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This 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.

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.

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.

This 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.

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.