Fonds consists of Professor Joseph Wearing's research materials, newspaper clippings, reports, and articles related to the Liberal Party of Canada, various Liberal Party conventions and conferences, the Peterborough Riding Liberal Association, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, government and Canadian federal cultural policy, Canadian federal elections of the 1960s and 1970s, and The Arts. Also included are miscellaneous notes and manuscripts, as well as materials related to the video “:30 Second Democracy” and Wearing’s book, The L-Shaped Party: the Liberal Party of Canada, 1958-1980. Included also in this fonds are programs, financial and administrative records, and minutes related to Peterborough Symphony Orchestra, 1970s-1980.
Wearing, JosephThis fonds consists of materials relating to Gilbert and Sullivan productions, the Coventry Singers of Peterborough, and the Town and Gown concerts of Peterborough. Also included are materials related to the Progressive Conservatives, the New Democratic Party, the 1975 election, and Peterborough voting patterns.
Wearing, JosephThis collection consists of an eclectic assortment of documents and papers pertaining to many parts of Canada including 3 documents prepared by Powadiuk for the government, 2 of which concern native peoples; 10 prints of 19th century personalities; 1905 map of the Niagara River; papers re Indian-Eskimo Association; deeds, mortgages and trust documents from Huron and Bruce Counties; Niagara peninsula documents including Hugh Alexander's account book; Lord Selkirk letter dated 1837; Charles G.D. Roberts letter dated 1892; notes on the inception of "Evangeline." A major element in the collection relates to Mr. James Ross of East Hawkesbury, stone mason and merchant and his family. The Ross quarry appears to have supplied stone for the Carillon lock and for Fort Henry. The family was involved in the East Hawkesbury school for 2 decades.
Powadiuk, JosephFile consists of textual records about Joseph May living at the Orphan Homes of Scotland and descriptions of his travels from Scotland to Peterborough and Belleville areas, where he attended the Peterborough Normal School for teaching. Included is a photograph of boys on the steps of Fairknowe School in Brockville after Joseph arrived in Canada in 1926, and a photographic booklet of the Orphan Homes of Scotland (1926). Also included is a yearbook from the Peterborough Normal School (1944), a single page in his handwriting recording a timeline of his life events, and original documents containing a Certificate of Elementary Agriculture and Horticulture (1939) and Convocation programs (1954, 1960) from the University of Toronto.
This item is a parchment document appointing Joseph James Duffus a merchant in Peterborough, to the Senate of the Dominion of Canada in 1940. The Great Seal of Canada is affixed to the document.
Duffus, Joseph JamesThis fonds consists of photocopied correspondence, of a political and social nature, mainly from Thomas D'Arcy McGee and John A. McDonald, covering topics such as the entertainment of the Maritime delegates to the Quebec Conference. The correspondence dates from June 5, 1862 to June 21, 1867.
Daley, Joseph H.File consists of three photographs of Fiction Author Terry Jordan sitting on a couch.
File consists of three photographs of Lorne Jones standing next to a Trent University Security Services Car.
File consists of two images and three identical headshots of Professor Roger Jones who is Professor Emeritus of Trent University. He was a faculty member of the Biology Department for 32 years and retired in 2000. Professor Jones was a member of Trent's Nature Areas Committee.
File consists of three images and three photographs of Elwood Jones, Professor of History at Trent University. Jones was also the Master of Otonabee College in 1978.
File consists of two photographs of Bob Johnston with Richard Johnston, Alice Newman, Gillian Johnston, and Ann Rowlands.
File consists of four photographs of Richard Johnston, former MPP of Scarborough West from 1979 to 1990. Johnston is also a Trent University Alumni.
File consists of forty images, two negatives and two photographs of Professor Richard B. Johnston (d. 1986).
File consists of two photographs of Ken Johnston who was the Mail Clerk at Trent University beginning in 1983.
File includes letters from Emily B. Ellis and Joshua Emery, relating to the relocation of two female teachers, Lucena Patch and Harriet Newell Downe to Lower Canada (from Massachusetts).
File consists of two photographs of Julia Johnston.
File consists of photographs of Professor Emeritus Gordon Johnston. Professor Johnston worked in the English department, he also served as the Otonabee College Master from 1988 to 1994, and then again from July to December of 1998.
File consists of a photograph of Hon. Donald Johnston.
File consists of a photograph and two images of Ronald G. Johnson, Physics professor at Trent University.
File consists of a photograph of former Trent University Archivist Ken Johnson. Johnson worked as the university's Archivist from 1971 to 1983.
File consists of a photograph of Judy Johnson (1940-2022) sitting a desk while on the phone. Johnson was the Assistant to the Master of Peter Robinson College from 1991-1994.