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Series documents the Peterborough District Labour Council’s administration of the council and executive council, community initiatives, and labour advocacy and education. Records include correspondence to membership, other unions, business leaders, and politicians; by-laws, agendas and minutes of meetings and executive meetings; motions and resolutions; reports; financial statements; membership forms and credentials; and directories. Topics covered include worker compensation, unemployment insurance, mandatory retirement, food insecurity, and workplace insurance and safety.

This collection consists of 4 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings relating to the early history and development of Trent University.

Series consists of awards and memorabilia documenting Peter Gzowski's education and professional development from high school through retirement. The series also contains awards given to Gzowski throughout his career, as well as books, letters, and newspaper clippings related to his death in 2002. Included in this series are photographs of award ceremonies, professional photographs, photographs of Gzowski's family, university assignments, copies of magazines and newspapers where Gzowski has published work, and drawings of Gzowski. This series also contains personal records, such as Gzowski's baby books (1934-[1939?]) and several volumes of memorial books (2002).

Series consists of academic and personal correspondence between Dale Standen and his colleagues at various academic institutions, Trent faculty, staff, students, and alumni, and graduate school colleagues. Series also includes obituaries and funeral programs for Trent faculty. Additional files document Dale Standen’s activities as a Don of and later the Principal of Lady Eaton College, and as a TUFA (Trent University Faculty Association) member during the 1996 strike. Series also includes correspondence from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and the Champlain Society.

File consists of compiled research notes relating to Bishop Strachan School, especially Margaret McGregor Young, Jean McGregor Young, and McGregor Young. Also included is correspondence and photocopies related to Gzowski family, newspaper clippings, and brochures for Dickson School and Galt. Material 1872-1878, 1927, and n.d. were created in [1986?].

File includes brochures and other publicity for Crawley Films, poems, newsclippings, correspondence, and photographs of individuals, meetings, and sets at Crawley Films Limited. The file also contains memorial programs for Judy Crawley (1914-1986) and George M. Gorman (-1992).

Fonds consists of records documenting Dale Standen’s activities as a postsecondary student and professor. Files include personal and professional correspondence, lecture notes, and teaching background material with focus on Canadian history post contact, the fur trade, and New France. Fonds is arranged into three series: Correspondence and Trent University activities; Lectures notes for classes at Trent University and Vancouver City College; and Postsecondary coursework and essays.

File includes two diaries by Dorothy Choate Herriman.

Diary 4 documents Dorothy Herriman at home in Cobourg. Her grandmother's funeral was on June 16. The diary also talks about more family "ructions," and the beginning evidence of economic depression in towns.

Diary 5 has introspective writing with much soul-searching. Dorothy Herriman is living in Toronto, visiting family and friends in Cobourg, Port Hope and Orillia, trying to write. There is conflict with her mother and despair over what she perceives as the lack of courage of a weak father. Her father is going to have trouble financing Cousin Doris, Orillia, at Normal School and Dorothy wished the chance to give back some of her years at Havergal or Tech. or the Ontario College of Art since "my reward for study has certainly not been monetary -- nor has it brought me a peaceful environment." She starts her infatuation with a cousin, Ralph Wilson, which becomes a love affair and lasts until 1938. The economic depression is severe. She notes one Orillia suicide and tells of a neighbour, Mr. Dempsey who has lost his job as manager of local branch of the Northway's store.

File also includes many newspaper clippings.

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 consists of correspondence, birthday cards, photographs, and newspaper clippings documenting Paul Wilson’s 80th birthday, his induction into the Peterborough Sports Hall of Fame, and athletic and community events at Trent and in Peterborough, ON.

Subseries documents the Gzowski family in Canada from 1800-2002, predominant 1964-1998, including research material compiled by Peter Gzowski in the late 1990s, relating to Sir Casimir Gzowski. Records consist of correspondence, photographs, genealogies, objects, an indenture, a will, and a library science degree. Nineteenth century materials appear to be reproductions created later in the twentieth century. There are several editions of the Gzowski family tree, compiled by Peter Gzowski's cousin, Mary Frances Maria Gzowski between 1964-1978. Subseries also contains the 1923 diary of Margaret McGregor Young, Peter Gzowski's mother.

Series documents the lives and activities Gzowski family in Canada between 1800-2003, including Peter John Gzowski, Vera (McCarthy Morgan) Gzowski, Harold Northey Gzowski, Harold Edward (Bundy) Gzowski, Brenda Raikes, Vera Elizabeth (Beth) Gzowski, Hope (Minnie) Morgan, Fawnie Morgan, MacGregor (Mac) Young, Margaret MacGregor Young, and Wanda Casimira Gzowski. Records include correspondence, photographs, postcards, clippings, research materials, genealogies, and other materials. The series is arranged into four sub-series: Correspondence of Peter Gzowski's mother, father and paternal grandparents; Material relating to Gzowski's paternal grandmother and other family; Hope Morgan press clippings and other material; Gzowski family research materials.

Subseries documents the career of Peter Gzowski's great-aunt, Hope Morgan (1862-1936), who was a soprano vocalist. Records include newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and programs. Press clippings include material related to her career as a performer and a teacher and reference recitals performed by both herself and her pupils. Hope performed in Europe, including in France, England, Scotland and Belgium, and eventually settled in Toronto, Ontario. Programs and press clippings document her performances in many locations throughout Ontario and Canada. Some press clippings relate to her personal life, such as birthday announcements.