Science Records
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: Professor Robert Annett fonds
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: Gilbert and Stewart Bagnani fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 08-009
Description: Fonds consists of scrapbooks, archaeological photographs, and research papers generated primarily by Gilbert Bagnani. The fonds also includes earlier World War I military photographs generated by Ugo Bagnani. Some of the photographs show Mrs. Bagnani in court dress. Also included are Stewart Bagnani bridal photographs.
Inclusive Dates: 1877-1965
Extent: 1 m of textual records, ca 500 photographs & glass negatives, 2 floor plans, 3 maps
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Winnett Boyd fonds
Accession Number: 99-008
Description: This fonds consists
of correspondence, drawings, reports, press clippings, biographical material,
photographs, maps, slides, manuscripts, publicity materials and certificates
relating to the aeronautical engineering, nuclear engineeering, consulting
engineering and political career of Winnett Boyd.
Inclusive Dates: 1907-1983
Extent: 5.25 m, plus 4 large materials
folders and 85 rolled drawings, plus 1 maps folder
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Catharine Traill Naturalists' Club fonds
Accession Number: 95-003
Description: This fonds consists
of the Catharine Traill Naturalists' Club's administrative papers, club
newsletters, field trip notes, various papers regarding field trips and
workshops, membership/address lists and personal correspondence of founding
members, George McKiel, Elizabeth Parnis and Wendy Dathan.
Inclusive Dates: 1973-1995
Extent: 51 cm
Restrictions: Box 1 and 2, none.
Box 3, personal correspondence, restricted.
TITLE: Gerald Cantello collection
Accession Number: 05-007
Description: Collection consists of reports and documents relating to Canadian
General Electric Nuclear Division, Peterborough, Ontario, collected by Gerald
Cantello in the course of research for his M.A. thesis at Trent University entitled
"The Roles Played by Canadian General Electric Company's Atomic Power Department
in Canada's Nuclear Power Program...", 2003.
Inclusive Dates: 1960-2002
Extent: 30 cm of textual records
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Deloro Mine Collection
Accession Number: 98-018
Description: This collection consists of technical plans and details of the Deloro mining processes, labour relations and union papers, medical information concerning arsenic poisoning, historical material regarding Deloro and the village of Marmora, maps, and plant photographs, layouts, and site plans.
Inclusive Dates: 1918-1963
Extent: 18 cm & 5 large folders
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Deloro Mine collection. Additions
Accession Number: 07-007
Description: Collection consists of employee records, plant and engineering operations, and photographs of Deloro village and the Deloro mining and smelting site.
Inclusive Dates: 1917-1959
Extent: 24 cm of textual records; 8 photographs
Restrictions: N
TITLE: John R. Fisher collection
Accession Number: 00-002
Description: This collection consists
of the minutes for the meetings of the Technical Working Committee, from
August 13, 1991 to October 13, 1994, various correspondence from environmental
organizations, companies, firms, and various levels of government, and
various other materials (i.e., published and unpublished studies), pertaining
to the Oak Ridges Moraine.
Inclusive Dates: 1989-1995
Extent: 30 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Geale-Rogers family fonds
Accession Number: 82-022
Description: This fonds consists of the
personal and business records of the Geale, Hamilton, Peck, Barker and Rogers
families. There are letters relating to World War I written by Beresford and
Robert Hamilton and Heber and Harry Rogers; letters, diaries, journals of Richard
Birdsall Rogers (superintending engineer of the Peterborough Lift Lock); the
records of Hon. Robert Hamilton, a factor at the Hudson's Bay Company stationed
at Fort Edmonton. The fonds also contains stereographs, approximately 1000 photographs,
and a C.E. Goad fire insurance plan for the city of Peterborough, 1882. Items
of interst include a group of photographs of the Trent Valley area and the building
of the canal; Rogers family pictures of the Stoney Lake area and the Juniper
Island Regatta; photos of early aircraft and the Curtiss Aviation School; photos
of hydraulic lift lock at Peterborough; and one letter from Catharine Parr Traill
to Robert Miles Hamilton.
Inclusive Dates: 1834-1966
Extent: 3.7 m
Restrictions: Y No copying of the Fire Insurance
Plan without permission of the University Archivist. No reprinting of the Fire
Insurance Plan without the permission of the Underwriter's Association.
TITLE: Peter Gzowski fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 99-015
Description: This addition to the
fonds consists of manuscripts for the "Morningside Years" and "Friends,
Moments, Countryside", correspondence between Peter Gzowski, McClelland
and Stewart and other editorial staff. There are 'mail bag' and 'ROA' (read
on air) letters addressed to the Morningside show, some of which are included
in the "Morningside Years." Also included is one complete radio program
schedule and a program for "Peter Gzowski's Invitationals play the Winter
Garden." There are also nineteen computer disks consisting of letters,
transcripts of "Morningside" interviews, and chapters of the "Morningside
Years". Twenty-four audio cassette tapes of Gzowski's interviews with various
Canadian authors and scientists are also included. As well, there are a
total of six photographs of Peter Gzowski and his staff.
Inclusive Dates: 1988-1998
Extent: 50 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Walter Kenyon fonds
Accession Number: 97-1001
Description: This fonds consists
of two binders enclosing the typescript of a narrative called "Rivers of
Ice, the Voyage of Captain George Tyson." When the safety of the ship is
threatened by being crushed in the ice, a contingent take refuge on a large
ice floe. The narrative follows their vicissitudes and ultimate rescue.
Inclusive Dates: [19-]
Extent: 5 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Bruce LeCouffe CD
Accession Number: 02-1009
Description: CD consists of the
scanned 400-page letterbook of Walter J. Francis. The letters are dated
1898-1906 and relate to the engineering practice of the writer. Of particular
relevance to the Peterborough area are letters concerning the building
of the Peterborough Lift Lock.
Inclusive Dates: 2002
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N
TITLE: R.D. Lloyd fonds
Accession Number: 97-1023
Description: This fonds consists
of three items: a 12-page pamphlet entitled "Astronomy" by Professor C.A.
Chant of the University of Toronto for use by Tuxis boys; a newspaper clipping
from "The Globe" dated June 1, 1922, entitled "Spring Stars: Hydra, the
Water Snake"; two photocopied pages from R.D. Lloyd's father's Tuxis Manual
with the name L. Lloyd, date 1921, and the roster of the "Cree Tribe" at
camp along with the "Cree yell".
Inclusive Dates: 1921-1922
Extent: 3 items
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Rosemary McConkey Collection
Accession Number: 80-020
Description:
This collection consists of 278 slides taken by Rosemary McConkey during her work as a nutritionist in Malaya (1962) and in Nigeria (1965). McConkey was part of a team of medical personnel and scientists from the University of Ohio who undertook surveys of nutritional needs in these two areas. McConkey has supplied a detailed listing of the slides (below) and has also included a 45 r.p.m. recording of the national anthem of Malaya "Negara Ku,", six books relating to the two areas and a map of Malaya. A complete listing of all slides prepared by Rosemary McConkey is available in the Reading Room.
Inclusive Dates: 1963, 1965
Extent: 278 slides, 6 books, 1 map, 1 record
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: 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: Professor Robert Paehlke fonds
Accession Number: 93-020
Description: This fonds consists
of correspondence and lists of bibliographic citations on asbestos, uranium
mining, hazardous and toxic chemicals, insecticide spraying, recycling
and waste management as well as other environmental issues.
Inclusive Dates: 1924-1991
Extent: 5 inches
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Professor Robert Page. Mackenzie Valley Pipeline fonds
Accession Number: 92-006
Description: This fonds consists
of correspondence and reports relating to the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline,
the Berger Report and inquiry as well as the Committee for an Independent
Canada.
Inclusive Dates: 1972-1983
Extent: 61 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: W.S. Tucker collection
Accession Number: 91-008
Description: This collection consists
of texts of papers and speeches written by William Sansome Tucker, D.Sc.,
A.M.I.E.E. in his particular area of expertise-sound phenomena-as well
as other topics. Also included are letters patent, photographic and diagram
illustrations as well as a few tear-sheets from periodicals about his work.
There are also two or three papers by Dr. Tucker's colleagues.
Inclusive Dates: 1910-1940
Extent: 18 cm
Restrictions: N