The 15 microfilm reels from the Department of Lands and Forests holdings contain field survey notes for most townships in southern Ontario dating from 1784 to 1945. The handwritten guide to the survey notes was prepared by students in a geography course at Trent University. This guide is available in the Reading Room.
Ontario. Department of Lands and ForestsThis fonds consists of registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and deaths, preachers' book and diary, church accounts, and history of the Christian mission at Moose Factory.
Moose Factory Mission ChurchSeries consists of personal and professional correspondence written by Dawn Bell Logan to Need and Sawer family members while researching Thomas Need. Files also include newspaper clippings, and correspondence written to the Dictionary of Canadian biography as well as historians, libraries, and archives in Canada and England. Files also include several draft biographies of Thomas Need written by Dawn Bell Logan. Files also include photographs of some Need family members taken in Surrey, United Kingdom.
Series consists of other resources used by Dawn Logan while researching Thomas Need. Files include correspondence, research notes, newspaper articles, genealogical resources, and biographical information on contemporaries of Thomas Need and his family members, including a family tree. Files on Need cover both his time in Canada and England. Files also include references to other settler families living in Bobcaygeon, Ontario (Verulam Township), and the surrounding area, including Cobourg, Colbourne, and the Bobcaygeon locks. Other families or contemporaries mentioned include the Boyds, Langtons, Nicol Hugh Baird and Thomas Stewart. Series also consists of biographical information for Thomas Need, Reverand William Welfitt, and the Robertson and Junkin families, including wills, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. Series also consists of excerpts of manuscripts and books used to research Thomas Need. The manuscripts are on the topics of Bobcaygeon, Ontario and on the Bick family.
Materials pertaining to the Shakespeare Club of Peterborough, Ontario. Included are items which had originally been folded and loosely inserted in sleeves in a binder titled "Shakespeare Club Memorabilia." These items include photographs (ca. 15), newspaper clippings, cards and letters, etc., 1972-2012; they have been unfolded and maintained in their original order in a folder. Also included is a black binder of Shakespeare Club minutes dated 9 January 2006 - 7 June 2010.
Shakespeare ClubSeries consists of photographs, contact sheets and negatives of Trent University faculty, staff and students. In addition, there are photographs of award recipients and photographs from convocation and other events.