Education and Schools
Accession Number: 99-002
Description: This fonds consists
of papers regarding Professor Annett's Ph.D. dissertation, and includes
data and post-dissertation data. Also included are closed records relating
to Science 101a and 101b at Trent University.
Inclusive Dates: 1964-1973
Extent: 19 cm
Restrictions: None, except for
Box 2 which is closed.
TITLE: Association for Canadian Studies fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 91-007
Description: This addition to the
fonds consists of the Association for Canadian Studies correspondence,
personnel files, constitution, membership files, materials related to Association
for Canadian Studies awards, publications, workshops and conferences, publicity,
fundraising, meeting minutes, Quebec regional materials and records on
Canadian Studies as a discipline in the educational system.
Inclusive Dates: 1973-1987; 1991
Extent: 5.2 m
Restrictions: None except for Box
1 Folders 4-23, 27-36 and Box 2 Folders 1-3
TITLE: Association for Canadian Studies fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 98-013
Description: This fonds consists
of administrative documents and correspondence related to ACS publications
and ACS conferences.
Inclusive Dates: 1984-1990
Extent: 53 cm
Restrictions: None, except for
Box 6 Folder 1.
TITLE: Attack on the people's depository for Ontario / People's Depository for Ontario
Accession Number: 97-1003
Description: This item is a 16
page compilation of letters and excerpts from letters gathered in response
to an attack on the Department of Education contained in a 24 page pamphlet
written by G. Mercer Adam, a bookseller in Toronto. The first section contains
three letters by Rev. Dr. Egerton Ryerson. The second section contains
replies from public school inspectors, while the third section contains
responses by J. George Hodgins, manager of the depository, and remarks
and opinions of school trustees.
Inclusive Dates: March 1874
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Gilbert and Stewart Bagnani fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 97-003
Description: This fonds consists
of correspondence, photographs, etc. of Gilbert and Stewart Bagnani and
their families. Important historical materials relating to the John Beverley
Robinson family are included. The fonds also consists of Gilbert's research
material as an archaeologist, Stewart's research material relating to her
work as an art lecturer, photographs and materials relating to the Bagnani
estate, "Vogrie", located in Port Hope, Ontario, and materials concerning
Gilbert and Stewart's association with Trent University.
Inclusive Dates: 1662-1997
Extent: 3 m 55 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Egerton Brown fonds
Accession Number: 01-1013
Description: Fonds consists of University of Toronto programs, invitations,
examinations, and ephemera, 1921-1928.
Inclusive Dates: 1921-1928
Extent: 1 cm of textual records
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Professor John William Burbidge fonds
Accession Number: 12-003
Description: Fonds includes documentation pertaining to the professional and private life of John William Burbidge. Included are his manuscripts of books, articles, and sermons, and student papers. Also included are research materials, offprints of published articles, correspondence with publishers, personal correspondence, lecture notes relating to Professor Burbidge's teaching career at Trent University, and congratulatory letters and cards relating to his retirement from Trent University and election to the Royal Society of Canada.
Extent: 1.1 m of textual records; 30 photographs; 1 compact disc
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Verna Burgess fonds
Accession Number: 97-1007
Description: This fonds consists
of a "School Exercise Book" which contains a handwritten biographical sketch
of Miss Burgess' "First School", undoubtedly written to be read to the
members of the Shakespeare Club at one of their monthly meetings. The 31
loose sheets consist of poems and verse written by Burgess over the years
as inspiration or occasion presented.
Inclusive Dates: [191-?]-[198-?]
Extent: 1 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: David R. Cameron fonds
Accession Number: 01-001
Description: Fonds consists of
correspondence, questionnaires and reports generated by Professor David
R. Cameron who was commissioned by the Department of the Secretary of State
(superceded by the Department of Canadian Heritage) to investigate the
status of Canadian Studies in the 1990s. His report, "Taking Stock: Canadian
Studies in the Nineties was published by the Association of Canadian Studies
in 1996. Materials include readers' comments on the draft report.
Inclusive Dates: 1991-1996
Extent: 1.2 m
Restrictions: N.
TITLE: Ethelwyn Campbell fonds
Accession Number: 02-1007
Description: Fonds consists of letters to "Mrs. Campbell" from students
in her typing class in Fort Frances, Ontario, 1972; a photograph of several
people seated around a table (the framing around the photograph has the
title "Las Catacumbas"); two cards from friends,1976 and 1979; and two
travel diaries, one of which details her trip to Italy in 1973 and to England,
Ireland, and Scotland in 1978, and the other, her trip to England and Africa
in 1976.
Inclusive Dates: 1972-1979
Extent: 4 cm; 1 photograph
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Canadian Federation of University Women Peterborough Club fonds
Accession Number: 97-005
Description: This fonds consists
of Canadian Federation of University Women Peterborough Club conference
reports, a book entitled "Seventy Five Years of CFUW", newsletters, a radio
script, a speech entitled "Women Medical Pioneers", and other miscellaneous
papers.
Inclusive Dates: 1993-1996
Extent: 24 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Canadian Federation of University Women Peterborough Club fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 97-012
Description: This fonds consists
of documents and correspondence regarding the 60th anniversary of the Peterborough
Club. Also included are newsletters, minutes of CFUW's general meetings,
and documents relating to founding president Margaret Stovel McWilliams.
Inclusive Dates: 1993-1997
Extent: 7 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Canadian Federation of University Women fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 07-004
Description: Fonds consists of materials relating to the Canadian Federation of University Women and the Canadian Federation of University Women Peterborough Club.
Inclusive Dates: 1991-2006
Extent: 12 cm of textual records
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Canadian Federation of University Women Peterborough Club fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 09-004
Description: Fonds consists of minutes, programs, newsletters and annual reports of the Canadian Federation of University Women Peterborough Club. Also included are newsletters, annual reports, action papers, and directories of the CFUW national office.
Inclusive Dates: 1980-2009
Extent: 12 cm of textual records
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Anthony Cekota fonds
Accession Number: 97-1035
Description: This fonds consists
of a copy of an address called "World Leadership in Business", given by
Anthony Cekota to the Foreign Trade Club of Detroit on January 21, 1954.
Also included are two pieces of correspondence concerning a visit Cekota
made to Trent University and the donation of the above paper to Trent University
Archives.
Inclusive Dates: 1954-1989
Extent: 3 items
Restrictions: N
TITLE: History of Central Public School, Peterborough, 1860-1960 / R.J. Bolton B.A
Accession Number: 91-1004
Description: This item is a 28
page concise history of Peterborough Central Public school with 2 photographs
of the building and listings of inspectors, chairmen of the board, principals
and teachers.
Inclusive Dates: 1860-1960
Extent: 1 pamphlet
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Cole collection
Accession Number: 98-007
Description: This collection consists
of materials relating to Trent University's Morton Lecture Series, including
the inaugural lecture with dinner hosted by the Governor General of Ontario
in 1982. Also included is a report on the civil rights of the native population
in Ontario (1954), a calendar of Victoria University (1989), a University
of Toronto development publication, and correspondence, etc. of the Trent
University .02 club.
Inclusive Dates: 1898-1986
Extent: 6 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: Harley R. Cummings fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 01-009
Description: Fonds consists of
maps and plans of the Ottawa and Haliburton areas, time-books of Bronsons
and Weston logging firm, and photographs of the building of a railway,
and of the Haliburton area. Included also are research material and manuscripts
relating to books which Harley R. Cummings wrote about schools in the Ottawa
area, and on the history of Haliburton. Included are notes on John Strachan
and a transcript of his diary.The fonds also includes several genealogical
charts of the MacCallum family.
Inclusive Dates: 1864-1999
Extent: .5 m
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Harley R. Cummings fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 02-009
Description: Fonds consists of call-up notification postcards (1874-1880)
sent by Lieut.-Col. Alex. McKenzie of Barrie, Ontario, to Lieut. John Sutherland
of Bond Head, Ontario regarding the Battalion being raised at Barrie for
the Northwest Rebellion. Also included are genealogical records related
to the Cummings and MacCallum families, a photocopy of a book written by
Harley Cummings entitled "Cummings-MacCallum: A Tale of Two Families";
notes and other materials related to the teaching career of Cummings; three
photographs, "Hon. Thos. Mackay's Mills, Distillery etc. and part of New
Edinburgh, Rideau Falls", "New Edinburgh, from Railway Bridge", and an
unidentified photo similar to the previous two; and three maps: 1. "Ontario
Department of Highways Road Map of the Provisional County of Haliburton",
1952 (original); 2. "Plan of Part of York River and its Southern Tributaries,
Egan's River, Hudson's Creek & Allen's Creek together with the Head
Waters of the E. & W. Branches of Crow River & Buckhorn Branch
of Ottanabe [Otonabee] River, Tributaries to the St. Lawrence", surveyed
by John A. Snow, Hull, 1855 (in four sheets, copied from microfilm); 3.
"Plan of Part of York River, commencing at the Floorwood Jam", surveyed
by John A. Snow, Hull, 1854 (in three sheets, copied from microfilm).
Inclusive Dates: 1874-1986
Extent: 7 cm of textual records 3 maps 3 photographs
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Harley R. Cummings fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 04-006
Description: Fonds consists of documents and photographs relating to Harley
Cummings' education and military career; his research notes, correspondence,
and manuscripts relating to family history and Ottawa schools history; and miscellaneous
scrapbooks.
Inclusive Dates: 1864-1999
Extent: 60 cm of textual records; 50 photographs
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Honourable T.C. Douglas documents
Accession Number: 97-1036
Description: These documents consist
of two stapled mimeographed books. The first, dated March 1946 and entitled
"The Union of Saskatchewan Indians: The Record of the Establishment of
Indian Unity in Saskatchewan" records the minutes of meetings held in Regina,
Duck Lake and Saskatoon, and provides names of the Constitution Committee.
It also contains reprints of Treaties No.3 and 4. The second book, dated
July 1946 and entitled "The Treaties Between Her Majesty, Queen Victoria
and The Indians of British North America" contains reprints of Treaties
No. 3,4,5,6,7, and 8.
Inclusive Dates: 1946
Extent: 2 items
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Wayland Drew fonds
Accession Number: 99-012
Description: This fonds consists
of correspondence, documents, and manuscripts. Included are personal letters,
articles, essays, journals and daily planning books, research notes, drafts
of books and plays in manuscript form (including an unpublished first novel),
royalty statements, photographs and documentation on the novelizations
of the films "Corvette Summer," "Dragonslayer," "Batteries Not Included,"
and "Willow". Also included are materials regarding the film, "Places Out
of Time."
Inclusive Dates: 1931-1995
Extent: 2.6 m, plus one large materials
folder
Restrictions: Permission of the
University Archivist required for access to Box 1, and Box 2 Folders 1-22.
TITLE: Adele Ebbs fonds
Accession Number: 97-009
Description: This fonds consists
of documents and correspondence relating to the presentation of Trent University
honorary degrees to Dr. J. Harry Ebbs and Mary Northway. The fonds also
contains documents relating to Mary's death and her bequest of two million
dollars to Trent University, various documents relating to Ontario camps
and to the Brora Centre, and miscellaneous photographs.
Inclusive Dates: [1930]-1990
Extent: 6.5 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Public school daily register for recording the attendence of pupils
Accession Number: 91-1023
Description: This item is a Public
School Daily Register folder dated 1895 for Public School #3 from Camborne
in Hamilton Township. It includes an attendance record for January, 1897,
along with a report of number of male and female students in December,
1896. The register folder spells out in some detail the subject requirements
for the various grades.
Inclusive Dates: 1896-1897
Extent: 1 booklet
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Spencer J. Harrison fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 03-001
Description: This fonds consists of 1 box of
materials related to the life and works of Spencer J. Harrison, artist
and gay activist.
Inclusive Dates: 1990-2002
Extent: 32 cm
Restrictions: Open
TITLE: Hope Township. Ontario survey records fonds
Accession Number: 96-1003
Description: This fonds consists
of one 1850 notebook entitled "J.K. Roche's Field Notes, Port Hope" which
contains survey notes on properties in Port Hope, Canada West, and which
belonged to the estate of John D. Smith. There are also two survey documents
describing Lot 3, Concession 1 in Hope Township which is signed by John
K. Roche and is dated July 20, 1844, and one which is signed by Geo. A.
Stewart, Ward, and is undated. Also included in the fonds are three unidentified
and undated school building architectural drawings.
Inclusive Dates: 1844-1850 1886
Extent: 6 items
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Reverend Elgie E.M. Joblin fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 96-010
Description: This addition to the
fonds consists of records relating to the career of Reverend Elgie Joblin
such as correspondence, church bulletins, yearbooks, newspaper clippings
and photographs. The records deal with various charges throughout Canada
and most of the records concern native education and religion.
Inclusive Dates: 1895-1990 ; predominant
1940-1960
Extent: 30 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Reverend Elgie E.M. Joblin fonds
Accession Number: 95-019
Description: This fonds consists
of publications, photographs, news clippings, bulletins and reports pertaining
to Reverend Elgie E.M. Joblin's interest in aboriginal affairs and in particular,
the education of aboriginal peoples in Canada. Included in the fonds are
references to the Canadian Association in Support of Native Peoples, the
Indian-Eskimo Association, copies of "Indian News" and a Cree hymn book.
Also included in the fonds are 14 scrapbooks of clippings on native issues.
Inclusive Dates: 1936-1989
Extent: 45 cm.
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Richard Johnston fonds
Accession Number: 93-023
Description: This fonds consists
of correspondence, news releases, newsletters, reports, briefs, research
notes, clippings, photographs, agendas and directories relating to Richard
Johnston, M.P.P. for Scarborough West (New Democratic Party 1979-1990)
and as special advisor to the Toronto Islands. There is information on
social issues, poverty, education and women's issues included within the
fonds.
Inclusive Dates: 1977-1991
Extent: 1.2 m
Restrictions: Personal information
contained in papers restricted for 90 years
TITLE: Journal of Canadian Studies fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 98-016
Description: This fonds consists
of manuscripts of articles for the Journal of Canadian Studies, vol.32,
#1-3. Also included is correspondence with authors.
Inclusive Dates: 1996-1997
Extent: 25 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Professor John Marsh fonds
Accession Number: 03-002
Description: Fonds consists of
materials relating to conferences, colloquiums, and workshops in which
Professor John Marsh was involved, and to courses taught by Professor Marsh
at Trent University. Also included is miscellaneous correspondence, and
reports, submissions, papers, articles, and books written by and edited
by professor Marsh. Included in the fonds are four photographs and six
cassette tapes.
Extent: .4 m of textual records,
4 photographs, 6 cassette tapes
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Charles Vincent Massey collection
Accession Number: 99-1005
Description: This collection consists
of eleven published reports, addresses, and articles by the Honorable Vincent
Massey. Topics include education, art and nationality, drama, external
affairs, etc. with respect to Canada. Included also are typed notes compiled
at a meeting at which Massey was present, on "Diplomatic Machinery", held
in 1931.
Inclusive Dates: 1921-1931
Extent: 1 folder
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Mary Jane Moncrief's mathematics school book
Accession Number: 91-1019
Description: This item is a mathematics
work book which belonged to Mary Jane Moncrief in 1861. In it there are
samples of decimal currency, reductions of weights and measures, compound
addition and subtraction, percentages and many other mathematical exercises.
Inclusive Dates: 5 Jan. 1861
Extent: 1 book
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Eliza Jane (Hughes) McAlpine fonds
Accession Number: 97-1037
Description: This fonds consists
of a two-volume biography of Eliza Jane (Hughes) McAlpine, 1854-1938, written
by her grandson, Wallace McAlpine, fifty years after her death. The biography
contains the Hughes family history from the Napoleonic era, follows Eliza's
parents to Canada in the 1840's, describes the marriages of her siblings,
and gives a fine sense of life in Durham County in the early years of Canada's
nationhood. Eliza's battle with spinal meningitis is recounted. The volumes
trace the events, joys, and sorrows of the sizeable Hughes family, the
accomplishments of Eliza's husband, Dr. John McAlpine, and the experiences
with horses and subsequently automobiles. The extraordinary impact of Hardy's
"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is described. The famous Sir Sam Hughes was
Eliza's brother and some of his exploits are described. Eliza's tour of
Europe is described as it took place just before the outbreak of World
War I. Lt. A.A. MacLeod's story is told. There is an account of Lt. Col.
Cyril D.H. McAlpine's fateful expedition in the Arctic; a biographical
sketch of J.W.L. Foster who painted a portrait of Eliza; an account of
M.P. Tom Stinson's visits with Eliza; Eliza's disgust with Vicki Baum;
her pleasure in talking with Chief Paudash; and finally her death and its
aftermath. The volumes provide a wide, varied sketch of the times in which
the events transpire. Attached to the pages within the volumes are approximately
30 photographs, most of which are portraits, and are both in black and
white, and colour.
Inclusive Dates: [1988]
Extent: 2 items
Restrictions: N
TITLE: P. Douglas McCalla fonds
Accession Number: 00-004
Description: This fonds consists
of correspondence of family members with Professor Douglas McCalla and
his wife Anna (Skorski) McCalla. Letters predominate from 1960 when Doug
went away to university but there are a few items written to grandparents
in earler, undated years. Other materials relate to Douglas McCalla's career
as a university professor, editor and author.
Inclusive Dates: 1960-1998
Extent: 90 cms
Restrictions: Fonds is closed until
10 years after the deaths of both Professor and Mrs. P. Douglas McCalla.
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: Dorothy Moir notebooks fonds
Accession Number: 96-1000
Description: This fonds consists
of two volumes of notes with pasted-in illustrations of house and furniture
design. There are University of Toronto lecture notes on history of household
life and loosely inserted in the volumes are further notes and examinations.
Inclusive Dates: 1925-1927
Extent: 1 folder
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Mount St. Joseph teaching slides fonds
Accession Number: 92-002
Description: This fonds consists
of glass slides which were used as teaching materials at Mount St. Joseph.
The subjects include Tennyson: Idylls of the King, 55 slides; physiography,
15 slides; zoology, 5 slides; physics, 4 slides; English and history, 7
slides; and, European history, 6 slides. Ten of the slides in physiography,
2 slides in botany and 1 slide in chemistry were made by high school students
in Lindsay.
Inclusive Dates: [between 1894
and 1914]
Extent: 103 slides
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Ontario Camp Leadership Centre (Bark Lake, Ontario) fonds
Accession Number: 98-012
Description: This fonds consists
of administrative papers of the OCLC, and includes lists of staff members
as well as delegates for programs. It also includes an extensive collection
of staff photos as well as photos of camp buildings, etc. Also included
are maps of the camp, and papers related to programs.
Inclusive Dates: 1948-1989
Extent: 112 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Oral histories : audio cassettes and transcript collection
Accession Number: 96-008
Description: This fonds consists
of transcripts of interviews with Peterborough and area citizens concerning
their perceptions of the social, cultural, and political aspects of life
in Peterborough from the early 1900s to 1974. There are also three cassette
tapes forming one interview with Lorna Cotton-Thomas.
Inclusive Dates: 1974
Extent: 6.5 cm
Restrictions: There are no written
permissions to accompany this accession. Copyright remains with interviewee
and researchers must contact interviewee for permission to quote.
TITLE: Peterborough Business College photograph
Accession Number: 97-1026
Description: This photograph includes
portraits of 66 male graduates and 62 female graduates of the 1912-13 Peterborough
Business College graduating class. Also included in the photograph are
portraits of six instructors and administrators.
Inclusive Dates: [1913?]
Extent: 1 photograph
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational Institute fonds
Accession Number: 94-015
Description: This fonds consists
of 58 volumes of the Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School yearbook
called "The Echoes"; 2 Minute Books for the Girls' Athletic Association
from 1908 to 1923; 13 scattered volumes of "Commencement Exercises" between
1937 and 1951; and 1 volume of "Reports of the Business Board of the Collegiate
Echoes of the P.C.I." dated 1916-1918.
Inclusive Dates: 1905-1977
Extent: 33 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Peterborough Normal School collection
Accession Number: 01-1002
Description: This collection consists
of 14 photograph negatives of Peterborough Normal School, undated, and
portraying people and the grounds of the school. The negatives are enclosed
in a J.J. Gilfillan, Orono, Ontario, photographer's envelope, with the
name Calvin Hamm, Orono, Ontario written on it. Calvin Hamm was born on
March 28, 1909 at Orono, son of Ernest Hamm and Florence Hughson. He was
appointed Principal of the Morley Consolidated School at Stratton in September
1935 and received his B.A. at Western University in June 1943. He later
taught high school in Fort Frances (taken from a typed information enclosure
which accompanies the collection). Also included is a Peterborough Normal
School Christmas Card, undated; a Peterborough Normal School Literary Society
invitation, 1930; and a photograph of the "Floating Bridge, Bridgenorth,
Chemong Lake, 1933."
Inclusive Dates: 1930 1933 [193-?]
Extent: 1 folder
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Peterborough Teachers' College fonds
Accession Number: 10-007
Description: Forty-seven volumes and eight boxes of records relating to Peterborough Teachers' College. Includes sessional reports, training registers, practice teaching records, 1908 to 1968; also registration and record cards, 1946 to 1973. Also included is a Public School Daily Register for Bobcaygeon, 1883-1885.
Inclusive Dates: 1883-1885; 1908-1973
Extent: 2.8 m of textual records
Restrictions: Closed for 100 years from the last date on each record or card
TITLE: Fern Rahmel fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 10-002
Description: Fonds consists of diaries, photographs, correspondence, certificates, play scripts and playbills, research material, speeches, short stories, reviews and critiques, genealogies, newspaper clippings and greeting cards related to the life of Fern Rahmel. Also included is a panoramic photograph entitled Sirmilik Hoodoos Panorama by Dr. Roberta Bondar, framed and presented to Rahmel by Trent University.
Inclusive Dates: 1887-2009
Extent: 70 cm of textual materials; ca. 750 photographs
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Aureen Richardson fonds
Accession Number: 02-004
Description: Fonds consists of photographs, memorabilia, scrapbooks,
and newspaper clippings related to Aureen Richardson and her family, and
to her genealogical research and historical research on events and people
in the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham and Hastings County.
Inclusive Dates: 1811-2000
Extent: 3.5 m of textual records and other materials
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Henry Ruttan report
Accession Number: 92-1000
Description: This item is a photocopy
of an 1840 report written by Henry Ruttan, Sheriff of Newcastle District,
as a response to the circular letter of Lord Sydenham. Discussed in the
letter are the militia, the roads and other internal improvements, the
land granting system, the state of education; the (projected) union of
the two provinces and responsible government.
Inclusive Dates: Photocopied [between
1990 and 1992]
Extent: 113 pages
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: 02-007
Description: Fonds consists of Douglas Sadler's correspondence, notes,
papers, addresses, and teaching materials related to outdoor education.
Included are records related to a course for teachers of Native children
(1970), and to Sadler's participation in an Art and Design Education in
the Atlantic Provinces Conference in Halifax (1973).
Inclusive Dates: 1959-1976
Extent: 7 cm of textual records
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Margaret Scott fonds
Accession Number: 94-1003
Description: This fonds consists
of the original diary of Margaret Jane Scott who attended Lindsay Model
School and then Toronto Normal School before teaching in Omemee, Ontario.
The diary covers the period of time Margaret spent in Toronto at Normal
School. Also included in the fonds is a typescript copy of the diary which
is bound and includes an introduction, photograph and a section entitled
conversations with Ida Scott which was produced September 12, 1994.
Inclusive Dates: 1903-1904, 1959
Extent: 1 folder
Restrictions: N
TITLE: St. Anne's Parish, Peterborough, Ontario 1956-1981. 25th anniversary
Accession Number: 91-1003
Description: This item consists
of a twenty-eight page account of the parish's current activities with
some records of activities over the previous quarter century.
Inclusive Dates: 1956-1981
Extent: 1 pamphlet
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Thomas H.B. Symons fonds: Additions
Accession Number: 97-019
Description: This fonds consists
of the personal records of Professor Thomas H.B. Symons relating to his
activities on various boards and committees as well as Trent University.
It includes correspondence; addresses given; articles written; as well
as manuscripts, typescripts and research notes, photographs and video tapes.
Inclusive Dates: 1963-1996
Extent: 9.3 m of textual records,
ca. 200 photographs, 7 videocassettes
Restrictions: Permission of Thomas
H. B. Symons and the University Archivist.
TITLE: Thomas H. B. Symons fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 01-003
Description: Fonds consists of
personal records of Thomas H.B. Symons relating to his career and to his
family. Included are records of his wife, Christine Symons, his children,
Mary, Jeffrey, and Ryerson Symons, his father, Harry Lutz Symons, including
his father's manuscript for "Three Ships West", and his mother, Dorothy
Sarah (Bull) Symons. Also included are materials relating to Professor
Symons' activities on various boards and committees, addresses, articles,
manuscripts, typescripts, and correspondence, documents and notes concerning
Trent University, Association of Commonwealth Universities, Celanese Canada,
Science Council of Canada, Department of External Affairs, Royal Society
of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, etc.. Also
included are photographs of Thomas H.B. Symons, Christine Symons, and His
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Inclusive Dates: 1929-1999
Extent: 7.7 m
Restrictions: Permission of Thomas
H.B. Symons and the University Archivist required. Boxes 21 and 22 closed
until 2026.
TITLE: Thomas H.B. Symons fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 11-001
Description: Fonds includes personal and business correspondence, notes, and documents. Also included are greeting cards, invitations, and photographs. Major categories include Trent University, Police Services Board (Peterborough), Trent-Severn Waterways, Bagnani Endowment Trust & Vogrie, Broadview Press, Ontario Heritage Press, Association of Commonwealth Studies, and Association of Commonwealth Universities.
Inclusive Dates: 1958-2010
Extent: 5.2 m of textual documents; ca. 90 photographs
Restrictions: Permission of Thomas H.B. Symons and the University Archivist required. Boxes 17 & 18 closed until 2050.
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: University of Toronto. Hart House dedication program
Accession Number: 91-1029
Description: This fonds consists
of a dedication program of Hart House at the University of Toronto on November
11, 1919. There is also a souvenir folder regarding the dedication of the
Soldier's Tower with a colour etching of the Tower from June 5, 1924.
Inclusive Dates: 11 Nov. 1919,
5 June 1924
Extent: 2 items
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Margaret Van Every collection
Accession Number: 97-1032
Description: This collection consists
of six published articles and booklets relating to Mary Northway, W.E.
Blatz, the Brora Centre and child psychology. It also consists of two photographs,
one of Taylor Statten at Camp Ahmek in 1929, and one of Camp Ahmek council
members in 1923, with accompanying key to names. Also included is a share
certificate issued to Marian Gibson by John Northway and Son, Limited,
and 1982 reminiscences of Mary Northway of her days at Glen Bernard Camp.
Inclusive Dates: 1923-1982
Extent: 12 items
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Willan family fonds
Accession Number: 97-1014
Description: This fonds consists
of two "Counting Copy Books" which set down the basic rules of arithmetic
and provide examples for solving, including reduction, the rule of three,
compound interest, rebate or discount, equation of payments, barter, and
profit and loss. Under "Reduction" can be found listings of units of: Avoirdupois
Weight, Troy Weight, Time, Cloth Measure, Long Measure, Apothecary's Weight,
Dry Measure, Winchester Measure, and Wine Measure. Some references in the
back of Robert Willan's book record payments for shearing in 1819 and 1820.
An inscription on Robert's book reads "Wm. Marshall, Aughton near Lancaster"
[teacher?]. Another inscription on the last page of Edwards book reads
"Thomas M. Willan, South Monaghan." A loose slip of paper in Edward's book
reads "Robert Willan, Challan Hall, Febery 14, 1819."
Inclusive Dates: 1806 1832
Extent: 2 items
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Paul Wilson fonds
Accession Number: 03-007
Description: This fonds consists of correspondence, photographs, compact disks,
publications, and other materials related to Paul Wilson's association with
Trent University as athletic director, and as municipal politician in the City
of Peterborough, Ontario.
Inclusive Dates: 1966-2001
Extent: 20 cm of textual records and other materials
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Scott Young fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 96-002
Description: This addition to the
fonds consists of the following series: Personal Papers which includes
family and personal correspondence, material from Scott Young's Moscow
trip, correspondence and a certificate from Trent University, Dine with
the Stars Celebrity Dinner, Scott Young Public School, Dublin Arrangements
and Income Tax Returns; Professional Activities which includes papers and
correspondence from Interviews and Lectures, Personal Background, Hockey
Hall of Fame, Canada Council as well as Reviews; Correspondence with Agency
and Publishers; Published and Unpublished Works; and Miscellaneous.
Inclusive Dates: 1975-1995 ; predominant
1992-1995
Extent: 61 cm
Restrictions: N