TITLE: Hugh Atwood collection
Accession Number: 97-1022
Description: This collection consists of three
personal notes written by Catharine Parr Traill to her grand-niece, Agnes
Le Fenore. One is a two part card with the cover illustrated with cutout
images of a dog and a butterfly along with a wisp of moss glued to the
surface. The second part of the card is a warm salutation to Agnes and
her family. The date is December 24, 1897. The second item, dated May 12th,
is a note of thanks to Agnes for obtaining a cape [and cap?] for her, and
also refers to fatigue and the problem of swelling feet. The third item
is a letter written April 1, 1899 to "G Niece A F" [Agnes] sending belated
sympathy for two in hospital and describing in some detail Traill's own
plight, and the care offered by Kate and Katie.
Inclusive Dates: 1897-1899
Extent: 3 items
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Gilbert and Stewart Bagnani fonds
Accession Number: 94-016
Description: This fonds consists of correspondence,
photographs, family biographical information, notes and research for speeches,
alderman election materials, accounts, land ownership documents, business
records and newspaper clippings pertaining to the personal and political
career of John Beverley Robinson. Also included in the fonds is research
material of Mrs. Forsyth Grant, daughter of J.B. Robinson and President
of the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Toronto.
Inclusive Dates: 1798-1919
Extent: 1.5 m
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Beta Sigma Phi (Peterborough, Ontario) fonds
Accession Number: 10-008
Description: Fonds consists of records related to the Beta Sigma Phi of Peterborough, Ontario. Correspondence, minutes, notes, membership lists, treasurer reports, photographs, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the Area Council, the Laureate Delta Beta chapter, the Delta Chi chapter, the Epsilon Mu chapter, and the Xi Iota chapter are included. Also included are 13 photographs of inaugural activities of the Peterborough Beta Sigma Phi in the 1940s.
Inclusive Dates: 1943-2007
Extent: .75 m of textual records; ca. 1000 photographs
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Margaret Love Bird fonds
Accession Number: 95-1002
Description: This item is a 26 page photocopy
of typescript of a letter of reminiscence written in 1910 by Margaret Bird,
of Peterborough, Ontario, when she was an elderly woman. It tells of her
abuse at the hands of her husband including one attempt to poison her.
It describes her difficult life in late nineteenth-century Peterborough.
Inclusive Dates: Photocopied [between 1993 and
1995]
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: Not to be copied.
TITLE: Boyd family fonds
Accession Number: 88-011
Description: This fonds consists of records encompasing
three generations of the Boyd family of Bobcaygeon. The fonds has been
divided into the following series: photographs and glass negatives; Reverend
Henry C. Avant; Mossom Boyd; Mossom Martin Boyd (Mossie); Lillian de Grassi
Boyd; the De Grassi papers which are records of Dr. Alex De Grassi, Lillian
Boyd's father, a physician from Lindsay, Upper Canada; Gardiner Cust Boyd;
Mildred Boyd; Winnett (Brownie) Boyd; Laurence Chadwick Boyd; Mossom de
Grassi Boyd; A. Sheila Boyd; stamps; artifacts; business which deals with
the Boyds interests in lumbering; agricultural papers which deal with the
Boyd's farming interests in buffalo and cattle; and, estate papers. The
strength of this fonds lies in its completeness. Nothing was thrown away
and there are grocery lists, laundry lists, staff salary books, furniture
receipts, party and wedding invitations, school report cards, ship and
railway timetables, diaries and approximately 20,000 pieces of correspondence.
This has resulted in a remarkable record of a large household from the
1880s to the 1980s and an invaluable source for social and business historians.
Inclusive Dates: 1857-1982
Extent: 20 m
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Carrie Brady notebooks fonds
Accession Number: 89-1012
Description: This fonds consists of notebooks
belonging to Carrie Brady. The notebooks cover a wide range of subjects
such as grammar, French, geography, mathematics and calligraphy.
Inclusive Dates: Dec. 1877
Extent: 1 file
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Woman's auxilary monthly meetings
Accession Number: 89-1039
Description: This item contains the minutes of
Brighton Women's Auxiliary monthly meetings from 1895 to 1901.
Inclusive Dates: 1895-1901
Extent: 1 book
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Reverend Robert Brooking fonds
Accession Number: 77-021
Description: The fonds consists of photocopies
and typescripts of correspondence and journals of Reverend Robert Brooking
and his wife Elizabeth relating to his service as a missionary in Africa,
in Canada West and in the Hudson's Bay Territory. Also included are reports
of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, 1851-1857. Some of the items relate
to the Hiawatha and Rama Reserves, and Norway House. The original records
date from 1839 to 1879.
Inclusive Dates: Photocopied and transcribed
[between 1957 and 1977] 1894
Extent: 15 cm
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: Bury's Green Women's Institute collection
Accession Number: 01-011
Description: Collection consists of three pamphlets,
"Our Own Cookbook" / by the East Victoria Women's Institute, 1905, "Pioneer
Gleanings from Verulam, 1867-1967" / by T.H. Martin, and "Bury's Green
Branch of the Women's Institute, 1953-1993". Also included are items which
were removed from a scrapbook: seven photographs, brochures, and several
newspaper clippings relating to Fenelon Falls, Bobcaygeon, Lindsay, and
Bury's Green, Ontario, 1961, 1984-1994. The photographs include Women's
Institute members such as Nan McGhee, Phyllis Fell, Esther Humphries, Laura
Flett, Mrs. Tiers, Clara Flett, and Grace Barker; also included are photos
of Sherry L. Telford and Kim Chambers during the Olympic Torch Run, 1988.
This collection also consists of a scrapbook entitled "Tweedsmuir History:
Bury's Green Branch Women's Institute". Enclosed are approximately 70 photographs,
a history of Bury's Green branch of the Women's Institute, maps, brochures,
correspondence, historical accounts, and memorabilia, n.d.
Inclusive Dates: 1904-1993
Extent: 10 cm
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: Campbell family fonds
Accession Number: 88-017
Description: This fonds consists of five bound
volumes relating to activities of the Campbell family of Keene, Ontario.
There are ledgers, diaries and a scrapbook which date from 1862 to 1929.
Inclusive Dates: 1862-1929
Extent: 18 cm
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 Peterborough Club fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 05-004
Description: Fonds consists of material related to the Canadian
Federation of University Women Peterborough Club and the Canadian Federation
of University Women. Box 1 includes the Peterborough Club's Programmes list,
1937-2005; three bound volumes of minutes, programs, newsletters, membership
lists and annual reports, September 1998 - May 2004; a bound volume titled "Digest
of Minutes: Executive and General Meetings," 1957-2005; a scrapbook of
newspaper clippings and memorabilia; two pamphlets by members of the Club: "Family
Health Trees: Genetics and Genealogy" and "Take Pot Luck;" one
folder of correspondence relating to the 1975 Annual General Meeting; and one
folder of general information about the Club. Box 2 consists of one folder of
material related to the Canadian Federation of University Women, including annual
meeting minutes, pamphlets, and issues of "The Communicator"and "The
CFUW Chronicle," 1999-2005.
Inclusive Dates: 1954-2005
Extent: 20 cm of textual records
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Canadian Federation of University Women Peterborough Club fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 08-006
Description: Fonds consists of records, accounts, minutes Annual Reports of the Canadian Federation of University Women: Peterborough Club. Records include information about the rescue and salvage of club records damaged in the 2004 Peterborough flood.
Inclusive Dates: 2004-2007
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: Canadian Federation of University Women Peterborough Club fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 10-006
Description: Fonds consists of research materials and photographs pertaining to the 70th anniversary history publication of the CFUW Peterborough Club. Also included are materials relating to earlier anniversaries, the awards fund, various projects taken on by the CFUW Peterborough Club, policies, and the IFUW dinner held at the Canadian Canoe Museum in 2001.
Inclusive Dates: 1967-2010
Extent: 38 cm of textual records, ca. 65 photographs; 6 compact discs
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Canadian Images fonds
Accession Number: 88-016
Description: This fonds consists of publicity
records from the Canadian Images film festival held at Trent University
between 1978 and 1984. As well, there are memos, minutes, correspondence
and business papers donated by T.H.B. Symons, from his tenure as honorary
board member of Canadian Images.
Inclusive Dates: 1979-1984
Extent: 13 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Cramahe and Haldimand Female Tract Society reports
Accession Number: 76-1009
Description: This item is a loosely bound set
of reports of the Cramahe and Haldimand Female Tract Society dealing with
income and the distribution of tracts to "place divine truth before the
minds of our fellow sinners." There are only two reports in this item and
one report is the seventh report.
Inclusive Dates: 1839
Extent: 8 pages
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Cruther's scrapbook
Accession Number: 71-005
Description: The item is a microfilm copy of
a scrapbook compiled by D.S. Cruther's grandmother containing obituaries
and pictures of all kinds of events, from such journals as the "Illustrated
London News", "Harper's Weekly", etc. The scrapbook is a good study of
the social, architectural, art and other interests of a Mid-Victorian Canadian
woman.
Inclusive Dates: Microfilmed [ca. 1971]
Extent: 1/2 reel
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Walter Nichol Davidson family fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 86-015
Description: This addition to the fonds consists
of deeds, correspondence, school workbooks and records from a correspondence
course offered in 1933-34 by the University of Toronto. There is excellent
correspondence relating to the lives of Annie and Daisy Davidson.
Inclusive Dates: 1909-1946
Extent: 36.5 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Blodwen Davies fonds
Accession Number: 91-001
Description: This fonds consists of research
material, manuscripts, published articles and correspondence of Blodwen
Davies with the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the National Museum.
Inclusive Dates: 1928-1968
Extent: 91 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Ferguson recipe book fonds
Accession Number: 96-1010
Description: This fonds consists of a recipe
book of typed recipes. Its' cover is hand-made with a coloured drawing
of a woman carrying a platter with the name J.R. Ferguson hand-written
on the front. Also included in the fonds is a letter on Hall & Furgason
letterhead (Produce Commission Merchants, New York) from a son to his mother
dated September 20, 1895. (Note different spelling of the name Ferguson/Furgason?).
Inclusive Dates: [ca. 1895]
Extent: 2 items
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Mary Ferguson fonds
Accession Number: 75-1029
Description: The fonds consists of manuscripts
of poetry; printed poems of Alice Roger Collins; and two letters from Alice
Roger Collins (October 30, 1946; February 21, 1948) discussing personal
matters, post World War II conditions, and her teaching of music at Walkerton,
Ontario. The poetry is presumably by A.R. Collins, some of which is dedicated
to 'Fergie' - in ink and pencil, and of a religious nature.
Inclusive Dates: 1913-1948
Extent: 36 pages
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Fowlds family and business fonds
Accession Number: 72-001
Description: The fonds consists of family and
related papers of Henry Fowlds and his family including James S. Fowlds
and H.M. Fowlds. It also includes business correspondence, invoices, some
journals and cashbooks, mortgages as well as deeds regarding the business
of Henry Fowlds, Jas. S. Fowlds and Bros. and H.M. Fowlds. In December
2001, Trent University Archives launched an online exhibit which depicts
Helen Fowld's experiences in World War I. All her letters and diaries are
transcribed and are found at the following site: http://www.trentu.ca/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm.
Inclusive Dates: 1838-1935
Extent: 2.74 m
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Grafton Womans Missionary Society
Accession Number: 89-1040
Description: This item is an account book kept
by the Grafton Womans Missionary Society between 1911 and 1926. The Society
kept track of expenses, membership and profits. The book has members names
and what they paid in membership plus donations from members who were unable
to attend meetings. There is also a Treasurer's quarterly report booklet
which can be found between the pages of the account book.
Inclusive Dates: 1911-1926
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Peter Gzowski fonds
Accession Number: 92-015
Description: This fonds consists of original
manuscripts, research material, correspondence, and transcripts relating
to Peter Gzowski and the "Morningside Show" broadcasts of the Canadian
Broadcast Corporation as well as photographs of Peter Gzowski and other
people. Also included in the fonds are business contracts and correspondence
from listeners, to the show, from across Canada. There are also materials
relating to Peter Gzowski's radio career.
Inclusive Dates: 1955-1991
Extent: 8 m
Restrictions: Personal letters may not be quoted
without permission of the writer. CBC tapes may not be reproduced. Folder
24 in Box 1.
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: Linden Hall fonds
Accession Number: 89-008
Description: This fonds consists of one photograph
album, dating from around 1910 to the 1960's. There are assorted programmes
and flyers, mostly from Middlebury College, Vermont and this includes programmes
for the Coronations of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Also included
in the fonds is a 1924 newsletter for Franklin Square House (Girls' Home)
and the "Second Book of Verse" by Betsey Buttles with some loose greeting
cards and poems.
Inclusive Dates: [ca. 1910-1969]
Extent: 5 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Jean Harstone fonds
Accession Number: 81-012
Description: The fonds consists of original designs
and drawings by Jean Harstone from architectural design school, 1925-1926
and promotion, advertising and program materials from the Columbia Broadcasting
System Radio Network and the National Broadcasting Corporation Radio Network,
New York City, 1938-1952.
Inclusive Dates: 1925-1952
Extent: 38 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Geta Helme document
Accession Number: 98-1001
Description: This document is a photocopy of
a 1914 newspaper clipping written by Geta Helme. In the article, Helme
describes her adventures travelling from Bonn, Germany back to England,
and includes her contacts with British, American, and German officialdom.
The article was published in the "Lancashire Guardian", August 22, 1914.
Inclusive Dates: 1998
Extent: 1 item
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Dorothy Choate Herriman fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 94-019
Description: This addition to the fonds consists
of diaries, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings
of Dorthy Choate Herriman. The fonds includes material on the Canadian
Authors Association, Carol Cassidy Coates and other poets and writers.
Newspaper clippings, original illustrated layout, biographical information,
author's proof and a bound copy of "Mater Silva" are also included in the
fonds. There is also an annotated copy of editor John Garvin's "Canadian
Poets".
Inclusive Dates: 1912-1972
Extent: 45 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Pauline Johnson fonds
Accession Number: 89-013
Description: This fonds consists of numerous
notes and correspondence of Evelyn Johnson pertaining to her sister Pauline,
to family history and to the affairs of the Six Nations Indian Reserve.
There are newspaper clippings dating from 1881 to 1936 on Pauline Johnson
and on Indian concerns of the time. Poems written by and collected by Pauline
Johnson; Correspondence of Pauline Johnson, G.M. Ferguson, Chief G.H.M.
Johnson and Allan Johnson are also included.
Inclusive Dates: 1870-1937
Extent: 30.5 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Letitia Matchett Johnstone : autograph book
Accession Number: 89-1002
Description: This item is an autograph book belonging
to (Mrs.) Letitia Matchett Johnstone, inscribed by various friends and
relatives between 1883 and 1893.
Inclusive Dates: 1883-1891
Extent: 1 vol.
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Charles Latimer fonds
Accession Number: 95-010
Description: This fonds consists of correspondence,
newspaper clippings and miscellaneous documents. The creator of the fonds,
Charles Latimer is nephew of Donald Sheridan who was a member of the Industrial
Workers of the World. Along with nearly 100 associates, including correspondents
represented in this fonds such as David Ingar and Richard Brazier, Sheridan
was sentenced to Leavenworth prison for anti-capitalist, anti-militarist
opinions during World War I.
Inclusive Dates: 1946-1972
Extent: 5 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Margaret Laurence letters
Accession Number: 97-1028
Description: This accession consists of three
letters, one dated January 27, 1981, one April 6, 1982, written by Margaret
Laurence to Mary E. Hamilton, a college acquaintance, and one dated September
8, 1986. In the first, which is a photocopy, Laurence expresses her delight
in the book "And Some Brought Flowers...", a copy of which Hamilton must
have sent to her. She praises the illustrations and the text and suggests
that her delight be passed on to Mary Alice Downie and E.J. Revell, co-authors
of the book. In the second letter, which is an original, Laurence graciously
acknowledges Hamilton's use of a quote in publicizing the "Flower" book.
She also comments on the possibility of being nominated for the Nobel prize,
asserting that her body of work is much too slim. An additional letter
from Laurence dated September 1986 and addressed to Elizabeth Ritchie was
forwarded to Trent University Archives in 1999 by the Canadian High Commission
in London, England. The letter had been found inside a book and concerns
Laurence's prognosis of cancer and her desire to complete her memoirs.
Inclusive Dates: 1981-1986
Extent: 3 letters
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Leggott family fonds
Accession Number: 12-006
Description: Fonds consists of correspondence, legal and financial documents, newspaper clippings, photographs and memorabilia relating to the Leggott family of Lakefield Ontario.
Inclusive Dates: 1863-1980
Extent: 12.0 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Anna Leveridge fonds
Accession Number: 73-1000
Description: This fonds includes the letters
of Anna Leveridge, written to her mother and family friends in England,
describing their boat trip to Canada and pioneer life in the backwoods
of Hastings County, Ontario, near Coe Hill, Marmora, and Millbridge. The
fonds also includes family genealogy and photographs.
Inclusive Dates: 1883-1972
Extent: 2 cm (2 folders)
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Lyceum Club and Women's Art Association of Peterborough fonds
Accession Number: 88-009
Description: This fonds consists of minutes,
financial records, scrapbooks and other records relating to the Lyceum
Club and Women's Art Association of Peterborough. The scrapbooks contain
articles on the clubs history as well as photographs and other notes of
interest.
Inclusive Dates: 1905-1968
Extent: 61 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Lyceum Club and Women's Art Association of Peterborough fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 94-004
Description: This addition to the fonds consists
of annual reports, programmes, constitution, minutes and accounts relating
to the Lyceum Club and Women's Art Association of Peterborough. Some of
the records pertain to the Drama Study Group.
Inclusive Dates: 1940-1993
Extent: 5 inches
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Lyceum Club and Women's Art Association of Peterborough fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 97-006
Description: This fonds consists of programmes,
annual reports, a memorial certificate for the 90th anniversary of the
Lyceum Club and signed by Peter Adams, photos of club events and award
winners, etc., administrative papers, a scrapbook, and Rug Group log books.
Inclusive Dates: 1956-1996
Extent: 15 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Lyceum Club and Women's Art Association of Peterborough fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 10-009
Description: This fonds consists of programmes, rules and regulations, membership records, annual reports, minutes, correspondence and research material of the Lyceum Club and Women's Art Association of Peterborough.
Inclusive Dates: 1947-2009
Extent: 44 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Helen Marryat fonds
Accession Number: 69-001
Description: The fonds consists mostly of Helen
Marryat's (nee Helen Fowlds) personal experiences as a nurse in World War
I, and her activities as a local historian. There are clippings of her
articles in local newspapers, historical maps (drawn by Gerald Marryat)
and other materials relating to settlement of Hastings and district such
as education and nursing. Also included are the correspondence and photograph
collections of her brothers, Donald and Eric (mostly from World War I),
and material on Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), navy captain and novelist.
In December 2001, Trent University Archives launched an online exhibit
which depicts Helen Fowld's experiences in World War I. All her letters
and diaries are transcribed and are found at the following site: http://www.trentu.ca/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm.
Inclusive Dates: 4 Feb. 1912-21 Nov. 1964
Extent: 1.7 m
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: Rosemary McConkey collection
Accession Number: 12-002
Description: Collection consists of an inventory of land locations for early settlers and inhabitants of Ops Township from the initial survey of the township in 1825 to 1872. It includes census information and assessments of households, various voter's lists, many Ops Township documents and one map for the 1839 Assessment Roll. The collection also includes a variety of cookbooks, recipes, food preparation manuals for specific cooking devices, and research notes.
Inclusive Dates: 1825-1994
Extent: 50 cm of textual records; 1 map
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Minne E. McHolm fonds
Accession Number: 72-1002
Description: The fonds consists of the typescript
memoirs of Minnie E. McHolm of her life in Frome, Somerset, England, to
March 1913, then the memoirs of life as a domestic on the Canadian prairies,
outside of Regina, to December 1920. The fonds also includes two booklets
of Mrs. McHolm's poetry, "The Indiscretion of Mary Jane" and "Sunset at
Golden Hill."
Inclusive Dates: 1876-1920
Extent: 10 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Isabella Miller fonds
Accession Number: 70-1001
Description: This fonds consists of letters from
a servant girl, Isabella Brownlie in Otonabee to her brother Claud in Scotland.
After 1845, the letters are from Isabella and her husband James Miller.
The fonds also contains two photographs, one of Isabella with her brother
Claud, and the second of Claud Brownlie alone, as well as a diploma for
Thomas Menzies Miller, 1891.
Inclusive Dates: Feb. 1843-Sept. 1849
Extent: 8 letters; 2 photographs; 1 diploma
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Isabella Miller fonds.Additions
Accession Number: 01-1019
Description: Fonds consists of one copybook of arithmetic exercises
belonging to Isabella Miller, Otonabee Township.
Inclusive Dates: [184-?]
Extent: 1 cm of textual records
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Susanna Moodie fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 11-004
Description: Fonds consists of four original watercolours by Susanna Moodie. The works are untitled. All depict flowers: columbine and violets on mossy ground; a single red rose; white roses on a single stem; and a white wild rose entwined on a wood cross on mossy ground. Three of the paintings are signed by Moodie.
Inclusive Dates: [187-?]
Extent: 4 watercolours
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Expense books fonds
Accession Number: 89-1034
Description: This fonds consists of four expense
books. One book contains a price list for assorted household items listed
in alphabetical order from 1912 to 1915. Another book covers someone's
personal expenses from 1887 to 1889. The third book covers someone's accounts
from 1912 to 1915. The fourth book has a few expenses in it but it is mostly
a handwritten English to French phase translation book with accompanying
letters from an agency which placed governesses.
Inclusive Dates: 1885-1915
Extent: 4 items
Restrictions: N
TITLE: New Left Movement fonds
Accession Number: 88-020
Description: This fonds consists of protest newspapers,
newsletters, journals, essays, and 'left wing' political manifestos written
and published between 1964 and 1973. The records cover Canada and the United
States.
Inclusive Dates: 1964-1973
Extent: 51 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Marjorie McLean Oliver fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 04-002
Description: Fonds consists of photographs, genealogical information, and legal
documents pertaining to the Chase and Oliver families; diaries of Marjorie Oliver;
documents relating to her teaching career; school yearbooks; correspondence;
and greeting cards including several Valentines. Also included is a North Harvey
Cheese & Butter Manufacturing Company Ltd. ledger dated 1911-1920.
TITLE: Mary Q. Ollerhead fonds
Accession Number: 89-1072
Description: This fonds consists of Mary Ollerhead's
notebook with teaching notes. At the back of the book are notes pertaining
to her estate after she died. There are a number of notes that Mary wrote
pertaining to her estate and funeral arrangements. A carbon copy relating
to her will and some sympathy cards are also included. There is a collection
of bank books from 1937 to 1953 included in the fonds as well as a retirement
letter from the Toronto Board of Education and a few other articles of
correspondence.
Inclusive Dates: 1873-1952
Extent: 5 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: Pengelley family fonds
Accession Number: 70-001
Description: The fonds consists of the diaries
of Harriet Pengelley (1835-1836), Robert Pengelley (1835), and E.A. Marquette
Pengelley (1940-1941); correspondence; sketchbooks (1829-1830); drawings;
and photographs. In 1994, an addition was made to the fonds which included
a photocopy of a diary of Robert Pengelley (1837-1840) and textual records
regarding the Pengelley family.
Inclusive Dates: 1829-1840 1940-1941
Extent: 20 cm (1 volume)
Restrictions: N
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 Women's Committee fonds
Accession Number: 88-023
Description: This fonds consists of records that
were left when the Peterborough Women's Committee disbanded in 1987. The
files provide a record of a decade of women's political concerns from a
local point of view.
Inclusive Dates: 1977-1987
Extent: 2 m
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Peterborough Women's Committee fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 97-013
Description: This fonds consists of miscellaneous
documents relating to the administration of the Peterborough Women's Committee.
Also included is documentation relating to the project "Women Helping Women",
as well as newsletters and annual reports.
Inclusive Dates: 1979-1987
Extent: 20 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Preceptor Psi Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi fonds
Accession Number: 07-005
Description: This fonds consists of meeting minutes, correspondence, membership records, scrapbooks, and photographs relating to Beta Sigma Phi and the Peterborough Preceptor Psi chapter. Also included are issues of Hi Phi Record.
Inclusive Dates: 1956-2007
Extent: 1.5 m
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Fern Rahmel fonds
Accession Number: 88-003
Description: This fonds consists of correspondence,
radio scripts for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, book reviews and
other written records by Fern Rahmel.
Inclusive Dates: 1944-1975
Extent: 30.5 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Elsie Ross diary
Accession Number: 75-1000
Description: This item is a diary of Elsie A.
Ross of historical places in Paris, France, written from November 1911
to July 1912. The diary includes postcards of historically interesting
buildings, descriptions of the use of the buildings and their origins.
The descriptions are written in longhand.
Inclusive Dates: 1911-1912
Extent: 176 pages
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: Shakespeare Club fonds
Accession Number: 95-013
Description: This fonds consists of minutes,
programs and membership lists of the Shakespeare Club which was a Peterborough
women's club.
Inclusive Dates: 1953-1988
Extent: 12 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Stewart-Dunlop fonds
Accession Number: 94-007
Description: This fonds consists of photocopied
correspondence of the Stewart and Dunlop families. Most of the letters
are to Ellen Dunlop (daughter of Frances Browne Stewart) from Frances Stewart,
Catharine Parr Traill and Harriet Beaufort as well as James Wallis.
Inclusive Dates: Photocopied [between 1994 and
1995]
Extent: 2 inches
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Frances Stewart fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 78-008
Description: This addition to the fonds consists
of correspondence of Frances Stewart and her mother's family (the Wallers).
Some letters relate to her upbringing in Ireland. The remaining correspondence
concerns her life in Douro Township as one of the first pioneers. Frances
describes pioneer life and its attendant hardships, the settlement and
development of the Peterborough area and Douro Township and social, family,
religious and economic life in early Ontario. Some correspondence concerns
the publication of 'Our Forest Home'.
Inclusive Dates: 1757-1890
Extent: 25 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Frances Stewart fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 92-1002
Description: This addition to the fonds consists
of 10 letters (some fragments) written by Frances Stewart to her granddaughter
and relatives in England, concerning her pioneer life in the Peterborough
area. There is also one photograph of Harriet as young child which was
photographed in London, England (biographical information is written on
the back of the photograph).
Inclusive Dates: 1854-1870
Extent: 10 letters and 1 photo
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Frances Stewart fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 94-1001
Description: This addition to the fonds consists
of three letters written by Frances Stewart to relatives in Ireland. There
is also an invoice from a linen draper and haberdasher. A transcript of
the letters is also included in the fonds.
Inclusive Dates: 1823-1856
Extent: 1 file
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Frances Stewart fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 94-006
Description: This addition to the fonds consists
of photocopies of correspondence from 1780 to 1858; 4 volumes of transcriptions
of letters, journals and other papers of Frances Stewart of Douro Township,
Upper Canada, and other family members. These 4 volumes transcribe materials
of varying provenance and location and were made by Jean Shearman and her
sisters.
Inclusive Dates: Photocopied 1978
Extent: 1 foot; 2 inches
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Frances Stewart fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 97-023
Description: This fonds consists of correspondence,
an early version of the manuscript of "Our Forest Home", and a copyright
document for "Our Forest Home". Also included are drawings, a painting,
and house plans.
Inclusive Dates: 1806-1887
Extent: 6.5 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Sunset of Bon Echo fonds
Accession Number: 94-1000
Description: This fonds consists of 6 volumes
of "Sunset of Bon Echo" bound into one copy, as well as one additional
copy unbound, which were published by Flora Macdonald Denison in honour
of Walt Whitman.
Inclusive Dates: Mar. 1916-May 1920
Extent: 2 items
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Bessie Taylor fonds
Accession Number: 08-003
Description: Fonds consists of detailed household financial records kept by Bessie Taylor of Brighton, Ontario after the death of her husband. The records date 1955 to 1977 and are recorded in 11 notebooks. Also included is a handwritten notebook of several stories with religious themes.
Inclusive Dates: 1955-1977
Extent: 6 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Grasses from Stony Lake gathered and mounted by Cathe Parr Traill...
Accession Number: 96-1012
Description: This item is a scrapbook compiled
by Catharine Parr Traill for her friend James Fletcher and given to him
January 12, 1894. The inside cover has the following inscriptions: "Grasses
from Stony Lake gathered and mounted by Cathe Parr Traill - Aged 92 years."
These specimans are from the Island of Minne Wa-Wa and Otter Island. July-September
1893" and "With Mrs. Traill's kind wishes to her much valued and esteemed
friend James Fletcher F.S.L.S. & etc. January 12th, 1894". The scrapbook
consists of 20 pages, 18 which have pressed grasses, from the Stoney Lake
area of Island of Minne Wa-Wa and Otter Island, glued onto them. Also included
in the scrapbook is a speciman list of the grasses and a photocopy of an
article, entitled "Grasses from Stony Lake Gathered and Mounted by Cathe
Parr Traill - Aged 92 Years". The article was written by William G. Dore
and published in "The Ontario Naturalist" in 1966.
Inclusive Dates: July 1893-Sept. 1893
Extent: 1 folder
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Mary Tuer diary
Accession Number: 75-1001
Description: This item is a diary of a European
tour from July 2 to September 27, 1914, and of boat trip aboard the SS
Megantic (Montreal, Quebec, to Liverpool, England). There are also passenger
lists, menus, and postcards included in the diary. The diary has some references
to the outbreak of World War I, and the removal of British subjects from
the continent. There is also one piece of correspondence included. The
diary chronicles a tour through England, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany
and Switzerland.
Inclusive Dates: 2 July 1914-27 Sept. 1914
Extent: 75 pages, approximately
Restrictions: N
TITLE: University Women's Club of Peterborough fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 95-012
Description: This addition to the fonds consists
of minutes, treasurer's books, correspondence and financial records of
the Ontario Council and the Peterborough University Women's Club. The fonds
also contains journals, minutes and newsletters of the Canadian Federation
of University Women.
Inclusive Dates: 1983-1994
Extent: 5 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: University Women's Club of Peterborough fonds
Accession Number: 88-008
Description: This fonds consists of conference
reports of the Eastern Ontario Regional, Canadian Federation of University
Women and International Federation of University Women from 1960 to 1987.
The fonds also includes various publications of the different chapters.
Inclusive Dates: 1959-1987
Extent: 61 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: University Women's Club of Peterborough fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 89-003
Description: This addition to the fonds consists
of correspondence and minutes of the Canadian Federation of University
Women conferences and chapters of C.F.U.W. as collected by the University
Women's Club of Peterborough. There are also some documents from the International
Federation of University Women conferences that were held during the forties
and fifties.
Inclusive Dates: 1949-1988
Extent: 18 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: University Women's Club of Peterborough fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 89-010
Description: This addition to the fonds consists
of membership lists, reports, minute books and financial material relating
to the University Women's Club of Peterborough. There are also records
relating to the Canadian Federation of University Women.
Inclusive Dates: 1937-1989
Extent: 104 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: University Women's Club of Peterborough fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 90-010
Description: This addition to the fonds consists
of slide-tape presentation material which includes tapes and slides with
a list of contents of the University Women's Club of Winnipeg, 1974; CFUW
Journals; minutes, membership lists, and a "Tribute to Margaret White",
of the University Women's Club, Peterborough; minutes, reports, and financial
reports, etc. of the CFUW annual meeting Edmonton, 1989. Additional records
were added in 1991 and 1992 which include CFUW Journals, tributes to Mrs.
Vera Hickey and Miss Mildred Bailey; minutes of meetings including the
Annual General Meeting; tributes to Miss Helen McGregor and Miss Katherine
Macdougall; the constitution of the club and the "Long Range Plan" of June,
1990.
Inclusive Dates: 1985-1990
Extent: 18 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: 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: Katherine E. Wallis fonds
Accession Number: 69-002
Description: The fonds is in eight bound volumes
and consists of letters, newspaper clippings, photographs, diaries, poetry,
sketch books, accounts and a typewritten unpublished autobiography.
Inclusive Dates: 1861-1956
Extent: 2 feet 6 inches
Restrictions: N
TITLE: We-Peterborough : World Emergency Centre for Assertive Non-Violence fonds
Accession Number: 89-011
Description: This fonds consists of records dealt
with by We-Peterborough, primarily the civil disobedience and cruise missile
protest. Regarding civil disobedience, the fonds contains various study
kits, articles and publications. It also includes articles, legal correspondence
and minutes of meetings.
Inclusive Dates: 1961-1985
Extent: 25 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Bernice Winslow (Dawendine) fonds
Accession Number: 98-008
Description: This fonds consists of a published
copy of "Iroquois Fires: The Six Nations Lyrics and Lore of Dawendine"
by Bernice Loft Winslow; a video tape of an interview of Dawendine by Donald
Smith in 1993; an audio cassette of Dawendine talking, recorded in 1972;
three reel to reel tapes donated [to Dr. Smith] by Helen Rothwell; and
two cassette tapes, the first of which includes an interview of Dawendine
by Betty Kennedy in 1963 and an introduction by Jane Coventry at the Ontario
Camping Association, and the second of which is of Dawendine telling stories
at Camp Waseosa.
Inclusive Dates: 1963-1995
Extent: 8 items
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Leslie Woolcott collection
Accession Number: 97-020
Description: This collection consists of various documents
relating to women's issues in Canada and third world countries. Included are
correspondence and documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women
in Beijing in 1985, and documents relating to the Kawartha World Issues Centre.
Inclusive Dates: 1983-1986
Extent: 21.5 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Leslie Woolcott collection. Additions
Accession Number: 05-009
Description: Collection consists of reports, brochures and pamphlets relating
to women and with respect to poverty, globalization, health, and education.
Collection also includes the agenda and accompanying documents concerning the
fourth world conference on women, 1995, Beijing, China, with references to a
previous conference in Nairobi, 1985.
Inclusive Dates: 1985-1996
Extent: 30 cm of textual records
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Xi-Iota Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi
Accession Number: 10-003
Description: Fonds consists of five photograph albums related to the activities of the Peterborough area Xi-Iota Chapter of the Beta Sigma Phi. The albums are dated 1987-1988, 1988-1989, 1995-1996, 1997, and 1997-1998.
Inclusive Dates: 1987-1998
Extent: 5 photograph albums (ca. 700 photographs)
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Young Nim You fonds
Accession Number: 01-1015
Description: Fonds consists of a photograph of Young Nim You; various
Korean church-related journal issues and extracted excerpts, many with
hand-written English explanations; Korean pamphlets relating to women's
involvement in Korean churches and cultural groups; and a manuscript and
published article written by You entitled Korean Sisterhood and published
in Newsletter: Women's Inter-Church Council of Canada, March 1993. Also
included are two posters and a calendar.
Inclusive Dates: 1988-1993
Extent: 1 cm of textual records 1 photograph
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Young Women's Christian Association fonds
Accession Number: 85-001
Description: This fonds consists of records relating
to the history, administration and programs of the Peterborough Young Women's
Christian Association (Y.W.C.A.).
Inclusive Dates: 1908-1983
Extent: 1 m
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Young Women's Christian Association fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 91-003
Description: This addition to the fonds consists
of original Peterborough YWCA incorporation documents from 1897, YWCA photographs,
financial and business documents, and other records including audio cassettes
with oral interviews and tea meetings.
Inclusive Dates: 1897-1991
Extent: 13 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Young Women's Christian Association fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 94-011
Description: This addition to the fonds consists
of ledgers, annual reports, program information, and other records regarding
the YWCA women's residence and nursery school. There are also many photographs,
mostly from the 1960's, of events and of people, who were associated with
the Peterborough Young Women's Christian Association.
Inclusive Dates: 1939-1989
Extent: 31 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Young Women's Christian Association fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 97-002
Description: This fonds consists of Young Women's Christian
Association scrapbooks from 1976-1993, and a photograph of the YWCA swim club
"The Silver Finnettes" from the 1930's. Also included are several identified
and unidentified photographs of YWCA staff and volunteers, and of buildings.
There are also slides of the staff, and miscellaneous slides.
Inclusive Dates: [1930]-1993
Extent: 32 cm
Restrictions: N
TITLE: Young Women's Christian Association fonds. Additions
Accession Number: 05-001
Description: This fonds consists of Young Women's Christian
Association minutes, programs, financial records and committee lists
Inclusive Dates: 1958-1991
Extent: 30 cm
Restrictions: N
Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
Canadian Committee on Women's History