This fonds consists of minutes, financial records, scrapbooks and other records relating to the Lyceum Club and Women's Art Association of Peterborough. The scrapbooks contain articles on the clubs history as well as photographs and other notes of interest.
Lyceum Club and Women's Art Association of PeterboroughSeries consists of copies of Echoes, a publication produced at Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational Institute. Early editions were published monthly by various groups, including the Philomathean Society and the Literary Society. Later volumes are published yearly and function as yearbooks. 1977 was the sesquicentennial of P.C.V.I. and the yearbook for this year has a full history of the school included.
Years include 1905, 1907-1910, 1916-1918, 1922, 1925-1927, 1929, 1937-1944, 1946-1965, 1977, and 1982-1985.
File consists of documents regardingletterhead from McLaughlin, Peel, Fulton & Stinson Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries in Lindsay Ontario.
This fonds consists of 58 volumes of the Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School yearbook called "The Echoes"; 2 Minute Books for the Girls' Athletic Association from 1908 to 1923; 13 scattered volumes of "Commencement Exercises" between 1937 and 1951; and 1 volume of "Reports of the Business Board of the Collegiate Echoes of the P.C.I." dated 1916-1918. Additional materials were donated by Dr. Fern Rahmel in 2002 on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of P.C.V.S.
Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational InstituteThis item is an order book of Lt. Col. R.H. Sylvester, officer commanding of the 45th Regiment (Victoria and Haliburton). It contains daily regimental orders while at Camp Barriefield and Sturgeon Point, Ontario.
Sylvester, Lieutenant Colonel R.H.Card depicts a photo of "Strathormond," 751 George St., Peterborough, known today as "Sadleir House." James Stratton was owner and publisher of The Examiner and a political figure in the liberal party.
Titles include:
- Funeral Procession, Circa 1915-1920
- Children in Garden, Circa 1930
- Robert Neill Shoe Store, Circa 1930
- Jackson Park, Circa 1905
- Gillespie Garage, 1917
- Central School, Circa 1910
- J.W. Browett Optical Specialist, Circa 1910
- Installing Pipes in City, Circa 1905
Gull Lake, 1918, George Street, Visit of Prime Minster William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1924"
Fonds is primarily comprised of copies of research material. Included are reproductions of genealogical materials related to the Brownscombe family of Peterborough, Ontario, beginning with William Brownscombe (1830-1893), a descendent of Kenneth Brown's wife, Kathleen Brownscombe. Also included is material related to the Haliburton Scout Reserve, the Canadian Canoe Company and the Wm. English Canoe Company.
Brown, KennethThis fonds consists of a 263 page scrapbook of invoices and accounts relating to the Trent Valley Woollen Manufacturing Company Limited. It also includes correspondence of the Company from 1906 to 1910.
Trent Valley Woollen Manufacturing Company LimitedSeries consists of the records of Local 402 of the Journeymen Barbers' International Union of America, including monthly financial reports, correspondence, shop card agreements, membership applications, and receipts, invoices and order blanks.