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Correspondence includes statements of assets; emergency grants; use of assets; letters re requests for support for students’ project, rejection letters, use of funds, funding letters; spending of Trust capital; launch of Brora Centre; Mary Northway’s desire to dissolve Trust; Advisory Board minutes and membership changes.

Correspondence includes board housekeeping matters; statement of Trust assets; offered contributions to the Trust; Board appointments; schedules of Advisory Board meetings; and projects funded 1970-1971.

File consists of general correspondence with Mary Northway about various aspects of the Trust. Includes several handwritten letters from Budge Wilson, Alan Wilson, and John Wadland.

File consists of various letters and records from the 1870s, including a receipt from "Little Britain Cabinet Shop" 1874; flyer from Minister of Agriculture asking farmers to contribute grains and produce as examples to International Exhibition to be held in Philadelphia, 1876; and Department of Immigration flyer announcing availability of "Farm Labourers and Female Domestic Servants" 1876

File include various letters and records from the 1880s, including James Purdy, UCND conviction for assault 1880; Thos. Bullard, Manvers conviction for insulting language; letter from Nile Expeditionary Force, March 20, 1885, saying campaign a complete failure, have withdrawn and left country in a "riotous condition," notes fall of Khartown and death of General Gordon; and a flyer asking for subscription support for Peterborough YMCA, 18 December 1886

File includes various letters, with correspondents including William Buell (bookseller, Brockville), D.B. Stevenson (merchant, Picton), Rev. Caleb Strong (Montreal), Nathaniel Burwash (Bytown), Dr. Boys (Bursar, King's College, letter to D.B. Stevenson), Benjamin Bird (coroner, P.H.), and Daniel McLachlan (lumber merchant, Bytown). Also includes a letter regarding the death of Strong, age 31, 1847, from his father Lewis. File also includes a circular re Canadian Farmer & Mechanic; request for child support, 8 June 1842, Peterborough; request for child support, 21 February 1843; prospectus for a "Canada Literary, Manual Labour, and Educational Society," Haldimand, 1844; itemized list of lumber in Port at Québec, 1844; May 19, 1846 - Rev. Strong discussing U.S. government apparatus; Dec. 15, 1846 - circular re converting R.C. Quebecers to Church of Scotland; Irish Relief Fund letter, 26 March 1847; letter re Mr. Johns sawmill, Orono 1847; miscellaneous returns of conviction; and documents and correspondence 1847 re apprehension of a criminal in New York State.

File includes various letters and records from the 1850s, with correspondents including William Osborne (re: lithographs), George Murray (New York), William Dummer Powell, George Penford (Ancaster, Upper Canada), D.B. Stevenson (Quebec, re: Agricultural Society), Charles Clark (Elora), D. Robbin (MPP, Napanee and Quebec), J. Hargrave Esq (Canada West), Daniel McLaughlin (Ottawa), and others.