Collection consists of six registers maintained by the Mather Funeral Home, Keene, Ontario. Volume 1 (1880-1903) was strictly a funeral register. Volume 2 (1910-1928) consists of a day book for a cabinet maker and carriage maker who also handled funerals by providing caskets, embalming services, wreaths, shrouds and so forth. Remaining registers recorded funerals only. The registers record names of deceased, age, cause of death and where buried.
Mather Funeral HomeFile includes a photograph of Laurie Lambe Wallace from 1957, postcards, a songbook, a pin, a small wooden paddle, textual records, and a letter from Laurie to Patti Thom.
Subseries documents correspondence and personal and creative writing by members of the Gzowski and Morgan families between 1893-1919, with limited material as early as 1818. Material primarily relates to the childhood of Vera Gzowski, Peter Gzowski's paternal grandmother, and includes four bound volumes of letters to her father. Subseries consists of correspondence, photographs, school papers, plays and other creative writings, and postcards. This series also contains correspondence relating to Peter Gzowski's paternal grandparents, Harold N. Gzowski and Vera Gzowski, father, Harold E. (Bundy) Gzowski, and aunt, Vera Elizabeth (Beth) Gzowski, as well as Vera's immediate relatives, the Morgan family.
File includes the following material:
- "The Trent Waterway Through Central Ontario Canada"
- Map of the Trent Canal
- Reference and Guidebook: The Trent Canal
- Clippings from "Report of the Select Committee on Conservation
- "Report of the Select Committee on Conservation" 1950
- "Trent Watershed Survey" 1913
File consists of notes and partial manuscripts for "My Aunt Minnie" written by Stewart Bagnani. Also included are two letters to Stewart from the typist of the manuscript. Included within the notes of this folder are 5 handwritten transcripts of letters written to John B. Robinson, Chief Justice, Toronto, from Thomas Talbot, Port Talbot; one written in 1834, three in 1836, and one in 1837.
File consists of a single-volume plan for recreational spaces in the City of Peterborough, covering short-term (five years or 1979-1983), medium-term (10 years or 1984-1988), and long-term (more than 10 years or after 1988) priorities. The plan was created by Balmer, Crapo & Associates Inc., a recreation and tourism research, planning, and management firm based in Waterloo, Ontario. It discusses topics such as recreational facilities, parkland, conservation, and city planning. Multiple areas of Peterborough are discussed, including the Little Lake area and waterfront, Morrow Park, and Roger's Cove. Analyses of the present (1978) parks and facilities system are included. The plan also includes information on the socio-demographic conditions in the city at the time. Mr. Paul Wilson, Athletic Director, Trent University, is thanked in the acknowledgements.