Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 5 (June 1984) which includes the following content:
- Executive Committee
- Hagar, F.A. Forward
- Article on James Stevenson
- Brown, Quentin. Books from a Wayfarer’s Knapsack
- Cole, Jean. Professor Roper talks to the Friends of the Bata’s Collection of Canadiana
- Hoyle, Gwyneth. A Report by the Treasurer
- Annual Financial Statement
- McAuley, Darienne. Books and other printed material purchased by the Friends and presented to the Bata Library 1979-1983
- Details of Membership
- Acknowledgements
This 73-page typewritten manuscript is an anecdotal record of the information McBain amassed about the properties in northeast Cavan Township. It includes a record of the hamlet of Springville west of the Cavan-Monaghan boundary and of Fairmount (formerly Morrow), a crossroads on the 12th Line, and references to Ida and Mount Pleasant on the middle road. There are in-depth references to properties and families on the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th lines east of the middle road to the Monaghan boundary.
McBain, Norman R.Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 6 (September 1985) which includes the following content:
- Executive Committee
- Foreword
- Matthews, Ross M. Oft in the Stilly Night
- Chambers, Robert D. Literary Nationalism
- The Mossom Boyd Collection
- Adams. Friends Visit the Map Room
- Evans, Emrys. The Birdsall Bookbinding Tools
- Audley, Paul. Canadian Publishing
- Annual Financial Statement
- McAuley, Darienne. Report of the Acquisitions Committee, 1984-85
- Acquisitions – list of gifts and purchases
- Acknowledgements
- Membership – list of members
This item is a pamphlet regarding the Brown Memorial rededication at Centenary Park in Peterborough, Ontario.
Edward Templeton Brown, grandson to Frances and Thomas Stewart, was born at Goodwood, the family farm in Douro Township, Canada West, on December 24, 1852 to Edward Wilson Brown and Elizabeth Lydia Stewart. In 1879 he went to the Northwest Territory to help survey Riding Mountain National Park. After the survey was completed he worked for the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1880 he joined a party, led by Major Boulton, heading for the Shell River area of western Manitoba to settle on land. He joined Boulton's Scouts and during the Battle of Batoche was killed in action on May 12, 1885. The community in Peterborough decided to raise a memorial stone to Edward Brown to commemorate his death in the Riel Uprising.
This item is a booklet published by Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, containing The Old Doctor written by Catharine Parr Traill and introduced by Jean Murray Cole. "The Old Doctor" (1985) was probably written between 1835 and 1840 when John Hutchison, a native of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, was practising medicine in Peterborough, Upper Canada.
This fonds consists of records leading to the production of "Thomas Buck Yorkshire to Ontario" which traces the descendants of Thomas Buck who came to Canada from Yorkshire in 1833. Records include newspaper clippings, obituaries, wedding announcements, photographs, a copy of "The First Publishers of Truth," a history of quakerism in Dent, historiography of the Buck coat of arms, genealogical charts and a photocopy of "The Late Thomas Buck, of Ravenstonedale."
Buck familyItem is a typed multi-part copy of R. Murray Schafer's The Greatest Show on Earth. It is comprised of Patria 3, The Greatest Show on Earth, final copy, June 1986, Introduction; plus parts A through K.
The Greatest Show on Earth was written by R. Murray Schafer (1933- ) in 1986. Schafer was born in Sarnia, Ontario and is a Canadian composer known especially for his string quartets; he is a pioneer in the area of international sound research and is also an author, educator, environmentalist, literary scholar, and visual artist.
This item is a 4-page photocopy of an 1869 deed of land of property on the east shore of Little Lake, Peterborough, now known as Beavermead Park, which indicates that the land was once owned by Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. The property at the time of his ownership was valued at $310.00.
Beavermead ParkItem is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 7 (September 1986) which includes the following content:
- Executive Committee
- Cole, Jean. Editor’s Note
- Canadiana Collection to Bata Library – on the life and death of Robert L. Hunter, donor of the Canadiana Collection
- Smith, Denis. Twentieth Anniversary of Journal
- Drew, Wayland. Wayland Drew on “Bibliotropes”
- Parker, George. Publishing and Cultural Sovereignty
- Rueter, William. Canada’s Private Presses
- New Chairman Elected
- Brown, Quentin. A Word from our Retiring Chairman
- McAuley, Darienne. Report of the Acquisitions Committee, 1985-1986
- New Guidelines for the Acquisitions Committee
- Hoyle, Gwyneth. Annual Financial Statement – May 31, 1986
- Friends of the Bata Library – list of members
Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 8 (September 1987) which includes the following content:
- Executive Committee
- Cole, Jean Murray. Editor’s Note
- Gordon Roper Feted by Friends. Recorded by Cole, Jean Murray
- Rahmel, Fern A. Peterborough: An Illustrated History
- Genoe, Murray. An Automated Library System for Trent. Recorded by Cole, Jean Murray
- Wilson, Alan. Professor Wilson and the Maritime Oral Tradition. Recorded by - Barrett, Karen
- McWilliams, Velma. William Arthur Breyfogle – A Bibliography
- Executive Re-elected
- Dodge, Bernadine. Annual Financial Statement – to April 30, 1987
- Constitution Amended
- Friends of the Bata Library 1986-1987 – list of members
Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 9 (September 1988) which includes the following content:
- Executive Committee
- Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
- Rahmel, Fern A. John Sutherland, The Northern Review, and the Struggle for Modern Canadian Poetry
- Sadler, Doug. Doug Sadler and How He Came to Write Reading Nature’s Clues. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
- Stubbs, John. The Computerization of the Oxford English Dictionary. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern A.
- Wadland, John. A Tribute to Margaret Laurence
- LePan, Don. On Being a Small Publisher in Canada
- Annual Meeting
- Annual Financial Statement 1 May 1987 to 30 April 1988
- Treadwell, Michael. Report of the Acquisitions Committee
- Library Acquisitions 1987/88
- Friends of the Bata Library – list of members
Item consists of a multi-page photocopy of the 1895-1896 diary of C.W. Hedley.
Hedley, C.W.