This is an artificial collection of materials with a variety of provenances, documenting the Trent University Faculty Association (TUFA) strike in 1991, including strike bulletins and information sheets, Communications Office Bulletins, communiques from Students FEAT and A.N.S.W.E.R., Trent Student Union communiques, copies of student papers Arthur and Lilith, OCUFA Forum and CAUT Bulletin, TUFA parity buttons, transcripts of TUFA internal meeting, an untranscribed cassette tape of CBC interviews, 14 tapes of radio broadcasts and meetings, and other records. Also included are an oversized poster used on the pickets and a copy of the new three-year collective agreement between TUFA and the Trent University Board of Governors ending the strike.
DVD titled "1st Trent Strike: They're Tough, but we're TUFA", created by J.A. Forrester.
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.
Fonds consists of correspondence, questionnaires and reports generated by Professor David R. Cameron who was commissioned by the Department of the Secretary of State (superseded by the Department of Canadian Heritage) to investigate the status of Canadian Studies in the 1990s. His report, "Taking Stock: Canadian Studies in the Nineties" was published by the Association of Canadian Studies in 1996. Materials include readers' comments on the draft report.
Cameron, David R.Collection includes the agendas, minutes, and correspondence of the Meta Incognita Project Steering Committee and the Archival Research Task Force (ARTAF). Also included are ARTAF research materials, reports, transcripts, notes, etc. relating to an American Historical Association meeting and a Trent University conference which focused on the subject of Frobisher and his Northwest initiatives.
Meta IncognitaFonds is an eminent service award certificate awarded to Nancy Sherouse by Trent University on May 28, 1992. The document is framed.
Sherouse, NancyThis item is a photocopy of a booklet published by the Toronto Daily News in 1885. Its subject matter depicts Toronto's night life.
Toronto Daily NewsThis item is a photocopy of an 1870's recipe book entitled Five Hundred Dollars Worth of Knowledge for One Dollar: Great Exposure of Liquors and Recipe Book by Charles H. Hagar. The book was published in Binghampton, New York and contains recipes for alcoholic drinks and sundry other recipes for things such as hair tonic, sore throats, pain killers and others.
Collection consists of taped interviews undertaken by Adria of Peter Gzowski (1992; 2 audio cassette tapes); Mel Hurtig (1992; 1 audio cassette tape); and Ted Byfield (1993, 1 audio cassette tape).
This item is a 26-page photocopy of typescript of a letter of reminiscence written in 1910 by Margaret Bird, of Peterborough, Ontario, when she was an elderly woman. It tells of her abuse at the hands of her husband including one attempt to poison her. It describes her difficult life in late nineteenth-century Peterborough.
Bird, Margaret LoveFonds consists of manuscripts, research materials, letters of permission, and correspondence relating to A Peter Gzowski Reader, and to Remembering Peter Gzowski: A Book of Tributes, both of which were edited by Edna Barker. Also included are permission letters relating to The Fifth (and Probably Last) Morningside Papers, and letters and emails of condolence received by CBC upon the death of Peter Gzowski.
Barker, EdnaThis fonds consists of photocopied correspondence of the Stewart and Dunlop families. Most of the letters are to Ellen Dunlop (daughter of Frances Browne Stewart) from Frances Stewart, Catharine Parr Traill and Harriet Beaufort as well as James Wallis. Also included is a Stewart family tree.
Collection consists of genealogical material collected by Pat Bolger for her research on Percival J. Cooney (1871-1932) who wrote Kinsmen, published originally in 1916 and then reprinted in 1992. Cooney was born in Peterborough, Ontario. One of his brothers, Franklin Cooney, became Governor of Montana.
Folder 1 contains textual records, photocopied newspaper articles and genealogical charts. Folder 2 contains photographs of the Cooney family.
Bolger, PatFonds consists of meeting minutes of the Trent Central Student Association and its committees for 1995-20112.
Trent Central Student AssociationIncludes the following:
- "Bruce Whiteman: Zukofsky Impromptus. Sin Tax 003, 1995
- LeRoy Gorman (ed.): Mourning Cloak Renku, 1996
- Marshall Hryciuk (led by): The Pink of Venice, Imago Press, 2021
- Marshall Hryciuk (led by): Carved on a Beech, 2001
- Marshall Hryciuk (led by): Long Glances, Imago Press, 2021
- Marshall Hryciuk (led by): Freedom Day Celebration, Imago Press, 2021
- Marshall Hryciuk (layout by): Fading Clouds Renku, Imago Press, 2010
- Marshall Hryciuk (ed.): Crystal Renku, Imago Press, 2005
- Marshall Hryciuk (led by): Year of No Summer: Renku 2009, Imago Press, 2009
- Marshall Hyrciuk (led by): Hot Pavement Renku, Imago Press, 2020
- ""You are here Acme Gallery Commerce Building 12912 Hunter Street West Peterborough!"" (a broadside for Jeff Macklin's exhibition at the Acme Gallery, [2021])"
Fonds includes correspondence, notes, manuscripts, published articles, conference papers, and book reviews related to the writing career and personal life of Professor Richard Dellamora.
Dellamora, RichardFonds is comprised of research material, notes, typescripts, manuscripts, and correspondence pertaining to Winona, or, The Foster Sisters, co-edited and published by Professor Michael Peterman and Professor Len Early (Peterborough: Broadview Editions, 2007).
Peterman, MichaelFonds consists of records documenting Don Tapscott's publishing career, including promotional packages and news coverage of his books, as well as correspondence. Also included are certificates of recognition sent to Don Tapscott from various universities, upon his installation as Chancellor of Trent University.
Tapscott, DonA publication by Michael Cullen, Trent Photographics. This copy includes signatures of many of the faculty and staff of Trent University who were photographed for the publication
Fonds consists of four albums of materials related to the Beta Sigma Phi of Peterborough, Ontario. Materials are dated 1996-2005 and include photographs, greeting cards, invitations, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. The four albums are covered and decorated in cloth design; three are titled Xi Delta Nu and one is titled Beta Sigma Phi.
Beta Sigma Phi (Peterborough, Ontario)Collection consists of 103 slides of various nature areas on the Symons Campus, Trent University, taken October 1996 as a record of the vegetation in 1996 for future comparison of vegetation change. The slides are accompanied by an index.
Jones, RogerThis fonds consists of working papers, galley proofs and manuscripts of articles for the Journal of Canadian Studies.
Journal of Canadian StudiesThis fonds consists of manuscripts of articles for the Journal of Canadian Studies, vol.32, #1-3. Also included is correspondence with authors.
Journal of Canadian StudiesCollection consists of 20 cassette tapes of interviews with Fisher Gauge Ltd. founder, Bill Fisher, and early executives, Tod Wilcox and Eric Graham. Also included are annotated notes on the interviews.
Fisher Gauge Ltd.