What's New in 2012
Internet Archive open access initiative:
Trent University Archives gratefully acknowledges the support of Internet Archive,
an open access initiative for public domain material. Six items from our holdings were digitized through this initiative and are now available on the Web:
Journal of the British Parliament from February 1620 to December 1621, reign of James I. (Archival fonds 02-1004).
See: http://archive.org/details/journalofbritish00unse .
Click here to access information about the original manuscript.
An Autobiographical Sketch / by Captain Charles Rubidge. 1870. (Pamphlet Collection #178).
See: http://archive.org/details/autobiographical00capt .
The consolidated by-laws of the Municipal Council of the County of Peterborough / compiled by order of Council by a Special Committee composed of Mr. J.B. Pearce, Chairman, and Messrs. W.H. Casement... [et al.]. Peterborough (Ont. : County) Municipal Council. 1900. (F5545 .P4 A1518 1900 TC).
See: http://archive.org/details/consolidatedbyla00unse .
Prize list of the Central Exhibition under the auspices of the riding societies of east and west Peterborough, South Victoria, East Durham and West Northumberland, and of the Peterborough Horticultural Society, and of the Dummer, Smith, &c., Manvers, Hope and Hamilton Branch Agricultural Societies to be held in the town of Peterborough on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, September 29th and 30th and October 1st. 1875. (T 393 .P7 TC).
See: http://archive.org/details/prizelistofcent00unse .
Prize list of the central exhibition 1876, under the auspices of the riding societies of East and West Peterborough, South Victoria, East and West Durham and West Northumberland, and of the Peterborough and Port Hope horticultural societies and of the Smith,& Co., Manvers, Hope, and Hamilton branch agricultural societies. To be held in the Town of Port Hope on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September 26th, 27th and 28th... [1876?]. (F 5547 .P7 P7 TC)
See: http://archive.org/details/prizelistofcentr00unse .
Debenture prospectus of the Peterborough Real Estate Investment Company (Limited) Canada... Peterborough Real Estate Investment Company (Limited) Canada. [1879?] (HD 319 .P4 P4 TC).
See: http://archive.org/details/peterboroughreal00robe .
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Voices at Hand by Wendy Trusler will take place at Trent University, February 1 - 8, 2012. Described in her press release as "part art installation, part performance & part travelling archive," Wendy examines the essence of why we keep letters. Included in her collection of over 3,300 letters are copies of nineteenth-century items from Trent University Archives. Events will take place at Bata Library, February 1, and at Gzowski College, February 2-8. Voices at Hand is co-sponsored by Bata Library and Gzowski College.
What's New in 2011
We've recently received four original Susanna Moodie watercolours. Click here to learn more about them! Susanna Moodie is one of the settler women featured in our Women Pioneers in Peterborough County online exhibit.
What's New in 2010
We've compiled a list of books and articles that were based on research conducted at Trent University Archives - an impressive list! Over 80 items to date!
We're currently working on a digitization project relating to the lives of Mossom Martin Boyd (1855-1914) and his wife, Lillian de Grassi Boyd (1858-1942), of Bobcaygeon, Ontario. Mossom Martin Boyd extended the large lumbering entreprise established by his father, Mossom Boyd, in the Bobcaygeon region in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Click here to learn more about the Boyd family papers located at Trent University Archives.
What's New in 2009
Our digitized document repository continues to grow! New projects are listed below. Or, click here to see a guide to all our digitized resources.
A transcription of the Hugh Caldwell Diary ,1888-1899
The Calendar of Prisoners from the Common Gaol at Cobourg. The Calendar lists all persons in custody awaiting hearing before the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (and occasionally the assizes) held in March, June, September and December of each year. Our Calendars cover the early 1840s to 1908
The Journal kept by the Post Manager at Eastmain Hudson's Bay Company post, 1929-1930
The Diary of Lt. Shier who served with the British Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1918
The Letters of Frances Stewart, 1757-1890
The drawings of Jim Lauder, a serviceman with the Canadian Armed Forces who was imprisoned in a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1944. The drawings depict life in Stalag IX C, Obermassfeld
The Diary of Mary Tuer, Port Hope, Ontario, who was on a vacation in Europe when W.W. 1 broke out
We have been fortunate to have Dwayne Collins from the Master of Library and Information Sciences program at the University of Toronto working in the Archives to digitize back issues of the student newspaper, Arthur. This will be an on-going project and we're grateful to Dwayne for his expertise in photographing and mounting the digital images in a useable format
We have scanned a copy of Trent's very first Calendar, 1964-1965
Plus! We have transcribed the "Katchawanooka Herald," a hand-written, manuscript newspaper circulated amongst the farm worker trainees who were apprenticing with Col. Sam Strickland in Lakefield, 1855-1859.
We have published a small booklet featuring, in facsimile format, selected sketches of Marmaduke Matthews. Matthews was an important nineteenth-century landscape painter, one of the earliest "railway painters" to paint the Rocky Mountains. Our thought was that people might be interested in his more reserved and personal sketches. The booklet was designed by Louis Taylor of North George Publications and is quite handsome. You can purchase a copy of the booklet from Trent University Bookstore.
