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IMC-133 · File · 1913
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

Presented to Pearl [McIntosh] by Gordon [McIntosh] (1892-1973), Christmas 1954. This Bible includes handwritten genealogical information with references to Peterborough and the names McIntosh, Larmer, Petrie, Seymour and Irvine. Loosely enclosed is a note: "Bible in the Memoirs of Lawrence Larmer wife: & Hazel McIntosh, Millbrook, Ontario"; also an 'In Memoriam' card re Stanley Gordon McIntosh, a photograph of a house titled "Larmer Home 1925", and a newspaper clipping regarding the immigration of the McIntosh family from Scotland in 1827. The Bible is in very poor condition; handwritten notes of a biblical nature appear in the margins of many pages throughout.

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-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-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.

IMC-130 · File · 1972-1999
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

Dated 1972 through the late 1990s, most were published by the Hamilton Poetry Centre; also one by Flying Man Press, and another commissioned by the Harbourfront Reading Series. Poets represented include Bruce Whiteman, David McFadden, Alexander Hutchison, James Reaney, John Newlove, Joy Kogawa, Cary Fagan, Phyllis Webb, and Raymond Souster.

Whiteman, Bruce
IMC-026 · File
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

The material includes correspondence, journals, notebooks, manuscripts, scrapbooks, and a deed to Polly Cow's Island. Correspondents include Catharine Parr Traill, Katharine Agnes Strickland Traill, Harriette McKay Traill, Mary Traill, James George Traill, Rev. Walter J.S. Traill, William Edward Traill, Harry Strickland, Thomas Strickland, Samual Strickland, Robert and Caroline Strickland, Jane Strickland, Agnes Catherine Vickers, Catherine Vickers, Mary Agnes FitzGibbon, Agnes Chamberlin, Sir Sandford Fleming, A. Llewelyn Roberts, Sarah Gwillym, Goldwin Smith, Annie Traill Fotheringhame Atwood, Florence Atwood, Kate Atwood, Mary Muchall, Hargrave Henry Muchall, Carrol Muchall, Eva Muchall, William Briggs, E.S. Caswell, James Caswell, John Lowe, Susanna Moodie, John W. Dunbar Moodie, John William Todd, Frances Stewart, Frank Stewart, Ellen Dunlop, Anna Hay, Bessie Brown, Katherine Brown, and others.