Where to look

The Archives Database contains descriptions of nearly all our archival holdings, with the exception of the material listed below

The following material is not in the Archives Database - it is listed on our website

• Trent University administrative records (Record Groups)
• Trent University posters, broadsized, and outsized materials
• University photograph collection
• Newspapers on microfilm
• Haliburton Bioregionalism working papers collection

Special Collections material (published books) and Trent University theses and dissertations are catalogued in Omni (read our guide to finding theses)

Browse collections

• Browse a list of all our fonds and collections in the archives database.
• Browse a list of the people, families, and organizations that created the records in our holdings.

Browse by Subject

Fonds/collections are assigned broad subject headings, which can be helpful for exploration. You will also find more granular subject, place, and access points in the database. These continue to be added to support browsing and exploration of our holdings, but are neither consistent nor comprehensive. Keyword searching may also be effective for locating resources on a topic.

• Agriculture
• Arts
• Assessment and Census Records
• Business and Industry
• Camping, Sports and Recreation
• Canadian Studies
• City of Peterborough
• County of Peterborough
• Education and Schools
• Genealogical Resources
• Hastings and Prince Edward Counties
• Indigenous Studies
• Labour
• Legal Records
• Literary and Publishing Records
• Medicine
• Military Records
• Northern Studies
• Pioneers
• Politics and Government
• Popular Culture
• Religion
• Science
• Settlement and Surveys
• Trent University
• Trent Valley and Canal
• United Counties of Northumberland & Durham
• Urban Studies
• Victoria County
• Women's Studies