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86-024 · Fonds · 1985-1986

This addition to the fonds consists of programs and other records for the Peterborough Petes hockey team.

Banks, Marlow
84-005 · Fonds · 1974-1978

This fonds contains galley proofs, correspondence, art work, page proofs, boards for deluxe copy and cover, clippings, press releases and research data collected prior to the publication of the Peterborough Historical Atlas.

Peterborough Historical Atlas Foundation
04-016 · Fonds · 1904-1931

Collection consists of greeting cards, humorous postcards, and postcards portraying places in Canada, U.S.A., and the U.K. Some of the humorous postcards depict social concerns of the time, such as the women's suffragette movement and WWI. Several of the cards were posted to people in Yorkshire, England and in Markham and Milliken, Ontario.

82-019 · Fonds · 1980-1982

This addition to the fonds consists of Peterborough Petes memorabilia 1980-1981 and 1981-1982 seasons. Also include dare 10 issues of "Junior Hockey" and 1 issue of "The Leafs."

Banks, Marlow
01-1019 · Fonds · [184-?]

Fonds consists of one copybook of arithmetic exercises belonging to Isabella Miller, Otonabee Township.

Miller, Isabella
89-002 · Fonds · 1817-1966

This fonds consists of indentures, accounts, ledgers, will and probates of wills, mortgages, and other records created by the legal firm of Howell Fleming and its predecessors of Peterborough, Ontario. The series in the fonds include the Daniel Mahoney series; the D.W. Dumble series; the R.W. Thompson series; the Charles McCaffrey series; the Mary Violette Dover diploma series; the Zacheus Burnham estate series; the Francis Dean Kerr series; the Pearse family series; the Flora E. Deuston financial series; the James Edward and Harriet E. McIlmoyle estate series; the William H. Cluxton estate series; the Dennistoun series; the Robert Dennistoun series; the Charles W. Morton series; the Joseph Buller series; the Fife estate series; the Albert Hall, Wm. Comstock series and the St. John's Church document series.

Howell Fleming Law Firm
95-015 · Fonds · 1933-1987

This addition to the fonds consists of correspondence, clippings, research notes and bibliographies. Subjects include Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, Herman Melville and the New England Transcendentalists. The correspondence is mainly between Roper and Davies.

Roper, Gordon
Gordon Roper fonds
87-002 · Fonds · 1948-1984

This fonds consists of clippings, correspondence and notes mostly concerning Robertson Davies. Materials include taped interview transcripts of Davies and Roper.

Roper, Gordon
77-1010 · Fonds · Photocopied [ca. 1977]

This fonds consists of photocopies of the minutes of the gaol and courthouse building committee, from 1828 to 1831, at Amherst in Hamilton Township, Newcastle District.

Gaol and court house
78-008 · Fonds · 1757-1890

This addition to the fonds consists of correspondence of Frances Stewart and her mother's family (the Wallers). Some letters relate to her upbringing in Ireland. The remaining correspondence concerns her life in Douro Township as one of the first pioneers. Frances describes pioneer life and its attendant hardships, the settlement and development of the Peterborough area and Douro Township and social, family, religious and economic life in early Ontario. Some correspondence concerns the publication of 'Our Forest Home'.

Stewart, Frances Anne
Fortnightly Club fonds
75-1004 · Fonds · 1975

This item is a typescript of an address to the Fortnightly Club by Ralph C. Honey, describing the production of the Centennial book, "Peterborough: Land of Shining Waters." The address was written March 14, 1967.

Fortnightly Club
89-1045 · Fonds · 1868-1890

This item is a record book for accounts and minutes of the school board for the schools near Elizabethville in Hope Township, Ontario.

18-007 · Fonds · 1980-2016

Fonds is comprised of research materials, correspondence and manuscript drafts related to Professor Denis Smith's books and articles, including his book A Dissenting Voice (2017). Also included are reviews, correspondence, and newspaper clippings pertaining to various other books and articles by Smith, and materials pertaining to Trent University.

Smith, Denis
Standen-McQueen family fonds
14-014 · Fonds · ca. 1860-1982

Fonds is comprised of the family papers of Sydney Helmer Standen and Euphemia Young Standen (nee McQueen). These papers include ancestral records and photographs dating from the 1860s to the 1970s and touch geographically on England, Scotland, Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. They pertain primarily to the families of Standen, McQueen, Drysdale, Ronald and Bensen and include such individuals as Sydney (Sid) Helmer Standen, Euphemia (Effie) Young Standen, Philip Andrew Standen, Neil McQueen Standen, Sydney Drysdale Standen, Eric James William Standen, James McQueen, Margaret (Maggie) McQueen, Elsie McQueen, and Peter Ian McQueen. Subjects include migration, settlement, farming, education, teaching, military service and war, and domestic life.

Standen-McQueen family
83-1018 · Fonds · ca. 1880

This fonds consists of four Peterborough residences of which two are framed. One of the photographs is of the Haultain home from approximately 1880 and another is of Maplehurst.

Peterborough residences
Oak Ridge Camp fonds
83-1011 · Fonds · 1920-1934

This fonds consists of a scrapbook containing photographs depicting Oak Ridge Camp activities and canoe trips. Included in the album are newspaper clippings relating to Stoney Lake Regatta. Photographs of Mount Rushmore, Catalina, Yellowstone Park and La Jolla Beach can also be found in this collection.

Oak Ridge Camp
15-014 · Fonds · ca. 1900-1960

Collection is comprised of approximately 7500 postcards (including some duplicates) pertaining primarily to the former Victoria County (now City of Kawartha Lakes). Dating from about 1900 to 1960, this collection was created by Norbert Erasmus Hyacinth Krommer of Lindsay, Ontario. A few postcards portray photographs of unidentified people, while others include handwritten messages on the reverse along with postal stamps and markings.

Krommer, Norbert Erasmus Hyacinth
75-012 · Fonds · 1861-1880

This fonds consists of a family photograph album inscribed "Presented to Miss Neads by the Presbyterian Church, Bowmanville for services rendered as organist, August 9, 1876". It contains photographs of people who are mostly unidentified and one tintype. Also included and wrapped separately on the shelf is the Neads Family Bible which contains genealogical information on the Neads family.

Neads family
95-024 · Fonds · 1671-1960

This collection consists of photographs relating to Indigenous peoples and their activities, mostly throughout Canada. The photographs portray extensively the lives of Indigenous people who lived in Canada during the 1800's and early 1900's. Most of the photographs are copies of other photographs but several are copies of sketches and paintings done in the late 1600's to the mid 1800's. Each photograph is labelled with a title and a place of origin.

Kidd, Kenneth E.
Labour posters collection
95-1010 · Fonds · [ca. 1909-1937]

This collection consists of thirty-five labour posters printed in London, England and Budapest. There are also three charter certificates, one dated 1919, and two dated in 1937, which were issued to the Canadian Brussels Carpet Weavers Benefit Association and to the United Textile Workers Federal Union, both of Peterborough. Also included in the collection is a photograph entitled "Delegates to Twelfth Convention of the P.M.L. of N.A."

20-014 · Fonds · ca. 1967-2003

Fonds is comprised of approximately 1850 slides taken by M. Margaret (Marnie) McCulloch pertaining to the Northwest Territories/Arctic region, western and eastern Canada, U.S.A. (particularly California), Australia, England, Peterborough, etc. Also included are miscellaneous photographs and textual items written about McCulloch by various people.

McCulloch, M. Margaret (Marnie)
89-1057 · Fonds · [ca. 188?]

This item is a photograph of two people standing in front of a Millbrook Storefront. On the back of the photograph is written: To Miss Allen, Sharbot Lake. From Mr & Mrs. W.J.E. Gillatt, Millbrook.

Steam locomotive photograph
83-1019 · Fonds · [1865?]

The photograph is by A.R. Capon of steam engineno. 26, from the Canadian National Railway