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Item is 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).

Collection includes the following material, related to Kenneth Frederick Campbell and Sybil Campbell:

• Sybil Fairbairn (Campbell): Ontario Department of Education certificate (1930)
• "2nd Lieut (Nursing Sister) Sybil Fairbairn, Royal Army Medical Corps, Canadian Army" certificate (1943)
• Canadian Bible Society certificate (1991)
• Kenneth Frederick Campbell: certificate installing Mr. Campbell as "Clan Chieftain" at 2nd family reunion, Manitoba (1990)
• 90th birthday certificate issued by Jeff Leal, MPP, Peterborough (2013)
• photographs, unidentified (4)
• Trent University "Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics" poster and related Peterborough Examiner clippings (2007). Note: Kenneth Frederick Campbell was a friend of Kenneth Mark Drain and was Trent University's special guest at the first Endowed Chair lecture by Dr. Kathryn Norlock, 3 November 2010

File includes a broadside advertising the auction sale of Northcote Farm on Lake Katchewanooka, property of Dr. Campbell Mellis Douglas. Most of Northcote Farm became part of Lakefield College School in 2007; a small part of Northcote is retained by the Gastle family. Also included are two small hand-drawn maps by George Douglas of Northcoate Farm, ca. 1909.

Additional items were added in 2020

• Chart: Department of Railways & Canals Canada, Trent Canal Chart No. 13, Lakefield to Young's Point, 1923
• Map: hand-drawn by George Douglas of waterway from Lakefield to Young's Point, n.d.
• Map: Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Department of National Defence,1940 (partial map only)
• Map, 1984 reproduction of 1784 Canada, including that part later named Ontario Exhibiting the adjacent countries and Indian - Nations
• Postcard: Little Lake, Peterboro, n.d.

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 photocopies of newspaper articles and biography pertaining to the Lakefield poet, Elizabeth Caroline Cameron.

This item is an ambrotype of an unidentified woman.

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.

Collectionconsists of photocopies of research documents pertaining to W. Wand's Planing Mills of Peterborough, Ontario and the Peterborough Mattress Company.

File includes 8 pencil sketches of people, flowers, & farm animals: 2 unsigned; 3 signed "M.E.R." 1 signed "Bessie"; 1 signed "S.E.R."; 1 signed "F.B." and titled "Kate & Pompey in the stable & the other Pompey mending the first Pompey's collar." "The other Pompey" according to Stewart Brown is his grandfather, T.A. Stewart Brown (1852-1936).

Also includes 1 ink sketch unsigned. 1 envelope addressed to Bessie Lydia Stewart.

Also included is a linen-backed map of Ireland "published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge." Sir Francis Beaufort, relative of Frances Stewart, is known to have been involved in the preparation of such maps/atlases published by the above Society

File includes 9 black and white photographs and 2 negatives of archaeological sites taken by Verschoyle Blake during a trip in Greece with Gilbert Bagnani and his mother in the Spring of 1923. Also included is a letter from Constance Marani to her friend Hester Thom dated 1 March 1926. Also, two typed pages of notes compiled by the donor and titled “Letter, March 1 1926 from (Ethel) Constance Marani née Blake, 1896-1979” with a genealogical focus, and “Verschoyle Benson Blake 1899-1971”, also with a genealogical focus. Verschoyle Blake helped the Bagnanis, Gilbert and Stewart, whose papers are located in Trent University Archives, with the architectural design of a library in their Port Hope, Ontario house, Vogrie.

File consists of two notebooks, one of which seems to be records of the South Monaghan [Agricultural Society?], 1882-1908, plus a notebook of clippings regarding compensation for flooding of the area farm land by the Trent Canal system, 1915. Also, one portrait (unidentified) of a woman, ca. 1890.

Cassettes contain a 1982 audio from Trent University Music Society's production of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta "The Pirates of Penzance". One cassette contains Act 1, the other contains Act 2.

Collection includes a poster titled "Second Annual Bay Bell Memorial Race at Kawartha Downs" and 2 photographs with race horses: "Hiawatha Parade", 1984; "Francis T. Return", 1985. The race was sponsored by The Social and Athletic Association, Trent University. Bay Bell was Head of Security at Trent University, 1967-1983.

File consists of a compiled and printed copy of Aileen Taylor's genealogical research on the Strickland family.

The fonds consists of one photograph depicting the Davidson family having a picnic at a residence in Brighton, Ontario in the late 19th century.

This fonds consists of assorted letters, notes, and receipts, some with respect to travel to Japan, and some referring to possible railroad development. Also included is material related to the British Columbia fur trade.

This item is a photocopy of a letter of C. Beale written, in 1838, from Peterborough, Upper Canada, to Captain Gourlay, late 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers, Saltfleet, near Hamilton, Upper Canada, asking for information on the subject of the grant of land and commenting on the way the grant was being administered.

This item is an account book of Alvin Bee, Concession 1, Lots 26, 27, 28 of Hope Township, relating to expenditures for his farm. Also included is a 1907 tax notice.

This fonds consists of typewritten transcripts of some of the pages of from the Memoirs of Sidney Bellingham which relate to his experiences and thoughts of life in the pioneer days.