1. Newsletter, March 2002: Contents include Richard B. Rogers and the Peterborough Lift Lock; W.T.C. Boyd Diaries; Overview of Archives and archival procedures.
2. Newsletter, June 2002: Contents include "Trent Archives in the Larger World;" a tribute to Peter Gzowski; and a note about the Frances Browne Stewart papers.
3. Newsletter, September 2002: Contents include a focus on gardening featuring Sheila Boyd, Frank Morris, Kittie Revell Peck, and Catharine Parr Traill.
4. Newsletter, December 2002: Contents include some Christmas cards from the Boyd Collection. We also featured a Christmas dinner which Helen Fowlds and other nursing sisters served to soldiers serving in France in 1915.
5. Newsletter, March 2003: Contents include Reverend Michael Farrar and his art works depicting Hastings, Ontario in the 1860s and 1870s. Also included are articles on the Edwin Zimmerman Yerex fonds and new additions to the Professor Ross Irwin fonds, and an introduction to our new on-line exhibit featuring women pioneers in Peterborough County.
6. Newsletter, June 2003: Contents include Ron Thom's award-winning architectural designs for Trent University. As Master Planning Architect, Thom was also responsible for choosing designer furniture for his new buildings. Some of the chairs which adorned the campus are featured in this newsletter.
7. Newsletter, September 2003: Contents include Thomas H.B. Symons' role in bringing about new directions and vigor to Canadian Studies in Canada and abroad during his term as Chairman of the Commission on Canadian Studies (1972-1984). Highlighted are several archival collections that were acquired for Trent University Archives through the efforts of Professor Symons during his term as University President.
8. Newsletter, December 2003: Contents include references to Christmas in the writings of Margaret Laurence, Robertson Davis, and E.J. Pratt.
9. Newsletter, March 2004: Contents include Friends of the Bata Library's support of the Library and, particularly, the Archives. Members featured include researcher and writer Quentin Brown, Dr. Fern Rahmel, and Professor Gordon Roper.
10. Newsletter, June 2004 (Special Issue): Contents include a description of the papers held at Trent University Archives that deal with the life and times of Richard Birdsall Rogers, superintending engineer of the world-renowned Peterborough Lift Lock. The 100th anniversary of the Lift Lock was celebrated on July 9th of this year.
11. Newsletter, September 2004: Contents include comments on Trent's 40th anniversary, celebrated in October of this year. A scanned image of a page of the very first student register is included. This newsletter features nationally recognized naturalist and author, Doug Sadler, who lives in Peterborough and who has entrusted his papers to our care.
12. Newsletter, December 2004: Contents include World War I Christmas letters from men and women serving overseas to their families in the Peterborough area.
13. Newsletter, March 2005: Contents include images of title pages of first edition books from The Michael Treadwell Special Collections and Rare Books Room. Included among others are title page images of Mark Twain's 1872 edition of Bleak House, and William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero.
14. Newsletter, June 2005: Contents include transcriptions and scanned images of a few important 18th century letters relating to British colonialism in North America, from The David Stirling Macmillan collection .
15. Newsletter, September 2005: Contents include a tribute to author, journalist, and broadcaster, Scott Young (1918-2005), and a feature on jet engine designer, Winnett Boyd of Bobcaygeon.
16. Newsletter, December 2005: Contents include excerpts pertaining to winter taken from nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century diaries and letters. Also included are images of photographs and Christmas cards from the same era.
17. Newsletter, March 2006: Contents explore the relationship between the naming of Haliburton, Ontario and the Honourable Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865). Thomas Haliburton, an internationally-known author, was the creator of the fictitious character, Sam Slick.
18. Newsletter, June 2006: Contents include excerpts from the writings of Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, Frances Stewart, and John Langton relating to water navigation in the Kawarthas during the nineteenth century. Also included are photographs of the steamer, "City of Peterborough," and advertisements offering transportation through the lakes on such boats as the Esturion, Ogemah, Manita, and Empress.
19. Newsletter, September 2006: Contents focus on Cobourg, Ontario's Central Exhibition of 1878. Scans and excerpts from the "Prize List" are featured and commentary includes references to the September 2006 International Plowing Match and Rural Expo held near Peterborough in the town of Keene.
20. Newsletter, December 2006: Contents include 19th century Christmas recipes for turkey, mincemeat pie, and cake. Also included is an 1891 quote from a letter written by Anna Leveridge to her mother in England in which she describes the Coe Hill Christmas social and the types of food that were available.
21. Newsletter, March 2007: Contents include the announcement that Margaret Laurence's personal library has been relocated to Trent University Archives. Margaret's long relationship with Trent is discussed in brief. Also included are examples of the types of questions that researchers using our Archives are asking, and the surprising statistics that their research endeavors generate as they peruse the Archives Web site.
22. Newsletter, June 2007: Contents include tributes to Michael Treadwell (1942-1999) and Mary Northway (1909-1987), whose contributions to Trent University have been recognized through the naming of the reading rooms in the Archives and the Special Collections and Rare Book Room in their honour. Michael Treadwell and Mary Northway were responsible for several important acquisitions at Bata Library and the Archives.
23. Newsletter, September 2007: Contents focus on Upper Canadian surveyor John Huston (1790-1845). Huston received authorization from Sir Peregrine Maitland to "practice the art of surveying land" in Upper Canada in 1820, and he assisted Peter Robinson, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Surveyor General of Upper Canada, in settling the 1825 contingent of Irish immigrants in the Peterborough area.
24. Newsletter, December 2007: Contents include images and excerpts with Christmas themes from various nineteenth-century publications housed in our Michael Treadwell Special Collections and Rare Books Room. One of the examples depicted is from Charles Dickens' 1888 "author's copyright edition" of A Christmas Carol.
25. Newsletter, March 2008: Contents include a commentary on the relationship between the Honourable Leslie M. Frost and Trent University. Included are photographs of Chancellor Frost at Convocation and of the Garden Party held at Trent in 1969 to honour the Frosts.
26. Newsletter, June 2008: Contents focus on the early 20th century gardens of the Boyd family of Bobcaygeon. Included are images from seed catalogues and a photograph of the the Boyd house surrounded by magnificent gardens. Also included is a commentary on the Peterborough publication, The Canadian Horticulturalist & Beekeeper, first published in 1881.
27. Newsletter, September 2008: Contents focus on the Turner family of Millbrook, Dr. Henry Allan Turner Sr. (1828-1922), Dr. Henry Allan Turner Jr. (186?-1951), and Dr. Turner Jr.'s sister (Alice Turner) and wife (Alice Turner) who were nurses. Included are short synopses of their practices along with images of x-rays and medical records.
28. Newsletter, December 2008: Contents include cartoons by Arthur G. Racey. Racey worked for the Montreal Star in the early 1900s and gained international recognition for his cartoons. The images depicted in the Newsletter have Christmas themes and are reproduced from the original cartoons housed in the Archives.
29. Newsletter, March 2009: Contents include a tribute to Dr. Gilbert Monture, former member of Trent's Board of Governors and an officer of the Order of the British Empire. Dr. Monture was instrumental in the formation of the Indigenous Studies program at Trent University.
30. Newsletter, June 2009: This issue focuses on the professional achievements of Dr. Bernadine Dodge, University Archivist Emeritus, who retired in June 2009 from Trent University Archives. Included are tributes to Bernadine from Trent University Founding President, T.H.B. Symons, Trent University Professor Emeritus John Wadland, and University of Manitoba archival theorist Dr. Terry Cook. Also included is a description of a booklet recently published by the Archives, Sketchbook Moments: The Early Works of Marmaduke Matthews.
31. Newsletter, September 2009: This issue highlights the newly acquired collection of first edition Richard Outram and Barbara Howard books and broadsheets which were donated to Trent University Archives and Special Collections by Professor Emeritus John W. Burbidge. The July appointment of Janice Millard as Curator of Archives, Special Collections, Rare Books and Gifts is also mentioned, along with overviews of three recent digitization projects in the Archives: the Katchewanooka Herald (1855-1859); Arthur student newspaper; and the immigration letters of Frances Stewart.
32. Newsletter, December 2009: Contents include letters to Santa written by the Boyd family children of Bobcaygeon, Ontario between 1897 and 1901.
33. Newsletter, March 2010: This issue focuses on Gilbert and Stewart Bagnani, after whom the newly opened Bagnani Hall, located at Traill College, is named. The Bagnanis both held positions at Trent University during the 1960s and early 1970s.
34. Newsletter, June 2010: This issue focuses on nineteenth-century weddings in the Peterborough area. Several examples of marriage documents are depicted. Also included is a tribute to Dr. Fern Rahmel, playwright, educator, and journalist.
35. Newsletter, September 2010: Contents include a discussion by Janice Millard titled "Forensic Investigation in the Archives." Several examples of nineteenth-century legal documents from the Archives' court and legal firm collections are depicted.
36. Newsletter, December 2010: This issue is focused on a winter theme. Diary entries, segments of letters, and photographs reflect the experiences of Peterborough area residents during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
37. Newsletter, April 2011: Contents include images of our newly acquired Susanna Moodie paintings. Also included is information about our new Disaster Preparedness and Response Plan prepared this spring by Fleming College's Collections Conservation and Management class. And, highlighted from our holdings is an image of an Indigenous woman at nearby Rice Lake painted in 1860 presumably by Colonel Robert Brown of the Royal Scotch Fusiliers.
38. Newsletter, June 2011: This issue acknowledges the support and friendship of bibliophile Hugh Anson-Cartwright. For more than forty-five years, Anson-Cartwright has had the interests of Bata Library and Trent University Archives at heart and has made many contributions to our holdings. We also include a description of an important new acquisition of print Canadiana, a bound volume of nineteenth-century pamphlets related to Louis Riel and the North-west Rebellion of 1885.
39. Newsletter, October 2011: This issue has a music theme and highlights a few of the historically significant items of sheet music located in the holdings. Included is a description of newly acquired print music which had belonged to Peterborough's Captain John Rubidge and presented by him in the early 1800s to his wife-to-be, Margaret Clarke. Also highlighted is print music by Port Hope's Mark Burnham, including his 1832 Colonial Harmonist.
40. Newsletter, January 2012: The year 2012 marks the bicentennial anniversary of the War of 1812. This issue highlights related documents from our holdings, some of which reflect the commemorative centennial activities of 1912.
41. Newsletter, April 2012: This issue serves as a helpful guide for those interested in exploring the genealogical resources located at Trent University Archives.