The fonds consists of concert and theatre programs from Millbrook, Ontario; World War I materials including prisoner-of-war post cards, and photographs; and theatre programs, menus and other material relating to entertainments which allied prisoners in German war camps devised for their own amusement and which were collected by Lieutenant W.E. Massey-Cooke.

Series consists primarily of lecture materials created by Dale Standen while teaching courses in History and Canadian Studies at Trent University. Also included are syllabi and assignments for History 23, which was on the topic of European history and History 26, which was on the topic of American history. Dale Standen taught these courses at Vancouver City College. Lastly, the series includes materials used for a talk at the Canadian Canoe Museum
Trent courses documented in the lecture materials include the following:

• HICA 230: History-Canadian Studies 230: The making of Canada, 1760-1873
  o Following description is from the syllabus in folder 25-003/002(16): War, politics, and society in British North America from the Conquest to the Confederation.
• HICA 303: History-Canadian Studies: France in America to 1808 (cross listed as HIS 303)
  o Course description from the Academic Calendar 1997-98: “The French encounter with the New World, including Amerindian relations, war, society, economy and ideology. Focus on Canada; comparisons with the Antilles and Louisiana.”
• HIS 100: Canada: Selected Problems
  o Course description from the Academic Calendar, 1989-90: “Not a survey, the course examines issues in Canada’s social, political, intellectual, regional, and economic history, with an emphasis on historiography.”
• HIS 101: Nation and Citizenship: Interpreting Canada
  o Course description 1997-98 Academic Calendar: A historical and interdisciplinary approach to interpreting modern Canada, emphasis on the diverse and competing ideas of nation. Topics include political citizenship, regional protest, women’s culture, Indigenous/white relations, interpreting Canadian culture, language and identity, immigration, and multiculturalism.
• HIS 301: Canadian Political culture, 1864 to present
  o Course description Academic Calendar, 1997-98: History and politics of Canadian federalism are examined in the light of the sectionalism and biculturalism so evident in a country with the geographic size, diversity, and historic duality of Canada.
• HIST 3031: France in America in 1763
  o Course description from Academic Calendar 2006-07: The French encounter with America, including Amerindian relations, war, society, economy and ideology. Focus on Canada; comparisons with the Antilles and Louisiana.
• HIST/HIS 302: Quebec since 1867
  o Course description Academic Calendar 1997-98: Economic, social and political development from a regional perspective. Industrial and urban growth; war, prosperity and depression; institutional change; the Quiet Revolution; nationalism; minorities; recent issues.

This fonds consists of records of Laura Belle Hodgins who was Chair of the Kitchener, Ontario, Branch of the Women's Voluntary Services from 1942 to 1946; papers and legal documents of Stanley and Laura Belle Hodgins who bought Camp Wanapitei (a wilderness canoe tripping camp) in the mid-1950s; and correspondence, legal records, financial records, and camper, staff and program records of Camp Wanapitei under the directorship of Bruce Hodgins from 1960 to 1985.

File includes a booklet from Christmas card from Robertson and Brenda Davies to Gilbert and Stewart - the booklet is comprised of a short story by Davies entitled "The Heart of a Merry Christmas" [1970]).

File includes a card from Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Houston, letters from the Junior Army and Navy Club, and postcards from Rome and Port Hope.

Folder includes a postcard from London

Folder includes postcards from Italy and France. All postcards are to Miss Edith Prichard in Rome and Paris.

Collection consists of greeting cards, humorous postcards, and postcards portraying places in Canada, U.S.A., and the U.K. Some of the humorous postcards depict social concerns of the time, such as the women's suffragette movement and WWI. Several of the cards were posted to people in Yorkshire, England and in Markham and Milliken, Ontario.

Collection consists of 10 postcards of Coboconk, Ontario, ca. 1920s.

This addition to the fonds consists of records created by Frank Morris. The fonds is arranged into the following series: correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts; postcards of the British Isles and Canada; photographs and negatives of botanical species from field trips; glass lantern slides of flowers, fine arts, museums, and scenes of Europe; and maps, mostly of Great Britain and Ontario.

Fonds consists of records documenting Dale Standen’s activities as a postsecondary student and professor. Files include personal and professional correspondence, lecture notes, and teaching background material with focus on Canadian history post contact, the fur trade, and New France. Fonds is arranged into three series: Correspondence and Trent University activities; Lectures notes for classes at Trent University and Vancouver City College; and Postsecondary coursework and essays.

Series consists of academic and personal correspondence between Dale Standen and his colleagues at various academic institutions, Trent faculty, staff, students, and alumni, and graduate school colleagues. Series also includes obituaries and funeral programs for Trent faculty. Additional files document Dale Standen’s activities as a Don of and later the Principal of Lady Eaton College, and as a TUFA (Trent University Faculty Association) member during the 1996 strike. Series also includes correspondence from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and the Champlain Society.

Folder includes the following letters:

• Letter from Patrick Brode to Stewart re his historical research on Sir John Beverley Robinson, 1980;
• letter to the Bagnani's from a former Trent student who was gay, 1983;
• letters of condolence to Stewart re Gilbert's death, 1985;
• letter from University of Toronto re Gilbert's Memoir, 1985;
• card from Jean Murray Cole with a copy of her "The Old Doctor: A Backwoods Sketch by Catharine Parr Traill" attached, [1985];
• letter to "Sally and Michael" re their residency in Vogrie while Stewart is away, 1985;
• letter from Molly Mackenzie to Stewart re Stewart's "horrid accident at the Art Gallery", 1987;
• letter to Stewart from Helen Davidson, 1987, with attached paper called "The Bagnani Residence - 1939" by Florence Davidson; letter and clipping re University of Toronto's exhibition of books donated from Gilbert's estate, 1987;
• letters from the University of Toronto Malcove Collection re Stewart's donation of three icons, 1989;
• letter to Stewart from Budge, 1989;
• plus other miscellaneous letters

Folder includes the following letters:

• Letters to Gilbert from The Morning Post, London, re contributions he has made to the paper, 1922
• letters from Gilbert to his mother, 1922 & 1926
• letter from Lt.-Gen. Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Ayrshire, re Bagnani lecture, 1922
• letter from [W ] Murray to Gilbert re his analysis of [Stewart's] handwriting, knows Gilbert's mother and sends his regards, 1925
• letter to Mrs. Strong from [C. __loney] re the Cross in the S. Pudenziana mosaic, 1925
• letter from Cath[ryn] Merritt to Florence Bagnani, 1926
• 2 letters regarding the postcards, one from Mrs. Houston to Gilbert and one from Gilbert to Mrs. Houston, 1926
• letters from Stewart to Gilbert, 1929
• letter to Gilbert and Stewart on their wedding day from Gilbert's mother, June 27 1929 (three newspaper clippings attached re the wedding)
• letter to her mother from Stewart in Rome re the engagement of the Crown Prince, 1929
• plus other miscellaneous letters, some of which are written in languages other than English

Series consists of various research materials on the history of Peterborough County, including newspaper clippings, brochures, photographs, and postcards. See file level descriptions for more details.

This collection consists of assorted documents relating to Cobourg and vicinity. It includes marriage certificates, correspondence, indentures, opera house programmes, choral and church programmes, an oil sketch by Alice M. Duncan, and photographs and postcards. It also includes a copy of the "Cobourg World", April 8, 1898 Volume 25, and No. 43.

This addition to the fonds consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, music books, notes and memorabilia concerning various parts of Peterborough County.