Fonds consists of publications and off-prints of Professor Roper, Roper's degrees of M.A. and Ph.D. from University of Chicago, and correspondence with Walter Blair, Margaret Laurence, Robertson Davies, and George Johnston.
Roper, GordonThis addition to the fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, membership lists, constitution and financial statements relating to the establishment and activities of the Friends of the Bata Library.
Friends of the Bata LibraryThis fonds consists of 7 tapes of various lectures sponsored by the Friends of the Bata Library.
Friends of the Bata LibraryCollection consists of 20 cassette tapes of interviews with Fisher Gauge Ltd. founder, Bill Fisher, and early executives, Tod Wilcox and Eric Graham. Also included are annotated notes on the interviews.
Fisher Gauge Ltd.This addition to the fonds consists of materials relating to F.M. de la Fosse which includes research notes compiled by Fern Rahmel, a taped lecture by Rahmel and miscellaneous correspondence as well as an annotated manuscript for Young Bloods by F.M. de la Fosse.
Rahmel, FernThis collection consists of memorabilia, magazine articles, correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to Ernest Thompson Seton.
Seton, Ernest ThompsonThis fonds consists of 18 audio cassette recordings on local history topics made primarily by Enid Mallory. Ms. Mallory interviewed people throughout Peterborough County, many of them descendants of pioneer settlers. The topics include pioneer settlement, Riel Rebellion, Cavan Blazers, Warsaw, early stores (Choate, Lakehurst, Buckhorn), farming, cheese factories, Young's Point, Keene, the lumber industry, and the Chemong Bridge.
Mallory, EnidThis fonds consists of personal correspondence written by and to writer and editor Betsy Struthers concerning publications, teaching and editorial work. It also includes early unpublished and published poems and draft manuscripts, reviews and publicity for Censored Letters, Saying So Out Loud, Running Out of Time, Virgin Territory, Driven, Still, In Her Fifties, Where the Night Comes Closest, Relay, All That Desire: New and Selected Poetry, Found: A Body, Grave Deeds, A Studied Death, Poets in the Classroom and the chipbook, The Flood.
Struthers, Elizabeth (Betsy)Fonds consists of reviews and reports by Don Whiteside. Also included are research materials, correspondence, cassette tapes, and slides of Indigenous upeoples and communities.
Whiteside, DonFonds consists of correspondence, photographs, computer tapes, newspaper clippings, speeches, articles, notes, research materials, certificates, name tags, educational records, and employment records pertaining to the life of Don Tapscott both while a student and during his working career.
Tapscott, DonThis fonds consists of a transcript and two audio reels containing an interview with Dennis Patrick Sears regarding history of Victoria County, logging, life styles, importance of the church, education, World War I and prohibition.
Sears, Dennis PatrickFonds consists of correspondence, drafts of plays, posters and tapes of Carley plays. Plays in this addition include the D Day play "The Final Hour," "The Trouble With Leo," and "The Last Liberal."
Carley, DavidFonds consists of manuscripts, notes, correspondence, publicity materials, audio cassettes and computer disks relating to the following plays written by David Carley: My Beautiful Mom, Memoirs of Montparnasse (by John Glassco; dramatisation by Carley), Two Passing Ships, Walking on Water, The Edible Woman (based on the novel by Margaret Atwood), Big Box, and The Morning Scoop.
Carley, DavidThis umbrella fonds brings together descriptions for 9 accessions of material from the Canadian Camping Association. Please see lower level descriptions for detailed collection descriptions.
Canadian Camping AssociationThis collection consists of sound and video recordings of Generals with camping personalities undertaken by other camping associates. This artificial collection was accumulated by Trent Archives and includes tape recordings found in other camping accessions. Also included are recordings of conference sessions and cassette tape recordings of sessions, addresses and keynote speeches given at the International Camping Congress held at Toronto, January 1983.
Canadian Camping AssociationFonds consists of correspondence, agenda, minutes, conference records, research reports, membership information and administrative records of the Canadian Association on Gerontology.
Canadian Association on GerontologyFonds consists of records documenting the history and activities of Camp Tanamakoon. Records include song books, brochures, forms, camp activity resources, a large set of slides, photographs, videos, photo albums, scrapbooks, and uniforms. Fonds is arranged by format in five series: Textual materials, CDs and DVDs, photograph albums and scrapbooks, slides, and uniforms. See series and file descriptions for more information.
Camp TanamakoonFonds consists of Camp Tanamakoon correspondence, manuals, brochures, photographs, songs, and legal documents. Also included is research material for the book entitled Tanamakoon: Where We Will Never Grow Old by Catherine Ross.
Camp TanamakoonCollection consists of 9 audio cassette records of individuals reminiscing about Leslie Frost and his brothers Cecil and Grenville. Tapes were made in 1984 and individuals interviewed include: William Davis, Richard Gorwill, Hugh Latimer, Clare Westcott, Alf Cole, Roland Michener, and Marjorie Porter. there are transcripts available. Also included in the collection is an illustrated paper presented by Brian McFadzen, 2006, entitled "The Frost Brothers in Lindsay." Also included is a CD of photographs reproduced from a Frost scrapbook and showing their homes and offices in Lindsay Ontario and also showing portraits of the Frost brothers.
McFadzen, Brian MarshFonds is comprised of audio tapes, scrapbooks and photographs related to Betty Lynn Viney’s experience as a student at Trent University from 1965 to 1969.
Schwab, Betty LynnThis fonds consists of a published copy of Iroquois Fires: The Six Nations Lyrics and Lore of Dawendine by Bernice Loft Winslow; a video tape of an interview of Dawendine by Donald Smith in 1993; an audio cassette of Dawendine talking, recorded in 1972; three reel to reel tapes donated [to Dr. Smith] by Helen Rothwell; and two cassette tapes, the first of which includes an interview of Dawendine by Betty Kennedy in 1963 and an introduction by Jane Coventry at the Ontario Camping Association, and the second of which is of Dawendine telling stories at Camp Waseosa. One additional file of correspondence and short story manuscripts, a box of 19 slides, and one cassette tape were added at a later date.
Winslow, Bernice LoftThis fonds consists of the constitution, correspondence, fund raising files, publications and reports of the Association For Canadian Studies.
Association for Canadian StudiesThis addition to the fonds consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and sound recordings of Arthur James Marshall Smith. It also includes 1981 "In Memorium" items.
Smith, Arthur James MarshallCollection consists of consent forms, transcripts, and audio recordings relating to Dr. waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy's research for her doctoral dissertation, Following ininaahtigoog Home : Anishinaabeg Womxn iskigamiziganing, which "examines Anishinaabeg womxn’s relationship with the sugar bush during the spring harvest as a site of gendered nation-specific economic sovereignty."
Collection includes transcripts and audio recordings of conversations with Amy McCoy Sayers, Barbara Wall Potter, Gidigaa Migizi Doug Williams, James Whetung, Lewis Debassige, Makadebinesii'ikawe Tessa Reed, Mary Beaver, Mayingankwe Jacquie LaValley, Norma Corbiere, George Corbiere, Rick Beaver, and Wabanong Ikawe Charlene Loonfoot.
Individuals and their ancestors are from many places, including Ziinzaabaakwad Minis (Sugar Island), Potawatomi Nation, Curve Lake First Nation, Alderville First Nation, Batchewana First Nation, M'Chigeeng First Nation, Drummond Island, Manistique Michigan, Bawating (Sault Ste. Marie), Sagamok, and Keweenaw Bay.
Conversations focus on the culture of sugar bush practices, sugar bush stories, and the process of collection of maple sap and production of maple syrup. Participants share their own stories as well as those shared with them by ancestors and others. Conversations also cover many other topics, including community and family history, clan and family responsibilities, gender roles and gender fluidity, research methodologies, the impacts of colonialism and displacement, the forests and trees, food, muskrat camp, trapping, fishing, and various aspects of political and economic history.
[Quotation from dissertation abstract]