3 unidentified glass negatives depicting a house, boat, and a group of people. Also, handwritten genealogical details relating to the Mossom Boyd family of Bobcaygeon.
File contains an original hand-coloured Dickson Mill property plan. Registered in the Register office Peterborough the 31st December AD 1867. Scale - 100 feet per inch. It is framed with acid-free materials; framed dimensions 66 cm (h) x 104.5 cm (w).
File consists of a letter written on Massey College letterhead. Davies writes: "Dear Margaret: Here is the play about the Peterborough ladies - & another short one from the Peterborough district. - Many thanks for last night's delightful conversation! Rob."
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.
"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."
Titles include:
- Funeral Procession, Circa 1915-1920
- Children in Garden, Circa 1930
- Robert Neill Shoe Store, Circa 1930
- Jackson Park, Circa 1905
- Gillespie Garage, 1917
- Central School, Circa 1910
- J.W. Browett Optical Specialist, Circa 1910
- Installing Pipes in City, Circa 1905
Gull Lake, 1918, George Street, Visit of Prime Minster William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1924"
Includes enclosures re the 100th anniversary of the Auburn Generating Station, located in Peterborough, Ontario, on the Otonabee River.
A reproduction (34 cm x 121 cm) of an original two-piece mural painted in 1941 by artist Frederick Hagan (1918-2003). The mural depicts various camp activities; reproductions were made in recognition of the camp's 100th anniversary celebrated in 2010.
File consists of a screenplay typescript.
A two-part article published in Issue 117 (February 2010) and Issue 118 (May 2010) and based in part on research of the Scott Young fonds, Trent University
A one-page document outlining the accomplishments of the two explorers and requesting support for the construction of a memorial in their honour at the Nigerian Pavailion at Wembley.
Includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, programs etc. related to Neill, a WW II nursing sister who lived in Peterborough. Neill died in 1950. Genealogical information re Neill added to this file July 2016;
The photographs were taken by Mr. William Martyn who lives on Alexander Ave. in Peterborough, Ontario, next to the hospital. Over the years, whatever the weather, Mr. Martyn produced a complete chronicle of the building/demolition process. Many hours too, were spent arranging and compiling the photographs on the disks into a comprehensive slide show.
Drawings of Jim Lauder, a Canadian soldier, from a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1944. Also, added in 2019, a copy of Hard Tears & Soft Laughter by James William Lauder (Tellwell Talent, 2018); the manuscript for this book was written by James William Lauder and published posthumously by Lauder's son, Jimmie Arthur Lauder, in 2018.
Lauder, James WilliamItems 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.
This paper is comprised of the family reminiscences of Susan Greeley, focusing on stories of the settlement of the Rogers family in New Hampshire in the mid-1700s and later immigration to Canada. The concluding paragraph reads as follows: "The foregoing has been written by me and is a statement of facts within my recollection and from what my mother has told me, she having been a member of the first party of U.E. Loyalists that settled on the Bay of Quintie in June 1784. Dated at Haldimand this 27th day of Decr. 1901. [Signed] Susan B. Greeley."
File consists of the following letters:
- "David Hooey of Port Hope to Robert Kelly of Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland: 26 April 1834, 6 March 1835, 24 January 1839 (3 letters - transcripts only).
- Rainy Armstrong to brother of Grass [Gross], County Cavan: 12 April 1852 (photocopy of original plus transcript)
- Robert Maxwell to his brother: 26 December 1878 (transcript only).
- Henry Maxwell of Oshawa to his brother, Patrick Maxwell: 14 December 1881 (transcript only).
- Robert Maxwell (b. 1806) to his brother Henry Maxwell: 7 July 1882 (transcript only).
- Photocopies of the postmark and postal markings for miscellaneous letters (period 1841 to 1850)."