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.