File consists of printouts of digitized letters, photographs, and transcripts pertaining to the Prouse family of Little Britain, City of Kawartha Lakes (formerly part of Mairposa Township), Victoria County. Family names represented in the papers include: Margaret and John Prouse; Dennis Patrick Sears (1970s correspondence); Lawson Orser (1970s correspondence); Broad family members; Joseph Dix; and others. A printout of the "History of the Dix Family" (1 May 1897) by Joseph Dix is also included.
The album contains approximately 150 photographs pertaining to the Carmichael and Bolster families.
Sponsored by The Social and Athletic Association, Trent University; also two photographs with race horses: "Hiawatha Parade", 1984; "Francis T. Return", 1985 Note: Bay Bell was Head of Security at Trent University, 1967-1983.
File consists of photocopies of newspaper articles and biography pertaining to the Lakefield poet, Elizabeth Caroline Cameron.
Item is a postcard depicting a street scene showing the Post Office.
File includes a scenic panoramic titled "Camp Tanamakoon, Summer Camp for Girls, Operated by Miss Mary Hamilton, Algonquin Park Station, Ontario Can." (photographer: P.E. McDonald, ca. 1925). Also includes a photograph album dated 1925 containing approximately 75 photographs of Camp Tanamkoon. The photographs were taken or gathered by Sheila Playfair McGillivray, a senior camper in 1925; a few pertain to logging in Algonquin Park.
File consists of photocopies of research documents pertaining to W. Wand's Planing Mills of Peterborough, Ontario, and to the Peterborough Mattress Company.
File includes the following material:
- 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.
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.
The fonds consists of one photograph depicting the Davidson family having a picnic at a residence in Brighton, Ontario in the late 19th century.
Walter Nichol Davidson familyThis 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.
Baclay, SarahThis 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.
Beale, C.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.
Bee, AlvinThis 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.
Bellingham, SidneyThis item is an original day book from the Benson Mills (also called Creek Mills and Peterboro Mills) which describes work done, for whom work was done, and value of work done.
Benson MillsThis item is a ledger used by John Bertram & Sons to keep track of daily transactions and orders.
John Bertram & SonsThis addition to the fonds consists of photocopies of the original report and field notes of the re-survey of the Bobcaygeon Road, between the Townships of Ridout and Sherborne, in the District of Muskoka and the County of Haliburton. The notes are in diagram form with notations regarding soil and timber. The report and field notes were written by land surveyor E.L. Burgess.
Bobcaygeon Road