- 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.