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Canadian Studies is the focus of this issue of Archives News, a timely topic, given the upcoming international "Contesting Canada's Future" conference, to be held at Trent in May. Our Trent Treasures column reflects on the Great Depression in Canada and the responses to the social injustices of that period. Also, Doors Open Peterborough 2015 will be held entirely at Trent, also in May, and the Archives is a host site; details are available in the newsletter.

This issue focuses on Education in the Archives and points to several fonds in our holdings which are not normally associated with education. Our Trent Treasures column highlights T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1935) located in Special Collections.

In celebration of Trent's 50th anniversary, we are planning to participate in the "50 Years of Trent Archaeology" exhibit to be launched at Bata Library October 20-26; the focus of this issue of Archives News is about our archaeological holdings. Our "Trent Treasures" column features the Captain John Franklin publications located in our Special Collections; these first edition copies are about his initial two voyages to the Arctic. Also included is an article about a new acquisition of historical papers: the Standen-McQueen family fonds.

Contents include Reverend Michael Farrar and his art works depicting Hastings, Ontario in the 1860s and 1870s. Also included are articles on the Edwin Zimmerman Yerex fonds and new additions to the Professor Ross Irwin fonds, and an introduction to our new on-line exhibit featuring women pioneers in Peterborough County.

In this issue we feature three newly acquired fonds: the Bird family fonds; the Birdsall family fonds; and the Wallis family fonds. Our "Trent Treasures" feature is about an 1873 "how-to" book for women, published with "subjects connected with the interests of every family."

This issue focuses on a new accession of 18th and 19th century Wallis family papers. Katherine E. Wallis, whose papers were donated to the Archives in 1969, is a member of this Wallis family. The "Trent Treasures" section focuses on small private presses and specifically highlights the works of Charles Bukowski.

In celebration of Halloween, we've featured Dorothy Herriman Choate's poem "Caterwaul" in this issue of Archives News. You'll also find information about two important new acquisitions and see a story originating from our Special Collections, about Ernest Thompson Seton and his paw print signature. Curator Janice Millard also shares her findings about one of the earliest European visitors to our local area, Sydney Bellingham.

This issue focuses on the "WE: Peterborough World Emergency Centre for Assertive Non-Violence" collection and related materials in the Archives which pertain to the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, 1945. The "Trent Treasures" column features Charles Dickens' Bleak House, published in 1853; a first-edition copy of this publication is located in Special Collections and Rare Books.

Nursing is the focus of this issue of Archives News. We highlight the papers of nursing sisters Helen Fowlds and Agnes Campbell Neill, both from the Peterborough area. Our "Trent Treasures" column features an important work first published in 1724 during an era of intense philosophical investigation: Isaac Watts' Logick: or, The Right Use of Reason; our edition, located in Special Collections and Rare Books, was published in 1792.

Hockey in the Archives is the focus of this newsletter. We also highlight a new acquisition of papers, the Joyce C. Lewis fonds, and introduce our first "Trent Treasures" column, featuring a book from Special Collections, Travels Through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada During the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 by Isaac Weld.

This newsletter includes an article about two new sculptures by David James which have recently been acquired by the Trent University Art Collection. We also remember Martha Ann Kidd, a long-time friend of the Archives who died on July 30th of this year, and highlight a few of Trent's earliest documents as Trent prepares for its 50th anniversary in 2014.

This newsletter covers a variety of topics. We highlight important changes that have taken place in the archival profession across Canada over the past few months, and draw attention to several items from our holdings which have been digitized through Internet Archive. We also take the opportunity to extend congratulations to playwright Dave Carley on winning a significant award, and remember a friend of the Archives, Joyce C. Lewis, who died in April of this year.

This issue serves as a helpful guide for those interested in exploring the genealogical resources located at Trent University Archives.

The year 2012 marks the bicentennial anniversary of the War of 1812. This issue highlights related documents from our holdings, some of which reflect the commemorative centennial activities of 1912.

Contents include some Christmas cards from the Boyd Collection. We also featured a Christmas dinner which Helen Fowlds and other nursing sisters served to soldiers serving in France in 1915.

This issue has a music theme and highlights a few of the historically significant items of sheet music located in the holdings. Included is a description of newly acquired print music which had belonged to Peterborough's Captain John Rubidge and presented by him in the early 1800s to his wife-to-be, Margaret Clarke. Also highlighted is print music by Port Hope's Mark Burnham, including his 1832 Colonial Harmonist.

This issue acknowledges the support and friendship of bibliophile Hugh Anson-Cartwright. For more than forty-five years, Anson-Cartwright has had the interests of Bata Library and Trent University Archives at heart and has made many contributions to our holdings. We also include a description of an important new acquisition of print Canadiana, a bound volume of nineteenth-century pamphlets related to Louis Riel and the North-west Rebellion of 1885.

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.

This issue is focused on a winter theme. Diary entries, segments of letters, and photographs reflect the experiences of Peterborough area residents during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

Contents include a discussion by Janice Millard titled "Forensic Investigation in the Archives." Several examples of nineteenth-century legal documents from the Archives' court and legal firm collections are depicted.

This issue focuses on nineteenth-century weddings in the Peterborough area. Several examples of marriage documents are depicted. Also included is a tribute to Dr. Fern Rahmel, playwright, educator, and journalist.

This issue focuses on Gilbert and Stewart Bagnani, after whom the newly opened Bagnani Hall, located at Traill College, is named. The Bagnanis both held positions at Trent University during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Contents include letters to Santa written by the Boyd family children of Bobcaygeon, Ontario between 1897 and 1901.

This issue highlights the newly acquired collection of first edition Richard Outram and Barbara Howard books and broadsheets which were donated to Trent University Archives and Special Collections by Professor Emeritus John W. Burbidge. The July appointment of Janice Millard as Curator of Archives, Special Collections, Rare Books and Gifts is also mentioned, along with overviews of three recent digitization projects in the Archives: the Katchewanooka Herald (1855-1859); Arthur student newspaper; and the immigration letters of Frances Stewart.