Series consists of transcripts and photocopies of Need’s Woodhouse Journal, which was used to write Six years in the bush. Files also include correspondence, some between John Langton and Thomas Need. See file listing for more details.
Series consists of other resources used by Dawn Logan while researching Thomas Need. Files include correspondence, research notes, newspaper articles, genealogical resources, and biographical information on contemporaries of Thomas Need and his family members, including a family tree. Files on Need cover both his time in Canada and England. Files also include references to other settler families living in Bobcaygeon, Ontario (Verulam Township), and the surrounding area, including Cobourg, Colbourne, and the Bobcaygeon locks. Other families or contemporaries mentioned include the Boyds, Langtons, Nicol Hugh Baird and Thomas Stewart. Series also consists of biographical information for Thomas Need, Reverand William Welfitt, and the Robertson and Junkin families, including wills, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. Series also consists of excerpts of manuscripts and books used to research Thomas Need. The manuscripts are on the topics of Bobcaygeon, Ontario and on the Bick family.
Series consists of personal and professional correspondence written by Dawn Bell Logan to Need and Sawer family members while researching Thomas Need. Files also include newspaper clippings, and correspondence written to the Dictionary of Canadian biography as well as historians, libraries, and archives in Canada and England. Files also include several draft biographies of Thomas Need written by Dawn Bell Logan. Files also include photographs of some Need family members taken in Surrey, United Kingdom.
Series consists of documents pertaining to the publication of Thomas Need: a settler in the backwoods of Upper Canada, including publisher letters, correspondence, publication invoices, and photographs used in the book. Series also consists of research materials on Thomas Need. These materials were used to write articles about him in different publications including the Kawartha Sun newspaper and the Dictionary of Canadian biography. These files include photocopied book excerpts from different publications, the will of Elizabeth Welfitt, and photocopied historical correspondence.
Series consists of recorded interviews with members of the Trent University community. Interviews were conducted as part of the research process for Cole's book, Trent: The Making of a University, 1957-1987.
Series consists of notes from interviews conducted for Cole's book, Trent: The Making of a University, 1957-1987.
Series consists of research notes and chapter drafts for Cole's book, Trent: The Making of a University, 1957-1987.
Series includes Early Days in Haliburton publication material and copied research material.