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86-027/003(09) · File · n.d.
Part of Choate family fonds. 1986 additions

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
86-027 · Fonds · 1769-1962

This addition to the fonds consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, music books, notes and memorabilia concerning various parts of Peterborough County.

Choate family
86-027/002(04) · File · 1824-1897
Part of Choate family fonds. 1986 additions

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
86-027/001(11) · File · 1914-1957, n.d
Part of Choate family fonds. 1986 additions

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."

Miscellaneous materials
86-027/002(08) · File · 1907-1920
Part of Choate family fonds. 1986 additions

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