Folder includes the following:
- information on artwork to be shown in an exhibition titled "A pageant of Canada" at the National Gallery of Canada
- script for a speech at a panel discussion titled ‘The Importance of Traditional Art Museum Practice’ by Nathan Stolow at the National Gallery of Canada
- letter to Stewart Bagnani from the Canadian Museum Association on an Art Gallery Training program
- letter to Stewart Bagnani from the National Gallery of Canada also regarding the Art Gallery Training Program with a copy of a new training manual attached
File consists of correspondence between Stewart Bagnani and Trent University regarding her position as special lecturer in art and as director of Mackenzie Gallery. File also includes lectures schedules; a sketch of the building which housed Mackenzie Gallery before it opened as a gallery, by David Woods, 1971; a wedding photo of Mr. and Mrs. Gengembre-Curwood (1970); miscellaneous letters to Stewart regarding the Bagnani medal, etc.; also financial records, etc. relating to Mackenzie Gallery.
Folder includes the following:
- Letters, 1919-1920, written to Augusta from government agencies and agricultural companies re medicinal plants
- Booklet with title "Old English Herbs from the Olitory at Stonehurst, Shanty Bay, Ontario, Canada" (contains uses of herbs, and recipes)
- Augusta's diary, January 24 - February 5 1918, Eton, Windsor (9 pages of entries), mentions her work at the Royal Gardens at Frogmore; also, 1 page in book with title "Bees: Preventing of Swarming" Inserted loosely in the diary are the following: - "Particulars of Under Gardener's Post in Glass Department at Bryanston" - The Gardener: A Practical Journal for all interested in Gardening, July 13 1918 issue (published in London) - Miscellaneous papers
- Envelope with title "Garden items" with newspaper articles, etc. relating to gardening; also, letter dated 1917 to Augusta from Winifred Lewis, Canadian Convalescent Hospital, Roehampton, re a joint "enterprise" they are considering
- Handwritten notes on pruning, fruit trees, grafting, bees, melons, water, pears (dated 1917)
Folder includes the following:
- letter to Stewart from (?) Hazelton regarding their trip to Halifax
- letter to Stewart from Peggy regarding her employment teaching the children of staff in a household
- letter to Stewart from Penny withe the top part missing
- Post card for Warsaw, Ontario sent to Stewart from (?) Hazelton
- Letter to Stewart from Budge Wilson regarding the recent death of a loved one
Folder includes the following letters:
- Letters to Gilbert from The Morning Post, London, re contributions he has made to the paper, 1922
- letters from Gilbert to his mother, 1922 & 1926
- letter from Lt.-Gen. Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Ayrshire, re Bagnani lecture, 1922
- letter from [W ] Murray to Gilbert re his analysis of [Stewart's] handwriting, knows Gilbert's mother and sends his regards, 1925
- letter to Mrs. Strong from [C. __loney] re the Cross in the S. Pudenziana mosaic, 1925
- letter from Cath[ryn] Merritt to Florence Bagnani, 1926
- 2 letters regarding the postcards, one from Mrs. Houston to Gilbert and one from Gilbert to Mrs. Houston, 1926
- letters from Stewart to Gilbert, 1929
- letter to Gilbert and Stewart on their wedding day from Gilbert's mother, June 27 1929 (three newspaper clippings attached re the wedding)
- letter to her mother from Stewart in Rome re the engagement of the Crown Prince, 1929
- plus other miscellaneous letters, some of which are written in languages other than English
This fonds consists of the following minutes and by-laws of the Proceedings of the Municipal Council of the United Counties of Peterborough & Victoria:
- Minutes of the proceedings of the Municipal Council of the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, 20 June 1853
- By-laws and proceedings of the Municipal Council of the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, 20 June 1854 - within the by-laws section, parts of pages 19-22 have been cut away
- By-laws and proceedings of the Municipal Council of the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, 19 June 1855 (up to and including page 24)
- Minutes of the proceedings of the Municipal Council off the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, Special Session, 10 January 1856; minutes of Council of 29 January 1856; minutes of Council of 6 March 1856 (within by-laws section, parts of pages 39- 444 have been cut away); minutes of Council of 17 June 1856
- Minutes of the proceedings of the Municipal Council of the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, Special Session, 27 January 1857
- Minutes of the proceedings of the Municipal Council of the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, 27 January1857; minutes of Council, Special Session, 18 February 1859; minutes of Council, 16 June 1857; minutes of Council, special Session, 6 October 1857
This fonds consists of a dedication program for the cenotaph honouring the heroes of the Great War (World War I) in Millbrook on June 23, 1921. There is also a photograph of the Millbrook Lacrosse Team of 1881 who were the Champions of Central Ontario. The photograph has a list of names affixed to the back of it.
Millbrook lacrosse team and Millbrook cenotaphCollection includes a poster titled "Second Annual Bay Bell Memorial Race at Kawartha Downs" and 2 photographs with race horses: "Hiawatha Parade", 1984; "Francis T. Return", 1985. The race was sponsored by The Social and Athletic Association, Trent University. Bay Bell was Head of Security at Trent University, 1967-1983.
Includes enclosures re the 100th anniversary of the Auburn Generating Station, located in Peterborough, Ontario, on the Otonabee River.
Collection consists of material relating to the Committee for an Independent Canada, including issues of the Independencer and limited edition Duncan Macpherson cartoon [3 copies].
Cassettes contain a 1982 audio from Trent University Music Society's production of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta "The Pirates of Penzance". One cassette contains Act 1, the other contains Act 2.
Published in 2014 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Thomas J. Bata's birth (copy signed by Sonja Bata). Also included is a printout of an invitation to the 100th birthday event.
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 2 watercolour paintings by the Rev. Michael A. Farrar.
Collection consists of 4 letters between Quentin Brown and his cousin, Price Erichsen-Brown, who was a Toronto lawyer. The letters include information about a water mill built in Millbrook, ca. 1840 by the Needler family.
File consists of the transcripts and photocopies of letters:
- "David Hooey of Port Hope to Robert Kelly of Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland: 26 April 1834, 6 March 1835, 24 January 1839 (3 letters - transcripts only).
- Rainy Armstrong to brother of Grass [Gross], County Cavan: 12 April 1852 (photocopy of original plus transcript)
- Robert Maxwell to his brother: 26 December 1878 (transcript only).
- Henry Maxwell of Oshawa to his brother, Patrick Maxwell: 14 December 1881 (transcript only).
- Robert Maxwell (b. 1806) to his brother Henry Maxwell: 7 July 1882 (transcript only).
- Photocopies of the postmark and postal markings for miscellaneous letters (period 1841 to 1850)."
File consists of two notebooks, one of which seems to be records of the South Monaghan [Agricultural Society?], 1882-1908, plus a notebook of clippings regarding compensation for flooding of the area farm land by the Trent Canal system, 1915. Also, one portrait (unidentified) of a woman, ca. 1890.
Dated 1972 through the late 1990s, most were published by the Hamilton Poetry Centre; also one by Flying Man Press, and another commissioned by the Harbourfront Reading Series. Poets represented include Bruce Whiteman, David McFadden, Alexander Hutchison, James Reaney, John Newlove, Joy Kogawa, Cary Fagan, Phyllis Webb, and Raymond Souster.
Whiteman, BruceFile consists of affidavits of John Brown (groom) and Mary Jane Bigelow (bride), both of Clarke Township, Durham County. Married 9 June 1897 in Bowmanville.