This fonds consists of 18 audio cassette recordings on local history topics made primarily by Enid Mallory. Ms. Mallory interviewed people throughout Peterborough County, many of them descendants of pioneer settlers. The topics include pioneer settlement, Riel Rebellion, Cavan Blazers, Warsaw, early stores (Choate, Lakehurst, Buckhorn), farming, cheese factories, Young's Point, Keene, the lumber industry, and the Chemong Bridge.
Mallory, EnidFonds is comprised of Friends of the Bata Library minutes, financial statements, publicity materials, bulletins, news releases, correspondence, membership lists, fundraising materials, and materials pertaining to the special collections purchased for the Library and Archives.
Friends of the Bata LibraryThis addition to the fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, membership lists, constitution and financial statements relating to the establishment and activities of the Friends of the Bata Library.
Friends of the Bata LibraryThis addition to the fonds consists of administrative records relating to the Friends of the Bata Library.
Friends of the Bata LibraryThis fonds consists of correspondence, conference manuals and minutes of the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies.
Association of Canadian Universities For Northern StudiesThis item is a photocopy of a typescript of a letter from J.B. McWilliams to Dean B.E. Fernow at the University of Toronto giving a very detailed account of timber licences in the Trent Valley (first licences, abandoned or cancelled licences) and of the amount of lumber taken out in 1872-1873 as opposed to 1912. His concerns were conservation and failing that, reforestation of the area. He also describes the Trent system of forest conservation. The letter is dated December 16, 1912.
Fernow, Bernhard E.This fonds consists of typescript and photocopies of the report and diary of the survey of the Burleigh Road performed by James W. Fitzgerald, Provincial Land Surveyor, during the winter of 1860-1861.
Report and diary of Burleigh Road survey / performed by James W. Fitzgerald P.L.S.This fonds consists of posters, publicity materials, set design sketches, brochures, programs, photographs and newspaper clippings of Arbor Theatre, Peterborough, Ontario.
Arbor TheatreThis addition to the fonds consists of publicity materials such as photographs, slides and newspaper clippings for Arbor Theatre.
Arbor TheatreThis addition to the fonds consists of research papers, government reports and newspaper clippings concerning northern environment, mercury poisoning, acid rain and Indigenous land issues.
Ontario. Royal Commission on the Northern EnvironmentThis fonds consists of research materials pertaining to the publication in 1978 of Ontario's Heritage: A Guide to Archival Sources.
Ontario's Heritage: A Guide to Archival ResourcesThis fonds consists of 7 binders, 8 photo albums and 30 booklet programs pertaining to Peterborough’s Beta Sigma Phi and local sorority chapters. Included are meeting minutes and correspondence, photos, cards, and newspaper clippings. Along with the photos are detailed descriptions of the events being photographed and the members within each photo.
Beta Sigma Phi (Peterborough, Ontario)This item is a copy of an autobiography of Hon. Sir William Howland as dictated by him in 1906, with 12 appendices and a family tree. Topics covered include Confederation, Red River Colony 1857-58, militia matters, Reciprocity Treaty negotiations of 1865, Reform party politics and separate schools.
Howland, William P.This fonds consists of correspondence, news releases, newsletters, reports, briefs, research notes, clippings, photographs, agendas and directories relating to Richard Johnston, M.P.P. for Scarborough West (New Democratic Party 1979-1990) and as special advisor to the Toronto Islands. There is information on social issues, poverty, education and women's issues included within the fonds.
Johnston, RichardThis fonds consists of working papers, galley proofs and manuscripts of articles for the Journal of Canadian Studies.
Journal of Canadian StudiesThis fonds consists of photocopies of letters relating to the survey of Verulam Township including a letter of complaint from John Langton to Thomas Parkes regarding errors that were made in the survey; and letters from Huston to Peter Robinson and John Macaulay explaining how the errors were made. There is also a letter of recommendation from G. Boulton to Thomas Ridout recommending John Huston for his surveyor's licence on October 23, 1820.
Huston, JohnFonds is comprised of textual documents and photographs pertaining to Jamaican Self-Help (Peterborough). Included are student papers and Jamaican-generated research papers, mission statement, constitution and by-laws, manuals, tributes to John Ganley, Rosemary Ganley lectures, photographs, reports, policies, press clippings, research, correspondence, and papers relating to several partner developmental organizations.
Jamaican Self-Help (Peterborough)This fonds consists of photocopies of the diaries of Hugh Lumsden, from 1901 to 1928. The early diaries show some evidence of surveying activity while the later ones are mainly of a personal nature. Yearly cash accounts are included.
Lumsden, Hugh DavidThis fonds consists of typescript copies of correspondence of G.M. Roche, October 1859 from Fenelon Falls, and Lindsay, Canada West, relating to the death of his brother John K. Roche, Provincial Land Surveyor, while surveying the Bobcaygeon Road. Also included are extracts from the diary of William Bell, chief chairman of John Roche's party from July 1859 to April 1860. The survey was completed by Mr. Brady, Provincial Land Surveyor, in 1860.
Roche, G.M.The fonds consists of page proofs and uncorrected typescripts of book by Professor Deryck M. Schreuder in the Cambridge Commonwealth Series: "The Scramble for Southern Africa, 1877-1895: the Politics of Partition Reappraised."
Schreuder, Deryck M.This item is a photocopy of a book in which Frances Stewart recorded poems written by various people; the language of flowers; and, rules to know peoples' characters by the months of their birth. The dates of the poems range from 1811 to 1868.
Stewart, Frances AnneFonds consists of issues of Early Canadian Life, 1977-1980, and a copy of When Lightning Strikes... The Life of Evelyn M. Kennedy 1890-1985, 1989, written by Joyce Beaton. Also included are newspaper clippings about Beaton and the magazine.
Beaton, JoyceThis fonds consists of records that were left when the Peterborough Women's Committee disbanded in 1987. The files provide a record of a decade of women's political concerns from a local point of view.
Peterborough Women's CommitteeThis addition to the fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, subject files and budget records of the Trent Student Union.
Trent Student UnionFonds includes manuscript drafts, interview notes, correspondence with editors and clients, writing contracts, and research materials pertaining to the writing career of Diane Forrest.
Forrest, Diane