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Series contains volumes of the Trent Annual, which is the yearbook of Trent University. Alternative series titles include: Excalibur, Impressions, Trent University Annual, and The Annual.

This fonds consists of correspondence, research notes and original documents which were collected by Professor David Macmillan during his research. Items such as voters' lists for Victoria County, Ontario and a series of broadsides advertising land in Victoria County; documents from the Hudson's Bay Company, East Indies; minutes from the Barbados Board of Legislative Council, a Sydney Australia Company, and the Sydney Australian Committee of the New Steam Company; and a number of reproduction engravings and prints are included in the fonds. Also included in the fonds is a copy of Macmillan's 1964 Ph.D. thesis: "The Scottish Australian Connection..." and assorted pamphlets relating to New South Wales.

Collection consists of correspondence, research material, and publications relating to Burke's research on A.J.M. Smith’s professional career and personal life, gathered during her doctoral studies at the University of Ottawa (1975-1978). The correspondence includes letters with Smith’s contemporaries and Burke’s nomination of Smith for an honorary degree at the University of Calgary. Photocopied research material includes course listings from Michigan State between 1931 and 1945 (when Smith worked there) and histories of the university. Also includes an audio cassette of 1965 WUOM Radio broadcast "A Tribute to Roethke," featuring E.G. Burrows (host), Allan Seeger; Donald Hall; A.J.M. Smith; Nelson Bently.

This fonds consists of oral history tapes made by George Cobb. Topics covered on the tapes include the Trent Canal, lumbering, early medicine and dentistry in Peterborough County, Indigenous history and culture, mills and so forth. Fonds also includes tapes made by Cobb of other broadcasts and recordings (located at the end of the list). Browse file list for more information.

File consists of a single-volume plan for recreational spaces in the City of Peterborough, covering short-term (five years or 1979-1983), medium-term (10 years or 1984-1988), and long-term (more than 10 years or after 1988) priorities. The plan was created by Balmer, Crapo & Associates Inc., a recreation and tourism research, planning, and management firm based in Waterloo, Ontario. It discusses topics such as recreational facilities, parkland, conservation, and city planning. Multiple areas of Peterborough are discussed, including the Little Lake area and waterfront, Morrow Park, and Roger's Cove. Analyses of the present (1978) parks and facilities system are included. The plan also includes information on the socio-demographic conditions in the city at the time. Mr. Paul Wilson, Athletic Director, Trent University, is thanked in the acknowledgements.

File consists of single-volume update of the master plan for parks and recreation in the City of Peterborough, created in 1978. The study ran from June 1988 to February 1989 and sought to address evolving needs for parks and recreation. Graham Good and Trent University students assisted the primary author, John S. Marsh. The board of parks and recreation at the time of publication consisted of John Lewis (chairman), Robert Livingstone, Elizabeth Farquharson, Don Curtis, Larry Legault, Alderman Paul Crough, and Alderman David Edgerton. Acknowledgements include Kevin Ready, Peter Southall, Graham Good, Doug Batten, Betty Drain, and Judy Reader.

The cover is inscribed with a handwritten note that says "Please return to P.S.B. Wilson Trent University" and appears to have Wilson's signature above it.

File consists of a single-volume report on access to recreation for low-income people in the City of Peterborough. The Committee on Access of Recreational Programs for Low-Income People was established to look at access and availability of public and private recreational programs, to consider economic and non-economic barriers to participation, and to make recommendations for improvements. The report contains the results of surveys as well as the survey questionnaires. The report also contains data relating to income distribution. Gillian Sandeman was the chairman of the mayor's committee on recreation access for low income persons. Robert J. Barker was the mayor of the City of Peterborough at the time of publication. The acknowledgements thank committee members Mollie Cartmell, Alexandra Cranfield, Jack Guerin, Harry Kitchen, Harry Lavoie, Neil McMahon, Dawn Merriam, Bob Phillips, David Post, Paula Wagar, Helene Wasson, and Paul Wilson.

This collection consists of 278 slides taken by Rosemary McConkey during her work as a nutritionist in Malaya (1962) and in Nigeria (1965). McConkey was part of a team of medical personnel and scientists from the University of Ohio who undertook surveys of nutritional needs in these two areas. McConkey has supplied a detailed listing of the slides (below) and has also included a 45 r.p.m. recording of the national anthem of Malaya "Negara Ku,", six books relating to the two areas and a map of Malaya. A complete listing of all slides prepared by Rosemary McConkey is available in the Reading Room

File consists of two data papers from the Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University: The first is "Maternity and its Rituals in Bang Chan" by Jane Richardson Hanks (1963). Excerpt, from page 3: "The purpose of this study is to set down the ethnographic data concerning childbirth in Bang Chan, following out the economic, social, religious, and cosmological aspects as needed to clarify the behavior and the psychological attitudes noted."

The second report is "Singapore and Malaysia" by Milton E. Osborne (1964). Excerpt, p.v: "...the People's Action Party's decision to contest the Malayan elections in April 1964 appears to have been an important turning point in Malaysian politics... This survey seeks to describe and analyze the events between the assumption of power by the People's Action Party in Singapore in 1959 and that party's decision to contest the Malayan elections in 1964."

Collection consists of an inventory of land locations for early settlers and inhabitants of Ops Township from the initial survey of the township in 1825 to 1872. It includes census information and assessments of households, various voter's lists, many Ops Township documents and one map for the 1839 Assessment Roll. The collection also includes a variety of cookbooks, recipes, food preparation manuals for specific cooking devices, and research notes.

This fonds consists of various original and copied records of the business activities of Thomas Hay, and related family data, such as birth-death records, correspondence, drawings (technical and sketches) and photographs. A small genealogical table compiled by the archivist is enclosed.

The fonds consists of the diaries of Harriet Pengelley (1835-1836), Robert Pengelley (1835), and A.E. Marguerite (Rita) Pengelley (1940-1941); correspondence; sketchbooks (1829-1830); drawings; and photographs. In 1994, an addition was made to the fonds which included a photocopy of a diary of Robert Pengelley (1837-1840) and textual records regarding the Pengelley family. In 2018, an addition of Pengelley family genealogical information was received. Some of the diaries have typewritten transcripts attached.

This fonds consists of records of Laura Belle Hodgins who was Chair of the Kitchener, Ontario, Branch of the Women's Voluntary Services from 1942 to 1946; papers and legal documents of Stanley and Laura Belle Hodgins who bought Camp Wanapitei (a wilderness canoe tripping camp) in the mid-1950s; and correspondence, legal records, financial records, and camper, staff and program records of Camp Wanapitei under the directorship of Bruce Hodgins from 1960 to 1985.

Series 3 consists of papers, correspondence and records relating to the operations, promotions, and activities of the canoe trip camp of Wanapitei at Lake Temagami, Ontario under the directorship of Bruce and Carol Hodgins.

Series consists of the records of Laura Belle Hodgins (Kitchener, Ontario), Chairman of the Kitchener-Waterloo Women's Voluntary Services for the Department of National War Services.

Series consists of papers, correspondence and records of Stanley and Laura Belle Hodgins, their purchase of the canoe trip camp of Wanapitei at Lake Temagami, Ontario, and administrative records of the camp's early days under the directorship of the Hodgins.

File also includes a pencil sketch of two people canoeing, likely drawn by Carol, a newsletter with camp photographs (1980, 1981), and a photocopy of a newspaper story about Bruce and Carol Hodgins (1983).

File contains some brochures with camp photographs and maps, and a draft for a brochure.

File also includes four booklets titled “An introduction to the eighteenth tour to Canada 1966”, “An introduction to the sixteenth tour to Canada 1964”, “Report on the tour to Canada 1964”, and “Report on the tour to Canada 1968”, all by the W.H. Rhodes Canada Educational Trusts.