, England. Part of the family emigrated to Canada, possibly around the 1840's, and settled into the Port Hope area. They maintained strong links with the family residing in Liverpool as can be seen by the wills and estate settlements in the fonds. One of the Tuer family members, a Peter Tuer (died December 22, 1849), the father, married Mary and they had Peter (who married Lucy and he died April 1, 1855) Charles, Robert, James, William Henry (died January 1, 1853), Clara Tuer (married Henry Gregory), Thomas, Eliza (married Richard Gregory) and Sarah (married Currie Busfield). William Henry, (died 1853) had four children: Fanny (married Robert Olden), Ann (married Lionel Smith) and Francis Hugh and Sarah who were infants at the time of his death. Another Tuer family member was Thomas Tuer (died November 15, 1881) who married Elizabeth Jane Kilshaw and they had Thomas, Henry, Mary, Henry Arthur, Margaret, Jessie and William Frederick Joseph. Thomas Tuer was a bookkeeper living in Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, England, Great Britain. There are a number of family members on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean who carry the same names and this makes it difficult to ascertain familial relationships. (The preceding information was found in the wills and estates records within the fonds.)