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IMC-140 · File · 2021-2022
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File consists of material compiled for a project on the history of Camp Wangoma, including 12 editions of a newsletter, "Wangomatters - 50 years - Before the Memories Fade" and a written history of the camp. Files are available in both paper and digital form.

YMCA Camp Wangoma
YMCA Camp Sunfish collection
IMC-142 · File · 1933-1943
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

Collection includes material documenting the history of the YMCA Camp Sunfish camp. Most records pertain to the leasing and maintenance of the property from Elliot-Croft Camp, who leased it to the Danforth Young Men's Christian Association to be used as a camp for boys. File includes property documents, minutes, and correspondence.

IMC-093 · File · 1991
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

A six-page typed account of Hamilton's experience as a Parks Canada official who assisted with the organization of an event involving the crossing of a Viking ship from Norway to North America in 1991. Professor T.H.B. Symons presided at the event in his capacity as Chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. "Vinland Revisited" is entertaining and humorously written

IMC-045 · File · 1834-1882
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File consists of the following letters:

  • "David Hooey of Port Hope to Robert Kelly of Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland: 26 April 1834, 6 March 1835, 24 January 1839 (3 letters - transcripts only).
  • Rainy Armstrong to brother of Grass [Gross], County Cavan: 12 April 1852 (photocopy of original plus transcript)
  • Robert Maxwell to his brother: 26 December 1878 (transcript only).
  • Henry Maxwell of Oshawa to his brother, Patrick Maxwell: 14 December 1881 (transcript only).
  • Robert Maxwell (b. 1806) to his brother Henry Maxwell: 7 July 1882 (transcript only).
  • Photocopies of the postmark and postal markings for miscellaneous letters (period 1841 to 1850)."
IMC-026 · File
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

The material includes correspondence, journals, notebooks, manuscripts, scrapbooks, and a deed to Polly Cow's Island. Correspondents include Catharine Parr Traill, Katharine Agnes Strickland Traill, Harriette McKay Traill, Mary Traill, James George Traill, Rev. Walter J.S. Traill, William Edward Traill, Harry Strickland, Thomas Strickland, Samual Strickland, Robert and Caroline Strickland, Jane Strickland, Agnes Catherine Vickers, Catherine Vickers, Mary Agnes FitzGibbon, Agnes Chamberlin, Sir Sandford Fleming, A. Llewelyn Roberts, Sarah Gwillym, Goldwin Smith, Annie Traill Fotheringhame Atwood, Florence Atwood, Kate Atwood, Mary Muchall, Hargrave Henry Muchall, Carrol Muchall, Eva Muchall, William Briggs, E.S. Caswell, James Caswell, John Lowe, Susanna Moodie, John W. Dunbar Moodie, John William Todd, Frances Stewart, Frank Stewart, Ellen Dunlop, Anna Hay, Bessie Brown, Katherine Brown, and others.

IMC-131 · File · 2021
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

An essay on the influences of Professor T.H.B. Symons on the life of Denis Desjardins from his early francophone education in the 1960s to his reading of Tom Symons: A Canadian Life (2011). Denis Desjardins is a Trent University alumnus.