This addition to the fonds consists of a pen and ink drawing of Conger House and hill, north of George Street in Smith Township, by Edward C. Caddy. The cardboard backing from the original frame has information regarding the sketch and donor.
Caddy, Edward C.Fonds consists of records documenting the Stinson family, primarily the legal and political career of T.H. Stinson. Family records include Christmas cards, wedding invitations, family portraits, travel records (postcards, booklets, photographs), and Ella Stinson's (nee Robson) correspondence.
Fonds is organized into series by the three accessions making up this fonds. Please see series level descriptions for further detail.
Stinson, T.H. (Thomas Hubert)This item is a minute book of the Agricultural Society of the Township of Smith. This item includes minutes of meetings from January 1855 to October 1904; lists of officers; lists of successful competitors at agricultural shows; and broadsides advertising agricultural shows. The book contains (pasted to the inside back cover) a letter dated May 11, 1887 from A. Blue of the Ontario Department of Agriculture who acknowledges that the Smith, Ennismore and Lakefield Agricultural Society has been duly recognized and incorporated. Reference is made to a certificate from the West Peterborough Electoral District [Agricultural] Society recognizing the Smith Township society.
Smith Township Agricultural SocietyThis fonds consists of photographs, two charcoal portraits, land documents, family bible and biographical sketches of Lakefield, Ontario. It also includes information on the Joseph Walton family of Smith Township. The bible contains genealogical information and is a "Cottage" Bible stamped with name of Joseph and S.J. Walton.
Burgess-Walton familyThe fonds has been divided into three general series. Series A consists of business and legal papers of the Kerr and Kerr Law firm which was run by William Kerr and his son William F. Kerr. Included in this series are many individual case files. Series B consists of the papers of Victoria College which was located in Cobourg, Ontario. Included in this series are papers dealing with the large land holdings of the College, historical documents relating to the College's early beginnings and the land deals which allowed it to expand within the town of Cobourg and Haldimand Township, as well as the papers of the officers involved in the negotiations and the the final move of the College to Toronto at the end of the nineteenth century. Series C consists of the personal papers and business correspondence and documents of John W. Kerr, Senator William Kerr's brother, and also a Lawyer in Cobourg, Ontario.
Kerr familyThis fonds consists primarily of the correspondence of Scott Ackerman Medd to his parents Sidney Taylor Medd and Estelle Lumsden Ackerman and his sister Mary E. Medd. The correspondence covers such topics as Scott's education at Trinity College School in Port Hope and at the Royal Academy in London, England, his development as and artist, life in England, and World War II. The fonds also contains the family records of Thomas and Mary Medd consisting of emigration and settlement letters, 1819-1919; correspondence to Robert Medd, 1820-1852; and correspondence to and from Sidney Taylor Medd during World War I. Also included are photographs of various members of the Medd family and sketches and sketchbooks of Scott Ackerman Medd.
Medd familyThis fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, balance sheets, and financial records of the Gordon Mackay Company, its subsidiaries and some of its officers. It includes photographs, maps, plans, annual reports and newsclippings.
Gordon Mackay & CompanyThis fonds consists of posters, publicity materials, set design sketches, brochures, programs, photographs and newspaper clippings of Arbor Theatre, Peterborough, Ontario.
Arbor TheatreThis fonds consists of township records, by-laws, legal correspondence, records of the Queen's Bench and General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham. Records include indictments, convictions and inquests and case records (which are effectively a continuation of the inquests, convictions and indictments series).
The fonds is arranged into 9 series:
- Township business with bylaws, oaths of coroner's and coroner's commissions and jail surgeons
- Voter's lists and books including militia rolls
- Juries and jurors
- Convictions and return of convictions
- Inquests
- Indictments
- Magistrates returns
- Justice of the Peace Commissions
- Criminal and Civil Procedures and Correspondence and Case Records which reflect a change in the organization of records by the County Clerk's office after 1914 and which contain inquest, conviction and indictment documents.
- Correspondence and miscellaneous
This fonds contains galley proofs, correspondence, art work, page proofs, boards for deluxe copy and cover, clippings, press releases and research data collected prior to the publication of the Peterborough Historical Atlas.
Peterborough Historical Atlas FoundationThis fonds consists of working papers, galley proofs and manuscripts of articles for the Journal of Canadian Studies.
Journal of Canadian StudiesThe fonds consists of a scrapbook relating to Marmaduke Matthew's office as secretary of the Canadian Academy of Arts, from 1878 to 1888; two unpublished manuscripts on Canadian art and artists; two sketchbooks, from 1863 and 1873 to 1874; and a record of pictures, from 1890 to 1908.
- undated, pencil manuscript, 8 pages, entitled "Why are our artists so poorly encouraged?"
- undated, pencil manuscript, 5 pages, entitled "Art and its uses"
- sketch books 1: 1863; 2: 1873-74
- record of pictures, 1890-1908
This fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, speeches and publications created by and collected by Douglas Sadler.
Sadler, DouglasThis fonds consists of briefs, correspondence, memoranda and responses to "To Know Ourselves" and "Some Questions of Balance".
Commission on Canadian StudiesThe fonds consists of the records of the Buckhorn Wilderness Centre including: charter, minutes, correspondence, by-laws, membership and financial records. The fonds is arranged in the two following series: 1) Papers received from Dr. Morawetz, and 2) Papers received from Douglas Sadler.
Buckhorn Wilderness CentreFonds consists of Douglas Sadler's correspondence, notes, papers, addresses, and teaching materials related to outdoor education. Included are records related to a course for teachers of Native children (1970), and to Sadler's participation in an Art and Design Education in the Atlantic Provinces Conference in Halifax (1973).
Sadler, DouglasThis fonds consists of 4 boxes of materials related to the life and works of Spencer J. Harrison.
Harrison, Spencer J.Fonds consists of one box of materials related to the life and times of Spencer J. Harrison, artist and gay activist.
Harrison, Spencer J.Fonds consists of correspondence and photographs related to the careers and the private lives of Martha and Kenneth Kidd.
Kidd, Kenneth E.This addition to the fonds consists of correspondence, clippings, research notes and bibliographies. Subjects include Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, Herman Melville and the New England Transcendentalists. The correspondence is mainly between Roper and Davies.
Roper, GordonThis addition to the fonds consists of diaries, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings of Dorthy Choate Herriman. The fonds includes material on the Canadian Authors Association, Carol Cassidy Coates and other poets and writers. Newspaper clippings, original illustrated layout, biographical information, author's proof and a bound copy of Mater Silva are also included in the fonds. There is also an annotated copy of editor John Garvin's Canadian Poets.
Herriman, Dorothy ChoateThis fonds consists of glass slides which were used as teaching materials at Mount St. Joseph. The subjects include Tennyson: Idylls of the King, 55 slides; physiography, 15 slides; zoology, 5 slides; physics, 4 slides; English and history, 7 slides; and, European history, 6 slides. Ten of the slides in physiography, 2 slides in botany and 1 slide in chemistry were made by high school students in Lindsay.
Mount St. JosephThis addition to the fonds consists of microfiches of manuscript and typescript diaries and microfiches of typed transcriptions of diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King dated from 1932 to 1949. These are additions to microfiches purchased in 1975.
King, William Lyon MackenzieThis fonds consists of records accumulated by Robert D. Taylor-Vaisey as a student politician at Trent University. The records concern the Champlain College Cabinet, the Trent University Co-ordinating Committee, and the Trent University Congress of Colleges.
Taylor-Vaisey, Robert D.Fonds documents the work of the Trent-ESL program and experiences of its students. Records include brochures, posters, and student guides. Fonds also includes 3 testimonial books featuring stories and photographs by Trent-ESL students and alumni (2003-2014), a scrapbook of the Canadian Culture Summer English experience program (2019), and a memory book on the history of Trent-ESL, produced for its final celebration (April 2026). See file descriptions for more details.
Trent-ESL