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IMC-047 · File · 2003
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

Items in this small collection include illuminated poems by Richard Outram; many signed and illuminated single poems; a special edition of Canadian Notes & Queries (2003) dedicated to Barbara Howard; a memorial card of the service held in memory of Richard Outram and Barbara Howard at the Arts and Letters Club, April, 2005.

IMC-025 · File · 1890-1950
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

Photos include:

  • Ambulance at the back door of Nicholls Hospital, 1920
  • Nurses Residence, Argyle Street, Kaledon Residence, 813 Water Street
  • Nurses Residence, 800 George Street, Nurses Residence, Civic Hospital, 1950
  • Nurses Residence, 784 George Street, Nichols Hospital 1942
  • Nichols Hospital 1890
  • Queen Mary Isolation Hospital, Hilliard and Langton Streets, 1911-1950
IMC-144 · File · 1963-1987
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

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 Canada
IMC-105 · File · 1958-1961
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File contains records 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.)

IMC-141 · File · 1969-1971
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File consists of materials related to Leslie King's time as an undergraduate student at Trent University. File includes an introductory guide to Traill College from 1969, which King produced as a member of the Traill College Cabinet; correspondence from President Symons and Justice Bora Laskin pertaining to the 1968/69 yearbook (Excalibur), which she edited; and King's research paper, correspondence, and photographs pertaining to Peterborough potteries, which was submitted to Professor Kenneth Kidd.

Map of Canada East and West
IMC-122 · File · 1848
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

New York, Published by Ensigns & Thayer, 36 Ann Street. D. Needham, Buffalo, N.Y. No 12 Exchange St. Drawn & Engraved by J.M. Atwood N. York. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1848 by Ensign's & Thayer in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Inset: 'MAP OF NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK. Showing the Route of Steamers from HALIFAX TO BOSTON'; portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with a coat of arms and motto; 'Explanations' [legend]: districts, cos, capitals of districts, railways, canals; shows some roads but no railways; twps north to the base of the Bruce Peninsula and in the east north to Bexley, Somerville, Harvey to Palmerston, and Lavant to Pembroke; decorative scroll-work border; Winearls 161 [First State]

Margaret Laurence letters
IMC-062 · File · 1983-1986
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File consists of letters addressed to Kim and Kate Krenz of Lakefield, Ontario. Also, several newspaper clippings, many of which are obituaries published at the time of Laurence's death in January 1987.

IMC-040 · File
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File consists of photographs of Camp Franklin on Georgian Bay. Also includes a New Testament given to Stanton while at Camp Camperdown, 1922. Stanton was at that time a 17 year old student at Havergal College in Toronto. The names of staff at Camperdown are signed in the front of the bible. The camp director was most likely Millicent Payne.

IMC-024 · File · 1963-1964
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File consists of two data papers from the Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University.

The first is "Maternity and its Rituals in Bang Chan" by Jane Richardson Hanks (1963). Excerpt, from page 3: "The purpose of this study is to set down the ethnographic data concerning childbirth in Bang Chan, following out the economic, social, religious, and cosmological aspects as needed to clarify the behavior and the psychological attitudes noted."

The second report is "Singapore and Malaysia" by Milton E. Osborne (1964). Excerpt, p.v: "...the People's Action Party's decision to contest the Malayan elections in April 1964 appears to have been an important turning point in Malaysian politics... This survey seeks to describe and analyze the events between the assumption of power by the People's Action Party in Singapore in 1959 and that party's decision to contest the Malayan elections in 1964."

IMC-061 · File · 2000-2011
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

"Included is a CD with various documents relating to the Project:

  • a draft of a chapter by Alsford published in Tom Symons: A Canadian Life, 2011;
  • Meta Incognita Project Steering Committee minutes after 2000;
  • plus several other Project documents

Also included is a copy of ""Recommendations for a Management Plan for Kodlunarn Island and Related Historical Sites in Outer Frobisher Bay"", 2000."

IMC-143 · File · 1976
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File contains a scrapbook assembled by Helen (Miki) Spring, dedicated to Adele "Couchie" Ebbs (nee Statten), upon her becoming an Honourary Life Associate of the Ontario Camping Association. Within the scrapbook are conversations with Ebbs about her time at Camp Wapomeo and Camp Ahmek as a camper and camp counsellor, thank you letters from former campers and friends of Ebbs, a timeline of Ebbs achievements related to the camp and statistical information about the annual resources and supplies that are needed to run the camp. Also contained are family photographs of Ebbs and her husband Harry circa 1940, exterior and interior shots of the camp buildings and cabins throughout Ebbs time with the camps, camper activities such as playing games, sailing and canoeing, and illustrated, coloured maps of Camp Wapomeo and Camp Ahmek.

IMC-083 · File · 1948-1951
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File includes annotated copies of The Echoes (1948, 1949, 1950, 1951), the yearbook of Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School; a photograph of Pat Bolger (n.d.); a newspaper clipping regarding Bolger winning a PCVS scholarship (date unknown); and a reproduction of a [19th-century] pencil drawing titled "County Court-House and Jail, Peterborough"

Bolger, Pat
IMC-068 · File · 1902-1922
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File includes an original typescript of biographies of doctors who served in the Peterborough area from 1821 to 1921. The document also includes photographs of some of the doctors and appendices comprised of several papers on medical subjects.

IMC-108 · File · 1924-1928
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File consists of a notebook titled "Peterborough Normal School: agricultural note book" kept b 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 Jean