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This item is a copy and translation of a letter from Louis Riel in the prison at Regina to Dr. Romuald Fiset, thanking Fiset and the committee for Riel's defence, for what they were doing for him and outlining his activities since his return from the United States so that his attorneys (Lemieux and Fitzpatrick) might have his side of the story. In the letter, Riel also voices his desire that his trial be held in Lower Canada.

The microfiches consists of the catalogue of municipal records and manuscripts in the D.B. Weldon library at the University of Western Ontario.

This item is a magazine in tabloid newsprint format dealing with articles on Canadian history. This item is Vol.2, from November 10, 1978.

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 2 (1979) which includes the following content:

• Steering Committee
• Chambers, Robert D. Editorial
• The Friends’ First Assembly
• Burke, Anne. Reflections on the A.J.M. Smith Collection
• Hagar, F.A. The Bradd Downey Fund at Trent University
• Jones, Elwood. Mill on the Trent: the Fowlds-Marryat Collection
• Johnson, Kenneth W. An Archival Genealogy
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 2 (1980) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Chambers, Robert D. Editorial
• First Annual Business Meeting includes acquisitions
• Page, Robert. A Question of Energy
• The Friends Visit the Bibliotheca Vogriana including remarks by Prof. Gilbert Bagnani
• The Voice to go with the Room – interview of AJM Smith by Gordon Johnston and Michael Peterman
• Cole, Jean Murray. Archibald McDonald
• Ebbs, Harry and Adele Ebbs. The Ebbs Camping Archives
• Obituaries for Mrs. Dorothy R. Dyde, Mrs. W.R. Philp, Mrs. Robert E. (Muriel) Nott.
• The Friends – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 3 (May 1981) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hagar, F.A. Forward
• Second Annual Business Meeting including acquisitions
• The Bata Library and the Canadian Heritage – the election of Professor T.H.B. Symons as an honourary member in the Friends
• Friends of the Bata Library: Constitution
• Whalley, George. The Web of the North. Recorded by Chambers, Robert D.
• The Trials of Authors – interview of Jean Cole by Robert D. Chambers
• Sandwell, Barney. The Trials of Publishers
• Laurence, Margaret. Margaret Laurence & her Fellow Authors
• The Friends & their Friends in Peterborough
• Lewis, Joyce C. The Bata Library Wall Display Case
• Johnston, Gordon. A.J.M. Smith: First Honourary Member of the Friends of the - Bata Library
• Volunteers Solicited
• Details of Membership
• The Friends – list of members

Fonds consists of a folder of 12 sheets of photographs which show the effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. The 14 photographs are of individuals, and of the landscape of the area. The photographs were issued with the purpose of "calling for the issuance of a bill to protect atomic bomb survivors and calling for a total ban of atomic weapons". (Taken from the folder which encloses the photographs.) The text on the folder and the photographs is written in Japanese.

This item is a bound, unpublished manuscript containing 7 photographs and 2 coloured post cards of Silver Islet. The manuscript contains the reminiscences of Ross Munroe Matthews about his family and friends.

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 4 (1982) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hagar, F.A. Forward
• Anson-Cartwright, Hugh. Hugh Anson-Cartwright, Third Honorary Friend of the Bata Library
• Derry, Ramsay. The Making of a Best Seller
• Laurence, Margaret. Books That Mattered to Me
• Wiseman, John A. The Light in the Forest: Popular Literature and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
• Wadland, John. Ernest Thompson Seton and the Origins of the Boy Scout Movement
• Financial Statement
• Details of Membership
• The Friends – list of members
• Hagar, F.A. Acknowledgements

This item is a spiral bound, privately printed genealogy of the McIntyre family of Otonabee.