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This item is an insurance Plan of the Town of Lindsay, including key of symbols. The scale varies on individual sheets.

This item is a fire insurance plan of the City of Montreal. It includes a key plan (scale 1000':01") and a key to the symbols.

This item is a broadside containing information about the By-Laws of the Municipality of Haldimand for the information of pound keepers: "Extracts from the statutes of Canada and the by-Laws of the Municipality of Halidmand..."

This item is a notebook which belonged to Roy H. Parsons. It contains notes on surveying lectures given by Professor J.B. Davis in the autumn of 1895.

This item is a history of the Peterborough Horticultural Society written in 1975 by Zoltan Bank.

Bound insurance plan of the City of Peterborough, special mercantile revision February, 1948, from revision July, 1943, from plan dated May 1929. Includes key of symbols. Scale varies on individual sheets.

This item is the last will and testament of Henry Vansittart dated October 22, 1836. The land bequeathed in the will includes property in Blandford Township, Bexley Township, East Oxford Township and lands on Lake Simcoe.

This item is a poster asking people for donations of artifacts for the planned Victoria Museum in Peterborough, Ontario.

Items are reproductions of photographs depicting a view of Ashburnham from the tower of St. John's Church, c.1874. The View was constructed from two James Little photographs located at Peterborough Centennial Museum and Archives. One item is a print identified as proof number 9/10; the other is a reduced copy of the View with attached legend showing the names of the buildings.

This item is a fire insurance plan of the town of Port Hope dated December 1955. It includes a standard key of signs and the scale varies on individual sheets.

Fonds consists of one Order Book from the estate of Richard Prettie, [Vernonville, Ontario], listing the auction sale dispersal of the household. The name "Stanley McBride, Centreton, Ontario" is found on the fly leaf. Several items listed as sold in the estate auction relate to farming.

Item consists of a bound volume of both published and handwritten pages. The published title page reads as follows: "Practical points, or, maxims in conveyancing, drawn from the daily experience of a very extensive practice, by a late eminent conveyancer, Mr. Bradley, to which are added, critical observations on the various and essential parts of a deed. By the Late J. Ritson, Esq, second edition, corrected, London, 1820." Several published pages are interspersed throughout the hand-written pages and are bound together with them. The name Chas. Avery Moore (May 1824) appears a few times near the beginning of the volume, as does the name W.H.I. Vizard. The hand-written pages are an excellent example of exemplary penmanship.

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 notebook containing photographs of the Wilson family, King Street, Cobourg. Some photographs were taken in Regina, Saskatchewan. Almost every photograph is identified by subject and photographer, and a few are also dated.

This item is a pencil sketch of Young's Point. On the paper backing of the frame which has been removed the following is written: "Young's Point - Edward Roper c 1882? from his sketchbook, donated by Gordon Roper. Young's Point (north of Peterborough) from Edward Roper's sketch book, 1882, bought through Michael Bell". There is some speculation as to whether the name Edward Roper should have been Edward Caddy.

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 5 (June 1984) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hagar, F.A. Forward
• Article on James Stevenson
• Brown, Quentin. Books from a Wayfarer’s Knapsack
• Cole, Jean. Professor Roper talks to the Friends of the Bata’s Collection of Canadiana
• Hoyle, Gwyneth. A Report by the Treasurer
• Annual Financial Statement
• McAuley, Darienne. Books and other printed material purchased by the Friends and presented to the Bata Library 1979-1983
• Details of Membership
• Acknowledgements

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 7 (September 1986) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Cole, Jean. Editor’s Note
• Canadiana Collection to Bata Library – on the life and death of Robert L. Hunter, donor of the Canadiana Collection
• Smith, Denis. Twentieth Anniversary of Journal
• Drew, Wayland. Wayland Drew on “Bibliotropes”
• Parker, George. Publishing and Cultural Sovereignty
• Rueter, William. Canada’s Private Presses
• New Chairman Elected
• Brown, Quentin. A Word from our Retiring Chairman
• McAuley, Darienne. Report of the Acquisitions Committee, 1985-1986
• New Guidelines for the Acquisitions Committee
• Hoyle, Gwyneth. Annual Financial Statement – May 31, 1986
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 10 (September 1989) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• McKee, Penny. The Peterborough Information Infrastructure. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Scott, Monroe. The Writer in the Community Monroe Scott and the Lindsay Public Library Experience. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern
• Young, Scott. Scott Young and the Pleasures of Being a Writer in Canada. Recorded by Stevenson, Betty
• Vaisey, David. The Bodleian Library: Inheritance from the Past – Challenge for the Future. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Mallory, Enid. Coppermine: The Far North of George M. Douglas. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern
• Brown, Louise. Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia 1646-1684
• Annual Meeting
• Report of the Acquisitions Committee 1988-1989
• Acquisitions 1988-1989
• Annual Financial Statement 1 May 1988 to 30 April 1989
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 12 (September 1991) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Wiseman, John A. Bata Library’s Special Collections Room
• Pollock, Zailig. The Editor as Story Teller. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Dahl, Ed. Twenty Maps I’d Like to Take Home with Me. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Barrett, Karen. How to Write a Local History
• Kokatailo, Philip. A.J.M. Smith and the Book of Canadian Poetry. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern
• Annual Meeting
• Rahmel, Fern. Report of the Acquisitions Committee 1991-92
• Annual Financial Statement for 1990-1991
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 13 (September 1992) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Ash, Mary Eileen. Goldwin Smith, the Grange and the Library
• Williamson, Mary F. Canadian Art Materials and Special Collections: Rescuing Rare Books from the Stacks. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Lacombe, Michèle. William Arthur Deacon: The Life, Times and Letters of a Literary Journalist. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Dodge, Bernadine. Youth Camping: an Ontario Experience. Recorded by Cole, Alf
• Rahmel, Fern. Peterborough’s First Librarian. Recorded by Cole, Jean Murray
• Annual Meeting
• Rahmel, Fern. Report of the Acquisitions Committee 1992-92
• Annual Financial Statement for 1991-92
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members