Accession Number: 97-1031
Description: This fonds consists of three papers written by Peter Adams (one with B.F. Findlay and B.E. Goodison) concerning snow. It also includes his speech notes for a Peterborough Social Planning Council meeting, and two annual reports written in his capacity as M.P.P.
Inclusive Dates: 1976-1990
Extent: 6 items
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Archives of Ontario Computerized Land Records Index

Accession Number: 80-009
Description: This index consists of computer output microfiches of land records held in Archives of Ontario. The microfiches provide an index to Crown Land Papers, Canada Company Papers, and the Peter Robinson Papers from 1819 to 1830.
Inclusive Dates: Microfilmed 26 Feb. 1979
Extent: 126 fiche
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Ivan Bateman photographs

Accession Number: 03-1002
Description: The three photographs are of a logging crew, ca. 1902, a member of which is George Noyes, who helped build the Peterborough Lift Lock; George Noyes aboard the "Bob Hall" (boat); and the "Bob Hall" anchored at a dock.
Inclusive Dates: ca. 1902
Extent: 3 photographs
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Belmont municipal telephone system minute book

Accession Number: 76-1006
Description: This item is a minute book of commissioners', subscribers' and annual and special meetings of the Belmont Municipal Telephone System, preceeder to the Bell Telephone Company and the Havelock-Cordova Telephone Company.
Inclusive Dates: 1922-1954
Extent: 205 pages
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Richard Birdsall fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 91-1020
Description: This item is a photocopy of a lumber notebook of agreements with various people giving permission to cut timber on lots held in various townships (by Richard Birdsall for Canada Company). There is also a listing of lots held by the Canada Company in 40 or more townships and a listing of prices of various woods and staves. There are entries at both ends of the notebook dating from 1831 to 1832.
Inclusive Dates: Photocopied [between 1971 and 1991]
Extent: 53 pages
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Robert Bowley fonds

Accession Number: 02-003
Description: Fonds consists of papers, articles, and manuscripts of books written by Robert Bowley. Included is research material, photographs, slides, and negatives relating to the postal history of Smith Township, Peterborough, and the surrounding area. Included also are letters dated 1823-1878 of the Baptie family who were situated in Ida, Ontario, and extensive research material related to Captain Charles Rubidge, Sir Sandford Fleming, the Pengelley/Roche families, S.J. Carver, and local historic sites. This fonds is a tremendous resource for information related to Peterborough and area in general.
Inclusive Dates: 1823-1998
Extent: 1.5 m of textual records and other materials
Restrictions: N 

TITLE: David Brown Collection

Accession Number: 98-015
Description: This collection consists of miscellanous ledgers and legal documents of businesses, doctors, etc. in Peterborough, surrounding counties and areas in southern Ontario.
Inclusive Dates: 1826-1967
Extent: 2 m & 1 large folder
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Alan Brunger fonds

Accession Number: 08-004
Description: Fonds consists of Professor Alan Brunger's research material pertaining to the historical geography of Bon Echo Provincial Park and Algonquin Provincial Park. Included in the Algonquin materials are aerial photographs and photographs of the Dennison Farm property. Also included is historical geography research material and microfilm reels relating to the Peter Robinson Irish emigration to the Peterborough area.
Inclusive Dates: 1972-1992
Extent: 44 cm of textual records; 125 photographs : 100 negatives; 4 microfilm reels
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Buck family genealogy

Accession Number: 95-021
Description: This fonds consists of records leading to the production of "Thomas Buck Yorkshire to Ontario" which traces the descendents of Thomas Buck who came to Canada from Yorkshire in 1833. Records include newspaper clippings, obituaries, wedding announcements, photographs, a copy of "The First Publishers of Truth," a history of Quakerism in Dent, historiography of the Buck coat of arms, genealogical charts and a photocopy of "The Late Thomas Buck, of Ravenstonedale."
Inclusive Dates: [ca. 1500-1986]
Extent: 13 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Buckhorn Wilderness Centre fonds

Accession Number: 80-006
Description: The fonds consists of the records of the Buckhorn Wilderness Centre including: charter, minutes, correspondence, by-laws, membership and financial records.
Inclusive Dates: 1966-1976
Extent: 61 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Burgess-Walton family fonds

Accession Number: 84-012
Description: This fonds consists of photographs, two charcoal portraits, land documents and biographical sketches of Lakefield, Ontario. It also includes information on the Joseph Walton family of Smith Township.
Inclusive Dates: 1819-1970
Extent: 12 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Business journals fonds

Accession Number: 88-014
Description: This fonds consists of ledgers, day books and other record books, mostly unidentified as to exact name and location of the business. All were situated in the Peterborough/Cobourg/Norwood/Marmora area.
Inclusive Dates: 1846-1962
Extent: 46 cm
Restrictions: Item #19 is restricted until 2035.

TITLE: Edward C. Caddy fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 01-1007
Description: Fonds consists of 7 watercolours done by Edward C. Caddy. Likely locale of some of the paintings was supplied by Professor Gordon Roper; these locations include Scotland (2), Gull Lake, Stoney Lake, Lake Superior. Two have no indication of location. Also included is a two section map showing Herriots Mill near Kitchiwannoe Lake, and a map (mockup) of Peterborough, Ontario entitled "Location of Built Heritage (demolished and standing) in relation to the MNR building site", 1995.
Inclusive Dates: [ca. 184-?] 1995
Extent: 10 items
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Hugh Caldwell diary

Accession Number: 01-1021
Description: Fonds consists of one diary belonging to Hugh Caldwell, (Clydesdale Post Office), Chandos Township. Notes inside the cover indicate that Caldwell purchased Lots 16 & 17, 13th Concession, Chandos Township, Peterborough County, on 26 November 1872. Caldwell notes the dates he planted his garden and the varieties of vegetables planted.
Inclusive Dates: 1888-1899
Extent: 1 cm of textual records
Restrictions: N 

TITLE: Cameron family fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 86-004
Description: This addition to the fonds consists of family correspondence relating to the land surveyor, Alfred Cameron.
Inclusive Dates: 1872-1936
Extent: 19.5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Canada. Census for Peterborough County and the surrounding Counties, 1881

Accession Number: 83-007
Description: This fonds consists of five microfilm reels of the decennial nominal census, of 1881, of Peterborough, Victoria, Hastings, Durham and Northumberland Counties. This collection includes the census of the towns, villages, and townships of Hastings County (north) and are listed as follows: Marmora Lake, Wollaston, Monteagle, Hershel, Wicklow, McClure, Bangor, Mayo, Carlo, Grimsthorpe, Elzevir, Dungannon, Faraday, Cashel, Limerick, Tudor, Sabine, Airey, Lyell, Murchison and Robinson; also Northumberland County (east), including Cramahe, Colborne (village), Brighton, Brighton (village), Murray, Percy, Seymour, Campbellford (village) and Hastings (village). Included also is Northumberland County (west) encompassing Alnwick, Haldimand, Hamilton, and Cobourg (town); and Peterborough County (east), which includes Ashburnham (village), Norwood (village), Burleigh, Anstruther, Chandos, Harvey, Galway, Cavendish, Belmont, Methuen, Hastings (village), Asphodel, Stanhope, Sherborne, McClintock, Dudley, Dysart, Harcourt, Snowden, Glamorgan, Monmouth, Cardiff, Minden, Douro, Otonabee, and Dummer. Also included is Peterborough County (west), encompassing Peterborough (town), Smith, Monaghan (north), Monaghan (south), and Ennismore; also Durham County (east), which includes Hope, Port Hope (town), Cavan, Manvers, Millbrook (village); also Durham County (west), which includes Darlington, Newcastle (village), Clarke, Cartwright, and Bowmanville (town); also Victoria County (south), which includes Ops, Lindsay (town), Mariposa, Emily, Verulam, Omemee (village), and Bobcaygeon (village); also Victoria County (north), which includes Eldon, Fenelon, Fenelon Falls (village), Carden, Dalton, Bexley, Somerville, Digby, Laxton, Longford, Lutterworth, Hindon, and Anson; also Muskoka, which includes Morrison, Gravenhurst (village), Muskoka, Wood, Medora, Monk, Cardwell, Watt, Conger, Humphrey, Oakley, Ryde, Draper, Bracebridge (village), Macauly, Brunel, Stephenson, Ridout, McLean, Sinclair, Franklin, Proudfoot, Chaffey, Bethune, Perry, McDougall, Cowper, and Foley. Genealogical resource.
Inclusive Dates: Microfilmed [ca. 1983]
Extent: 5 reels
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Canada. Census for Peterborough County and surrounding Counties, 1891

Accession Number: 86-026
Description: This fonds consists of census records for Victoria, Peterborough, Northumberland and Durham Counties from 1891. Genealogical resource.
Inclusive Dates: Microfilmed [ca. 1986]
Extent: 8 reels
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Canada West. Peterborough County Census, 1861

Accession Number: 77-028
Description: The microfilms are copies of the 1861 decennial nominal census for Peterborough County and parts of Prescott and Prince Edward Counties. Also included (reel 4) is the 1851 census for the Townships of Minden, Stanhope, and Dysart. Genealogical resource.
Inclusive Dates: Microfilmed 2 Nov. 1970
Extent: 4 reels
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Canada. Peterborough County Census, 1871

Accession Number: 77-029
Description: The microfilms are copies of the decennial nominal census for Peterborough County from 1871. The microfilm also includes census records for parts of Northumberland East, Prince Edward and Hastings Counties. Genealogical resource.
Inclusive Dates: Microfilmed 15 Dec. 1975
Extent: 3 reels
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Canadian Land and Emigration Company collection

Accession Number: 77-023
Description: This collection consists of transcripts of minutes of the Board of Directors' of the Canadian Land and Emigration Company, 1868-1885, and annual reports of Bronson and Weston, lumber merchants, 1876-1884, with whom the Company did business. Also included are excerpts from the diaries of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Stewart, agent for the company in Haliburton, and their son Charles E. Stewart, 1865-66 and 1870.
Inclusive Dates: Transcribed [between 1967 and 1977]
Extent: 5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Cavan Township fonds

Accession Number: 85-006
Description: This fonds consists of voters lists, public school pupils records and an account book, all relating to Cavan Township and in particular, School Section No. 3. Genealogical resource.
Inclusive Dates: 1860-1944
Extent: 12 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Choate family fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 86-027
Description: This addition to the fonds consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, music books, notes and memorabilia concerning various parts of Peterborough County.
Inclusive Dates: 1824-1958
Extent: 35.5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Choate family fonds

Accession Number: 77-026
Description: The fonds of the Choate family consist of day books, journals and accounts of the Choate family general merchandising business, 1850-1910, at Warsaw, Canada West and Ontario; records of the Warsaw Division of the Sons of Temperance Fraternal Society, 1849-1858; a general record of registered letters, Warsaw post office, 1884-1889; and a family day book, a scrapbook of clippings, and photographs.
Inclusive Dates: 1849-1910
Extent: 90 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: George Cobb tapes

Accession Number: 82-006
Description: This fonds consists of oral history tapes made by George Cobb. Topics covered on the tapes include: Trent Canal, lumbering, early medicine and dentistry in Peterborough County, native studies, mills and so forth. Also included are composite tapes on the subjects of "The Story of the Peterborough Lift Locks", "Logging in the 1890's", "River Boating on the Otonabee River, Rice and Stoney Lakes", "Early Life in Rural Ontario", and "Medicine, Dentistry and Cures of the Backwoods."
Inclusive Dates: 1962-1967
Extent: 86 tapes
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Jean Murray Cole fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 03-009
Description: Fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, published papers and booklets, and research materials relating to the many papers, articles, and books written by Jean Murray Cole.
Inclusive Dates: 1968-2001
Extent: 42 cm of textual records; 1 photograph
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Jean Murray Cole copy photographs research collection

Accession Number: 04-007
Description: Collection consists of photocopies and scans of copy photographs relating primarily to Curve Lake, Ontario. Subjects include people, scenery, and buildings. Information on some of the images indicates that the originals date ca. 1890 to ca. 1978.
Inclusive Dates: ca. 1957-1978
Extent: 6 cm
Restrictions: Images may not be reproduced in any manner without consent of the copyright holder.

TITLE: G. Wilson Craw collection

Accession Number: 86-003
Description: This collection consists of records collected by G. Wilson Craw such as school histories, Peterborough County; Barnardo's Canadian Homes Almanac 1901; a list of Peterborough Utilities Commissioners 1902-1965; biographies of Peterborough residents; deeds and mortgages; North Monaghan voters list 1883-4; 76 photographs of industries, schools and churches and sporting groups, as well as a history of Springville, North Monaghan. Genealogical resource.
Inclusive Dates: 1818-1965
Extent: 12.5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Harley R. Cummings fonds

Accession Number: 00-001
Description: This fonds consists of primary research material and the manuscript and photographs for Harley R. Cummings' book, "Early Days in Haliburton". The fonds also consists of correspondence, including letters from the Honorable Leslie Frost, photographs, maps, and an original 1863 surveyor's diary for Eyre Township. Also included are the C.R. Stewart diaries, dated 1902-1904. C.R. Stewart (1826-1905) was resident agent for the Canadian Land and Immigration Company and was the first settler in the Village of Haliburton. In his diaries he refers to Colonel Samuel Hughes and Mossom Boyd. Stewart's son, C.E. Stewart (1851-1921) was editor of the "Bobcaygeon Independent". The fonds also includes several historical papers and publications written by Cummings and others.
Inclusive Dates: 1863-1999
Extent: .75 m
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Jane Deyman fonds

Accession Number: 94-017
Description: This fonds consists of research papers and notes pertaining to the publication of the Peterborough Historical Atlas in 1975 and the subsequent activities of the Peterborough Atlas Foundation. Genealogical resource.
Inclusive Dates: 1974-1984
Extent: 1 foot; 1 volume loose on shelf
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Dunsford family tree

Accession Number: 04-1008
Description: Item is a rolled family tree with the title "Pedigree of the family of Dunsford." It was compiled in 1886 by George Lichigaray Dunsford of Exeter. The earliest information is dated 1631 and the latest 1884.
Inclusive Dates: 04-1008
Extent: 1 rolled item
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Edmison, J. Alex fonds

Accession Number: 98-001
Description: This fonds consists of miscellaneous documents including Alexander Edmison's diary, a typescript of "Alex's Day", photographs, etc.
Inclusive Dates: 1837-1975
Extent: 6.5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Bernhard E. Fernow letter

Accession Number: 77-1008
Description: This item is a photocopy of a typescript of a letter from J.B. McWilliams to Dean B.E. Fernow at the University of Toronto giving a very detailed account of timber licences in the Trent Valley (first licences, abandoned or cancelled licences) and of the amount of lumber taken out in 1872-3 as opposed to 1912. His concerns were conservation and failing that, reforestation of the area. He also describes the Trent system of forest conservation. The letter is dated December 16, 1912.
Inclusive Dates: Photocopied [ca. 1977]
Extent: 23 pages
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Department of Lands and Forests. Field Survey Notes

Accession Number: 83-015
Description: The 15 microfilm reels from the Department of Lands and Forests holdings contain field survey notes for most townships in southern Ontario dating from 1784 to 1945. The handwritten guide to the survey notes was prepared by students in a geography course at Trent University.
Inclusive Dates: Microfilmed 1947
Extent: 15 reels
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Report and diary of Burleigh Road survey / conducted by James W. Fitzgerald P.L.S.

Accession Number: 77-1015
Description: This fonds consists of typescript and photocopies of the report and diary of the survey of the Burleigh Road conducted by James W. Fitzgerald, Provincial Land Surveyor, during the winter of 1860-1861.
Inclusive Dates: Transcribed and photocopied [before 1977]
Extent: 16 pages
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Hambletonian Stallion, "Boxer"

Accession Number: 89-1036
Description: This item is a broadside advertising stud services of the Hambletonian Stallion "Boxer" from Springville. On the front part of the page is a description of the stallion and the dates of what towns he will be going to and when. On the back of the page is a tabulated pedigree chart.
Inclusive Dates: 1889
Extent: 1 page
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Edith Fowke manuscript

Accession Number: 97-1016
Description: This 8-page, typewritten manuscript is entitled "Folk Songs of Peterborough" and consists of a brief overview of the folk song tradition of the Peterborough area. Fowke indicates that the Peterborough region is one of the richest in Ontario and credits this in large part to the significant Irish representation in the County. She mentions by name individuals who can sing old songs brought from the old country, or songs learned in the lumbering shanty and carried down from generation to generation. She quotes songs that give specific reference to places such as Kinmount, Omemee, Gannon's Narrows, Tory Hill, etc. Farming traditions, love ballads, and jail terms all find their places in the canon.
Inclusive Dates: [1965]
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Fowlds family and business fonds

Accession Number: 72-001
Description: The fonds consists of family and related papers of Henry Fowlds and his family including James S. Fowlds and H.M. Fowlds. It also includes business correspondence, invoices, some journals and cashbooks, mortgages as well as deeds regarding the business of Henry Fowlds, Jas. S. Fowlds and Bros. and H.M. Fowlds.
Inclusive Dates: 1838-1935
Extent: 2.74 m
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Dr. Edwin C. Guillet fonds

Accession Number: 74-003
Description: This fonds consists of the original and collected papers of E.C. Guillet, relating to his works and research on the Trent Valley/Peterborough/Kawartha area. Included is correspondence, primarily with George M. Douglas and Helen Marryat; maps (photocopies); newspaper articles regarding above area; collected manuscripts of historical authors; photographs; and Guillet's own unpublished manuscript of Canadian Literary Pioneers.
Inclusive Dates: 1632-1970
Extent: 45 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Haliburton, Kawartha & Pine Ridge District Health Council fonds

Accession Number: 04-009
Description: Fonds consists of reports, directional plans, reviews, and proceedings of the Haliburton, Kawartha & Pine Ridge District Health Council (1989-1998). Also included are some meeting minutes of the Well-Being in the Rural Community Task (1995-1996); the Ontario Health Survey Liaison Group (1991-1992); the Creating a Future that Works Healthy Community Group (1994-1995); the District Health Council/Trent Conservation Coalition GIS Meeting with Stanhope Township (1996-1997); the District Health Council/Trent Conservation Coalition/GIS Project Intensification Study Technical Committee (1995-1996); the GIS Technical Committee (1997); and the GIS Planning Task Force (1995-1996).
Inclusive Dates: 1989-1998
Extent: 30 cm of textual records; 4 computer disks
Restrictions: N

TITLE: George Barker Hall indenture

Accession Number: 75-1018
Description: This letter is a hand copy of an indenture between G.B. Hall, his wife, E.M. Hall, and Zaccheus Burnham, for the sale of lands in Otonabee township.
Inclusive Dates: 2 Dec. 1851
Extent: 7 pages
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Golden City steamer advertisement

Accession Number: 04-1011
Description: Item is an advertisement for the Golden City steamer which operated between Lakefield, Ontario, and Mount Julian, and Katchawanooka, Clear, and Stony Lakes near the end of the 19th century.
Inclusive Dates: [after 1887]
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Hall, Gillespie Law Firm fonds

Accession Number: 94-001
Description: This fonds consists of records from the law firm and practice of Hall, Gillespie, from its beginnings with Robert Dennistoun, to its termination with John Gillespie. This fonds consists of land search books, case files, estate records from probates of wills and succession of duty papers to surety bonds, and lists of assets and debts. It also consists of correspondence, the firm's written history, maps, deeds and associated papers, mortgages, debentures, bills of sale and other legal records. The records in this fonds deal primarily with people and places in the City and County of Peterborough as well as its surrounding area.
Inclusive Dates: 1840-1977
Extent: 8.5 m
Restrictions: 90 year restriction.

TITLE: Howard Borden Hamilton fonds

Accession Number: 02-011
Description: Fonds consists of family and business records pertaining to Howard Borden Hamilton and his company, "Howard Hamilton", later known as "Hamilton Holiday Homes", located in McCracken's Landing, Ontario. Included in Box 1 are company financial records, wage records, time logs, inventory records, building permits lists, etc. (1937-1981). Included in Box 2 are business receipts (1979-1981); George Wade bills, etc. (1961-1962); deeds and property documents (1937-1974); Gwendolen Hanley documents relating to various shares, and to the Parkside Motel, Otonabee Township, Ontario, and Forest Plaza Hotel, Mount Forest, Ontario (1963-1972); and Herczeg, Perlus, and Okany building plans (1971). Also included are miscellaneous family records, and a folder of local business receipts issued to William Crowe of Stoney Lake, Ontario, and Jordon Crowe (1883-1924), a "Pathmasters" list, and "Heart Receipt", a recipe for heart ailments. Located in the Large Materials Cabinet are building plans for cottages, homes, and decks at properties belonging to [Keith McKerracher] (1965), Order of the Eastern Star (1972), Clementi Lodge House, Lakefield (1973), D. Bell (1976), Domal-Marine Div. (1980), Marvin McDermot (1982), and J. Webster (1982).
Inclusive Dates: 1883-1998
Extent: 30 cm of textual records ca. 7 building plans
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Havelock Electric Light and Power Company Limited letters patent

Accession Number: 76-1000
Description: This item is a letters patent incorporating the Havelock Electric Light and Power Company, dated March 21, 1903 and recorded by the Deputy Provincial Registrar on March 25, 1903.
Inclusive Dates: 21 Mar. 1903
Extent: 2 pages
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Hay-Dunlop collection

Accession Number: 04-023
Description: Collection consists of legal documents related to Thomas A.S. Hay, Anna Maria (Stewart) Hay, Thomas Hay, M.D., A. Charles Dunlop, Eleanor Susanna (Stewart) Dunlop, and Mary Dunlop. The collection includes wills, and property and estate documents.
Inclusive Dates: 1853-1941
Extent: 30 cm
Restrictions: 90-year restriction

TITLE: Heritage Peterborough fonds

Accession Number: 88-002
Description: This fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, pamphlets, placemats and a booklet "By Lake and By Lock" produced by Heritage Peterborough to raise public awareness of history and heritage buildings in the city and county of Peterborough.
Inclusive Dates: 1984-1987
Extent: 15 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Heritage Peterborough fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 97-021
Description: This fonds consists of various Heritage Peterborough administrative documents including minutes, a manual, statements, budgets, etc. Also included are various materials and correspondence relating to historical sights in and around Peterborough.
Inclusive Dates: 1983-1987
Extent: 6.5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: William Howden notebook

Accession Number: 89-1038
Description: This item is a notebook written by William Howden and kept between 1860 and 1903 on the subject of animal husbandry. It contains various recipes for horse medicine and newspaper articles on stallions available for stud.
Inclusive Dates: 1860-1903
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Howell Fleming Law Firm fonds

Accession Number: 89-002
Description: This fonds consists of indentures, accounts, ledgers, will and probates of wills, mortgages, and other records created by the legal firm of Howell Fleming and its predecessors of Peterborough, Ontario. The series in the fonds include the Daniel Mahoney series; the D.W. Dumble series; the R.W. Thompson series; the Charles McCaffrey series; the Mary Violette Dover diploma series; the Zacheus Burnham estate series; the Francis Dean Kerr series; the Pearse family series; the Flora E. Deuston financial series; the James Edward and Harriet E. McIlmoyle estate series; the William H. Cluxton estate series; the Dennistoun series; the Robert Dennistoun series; the Charles W. Morton series; the Joseph Buller series; the Fife estate series; the Albert Hall, Wm. Comstock series and the St. John's Church document series.
Inclusive Dates: 1817-1966
Extent: 4 m
Restrictions: 90 year restriction

TITLE: John Huston fonds

Accession Number: 71-006
Description: The fonds consists of correspondence regarding Upper Canada politics, rebellion, papers as Justice of the Peace; militia records; survey records and lists of settlers in 1825 Irish settlement of Emily township, Upper Canada; and photocopies of Huston's survey of Verulam township, 1834, donated by H.T. Pammett. This fonds contains excellent information on the settlement of Emily Township by Irish immigrants sponsored by Peter Robinson and facilitated by John Huston. Included are provision records, location tickets, and also Peter Robinson's signed letters. Genealogical resource.
Inclusive Dates: 1818-1849
Extent: 1.5 m
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Ideal Vacations Co.on the Kawartha Lakes

Accession Number: 89-1059
Description: This item is a pamphlet describing the Ideal Vacations Co. Limited camps in the Kawartha Lakes region.
Inclusive Dates: [195?]
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Katchewanooka Herald fonds

Accession Number: 83-004
Description: This fonds consists of a number of issues of a handwritten newspapers, written weekly by agricultural students of Colonel Samuel Strickland of Lakefield, Canada West. The issues are scattered and topics covered include agriculture, local events, local gossip, and politics. Also included are four letters of correspondence to and from George M. Douglas.
Inclusive Dates: 1855-1859
Extent: 7.5 cm
Restrictions: Researchers to use photocopies copies shelved in archives' office.

TITLE: Kawartha Heritage fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 84-007
Description: This addition to the fonds consists of galley proofs and research notes collected prior to publication of "Kawartha Heritage", 1981. The fonds also contains correspondence about the Kawartha Heritage Festival held the same year.
Inclusive Dates: 1980-1981
Extent: 17 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Kawartha Heritage fonds

Accession Number: 83-1026
Description: This fonds consists of 11 black and white photographs collected for publication in "Kawartha Heritage".
Inclusive Dates: 1981
Extent: 11 photographs
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Kawartha Heritage fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 87-017
Description: This addition to the fonds consists of notes, correspondence and documents relating to the publication and sale of "Kawartha Heritage".
Inclusive Dates: 1981-1982
Extent: 5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Kawartha Rail-Trail collection

Accession Number: 97-1010
Description: This collection consists of a covering letter providing some historical background of the Rail Trail movement, a bibliography on the subject, two issues of the organization's periodical, a map of Southern Ontario called "Trails for Today and Tomorrow" showing proposed trails and green-ways, and a folder outlining Kawartha Rail Trails.
Inclusive Dates: 1991-1995
Extent: 6 items
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Professor Kenneth Kidd Native Studies photographic collection

Accession Number: 95-024
Description: This collection consists of photographs relating to Natives and their activities, mostly throughout Canada. The photographs portray extensively the lives of Natives who lived in Canada during the 1800's and early 1900's. Most of the photographs are copies of other photographs but several are copies of sketches and paintings done in the late 1600's to the mid 1800's. Each photograph is labelled with a title and a place of origin.
Inclusive Dates: 1671-1960
Extent: 79 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Lakefield Heritage Research collection

Accession Number: 12-004
Description: Collection consists primarily of photocopies and emails with information pertaining to various aspects of Peterborough's history, from both the city and the county. Brief history of the town of Lakefield is also included.
Inclusive Dates: 2003-2012
Extent: 32 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Land documents collection. Additions

Accession Number: 97-1027
Description: This collection consists of the following documents: a deed from Gilbert Bogart and Cornelius Van Horn to Gilbert A. Clapp, Adolphustown Township, 1827; deed from Azel Hawkins to John Brown, Hope, 1830; deed from Luke Bedford to John Brown, Hope, 1830; deed from John Megrath to John Donaldson, Otonabee, 1836; deed from Joseph Clarke to John Brown, Hope, 1838; deed from John Potter to Philip Potter, Darlington, 1840; deed from John Kennedy to James Crofts Kennedy, Port Hope, 1864; conditions of sale document re Alexander Lackie, Millbrook, with poster attached, 1887. The John Brown mentioned in three of the documents was an important merchant in Port Hope and a member of the Assembly of Upper Canada.
Inclusive Dates: 1827-1887
Extent: 8 items
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Lang Mill Manual; Otonabee Region Conservation Authority / Shelagh Grant

Accession Number: 89-1067
Description: This item is a photocopy of the rough draft of the Lang Mill Manual prepared by Shelagh Grant for the Otonabee Conservation Authority.
Inclusive Dates: Photocopied [between 1979 and 1989]
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Leggott family fonds

Accession Number: 12-006
Description: Fonds consists of correspondence, legal and financial documents, newspaper clippings, photographs and memorabilia relating to the Leggott family of Lakefield Ontario.
Inclusive Dates: 1863-1980
Extent: 12.0 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Professor David Macmillan Collection

Accession Number: 05-003
Description: A disparate collection of documents and correspondence relating to North America, 1680-1920.
Inclusive Dates: 1680-1920
Extent: 40 cm
Restriction: N

TITLE: Enid Mallory fonds

Accession Number: 82-003
Description: This fonds consists of 18 audio cassette recordings on local history topics made primarily by Enid Mallory. Ms. Mallory interviewed people throughout Peterborough County, many of them descendants of pioneer settlers. The topics include pioneer settlement, Riel Rebellion, Cavan Blazers, Warsaw, early stores (Choate, Lakehurst, Buckhorn), farming, cheese factories, Young's Point, Keene, the lumber industry, and the Chemong Bridge.
Inclusive Dates: 1978-1981
Extent: 18 tapes
Restrictions: Permission of the interviewee required for written use.

TITLE: Helen Marryat fonds

Accession Number: 69-001
Description: The fonds consists mostly of Helen Marryat's (nee Helen Fowlds) personal experiences as a nurse in World War I, and her activities as a local historian. There are clippings of her articles in local newspapers, historical maps (drawn by Gerald Marryat) and other materials relating to settlement of Hastings and district such as education and nursing. Also included are the correspondence and photograph collections of her brothers, Donald and Eric (mostly from World War I), and material on Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), navy captain and novelist.
Inclusive Dates: 4 Feb. 1912-21 Nov. 1964
Extent: 1.7 m
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Martyn's mill and dam fonds

Accession Number: 96-1011
Description: This fonds consists of four maps, from between 1875 and 1905 which depict: Martyn's Mill on the Otonabee River; land flooded by the Otonabee River in Smith Township; the Otonabee River between Dickson's and Martyn's Dams; and the acreage between Catchacoma Lake and Gull Lake.
Inclusive Dates: 1875-1905
Extent: 4 maps
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Andrew Mather letter

Accession Number: 76-1012
Description: This item is a letter written by Andrew Mather of Beadnell, 9th Concession, Otonabee Township to his son-in-law Jonathan MacDougall after the death of Mather's daughter. The letter outlines the opportunities open to MacDougall if he were to choose to settle in Otonabee Township. The letter also gives news of neighbours and friends. Included is a transcript and comments regarding MacDougall by Margaret Dunham Vanderploeg, great granddaughter of MacDougall.
Inclusive Dates: 1839
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Mather Funeral Home Collection

Accession Number: 08-013
Description: This collection consists of 6 volumes of funeral home registers maintained by the Mather Funeral Home, Keene, Ontario.
Inclusive Dates: 1888-1979
Extent: 6 volumes
Restrictions: Volumes 1-3 (1888-1949) are open. Remaining volumes are restricted access.

TITLE: Norman R. McBain collection

Accession Number: 97-1018
Description: This collection consists of a number of articles written by Norman McBain about familes in Cavan and about topics of interest in the Cavan area, i.e. inns, taxes, schools, etc. It also includes the following: an article by E.S. Clarry on an 1821 petition to the King regarding voting rights; a bylaw re taverns; the history of Fairmount Church and Methodist givings; an 1896 ballot for Cavan officers; a clipping re George Berry; a list of Overseers of Highways, fence viewers, etc.; an audited financial statement of Cavan for 1875; a newspaper report of Cavan Council business; an invoice re sidewalks; notes on Cavan town hall; and several pages of original hand-written notes re persons holding various offices in Cavan. Also included are copies of clippings re Cavan Blazers, school graduation results, etc.
Inclusive Dates: 1876 [198-?]
Extent: 1 folder
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Norman R. McBain manuscript

Accession Number: 97-1019
Description: This 73-page typewritten manuscript is an anecdotal record of the information McBain amassed about the properties in northeast Cavan Township. It includes a record of the hamlet of Springville west of the Cavan-Monaghan boundary and of Fairmount (formerly Morrow), a crossroads on the 12th Line, and references to Ida and Mount Pleasant on the middle road. There are in-depth references to properties and families on the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th lines east of the middle road to the Monaghan boundary.
Inclusive Dates: 1985
Extent: 1 folder
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Rosemary McConkey collection

Accession Number: 12-002
Description: Collection consists of an inventory of land locations for early settlers and inhabitants of Ops Township from the initial survey of the township in 1825 to 1872. It includes census information and assessments of households, various voter's lists, many Ops Township documents and one map for the 1839 Assessment Roll. The collection also includes a variety of cookbooks, recipes, food preparation manuals for specific cooking devices, and research notes.
Inclusive Dates: 1825-1994
Extent: 50 cm of textual records; 1 map
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Alexander McIntosh fonds

Accession Number: 89-1024
Description: This fonds consists of legal documents which are mostly protests against Alexander McIntosh for promissory notes that were not honored. The protesters are local Peterborough businesses and banks. There are also by-laws and other documents of a legal nature from North Monaghan township including some information on School Sections Nos. 1-4 and a class list for School Section No. 3.
Inclusive Dates: 1867-1899
Extent: 1 file
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Clan McIntyre of Otonabee / Keith McIntyre

Accession Number: 83-1025
Description: This item is a spiral bound, privately printed genealogy of the McIntyre family of Otonabee.
Inclusive Dates: [ca. 197?-1982]
Extent: 2.5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Millbrook and Cavan Township fonds

Accession Number: 74-021
Description: This fonds is a small collection of historical information on the people, places, mills, organizations in Cavan Township and the Village of Millbrook. Included are reminiscences from pioneer descendants, essays on the Cavan Blazers (an Orange vigilante group), early mills, prominent pioneer citizens and local legends.
Inclusive Dates: [between 1920 and 1940]
Extent: 3 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Isabella Miller fonds

Accession Number: 70-1001
Description: This fonds consists of letters from a servant girl, Isabella Brownlie in Otonabee to her brother Claud in Scotland. After 1845, the letters are from Isabella and her husband James Miller. The fonds also contains two photographs, one of Isabella with her brother Claud, and the second of Claud Brownlie alone, as well as a diploma for Thomas Menzies Miller, 1891.
Inclusive Dates: Feb. 1843-Sept. 1849
Extent: 8 letters; 2 photographs; 1 diploma
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Isabella Miller fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 01-1019
Description: Fonds consists of one copybook of arithmetic exercises belonging to Isabella Miller, Otonabee Township.
Inclusive Dates: [184-?]
Extent: 1 cm of textual records
Restrictions: N 

TITLE: A.B. Mills fonds

Accession Number: 77-1013
Description: The fonds consists of photocopies of records relating to boats on the Trent waterway including a typescript of a list of boats, a typescript of an article title the "Trent Canal System: Peterborough Hydraulic Lift Lock", a map of the Trent-Severn waterway, two photographs of the S.S. Water Lily (of the Calcutt line), one photograph of the fleet of the Stoney Lake Navigation Company of Young's Point, and a clipping which includes a photograph of the Peterborough hydraulic lift lock.
Inclusive Dates: 1890-1930
Extent: 7 pages
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Miscellaneous interviews collection

Accession Number: 05-1002
Description: Collection consists of an audio cassette tape and transcript of an interview with William G. Towns of Douro, Ontario, conducted by Professor Alan Brunger on 27 October 1981. Also included is an audio cassette tape of an interview with William Telford of Smith Township, Ontario, on local recreation history, conducted by Elaine Boothman for Professor John Marsh's geography 334 course in October 1984.
Inclusive Dates: 1981; 1984
Extent: 2 audio cassette tapes; 1 cm of textual records
Restrictions: There are no written permissions to accompany this accession. Copyright remains with interviewee and researchers must contact interviewee for permission to quote. Tapes may not be copied.

TITLE: Miscellaneous legal documents collection

Accession Number: 89-007
Description: This collection consists of two legal documents. One is written on parchment, dated May 6, 1647 and written in German. The second document is dated December 11, 1806 and appoints 16 men as Justices of the Peace for the District of Newcastle. It is signed by Francis Gore, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada at York.
Inclusive Dates: 6 May 1647; 11 Dec. 1806
Extent: 2 items
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Miscellaneous map collection

Accession Number: 93-008
Description: This collection consists of miscellaneous maps of Upper Canada, Canada West and Ontario. The maps consist mostly of the Peterborough area.
Inclusive Dates: 1846-1949
Extent: 35 maps
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Miscellaneous photographs collection

Accession Number: 05-1000
Description: Collection consists of photographs of Peterborough Lift Lock, members of the Hugh MacMillan family, Premier Leslie Frost, and numerous unidentified men and women.
Inclusive Dates: [188-?]-[197-?]
Extent: 15 photographs; 3 negatives
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Miscellaneous political document collection

Accession Number: 91-1027
Description: This collection consists of a reprint of E. (Elias) Burnham's address to electors in 1844; a Township of Otonabee Treasurer's report from 1877; and an address in support Liberal Candidate, Fraser, of Brighton, Ontario in 1926.
Inclusive Dates: 1844, 1877, 1926
Extent: 1 folder
Restrictions: N

TITLE: William Morrison letter

Accession Number: 05-1004
Description: Item is a letter dated 22 October 1853 from William Morrison, Placer County, California, to his brother, James Morrison, of Dummer Township, Ontario. The letter is written in a black paper covered booklet dated 1851 with the title "Gregory's Express Pocket Letter Book."
Inclusive Dates: 1853
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Moscrip, Allan & Company ledger

Accession Number: 01-1022
Description: Fonds consists of one ledger identified as having belonged to Moscrip, Allan & Company. The business sold hardware, machinery, and farm equipment, and repaired same. Some customers were contractors, blacksmiths, wagoners; addresses of customers were Hamilton Township, Cobourg, Oshawa, Peterborough, Port Hope, and Bowmanville. Some business was carried on with schooners. Other customers included Dr. Gilchrist; Thomas Trail [Traill]; Cobourg-Peterborough Distillery; Ontario Distillery; Cobourg, Peterborough & Marmora Railway and Mining Co.; R.A. Waddell, Sherriff; and merchants and farmers. Accounts for 1867 listed Trustees of Common Schools with charges for two school bells. The ledger includes an index.
Inclusive Dates: 1853-1867
Extent: 1 cm of textual records
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Workmen's time books fonds

Accession Number: 89-1029
Description: This fonds consists of five time books for men and material for boat and scow repairing at Lakefield and various places on the Trent Canal from 1889 to 1920.
Inclusive Dates: 1889-1920
Extent: 1 folder
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Munro family fonds

Accession Number: 79-006
Description: This fonds consists of the family and personal papers of William Hamilton Munro, his brothers Reid and Alan and his sister Effie. The materials in the fonds make reference to World War I; Peterborough County; hydro-electric companies in Canada and the third world; photographs, postcards, maps and plans of the Trent Canal; City of Peterborough; and locations in Bolivia, Europe and North America.
Inclusive Dates: 1856-1975
Extent: 4 m
Restrictions: N

TITLE: New Democratic Party fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 90-013
Description: This addition to the fonds consists of interviews with prominent NDP and labour activists recalling the 1960 by-election in Peterborough, and the early history of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the New Democratic Party (NDP) in the riding. As well there are related transcripts; newspaper articles and correspondence.
Inclusive Dates: 1957-1988
Extent: 20 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Upper Canada. Newcastle District. Assessment and census rolls, pollbooks and voter's lists

Accession Number: 77-030
Description: The microfilms are copies of assessment and census rolls, 1803-1850, voter's lists, 1854, and poll books, 1816, 1820, 1824 for the Newcastle District. Area covered includes various townships in the present-day counties of Peterborough, Northumberland, Durham and Victoria. The townships of Hamilton and Haldimand were not filmed. Genealogical resource.
Inclusive Dates: Microfilmed 24 Jan. 1957
Extent: 11 reels
Restrictions: N

TITLE: North Monaghan Township by-law

Accession Number: 73-1003
Description: This item is a broadside which reads "A By-Law to amend By-Law No. 54, ...... for the purpose of restraining the running at large of Animals in the Township of North Monaghan, providing for the impounding of the same and settling the height and description of Fences in said Township." The broadside was printed by Alexander Graham of Peterborough.
Inclusive Dates: 7 May 1864
Extent: 1 page
Restrictions: N

TITLE: North Monaghan Township

Accession Number: 74-1000
Description: The fonds consists of John Dobbin's treasurer's accounts from 1865 and 1867; printing schedules and fees, 1878; and statement of accounts, 1899. All of these items pertain to North Monaghan Township.
Inclusive Dates: 1865-1899
Extent: 4 items
Restrictions: N

TITLE: North Monaghan Township fonds

Accession Number: 77-032
Description: This fonds consists of microfilm of municipal and other records produced by the Archives of Ontario. It includes assessment and collectors rolls, 1852-1886, as well as voters lists and poll books, 1866-1867. Also included are receipts and expenditures, 1868 and the minutes of North Monaghan Intellectual Improvement Society. Genealogical resource.
Inclusive Dates: Microfilmed Oct. 1959
Extent: 1 reel
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Arthur T. Ogilvy letter book

Accession Number: 89-1037
Description: This item is a letter book containing copies of letters from Arthur T. Ogilvy, a Toronto businessman, to businessmen in the Port Hope and Peterborough area, as well as family. Most of the correspondence concerns properties, deeds and mortgages in those areas
Inclusive Dates: 1882-1888
Extent: 1 file
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Marjorie McLean Oliver fonds

Accession Number: 01-010
Description: Fonds consists of a bound original assessment roll for Harvey Township for 1927, a photograph of Marjorie McLean Oliver (ca. 1919), two account books of the tourist camp which the Olivers operated (1926-1947; 1951-1970), a cemetery deed from Verulam Cemetery Company (1880), tax bills (1907-1968), and assessment notices (1891-1960). Also included are two land documents (1927; 1938) of the property donated to Trent University in 1998 by Marjorie McLean Oliver in memory of her father, James McLean Oliver.
Inclusive Dates: 1880-1970
Extent: 6 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Marjorie McLean Oliver fonds.

Additions Accession Number: 01-016
Description: Fonds consists of photographs and post cards relating to the Oliver family and their friends, and their home at Lakeview Farm, Bobcaygeon, Ontario. Family members referred to include Marjorie McLean Oliver, Margaret Elizabeth Oliver, Margaret Chase Oliver, and James McLean Oliver. The fonds also consists of a collection of Time Books for 1935-1948, The Clan Oliver Magazine and The Oliver Society Magazine 1969-1986, a family scrapbook of birth and death notices, newspaper clippings, letters and certificates, and two Tourist Registers for Lakeview Farm 1926-1961. Also included are family property documents including a map issued by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 1955, entitled Terrestrial Ecozones and Ecoregions of Canada, with handwritten notation indicating the location of the Oliver Property which was donated to Trent University by Marjorie McLean Oliver in 1998.
Inclusive Dates: 1912-1986
Extent: .3 m of textual records 1 map ca. 250 photographs
Restrictions: N 

TITLE: Ontario's Heritage fonds

Accession Number: 87-007
Description: This fonds consists of research materials pertaining to the publication in 1978 of "Ontario's Heritage: A Guide to Archival Sources".
Inclusive Dates: 1977-1978
Extent: 5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Orange Lodge. Col. Sanderson Loyal Orange Lodge No. 321 minute books fonds

Accession Number: 77-014
Description: This fonds consists of minute books of the Loyal Orange Lodge No. 321 Downers Corners, Otonabee Township. Included are: 1) Minutes of the Royal Blue, Royal Purple, and Royal Arch Purple degree meetings, May 1914-August 1920; 2) Minutes of the Royal Blue degree meetings, October 1921-July 1923, and October 1940-April 1949; 3) Minutes of regular meetings July 1949-December 1952; 4) Minutes of regular meetings, April 1953-March 1955.
Inclusive Dates: 1915-1955
Extent: 4 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Orange Lodge. Edison Loyal Orange Lodge No. 321 minute books fonds

Accession Number: 77-009
Description: This fonds consists of four minute books of Loyal Orange Lodge No. 321, Otonabee Township from 1891 to 1937. They include minutes of regular meetings, special meetings, and meetings of the Royal Blue and Arch Purple Degrees. Also included are membership rolls and rolls of officers.
Inclusive Dates: 1891-1937
Extent: 10 inches
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Otonabee Township fonds

Accession Number: 70-002
Description: The fonds includes photocopies of the following items: Township Patent Book, 1820-1872, including the names of the grantees, lot purchased and dates as well as township/municipal election returns, and oaths of office for 1850. It also includes the correspondence of John Reid, township road surveyor, with elected officials and citizens, including maps, drawings etc.; township business papers, including receipts, taxation abatements, and school business; and Statute Labour lists and returns for the year 1850. (Patent book formerly entered as MMG 70-5). Genealogical resource.
Inclusive Dates: 1820-1872 ; predominant 1850
Extent: 6.5 cm (185 pages)
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Otonabee Township land document

Accession Number: 04-1015
Description: Item is an undated land document and attached hand-drawn plan for Lot 26, Concession 12 in Otonabee Township. The reverse of the plan has the inscription, "Campbell to Fraser."
Inclusive Dates: [18-]
Extent: 1 folder
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Stephen A. Otto fonds

Accession Number: 96-1004
Description: This fonds consists of four photographs, two of which are copies of photographs found in the Geale-Rogers Papers (82-022). One of these two is a duplicate of photo #400, Box 14, and is of Calcutt House, Peterborough. A negative is attached. The other is a duplicate of photo #27 of Album #6, Box 15, and is of a cottage on Little Otter Island, Stoney Lake, Ontario. A negative is attached. The other two photographs are of the Canadian General Electric Company building, Peterborough. One is an exterior shot and the other an interior. Also included is a negative of photo #48, Box 1 Folder 4 of The Peterborough City Photograph Collection (83-008), and is of the Salvation Army Barracks, Peterborough. None of the photographs and negatives are dated. Also included is a photocopy of a map of Stoney Lake, with Little Otter Island highlighted.
Inclusive Dates: [ca. 1866], 1975
Extent: 8 items
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Howard T. Pammett fonds

Accession Number: 77-010
Description: The fonds consists of photocopies, originals and typescripts, brought together by Howard Pammett, of newspaper articles and unpublished articles on a variety of subjects such as Mossom Boyd, lumbering in the Kawarthas, Katherine Wallis, Peterborough Canoe Company, Trent Valley Navigation Company, and steamboats on the Trent-Severn system. The newspaper articles are from the "Progress of Peterborough" series by Pammet (Peterborough Examiner, 1950-51). The unpublished articles are "A Survey of Kawartha Lumbering 1815-1965" by Pammet and "The Peterborough Canoe" by Donald Cameron. There is also correspondence of Katherine Wallis, Mossom Boyd, and the Trent Valley Navigation Company.
Inclusive Dates: 1819-1908; 1950-1975
Extent: 15 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Peterborough and area business accounts

Accession Number: 04-1013
Description: Items consist of accounts issued largely to the Westwood, Ontario Brackenridge family. The accounts were issued by businesses and institutions in Peterborough, Westwood, Hastings, Bridgenorth and Toronto.
Inclusive Dates: 1917-1936
Extent: 1 folder
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Peterborough and Northumberland Counties General Map Collection

Accession Number: 91-1018
Description: This collection consists of 3 maps. One map shows a portion of Northumberland County showing Hope and Emily Townships on the west and Murray and Methuen Townships on the east from the 1830s. Another map shows a portion of Peterborough County, from 1897, showing North Monaghan Township to Belmont Township on the south and Harvey to Methuen Townships on the north. Another map is an original 1897 Peterborough County map.
Inclusive Dates: 1830-1897
Extent: 3 maps
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Comrie photographic fonds

Accession Number: 89-1068
Description: This fonds consists of one Class photograph, and negative, from S.S. #5 from 1900. The names of all the children and the teacher are listed on the back of the photograph. There is one photograph, and negative, of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Hope and which had belonged to Ross Comrie. Mrs. Hope was known as Aunty Bella. There is also one photograph, and negative, of John, Hugh and Alexander McFee. There is family history written on the back of the photograph about each McFee and their families as well as where John McFee lived.
Inclusive Dates: [ca. 1900]
Extent: 1 file
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Peterborough Historical Atlas Foundation fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 87-016
Description: This addition to the fonds consists of assorted correspondence, notes and documents of the Peterborough Historical Atlas Foundation.
Inclusive Dates: 1975-1987
Extent: 5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Peterborough Historical Atlas Foundation fonds

Accession Number: 84-005
Description: This fonds contains galley proofs, correspondence, art work, page proofs, boards for deluxe copy and cover, clippings, press releases and research data collected prior to the publication of the Peterborough Historical Atlas.
Inclusive Dates: 1974-1978
Extent: .35 m, 1 Large Materials drawer, and 1 Map Cabinet folder
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Peterborough newspaper files fonds

Accession Number: 88-025
Description: This fonds is comprised of typescripts of newspaper articles from the Peterborough Weekly Despatch, the Peterborough Review and the Peterborough Examiner. The articles have been arranged chronologically under a number of subject headings.
Inclusive Dates: 1846-1860
Extent: 25 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Peterborough miscellanea fonds

Accession Number: 75-1030
Description: The fonds consists of assorted documents related to Peterborough County, and the surrounding area. It includes: By-laws of North and South Monaghan townships, broadsides (sale of lands for taxes), numerous newspaper advertisements (commercial and political) and assorted postcards depicting area scenery.
Inclusive Dates: 1862-1916
Extent: 66 pages
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Peterborough Social Planning Council fonds

Accession Number: 88-001
Description: This fonds consists of files from the Peterborough Social Planning Council from 1978 regarding childrens' services, demographic data, handicapped and Native peoples, senior citizens and social service profiles of Peterborough.
Inclusive Dates: 1978
Extent: 30.5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: John Pierce historical survey collection

Accession Number: 07-001
Description: Collection consists of correspondence, surveys, notes, plans, and maps of Peterborough area surveyors John Huston, John Reid, Alfred J. Cameron, and John W. Pierce. Also included are speeches, newspaper clippings, biographical accounts of various local surveyors, miscellaneous published items re Peterborough, and documents and photographs relating to Pierce's survey of the Ontario-Manitoba border in 1921.
Inclusive Dates: 1824-1975
Extent: 26 cm textual records; 34 photographs
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Thomas W. Poole fonds

Accession Number: 74-1004
Description: This fonds consists of original letters from Thomas W. Poole to H.B.B. Alley, a London (Canada West) businessman, describing social life, medical practice, employment practice, employment opportunities and personal topics. The letters were all written while Poole lived in Norwood, Canada West.
Inclusive Dates: 1854-1864
Extent: 2 cm (1 folder)
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Ragged Rapids fonds

Accession Number: 83-1012
Description: This fonds consists of black and white photographs of a men's work camp at Ragged Rapids. The photographs are of Norwood, Birdsall's Landing and Young's Point.
Inclusive Dates: ca. 1910
Extent: 4 pages
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Reid family photographs

Accession Number: 97-1034
Description: This accession consists of copy photographs, several of which are of originals in the Reid family photograph album and date from the 1840's to 1900's. One is of the Robert Henry "Harry" Devinish Reid family accompanied by an identification sheet with vital statistics for each member. Included also is a set of ten copy photographs of three generations of the Reid family. This set is accompanied by a family chart providing statistics for those listed.
Inclusive Dates: [1997?]
Extent: 13 items
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Reid family dictionary

Accession Number: 99-1003
Description: This accession consists of one dictionary, of which the title page is missing. The oldest date pencilled in appears to be 1780. Signatures include Robert Stewart, William Reid, Mary Stewart, and John Stewart.
Inclusive Dates: [1780]
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N

TITLE: John Reid fonds

Accession Number: 77-012
Description: The fonds consists of field notes, reports, descriptions and certificates relating to surveys conducted by John Reid. The areas surveyed included Cavan Township, Monaghan Township, Smith Township and Otonabee Township which are in the County of Peterborough. There are also some records pertaining to John Reid's service in the militia. Genealogical resource.
Inclusive Dates: 1837-1881
Extent: 30 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Return Journey / Jean McCullough & Bob McElroy

Accession Number: 05-1003
Description: Item is a bound typescript of a description of a journey made to Europe in 1973 by a group of war veterans and their families. The group included the authors of the manuscript. Author Jean McCullough is from Gunn, Alberta, and author Bob McElroy is from Bridgenorth, Ontario.
Inclusive Dates: 1973
Extent: 2 cm of textual records
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Peter Robinson document cover

Accession Number: 96-1007
Description: This item is a document cover sheet with an inscription "Glengary 13th Nov. 1828, Bishop McDonell, Cornwall, Private, 25 Nov., [to] The Honbl. Peter Robinson, His Majestys Wardon of Woods in Upper Canada & c., York".
Inclusive Dates: 13 Nov. 1828
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Peter Robinson report

Accession Number: 92-1001
Description: This item is a report of the selection and despatch of the Irish immigrants that Peter Robinson settled in the Peterborough area in 1825, including names of the ships used, numbers carried, a list of townships in which the immigrants settled and the results of the harvests in 1826. A transcript of the report is included.
Inclusive Dates: 4 May 1827
Extent: 22 pages
Restrictions: N

TITLE: James Roddy fonds

Accession Number: 75-007
Description: The fonds consists of deeds, mortgages, agreements of sale, abstracts and records relating to the east half of Lot 21, Concession 6, Cavan Township and to the south half and northeast quarter of Lot 21, Concession 7, Cavan Township owned by the Roddy Family.
Inclusive Dates: 1872-1899 1905-1934
Extent: 1 folder
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Captain Charles Rubidge fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 83-1022
Description: This addition to the fonds consists of legal documents and newspaper clippings pertaining to Captain Charles Rubidge and his family. Also included in the fonds is one photograph of Rubidge, three issues of early Peterborough newspapers and a sketch of the Village of Peterborough from 1825.
Inclusive Dates: 1825-1934
Extent: 5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: An autobiographical sketch: by Captain Charles Rubidge, R.N

Accession Number: 89-1028
Description: This item is a typescript autobiography written by Captain Charles Rubidge which was reproduced by an unknown source.
Inclusive Dates: Transcribed [between 1969 and 1989]
Extent: 1 file
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Captain Charles Rubidge fonds

Accession Number: 82-1001
Description: This fonds consists of two copy photographs of Captain Rubidge, one in old age and one in youth wearing Royal Navy uniform; two photographs of a portrait of Captain Rubidge; and four typescript sheets of biographical information.
Inclusive Dates: [between 1971 and 1982]
Extent: 2.5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Rubidge family portraits

Accession Number: 02-1001
Description: Portraits consists of two items. One is a portrait of Charles Rubidge, [181-?]. The caption "Captn C. Rubidge. Royal Navy, London, England," and a stamped credit "Brown 163 High Holborn London" are found on the reverse. The other is a portrait by F.W. Lock, 1845, of an unidentified male with last name Rubidge, believed to be a son of Charles Rubidge.
Inclusive Dates: [181-?], 1845
Extent: 2 portraits
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Douglas Sadler fonds

Accession Number: 90-002
Description: This fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, speeches and publications created by and collected by Douglas Sadler.
Inclusive Dates: 1955-1990
Extent: 61 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Douglas Sadler fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 95-016
Description: This addition to the fonds consists of articles and booklets written by Frank Morris; manuscripts and published articles by Douglas Sadler; correspondence, minutes of meetings relating to Sadler's involvment in environmental and naturalist issues and activities; correspondence relating to Teacher's College and several issues of the Young Naturalist.
Inclusive Dates: 1898-1993
Extent: 1 m
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Douglas Sadler fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 96-001
Description: This addition to the fonds consists of bird spotting forms for the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas and Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas error forms. Also included in the fonds are numerous publications and newsletters from various naturalist clubs across Ontario.
Inclusive Dates: 1930-1990 ; predominant 1952-1959
Extent: 61 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: George Savigny fonds

Accession Number: 75-1034
Description: This fonds consists of correspondence; bond; and receipts, July 29, 1853 to March 3, 1856, from Henry Ruttan, Cobourg, Canada West, to George Savigny, Otonabee Township, Peterborough County, with regard to the latter's purchase of Reserve Lot no. 15, 17th Concession, Otonabee.
Inclusive Dates: 1853-1856
Extent: 12 items
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Serpent Mounds Foundation of Peterborough fonds

Accession Number: 74-1003
Description: The fonds consists of mimeograph and typescript copies of minutes, an outline of history and purposes of the Foundation, and two papers on the Serpent Mounds, at Rice Lake, one of which is by William Richard Adams of Bloomington, Indiana.
Inclusive Dates: Jan. 1956-May 1956
Extent: 2 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: S.C. Shaw fonds

Accession Number: 74-001
Description: The fonds consists of nine oil paintings, 8 of which are on board and one on canvas material, of sites in the Townships of Burleigh and Otonabee and were painted between 1941 and 1943. Six pictures deal with the Mount Julian/Stoney Lake area, while the other two are pictures of sites at the Village of Keene in Otonabee Township. The last is a picture of a pioneer cabin, in Burleigh Township.
Inclusive Dates: 1941-1943
Extent: 15 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Jean Shearman fonds

Accession Number: 05-013
Description: Fonds consists of research materials relating to early nineteenth-century Irish immigrants, Thomas Alexander Stewart and Frances Browne Stewart, of Douro Township, County of Peterborough in Ontario. Included in the research materials are photographs (including 3 daguerreotypes), genealogical family charts, and articles and papers relating to Stewart family descendents and other Peterborough settler families. Also included is the personal correspondence of Jean Shearman.
Inclusive Dates: ca. 1840-2004
Extent: 1 m
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Jean Shearman and Elizabeth Shearman Hall collection

Accession Number: 02-001

Description: Collection consists of a guide to nearly all of the Frances Stewart letters located at Trent University Archives and elsewhere. The guide is a biographical reference tool which indexes all the names which appear in the letters. The indexing locates each name in the approximately 450 letters and gives the corresponding page number in the transcripts (94-006); it provides the source of biographic information, and explains the relationship of each person to Thomas Alexander Stewart and Frances Browne Stewart. The guide is arranged alphabetically by last name and includes hundreds of names, i.e., Sydney Bellingham, Rev. George Brabazon, Rev. Francis Browne, John Burnham, Rev. Mark Burnham, Zaccheus Burnham, Frances Anne Edgeworth, Agnes Fitzgibbon (nee Moodie), Catherine Elizabeth Kirkpatrick (nee Browne), Susanna Moodie (nee Strickland), Robert Reid, Peter Robinson, Captain Charles Rubidge, Frances Stewart (nee Browne), Thomas Alexander Stewart, Samuel Strickland, Catharine Parr Traill (nee Strickland), and Robert Waller (complete list of names attached below). The guide, which was researched and compiled by Jean Shearman and Elizabeth Shearman Hall, is a tremendous piece of work and is an invaluable resource for researchers.
Inclusive Dates: [2000]
Extent: 42 cm of textual records
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Sherin family and business fonds

Accession Number: 71-002
Description: The fonds consists of the Sherin family and business records such as mortgages, deeds, notebooks, correspondence and newspaper clippings from May 1, 1814 to November 5, 1970. The fonds also includes records of the general store, J.C. Sherin and Son of Lakefield; day books dating from June 6, 1860 to June 2, 1881; December 4, 1886 to September 28, 1906; and journals dating from 1860 to 1907. There are also records from the store kept by S. Henderson (J.C. Sherin's son-in-law) which are interspersed throughout the fonds.
Inclusive Dates: 1 May 1814-5 Nov. 1970
Extent: 3.6 m
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Agricultural show

Accession Number: 91-1016
Description: This item is a large broadside advertising the first annual Agricultural Show, in Bridgenorth, for the Smith Branch Agricultural Society on October 6, 1855. It lists exhibit and competition categories and prizes as well.
Inclusive Dates: Aug. 1855
Extent: 1 Broadside
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Smith Township Agricultural Society minute book

Accession Number: 76-013
Description: This item is a minute book of the Agricultural Society of the Township of Smith. This item includes minutes of meetings from January 1855 to October 1904; lists of officers; lists of successful competitors at agricultural shows; and broadsides advertising agricultural shows.
Inclusive Dates: 1855-1904
Extent: 5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Smith Township fonds

Accession Number: 72-1001
Description: The fonds consists of photocopies of original field notes of surveys of Samuel Wilmot and Richard Birdsall 1818-1830, certified as true copy by Crown Lands Dept on June 30, 1857.
Inclusive Dates: 1818-1857
Extent: 5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Smith-Ennismore Historical Society collection

Accession Number: 05-1009
Description: Collection consists of 3 compact disks of speeches given at various Smith-Ennismore Historical Society meetings. One of the CDs is of a speech called "Follow the Dream," about millwright Adam Scott, given by Robert Scott Dunford in September 2003. Another CD is of a speech called "Running a Living Mill," about Tyrone Mills, given by Robert Shafer in March 2004. The third is of a speech called "The Roy Collection of Chemong Park," given by Mary Lavery in May 2004.
Inclusive Dates: 2003-2004
Extent: 3 compact disks
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Steamships for the Lakefield and Young's Point Run fonds

Accession Number: 91-1015
Description: This fonds consists of a photograph of the steamship Lintonia which plied the waters between Lakefield and Young's Point. There is also a ticket for the Empress in this fonds which was sister ship to the Lintonia.
Inclusive Dates: 1900
Extent: 1 photo
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Stewart-Dunlop fonds

Accession Number: 94-007
Description: This 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.
Inclusive Dates: Photocopied [between 1994 and 1995]
Extent: 2 inches
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Stewart family books

Accession Number: 98-005
Description: This accession consists of two books. The first book, The Holy Bible, is a pulpit bible printed by John Baskerville [c.1750], and includes the dedication to King James 1 and the Apocrypha. Handwritten family records, from Thomas A. Stewart's father down through several generations, appear on the inside of the front cover and at the beginning of the New Testament. Included with the bible is a description and history of the book, as provided by Reverend John Shearman. The second book, a notebook inscribed "Frances Browne, 1811", reflects Frances Stewart's taste in verse and sayings and is handwritten except for a few clippings inter-leaved.
Inclusive Dates: [ca. 1750-1900]
Extent: 2 books
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Frances Stewart fonds

Accession Number: 74-1005
Description: The fonds consists of three letters. Two are written to Harriet Beaufort, the third and last one to Maria Noble. Letter #1 (November 9, 1823-December 6, 1823), tells of mail received, the death of Frances' daughter Bessie, description of produce, and of difficulties in communication with Cobourg. Letter #2 (January 27, 1824-February 5, 1824), describes Frances' troubles with servants, of Tom's trip to Cobourg over the Rice Lake/Peterborough Road, and his getting lost on the lake, and her new baby girl. Letter #3, written from Goodwood, (April 11, 1854), tells of Tom's death, and her reflections on it. Transcripts of each of the letters are also included in the fonds.
Inclusive Dates: 1823-1854
Extent: 17 pages
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Frances Stewart fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 78-008
Description: This addition to the fonds consists of correspondence of Frances Stewart and her mother's family (the Wallers). Some letters relate to her upbringing in Ireland. The remaining correspondence concerns her life in Douro Township as one of the first pioneers. Frances describes pioneer life and its attendant hardships, the settlement and development of the Peterborough area and Douro Township and social, family, religious and economic life in early Ontario. Some correspondence concerns the publication of 'Our Forest Home'.
Inclusive Dates: 1757-1890
Extent: 25 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Frances Stewart fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 74-1006
Description: This addition to the fonds consists of photocopies of marriage license; abstract of marriage settlement; last will and codicils and attachments; and miscellaneous correspondence. The correspondence includes Stewart to Browne (March 11-13, 1823) - original belongs to Mrs. G.K. Browne of St. Andrews East, Quebec; Stewart to Browne (December 23, 1853) - original belongs to Dunlop Stewart of Oakville, Ontario; and F. Stewart to Sandford Fleming - original belongs to H.T. Pammett.
Inclusive Dates: 1816-1853
Extent: 2 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Frances Stewart fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 92-1002
Description: This addition to the fonds consists of 10 letters (some fragments) written by Frances Stewart to her granddaughter and relatives in England, concerning her pioneer life in the Peterborough area. There is also one photograph of Harriet as young child which was photographed in London, England (biographical information is written on the back of the photograph).
Inclusive Dates: 1854-1870
Extent: 10 letters and 1 photo
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Frances Stewart fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 94-1001
Description: This addition to the fonds consists of three letters written by Frances Stewart to relatives in Ireland. There is also an invoice from a linen draper and haberdasher. A transcript of the letters is also included in the fonds.
Inclusive Dates: 1823-1856
Extent: 1 file
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Frances Stewart fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 94-006
Description: This addition to the fonds consists of photocopies of correspondence from 1780 to 1858; 4 volumes of transcriptions of letters, journals and other papers of Frances Stewart of Douro Township, Upper Canada, and other family members. These 4 volumes transcribe materials of varying provenance and location and were made by Jean Shearman and her sisters.
Inclusive Dates: Photocopied 1978
Extent: 1 foot; 2 inches
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Frances Stewart fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 97-023
Description: This fonds consists of correspondence, an early version of the manuscript of "Our Forest Home", and a copyright document for "Our Forest Home". Also included are drawings, a painting, and house plans.
Inclusive Dates: 1806-1887
Extent: 6.5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Frances Stewart fonds. Additions

Accession Number: 77-1006
Description: This item is a photocopy of a book in which Frances Stewart recorded poems written by various people; the language of flowers; and, rules to know peoples' characters by the months of their birth. The dates of the poems range from 1811 to 1868.
Inclusive Dates: Photocopied [before 1977]
Extent: 5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Stoney Lake: American Canoe Association fonds

Accession Number: 83-014
Description: This fonds consists of materials on the American Canoe Association, compiled by Jean Cole for research on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Regatta at Juniper Point, Stoney Lake. The compilation consists of copies of papers from the American Canoe Association Book, 1883; copies of articles from the Peterborough Examiner concerning the Stoney Lake Meet in 1883 and a 1976 map produced by the Stoney Lake Cottagers Association with an accompanying booklet listing property owners on the lake and the lot locations. Also included in the collection are copies of American Canoe Association yearbooks (1938-1947), some badges, a belt buckle and membership cards.
Inclusive Dates: Photocopied [ca. 1983]
Extent: 7 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Strickland photographs and clippings fonds

Accession Number: 83-1003
Description: This fonds consists of 2, 5 X 7 black and white, photographs of Colonel Samuel Strickland. There is also a newspaper clipping concerning H. Strickland's long-distance swim of 1905.
Inclusive Dates: [between 1847 and 1867], 1905
Extent: 2 photographs, 1 clipping
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Grasses from Stony Lake gathered and mounted by Cathe Parr Traill

Accession Number: 96-1012
Description: This item is a scrapbook compiled by Catharine Parr Traill for her friend James Fletcher and given to him January 12, 1894. The inside cover has the following inscriptions: "Grasses from Stony Lake gathered and mounted by Cathe Parr Traill - Aged 92 years." These specimans are from the Island of Minne Wa-Wa and Otter Island. July-September 1893" and "With Mrs. Traill's kind wishes to her much valued and esteemed friend James Fletcher F.S.L.S. & etc. January 12th, 1894". The scrapbook consists of 20 pages, 18 which have pressed grasses, from the Stoney Lake area of Island of Minne Wa-Wa and Otter Island, glued onto them. Also included in the scrapbook is a speciman list of the grasses and a photocopy of an article, entitled "Grasses from Stony Lake Gathered and Mounted by Cathe Parr Traill - Aged 92 Years". The article was written by William G. Dore and published in "The Ontario Naturalist" in 1966.
Inclusive Dates: July 1893-Sept. 1893
Extent: 1 folder
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Dr. Henry Allan Turner fonds

Accession Number: 90-014
Description: This fonds consists of records relating to the professional and personal lives of Dr. Henry Turner (Sr.) and Dr. Henry A. Turner (Jr.), both medical doctors of the Millbrook area. The medical publications, prescription day books, office records, customer account books, transaction day books, stock books, business and domestic records and invoices, medical x-rays, and correspondence depict the lives of each man respectively, spanning the years 1872 to 1936. Also included are personal and business-related records of Alice Turner, nurse, daughter of H.A. Turner (Sr.). A Farmers and Business Directory for Peterborough and the United Counties has been removed to the Trent Collection and catalogued in TOPCAT.
Inclusive Dates: 1872-1936
Extent: 5 m
Restrictions: N

TITLE: William Twist collection

Accession Number: 07-008
Description: Collection consists of materials pertaining to Lakefield, Ontario, including Lakefield's Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (L.A.C.A.C.) meeting minutes, correspondence and research materials; issues of "The Parish Magazine;" medical receipts of Dr. John Rodger Fraser, Assessment Rolls; Fire Insurance Plans; business daybooks, one of which at least may have been related to the Hendren Funeral Home of Lakefield; and various other records.
Inclusive Dates: 1881-1995
Extent: 86 cm of textual materials; ca. 50 photographs
Restrictions: N

TITLE: United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria. Minutes and by-laws fonds

Accession Number: 91-1002
Description: This fonds consists of minutes and by-laws of the Proceedings of the Municipal Council of the United Counties of Peterborough & Victoria.
Inclusive Dates: 1853-1857
Extent: 0.5 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: View of Ashburnham from the Tower of St. John's Church

Accession Number: 02-1002
Description: 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.
Inclusive Dates: 2001
Extent: 2 items
Restrictions: N

TITLE: View of Peterborough in the District of Newcastle Upper Canada... / K.E.S

Accession Number: 89-1065
Description: This item is a pencil sketch of the Otonabee River and the District of Newcastle where the village of Peterborough was located. The sketch was produced by the artist K.E.S.
Inclusive Dates: 1835
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Voters lists collection

Accession Number: 93-001
Description: This collection consists of voters lists for various townships in Peterborough, Durham, Brant and Hastings counties such as Asphodel, North Monaghan, Otonabee, Harvey, Burleigh and Anstruther, Dummer, Hope, Brantford, Onondaga, the Town of Paris and Sidney. Genealogical resource.
Inclusive Dates: 1894-1959
Extent: 13 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Professor Joseph Wearing fonds

Accession Number: 98-011
Description: This fonds consists of materials relating to Theatre Trent, the Coventry Singers of Peterborough, and the Town and Gown Singers of Peterborough. Also included are materials related to the Progressive Conservatives, the New Democratic Party, the 1975 election, and Peterborough voting patterns.
Inclusive Dates: 1966-1978
Extent: 45 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Young's Point Cheese Factory Company minute book

Accession Number: 70-1002
Description: This item is book of minutes of the annual meetings and minutes of the directors' meetings of the Young's Point Cheese Factory Company.
Inclusive Dates: 22 Mar. 1918-9 April 1943
Extent: 2 cm
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Young's Point sketch

Accession Number: 95-1009
Description: 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.
Inclusive Dates: [ca. 1882]
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N

TITLE: Township of Asphodel-Norwood Municipal Records

Accession Number: 02-016
Description: This fonds consists of Minute Books, By-Laws, Assessment Records, Collectors' Rolls, Voters' Lists and municipal correspondence pertaining to the Township of Asphodel and the Village of Norwood now amalgamated as the Township of Asphodel-Norwood, County of Peterborough.
Inclusive Dates: 1850-1950 (predominant)
Extent: 6.3 m
Restrictions: N