Collection consists of correspondence, surveys, notes, plans, and maps of Peterborough area surveyors John Huston, John Reid, Alfred J. Cameron, and John W. Pierce. Also included are speeches, newspaper clippings, biographical accounts of various local surveyors, miscellaneous published items re Peterborough, and documents and photographs relating to Pierce's survey of the Ontario-Manitoba border in 1921.

Fonds consists of records relating to John Quentin Brown's work for theatre, film, and television, including for Crawley Films and the Educational Development Center in Boston. Fonds primarily includes original scripts and screenplays, but also includes criticism and reviews, promotional material, photographs, correspondence, notes, and other records.

Fonds includes letters between John Quentin Brown and family members and photographs primarily of Quentin and his immediate family. Also included is a copy of The Army’s Mister Brown: A Family Trilogy, 1941-1952.

This collection of photographs consists of 2 tintypes (one woman is identified as Mrs E.R. Young; 2 photographs of lumbering operations at Lake of Bays including a photograph of an alligator machine; one ambrotype of a young boy and 1 daguerreotype of two adults with a child.

This collection consists of a photograph of John R. Marshall, possibly in his late 30s or early 40s, and newspaper clipping memorials to Marshall at the time of his death in April 1952.

This fonds consists of photocopies of the Ernest Thompson Seton papers from the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the Seton Museum, New Mexico. Also included are photocopies of articles about Seton and research notes for Professor John Wadland's thesis "Ernest Thompson Seton: Man in Nature and the Progressive Era, 1880-1915." Also contained within the fonds are original records and brochures, photographs, and slides.

This addition to the fonds consists of photocopies of correspondence of Anya Seton; a play called the "Rufus letters" 1890; a manuscript of a play; and an unpublished autobiography. The fonds also contains original manuscript and typescript articles by Elise Thompson including an interview, biographical notes and photocopies of articles on Seton. There are also photocopies of letters and documents pertaining to Seton's relationship with Grace Seton. As well in 1992 an inventory list was added of all Seton paintings in Philmot Ranch, Cimarron, New Mexico, including an inventory of Seton paintings in the Smithsonian as well as correspondence regarding a Seton painting.

Series consists of files kept by John Wadland, relating to the Bioregionalism course taught by Professor John Wadland and Professor Tom Whillans, 1989-2003, in Haliburton. Files include correspondence, maps, data, pamphlets and booklets, financial statements, student papers, copies of articles, newspaper clippings, and materials relating to the Haliburton Bioregional Atlas.

Fonds includes documentation pertaining to the professional and private life of Professor John William Burbidge. Included are his manuscripts of books, articles, and sermons, and student papers. Also included are research materials, offprints of published articles, correspondence with publishers, personal correspondence, lecture notes relating to Professor Burbidge's teaching career at Trent University, and congratulatory letters and cards relating to his retirement from Trent University and election to the Royal Society of Canada.

File consists of three images and a photograph of Barbara Johns, a former Trent University Staff member.

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.

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 and two images of Ronald G. Johnson, Physics professor at Trent University.

File consists of a photograph of Hon. Donald 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 two photographs of Julia Johnston.

File consists of two photographs of Ken Johnston who was the Mail Clerk at Trent University beginning in 1983.

File consists of forty images, two negatives and two photographs of Professor Richard B. Johnston (d. 1986).

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 two photographs of Bob Johnston with Richard Johnston, Alice Newman, Gillian Johnston, and Ann Rowlands.

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 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 photographs of Lorne Jones standing next to a Trent University Security Services Car.

File consists of three photographs of Fiction Author Terry Jordan sitting on a couch.

This 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 Indigenous 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.