Series consists of 5 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. See file listing for more details.
File includes the following items:
- 1-43: Black and white postcards of Stoney Lake and surrounding waterways (includes many shots of McCracken's Landing)
- 44: Colour photograph of the locks at Youngs Point
- 45: Colour photograph of the Peterborough Lift Lock
- 46: Map of Trent Navigation and Murray Canal
- 47: Postcard of Indian River
- 48: Postcard of Channel Glenwood
- 49: Postcard of Gil-Crest Park
- 50: Postcard of Bowness Park
- 50a: Card of Peaceful creek at Bowness Park
This addition to the fonds consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, music books, notes and memorabilia concerning various parts of Peterborough County.
Choate familySeries consists of various research materials on the history of Peterborough County, including newspaper clippings, brochures, photographs, and postcards. See file level descriptions for more details.
File consists of newspapers clippings on forestry conservation in Ontario and correspondence and papers from C.D Howe dean of forestry at University of Toronto.
File includes the following material:
- "The Trent Waterway Through Central Ontario Canada"
- Map of the Trent Canal
- Reference and Guidebook: The Trent Canal
- Clippings from "Report of the Select Committee on Conservation
- "Report of the Select Committee on Conservation" 1950
- "Trent Watershed Survey" 1913
This folder includes the following:
- Music sheets from "The School Girl"
- Music cards used by Thomas Choate - also bill for printing them
- Notes about Mark Burham
- "Annotate book of words" from Coronation 1902
- Old Favorite Songs
- Six Old English Songs for Madame Yvette Guilbert by Gustave Ferrari
- "Oh Dry Those Tears" by Teresa Del Biego
- Music workbook notes
- 2 photos 8x10 of cartoons of Yvette Guilbert
- Manuscript music, dated Haldimand March 27, 1824
File includes a list of property of Zaccheus Burnham (1952); a letter from Harold G.E. Choate to R.F. Choate (1948); 2 copies of a note to Editor about release of Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in Human Females"; a museum Bulletin No. 23, No. 31 and accompanying letter; 1 copy of "A Free and Responsible Press"; a general report on mass communication by commission on Freedom of the Press; pamphlet "The United Empire Loyalists Association; 1 copy of Contributions of the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology No. 7 "The Passenger Pigeon in Ontario."
File includes the following:
- Brochure for Kawartha Lakes
- Brochure for Rockland House
- Bobcaygeon, Booklet "St Lawrence River Route and Canals" 1918
- Brochure about Trent Canal
- A map of Trent Canal
- Letter from W.H. Bennet to R.F. Choate
- Correspondence about Georgian Bay
- Ottawa Canal Huron – Ontario Canal
Series consists of various song books and scores. See file listing for more details.