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Max Metherall fonds

  • ON00226 1999-044
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1930]

Fonds consists of a series of five 16 mm films relating to Peterborough, Trent Canal, Trent-Severn Waterway system and Kawartha Lakes district. Two films focus on Peterborough and include film footage of: downtown, Market Hall, farmers market, Lift Lock, Auburn dam, Peterborough Golf and Country Club, highways, Capitol Theatre, harvesting wild rice in canoes, sailing, a regatta on Little Lake, T- Wharf, Rye Pavillion, airplane (bi-plane) taking off from one of the Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough from the air with Armour Hill, Quaker Oats and Hunter Street Bridge in view, a fish hatchery, duck hunting and fishing from a row boat. The other three reels form a tourism film series produced by the Government of Ontario, and titled, "In the Wake of Champlain". These films focus on the Trent Canal and Trent Severn Waterway from Georgian Bay to the Bay of Quinte. Regional footage includes: motor boats, cottages, Jacob Gaudaur, champion sculler, Kirkfield Lock, downtown Fenelon Falls, boathouses, downtown Lindsay, Bobcaygeon, Buckhorn, canoing, speed boats, downtown Peterborough, showing Empress Gardens, Royal Theatre, Lift Lock, speed boats on Rice Lake, a hotel at Gores Landing, and more.

Mills family fonds

  • ON00226 1998-032
  • Fonds
  • 1938-1945

Fonds consists of several hundred letters from Matilda Mills, living in Pontypridd, southern Wales during World War Two to her children Ethel, Gladys and Lillian living in Peterborough. The correspondence chronicles the lives Matilda Mills and her family as they live through the War, separated by a great distance. The letters contain extensive references to family, daily life and work. Most letters also contain detailed personal impressions of key events in the War (e.g. Battle of Britain, Russian front, D-Day, surrender of Nazi Germany, rationing, Battle of the Atlantic, Canadian war news, etc). Included is a large wall map issued by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1942 showing the distribution of allied, axis and neutral countries, and supply lines in the early years of the War. Also included are immigration documents of Matilda Mills and a detailed Mills family history written Ethel Mills Lancaster.

Nicholls family fonds

  • ON00226 1971-024
  • Fonds
  • 1837-1891

An extensive fonds reflecting the lives and business interests of Robert and Charlotte Jane Nicholls. Fonds includes personal and business correspondence, financial records, accounts, family papers, legal documents and estate records, records of the Ontario Bank in Peterborough, Nicholls Hospital, Nicholls Park, Nicholls Hospital Trust and much more.

Oklahoma Jack fonds

  • ON00226 1977-008
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1930, predominant 1900-1910

Fonds consists of material accumulated by Oklahoma Jack. Fonds includes photographs, pressing clippings, notebooks, theatre timebooks (1908-1909), contracts, pamphlets, calling cards, script and memorabilia. The material also reflects Aitken's work as a pyrographic artist and violinist.

Otto Laderach fonds

  • ON00226 1979-021 & 1982-003 & 1992-0122
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1969, predominant 1943-1945

Fonds consists of correspondence, photographs and other material relating to Laderach service in the Royal Canadian Navy. Specific items include mechanical drawings rendered by Laderach for HMCS "Warrior", Canada's first aircraft carrier; technical journals from German U-boat (190) that were turned over to Lt. Cdr. Otto Laderach for translation following its surrender to the Royal Canadian Navy off the coast of Newfoundland in May 1945. Of particular note are Laderach's photographs documenting the capture of German U-boat 190; submarine technical manual and textbook retrieved by Laderach from U-190; also material relating to Laderach's postwar career as a draftsman with Canadian General Electric, Peterborough (CGE);

Parks Studio fonds

  • ON00226 1999-035
  • Fonds
  • 1937-1980, predominant 1940-1970

Fonds consists of approximately 70,000 negatives accumulated by the Parks Studio, documenting daily life, local business and industry, urban development, and key events in Peterborough from the late 1930's to 1980. Approximately 40 percent of the fonds consists of photographs of special events, aerial photography, postcard photography, as well as photographs of downtown Peterborough, commercial contracts and major construction projects (i.e. Trent University and Peterborough Square). Also included is the series on the Military Training Centre that operated at Morrow Park during World War II. The remaining 60 percent of the fonds consists portraiture. The fonds was designated as Canadian Cultural Property of "Outstanding Significance and National Importance" by the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board in September 1999. The negatives are broken down into those produced by Lewis Parks (ca. 1937-1951); by both Lewis and Gordon Parks (1951-1966); then solely by Gordon Parks (1966-1980). The business's early negatives survived until the early 1950's, when they were disposed of by the studio. Also disposed of at the same time were the original negatives from Cripps and Morris Duke studios.

Paul W. Sweetman fonds

  • ON00226 1995-019
  • Fonds
  • 1954-1956

Fonds consists of field notes, log, drawings, maps, correspondence, photographs and other materials relating to the first survey and mapping of the Peterborough Petroglyphs site, undertaken by Paul W. Sweetman and Lester Bissell, in the summer of 1954. Fonds includes rough drawings of various rock carvings, letters between Sweetman and T. McILwraith at the University of Toronto and Sweetman's log of day to day activities related to the survey. Fonds also has material related to Sweetman's survey of the nearby Quackenbush site, a prehistoric Iroquoian village.

Peter Robinson fonds

  • ON00226 1971-017
  • Fonds
  • 1823-1844, predominant 1823-1825

Fonds documents the 1823 and 1825 emigration of Irish Catholic settlers to Upper Canada under Peter Robinson. The fonds includes: original poster announcing the Robinson emigration to Upper Canada from Cork (1825); ship manifest lists; embarkation certificates which includes names, ages, parish of each family (1825); applications and certificates of recommendation; location tickets for settlers (1823); schedule of location of the 1823-1825 emigrants; list of settlers and supplies of tools, clothing, livestock and other goods provided upon arrival (by township); ship surgeon's reports (1825); account books (1825, 1844); general correspondence (1823-1843); questionnaires completed by emigrants (1828); address to Sir John Beverley Robinson, signed by citizens of Peteborough expressing gratitude for Robinson emigration (1843).

Peterborough Board of Health fonds

  • ON00226 L.67.85
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1935

Fonds consists of a register of infectious diseases in the city of Peterborough between 1911 and 1935. The register indicates patient name, disease, street address, sources of foods used by individual or family, details about sewage disposal on property, remarks from doctor and location of medical treatment (e.g. Isolation Hospital), etc.

Peterborough Boating Club fonds

  • ON00226 1999-040
  • Fonds
  • 1873-1891

Fonds consists of a minute book of the Peterborough Boating Club, which includes: minutes of regular and annual meetings (1873-1891), constitution, bylaws and membership lists (1875-1877).

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