Fonds consists of Harley Cummings' research material for Early Days in Haliburton, published in 1963. Included are original wage lists, letters, receipts, accounting records, and agreements of the Ottawa logging company, Bronsons and Weston, with several documents relating to their York Branch operation. Documents relating to business transactions with the Boyd lumbering company of Bobcaygeon, and with individuals along the Peterson Road and Bobcaygeon Road who provided supplies and lodging for the workers comprise a part of the holdings. Mentioned are the Egan Farm in Dungannon Township, Hastings County, and the Bruton Farm on the Peterson Road in Haliburton County. There are references, too, to the operation of cadges between locations (commercial carriers which transported supplies by horses and sleigh/buggy). Also included are copy maps; photographs; notes; handwritten transcriptions of diaries of Alexander Niven and of Mrs. C.R. Stewart; and photographs of Lillian de Grassi Boyd, the Blomfield [Blumfield] family of Lakefield, and the Strickland homestead in Lakefield.
Cummings, Harley R.This fonds consists of primary research material and the manuscript and photographs for Harley R. Cummings' book, "Early Days in Haliburton". The fonds also consists of correspondence, including letters from the Honorable Leslie Frost, photographs, maps, and an original 1863 surveyor's diary for Eyre Township. Also included are the C.R. Stewart diaries, dated 1902-1904. C.R. Stewart (1826-1905) was resident agent for the Canadian Land and Immigration Company and was the first settler in the Village of Haliburton. In his diaries he refers to Colonel Samuel Hughes and Mossom Boyd. Stewart's son, C.E. Stewart (1851-1921) was editor of the "Bobcaygeon Independent". The fonds also includes several historical papers and publications written by Cummings and others.
Cummings, Harley R.File consists of nine photographs of Kenneth Hare (1919-2002), Chancellor of Trent University from 1988 to 1995. Hare is also the recipient of an honorary degree (Doctor of Law) in Spring of 1979 from Trent University. In addition, he received the Eminent Service award in 1995.
File includes many items that seem to have originated in Ireland. Some are addressed to Frances Stewart from Maria Noble, while others appear to be in Frances Stewart's handwriting. File includes the following, along with other religious writings not listed:
- Minutes of Navan Church Mission meetings (1832)
- Funeral Sermon
- The Reformation in Ireland (1843)
- An account of the London City Mission
- A booklet of handwritten prayers with the name Ro't Evans Ellis (1791)
- A religious narrative by Mrs. Charles E. Stewart (daughter-in-law of Frances and Tom Stewart) (1869)
- A diary belonging to Charles Dunbar Stewart in Fort Hope, Ontario from January 1869 to December 1869