File consists of textual records about Joseph May living at the Orphan Homes of Scotland and descriptions of his travels from Scotland to Peterborough and Belleville areas, where he attended the Peterborough Normal School for teaching. Included is a photograph of boys on the steps of Fairknowe School in Brockville after Joseph arrived in Canada in 1926, and a photographic booklet of the Orphan Homes of Scotland (1926). Also included is a yearbook from the Peterborough Normal School (1944), a single page in his handwriting recording a timeline of his life events, and original documents containing a Certificate of Elementary Agriculture and Horticulture (1939) and Convocation programs (1954, 1960) from the University of Toronto.
File includes 9 black and white photographs and 2 negatives of archaeological sites taken by Verschoyle Blake during a trip in Greece with Gilbert Bagnani and his mother in the Spring of 1923. Also included is a letter from Constance Marani to her friend Hester Thom dated 1 March 1926. Also, two typed pages of notes compiled by the donor and titled “Letter, March 1 1926 from (Ethel) Constance Marani née Blake, 1896-1979” with a genealogical focus, and “Verschoyle Benson Blake 1899-1971”, also with a genealogical focus. Verschoyle Blake helped the Bagnanis, Gilbert and Stewart, whose papers are located in Trent University Archives, with the architectural design of a library in their Port Hope, Ontario house, Vogrie.
File consists of photocopies of journal entries made by Blake at the age of 23 on a trip to Greece with the Bagnanis.
Blake, Verschoyle BensonFile contains images and audiotapes pertaining to the career of James Armstrong, member of the RCMP, while stationed at Alexandria Fjord, Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) between 1958 and 1961. Included are two items created in 2015: one compact disc of 14 audio mp3 files titled “Alexander Fjord” (containing recollections of James Armstrong); and, one flash drive of copies of images taken from 1433 slides of Alexander Fjord (included are images of nine Inuit families of Alexander Fjord that were under the supervision of Armstrong; images of Armstrong himself; northern airplanes; northern scenery, etc.).
File includes correspondence written by camp director, Mrs. Pickles; also camp form letters, applications, etc.
File contains a binder assembled by Alf Grigg relating to his time as a coordinator and supervisor for the city of Toronto Teen Leadership Camp. Within the binder are documents and letters from campers, staff and Griggs himself regarding their time at the Leadership Camp. Additionally, there are also photographs of the camp and campers from 1984, 1987 and 1988.
Cassettes contain a 1982 audio from Trent University Music Society's production of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta "The Pirates of Penzance". One cassette contains Act 1, the other contains Act 2.
File contains records relating to material relating to work done by the Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada with Indigenous Peoples in the North. records include correspondence from Dr. Sutherland, on behalf of the IEA looking to acquire a Cessna 180 plane for use in the Northwest Territories and Yukon. Also contained are educational pamphlets for the IEA, a May 1962 newsletter of the IEA, and an editorial by Eleanor Sutherland, titled "A New Approach for Native People in Canada's North."
Indian-Eskimo Association of CanadaFile consists of material compiled for a project on the history of Camp Wangoma, including 12 editions of a newsletter, "Wangomatters - 50 years - Before the Memories Fade" and a written history of the camp. Files are available in both paper and digital form.
YMCA Camp WangomaIncludes the following:
- "Bruce Whiteman: Zukofsky Impromptus. Sin Tax 003, 1995
- LeRoy Gorman (ed.): Mourning Cloak Renku, 1996
- Marshall Hryciuk (led by): The Pink of Venice, Imago Press, 2021
- Marshall Hryciuk (led by): Carved on a Beech, 2001
- Marshall Hryciuk (led by): Long Glances, Imago Press, 2021
- Marshall Hryciuk (led by): Freedom Day Celebration, Imago Press, 2021
- Marshall Hryciuk (layout by): Fading Clouds Renku, Imago Press, 2010
- Marshall Hryciuk (ed.): Crystal Renku, Imago Press, 2005
- Marshall Hryciuk (led by): Year of No Summer: Renku 2009, Imago Press, 2009
- Marshall Hyrciuk (led by): Hot Pavement Renku, Imago Press, 2020
- ""You are here Acme Gallery Commerce Building 12912 Hunter Street West Peterborough!"" (a broadside for Jeff Macklin's exhibition at the Acme Gallery, [2021])"
Includes a Christmas card "from Lill and Will Rudge, Christmas 1916."Inside the card is a photo card (NY Herald) of Stephen Leacock, signed by Leacock for Aphra Miller, 1934.
Also includes sheet music titled "The Junior League of Montreal Presents Aces High, the Musical Revue. By the Writers of Looping the Loop, 1922." Leacock's signature and address, dated May 31, 1938 affixed to the verso of front cover.
Also includes a photograph of Leacock addressing members of the New York City Cancer Committee at a luncheon at the Plaza Hotel, 15 May 1935 and a signed card, received by the recipient 8 March 1943: "Stephen Leacock / With best wishes / Miss Ethel Smith."
Dated 1972 through the late 1990s, most were published by the Hamilton Poetry Centre; also one by Flying Man Press, and another commissioned by the Harbourfront Reading Series. Poets represented include Bruce Whiteman, David McFadden, Alexander Hutchison, James Reaney, John Newlove, Joy Kogawa, Cary Fagan, Phyllis Webb, and Raymond Souster.
Whiteman, BruceCollection consists of postal envelopes featuring Pauline Johnson. On 10 March 1961, the Government of Canada released a commemorative stamp celebrating the 100th anniversary of Pauline Johnson's birth.
File includes 17 photographs of archaeological sites in Greece, some identified as Monemvasia, believed to have been taken by Blake while accompanying archaeologist Gilbert Bagnani on a dig in 1923. Also included are 21 photographs of medieval and 16th-17th century French streets and houses; it is probable that these relate to Blake’s own research or to that of Gilbert Bagnani.
File includes a broadside advertising the auction sale of Northcote Farm on Lake Katchewanooka, property of Dr. Campbell Mellis Douglas. Most of Northcote Farm became part of Lakefield College School in 2007; a small part of Northcote is retained by the Gastle family. Also included are two small hand-drawn maps by George Douglas of Northcoate Farm, ca. 1909.
Additional items were added in 2020
- Chart: Department of Railways & Canals Canada, Trent Canal Chart No. 13, Lakefield to Young's Point, 1923
- Map: hand-drawn by George Douglas of waterway from Lakefield to Young's Point, n.d.
- Map: Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Department of National Defence,1940 (partial map only)
- Map, 1984 reproduction of 1784 Canada, including that part later named Ontario Exhibiting the adjacent countries and Indian - Nations
- Postcard: Little Lake, Peterboro, n.d.
Collection includes the following material, related to Kenneth Frederick Campbell and Sybil Campbell:
- Sybil Fairbairn (Campbell): Ontario Department of Education certificate (1930)
- "2nd Lieut (Nursing Sister) Sybil Fairbairn, Royal Army Medical Corps, Canadian Army" certificate (1943)
- Canadian Bible Society certificate (1991)
- Kenneth Frederick Campbell: certificate installing Mr. Campbell as "Clan Chieftain" at 2nd family reunion, Manitoba (1990)
- 90th birthday certificate issued by Jeff Leal, MPP, Peterborough (2013)
- photographs, unidentified (4)
- Trent University "Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics" poster and related Peterborough Examiner clippings (2007). Note: Kenneth Frederick Campbell was a friend of Kenneth Mark Drain and was Trent University's special guest at the first Endowed Chair lecture by Dr. Kathryn Norlock, 3 November 2010
Collection consists of auction broadsheets announcing the sales and rentals of various Peterborough and local area properties, primarily of the 19th century.
Collectionconsists of photocopies of research documents pertaining to W. Wand's Planing Mills of Peterborough, Ontario and the Peterborough Mattress Company.
File consists of scanned historical photographs, one each of W.T.C. Boyd and Meta Boyd of Bobcaygeon, Ontario (photographs located on a removable flash memory device); also photographs of Edgewood, the W.T.C. Boyd family home, and the "Barn", taken in approximately 2006 by Barbara McFadzen and Brian McFadzen
Boyd familyFile includes a scenic panoramic titled "Camp Tanamakoon, Summer Camp for Girls, Operated by Miss Mary Hamilton, Algonquin Park Station, Ontario Can." (photographer: P.E. McDonald, ca. 1925). Also includes a photograph album dated 1925 containing approximately 75 photographs of Camp Tanamakoon. The photographs were taken or gathered by Sheila Playfair McGillivray, a senior camper in 1925; a few pertain to logging in Algonquin Park.
File consists of a notebook titled "Peterborough Normal School: agricultural note book" kept by Eva Jean Murphy; a Peterborough Normal School souvenir book (1927-1928); two issues of "The School" (Ontario College of Education, University of Toronto: Nov. 1927 No.3 Vol. XVI, and February 1928 No.6 Vol. XVI); Ontario Department of Education, Courses of Study and Examinations, revised 1924; and Ontario Department of Education, Courses of Study of the Normal Schools of Ontario... 1924.
Murphy, Eva JeanCollection consists of photographs (mainly carte de visites) and postcards from Peterborough and surrounding area. Includes postcards of Knox Church, Peterborough; St. John’s Church, Peterborough; The Armouries, Peterborough; and Customs House, Peterborough.
Also includes the following photographs and postcards:
- Image of two men. Written on back: “Ed. Doxsee sitting and Seaworth Hogg”. Roy Studio (postcard)
- Three men standing. Written on back: “2- Elliott boys and their uncle” (postcard)
- One man sitting. Written on back: “Allen McBain” (postcard)
- A curious baby lying down looking beside the camera. Written on back: “Emma - Hutchinson about 1873”. W. McFadden, Little’s Old Stand, George Street, Peterborough
- Profile of man with moustache. C. Lawes, Cobourg
- Portrait of man with prevalent sideburns. J.H. Blomfield, Hastings
- Profile of young man with fur lined collared coat. Sproule, Peterborough
- Portrait of young woman with high and tight collar adorned with ribbon and a jewel in the middle of neck. P.H. Green “Grand New Studio”, Post Office Block, Hunter St., Peterborough
- Full body portrait of a couple. Woman is holding a scroll and man is sitting in chair. Sproule, 170 Charlotte Street, Peterborough
- A portrait of two young boys looking bored. Byers, George Street, Peterborough
- Image of 9 people standing and sitting in a group. 2 men, 4 women, and 3 children. Written on back: “1915”. Roy Studio, Peterborough
- Subset of 6 photographs said to have been taken at 61 Francis Street East, Fenelon Falls:
- Two little boys (one tall one small) standing by house
- A boy with a large brimmed hat and bandana with a girl in peter pan collared shirt and tartan skirt standing by house with stone and mortar wall.
- Girl with long frilled and puffy sleeved dress standing by house
- Girl in hat and coat and frilled dress standing on snowbank by house
- Young boy with dog by house
- A boy and a girl standing by small pine tree in the snow
- Profile of bust of lady with a large braided hair bun, small post earrings, a grand frilled collared top adorned with large necklace. Thompson, Peterborough
- Full body portrait of baby in white gown. W. Cowen, 170 Charlotte Street, Peterborough
- Full body portrait of toddler in white socks and gown looking away from camera. Roy Studio, Peterborough"
Collection includes Peterborough Teachers College material pertaining to the school experience of Iris E. King (later Mrs. Dean Baker). File includes correspondence, brochures, class members list, a school crest drawing, newspaper clippings (1956-1957), and 40th anniversary reunion materials (1997).
File consists of photographs of Trent students taken by fellow student, Neil Rodgers. Also includes a copy of the first Trent student handbook, 1967-68, with note attached.