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Contents include images of our newly acquired Susanna Moodie paintings. Also included is information about our new Disaster Preparedness and Response Plan prepared this spring by Fleming College's Collections Conservation and Management class. And, highlighted from our holdings is an image of an Indigenous woman at nearby Rice Lake painted in 1860 presumably by Colonel Robert Brown of the Royal Scotch Fusiliers.

Contents include excerpts from the writings of Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, Frances Stewart, and John Langton relating to water navigation in the Kawarthas during the nineteenth century. Also included are photographs of the steamer, "City of Peterborough," and advertisements offering transportation through the lakes on such boats as the Esturion, Ogemah, Manita, and Empress.

This item is a genealogy of Samuel Strickland's descendents as compiled by Mr. Angus Baxter

Fonds is a research collection comprised of handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, photocopies of published and primary materials, transcriptions of letters, video and cassette tapes. Subject areas pertain primarily to Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, Robertson Davies, and a conference held at Trent University in honour of Timothy Findley (1997). Also included are handwritten notes, correspondence with researchers, publishers and editors, and copies of talks, papers and manuscripts by Professor Peterman.