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This fonds consists of various original and copied records of the business activities of Thomas Hay, and related family data, such as birth-death records, correspondence, drawings (technical and sketches) and photographs. A small genealogical table compiled by the archivist is enclosed.

File also included an image of a castle torn from a book.

File includes the following correspondence:

• Letter to “dearest Mother” and Helen from Isabel and [indecipherable] (April 4, 1932)
• Birthday letter to Mrs. T. Hay from Bobby, includes drawing (May 31, 1948)
• Letter to [Frannie?] from “Your affectionate son” [indecipherable] (March 19, 1944)
• Letter to Elise and Isabel from Helen (March 9, 1949)
• Letter to Elise from Helen (April 23, 1949)
• Letter to “My dear cousin” from Charlie B. (May 24, 1948)
• Letter to Mrs. Hay from Oscar (May 30, 1948)
• Letter to Mrs. Hay and Mr. Mathias from Lilian D. Grant

File consists of correspondence between Stewart Bagnani and Trent University regarding her position as special lecturer in art and as director of Mackenzie Gallery. File also includes lectures schedules; a sketch of the building which housed Mackenzie Gallery before it opened as a gallery, by David Woods, 1971; a wedding photo of Mr. and Mrs. Gengembre-Curwood (1970); miscellaneous letters to Stewart regarding the Bagnani medal, etc.; also financial records, etc. relating to Mackenzie Gallery.

Collection consists of 2 watercolour paintings by the Rev. Michael A. Farrar.

Collection consists of 2 folders of materials relating to Rev. Lloyd Delaney's 1983 publication, Small but Bountiful: Rice Lake Story, Gore's Landing, Ontario.

Folder 1 includes 14 photographs including St. George's Church, Gore's Landing; Richard C.P. Brown; Col. Robert Brown; Frederick William Barron; Hariette Sarah Barron; Hariette Sarah Gore (1818-1893); Thomas Sinclair Gore (1819-1854); John & Lizzie Muskrat, Hiawatha Indian Reserve; Rathburn's drive of logs on Rice Lake, 1898; Cookery and sleeping crib on Trent River, Rathburn's drive; Boat going through saw logs on Trent River; "White House" Rice Lake Hotel, Henley Sorby - Rice Lake canoeing; "Glenavy", Gore's Landing, ca. 1880; Archibald Lampman (photographic reproduction).

Folder 2 includes the Colonel Robert Brown scrapbook (Col. Brown was a colonel of the Royal Scotch Fusiliers. Thomas Traill and J.W.D. Moodie were in his regiment). The scrapbook includes newspaper clippings pertaining to his interest in USA relations, campaigns abroad, and matters relating to colonial affairs in Upper Canada; it also includes several original paintings of noteworthy soldiers with whom Brown had come into contact. Also included is a painting of an Indigenous woman entitled "One of the Indian Women who received His R.H. the Prince of Wales... 7th Sept. 1860."

Also included are 4 original sketches: 1. [original] Gore homestead at Gore's Landing, Ontario - a watercolour from memory by T.S. Gore Jr.; 2. "Hazelbank, Rice Lake"; 3. "Mavis Bank, Rice Lake' by J.T. Mercer (cottage); 4. "Plan of St. George's Church Yard, Rice Lake". Also, an original Christmas greeting card with sketch from Gerald & Ivy Hayward, New York, 1924; photographic reproductions of Rice Lake sketches by Charles Fothergill and an offprint of a photo of Fothergill; miscellaneous sketches and notes.

Title: "Suburban White", depiction of houses in a winter landscape, ("oil on arches").

File includes 8 pencil sketches of people, flowers, & farm animals: 2 unsigned; 3 signed "M.E.R." 1 signed "Bessie"; 1 signed "S.E.R."; 1 signed "F.B." and titled "Kate & Pompey in the stable & the other Pompey mending the first Pompey's collar." "The other Pompey" according to Stewart Brown is his grandfather, T.A. Stewart Brown (1852-1936).

Also includes 1 ink sketch unsigned. 1 envelope addressed to Bessie Lydia Stewart.

Also included is a linen-backed map of Ireland "published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge." Sir Francis Beaufort, relative of Frances Stewart, is known to have been involved in the preparation of such maps/atlases published by the above Society

Drawings of Jim Lauder, a Canadian soldier, from a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1944. Also, added in 2019, a copy of Hard Tears & Soft Laughter by James William Lauder (Tellwell Talent, 2018); the manuscript for this book was written by James William Lauder and published posthumously by Lauder's son, Jimmie Arthur Lauder, in 2018.

Parks Canada print of Trent Hydraulic Lock No. 1 Peterborough. Longitudinal section through well, scale 1/6" to 1ft. Reproduced by litho from original linen blueprint as signed by R.B. Rogers. Trent Severn Waterway Interpretive Program. Includes description on side of the Peterborough Liftlock.

Scrapbook includes cut-outs of art, homilies, poems.

Folder includes the following photographs:

1: Young girl holding baby, unidentified, presumed to be Stewart's cousins in England, c.1910-1918
2: Hon. John Beverley Robinson, Toronto, 1820-1896
3: Hon. Justice Hagerman
4: Stewart Houston (Bagnani), with her father, Stewart Houston
5: Louisa Robinson, daughter of Sir John B. Robinson (Note: she was the first wife of George Allan) - daguerreotype, 6th plate
6: Augusta (Robinson) Houston, wife of Stewart Houston, and mother of Stewart Houston (Bagnani) (on back of photo “Victoria Era”)
7-10: [Augusta Robinson]
11: Augusta (Robinson) Houston, with back spaniel (2 copies)
12: [Stewart F. Houston}, with back spaniel
13: Black spaniel (see 11&12)
14: [Stewart F Houston] (see 11 & 12)
15: Stewart F. Houston, husband of Augusta, and father of Stewart Houston (Bagnani)
16-28: Augusta (Robinson) Houston in Cairo, 1933 (also one negative - #28)
29: Silhouette of woman facing right (on back of frame “Sam’l Johnson, LLD” - framed
30: Silhouette of a man facing left
31: Silhouette of a man facing left (on back ‘Hagerman or MacCauley”
32: Augusta (Robinson) Houston, 1920?
32a: Augusta (Robinson) Houston (on back of photo “A.L.H 1919”
32b: Alan Houston
32c: [Bill and Barbara Houston], 1965
32d: Houston tomb stone [Louisa’s grave, Rome?] (Note: negative only)

Large Materials Cabinet – Drawer 36: 32b. [Augusta & Stewart Houston wedding photo] (Note: This is unidentified but the woman in the wedding gown appears to be the same woman as in photos #7-10)

Folder includes Christmas cards from artists including Bobs and Peter Haworth, York and Lela Wilson Sydney H. and Helen Watson, a postcard to Mr. And Mrs. Bagnani, an invitation to Mark Wilson’s art exhibit

Loosely inserted in the journal are the following:

• ink drawing of the camp with title "Governor's Island, Muskoka"
• pencil room plan of a building
• ink drawing of a building
• pencil drawing and 2 water colours of buildings with titles "Napiers idea," "Captain Wise's idea", and "Katie Merritts idea"
• ink sketch of an artist
• page dated 1891 and written by M. Forsyth Grant (Minnie Robinson, Stewart Bagnani's aunt)

In addition, there are silhouettes glued into the inside of the front and back covers, which indicate that the journal was compiled by a member or acquaintance of the Robinson family - to name a few, the silhouettes are labeled "Augusta Robinson", "Napier Robinson."

Fonds consists of indexes and other material compiled by Joan Murray in 1970, in her capacity as art editor for The Canadian Forum. Contains two three-ring binders of textual and graphic records, one print copy of The Canadian Forum from April-May 1970, and a 1-page handwritten note [in Murray's hand?]. The first binder (7 cm) contains an index of all illustrations by artists in The Canadian Forum until 1970, organized alphabetically by artist. The second binder (4 cm) contains an index of select articles in The Canadian Forum between 1930 and 1950, organized alphabetically by subject matter. The print copy of the magazine is the 50th anniversary edition, dated April-May 1970. The handwritten note is titled "Themes of the time."

This addition to the fonds consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, music books, notes and memorabilia concerning various parts of Peterborough County.

Fonds consists of photographs, correspondence, and miscellaneous documents pertaining to the Atwood family of Lakefield, Ontario. Also included are materials pertaining to Anne Atwood's family, the Traills; a sketch identified through an accompanying note as Ernest Shackleton; and correspondence between Edwin Guillet and explorer George M. Douglas.

This addition to the fonds consists of correspondence, research notes, photographs, manuscripts, and some original historical records relating to Professor David S. Macmillan's work as an archivist at the University of Sydney and his research and publications on Scottish and Australian history.

This fonds consists of correspondence, research notes and original documents which were collected by Professor David Macmillan during his research. Items such as voters' lists for Victoria County, Ontario and a series of broadsides advertising land in Victoria County; documents from the Hudson's Bay Company, East Indies; minutes from the Barbados Board of Legislative Council, a Sydney Australia Company, and the Sydney Australian Committee of the New Steam Company; and a number of reproduction engravings and prints are included in the fonds. Also included in the fonds is a copy of Macmillan's 1964 Ph.D. thesis: "The Scottish Australian Connection..." and assorted pamphlets relating to New South Wales.

The fonds is in eight bound volumes and consists of letters, newspaper clippings, photographs, diaries, poetry, sketch books, accounts and a typewritten unpublished autobiography.