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The Trent Valley Archives was founded in 1988, and incorporated in 1989. It is a public advocacy group promoting the preservation, identification, and care of archives.

Benefits of membership include unlimited use of the reading room at the Fairview Heritage Centre, subscription to Heritage Gazette of the Trent Valley™, and access to Ancestry.com, the world's largest online family history resource.

Annual memberships:
Single: $60.00
Family: $75.00
Day rate: $20.00
(GST included)
 
The Trent Valley Archives Reading Room is open to researchers daily, Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm. We can easily be reached by email at admin@trentvalleyarchives.com and by phone, 705-745-4404. 
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TVA Says Goodbye
TVA was forced to say a very reluctant farewell to long-time staff member Diane Robnik who recently accepted a job at the Thunder Bay Historical Society. Over the years, Diane has been instrumental in setting up the thriving historical tours program that TVA is known for, and has brought warmth, wisdom and passion to all her projects at the archives. Diane will continue to lurk around our members-only chat room and keep in touch in other ways as well. We wish her the best of luck in her new job. She will be missed!


 
 
Down Memory Lane
A trip through musical history with the New Horizons Band!

Friday, May 25th, 7:30pm, Calvary Church,
1421 Lansdowne St. W.
Tickets $10

Join us Friday, May 25th for a night of music and fun. Peterborough's New Horizon Bands will be celebrating their 10th anniversary with a show featuring four of their ensembles playing music that ranges across the ages, from classical to contemporary, from Mozart to Abba, the night is sure to have something for everyone. Click here for more information or to buy tickets online.
 
Gilmour St. Garage Sale

Only One Week until the Gilmour St. Garage Sale!

Saturday, May 26, 7am - 1pm
591 Gilmour St.

Only one week left until the Gilmour St. Garage sale. If you have items you'd like to donate, you can drop them off at the archives any time Tues - Fri., 10am - 4pm. If you need someone to pick up your items, please call 745-4404. We appreciate you pricing your items before dropping them off but will take items unpriced.

Last year we raised over $1100 thanks to donations from generous people like you! Next Saturday is the big day - hope to see you there!
 
 
 Important
Dates

 
 Saturdays & Sundays, 10 - 4
TVA at R&B Flea Market

  Fri., May 25th, 7:30pm
New Horizons Band Concert
 
Sat., May 26th, 7am - 1pm
Gilmour Street Garage Sale - Items Wanted! Please contact us if you have items to donate.

Wed., June 6th
TVA at the Peterborough Downtown Farmer's Market

Saturday June 9, 23, 30
TVA at the Peterborough Farmer's Market

Fridays throughout June
Scandals & Scoundrels Pubcrawl

Sundays throughout June
Heroes & Rails Bike Tours


TVA News...
 
TVA Launches Guitar Raffle
May 26, 2012: Trent Valley Archives is launching its 2012 raffle at the Giant Gilmour St. Garage sale on Saturday, May 26th at our table at 591 Gilmour St. The prize is a Gibson Custom 1957 Les Paul Goldtop VOS Electric Guitar, valued at more than $5000. This raffle is a joint fundraiser between Trent Valley Archives and Showplace. Tickets are $10. The draw will take place Nov. 2nd, 2012 at "All About the Music", a show about the musical history of Peterborough featuring many of our local greats! This is your chance to own a piece of history. Don't miss out! Click here for more…

From the Examiner Collection
May 2012: The Peterborough Examiner archives at Trent Valley Archives contains an excellent series of nearly 15,000 negatives from the 1960s. The main Examiner photographer at that time was Nick Yunge-Bateman, who seems to have been British-trained and later ran a photography shop on the north end of Vancouver Island. He may have worked for several other newspapers over his career. His photography is excellent, and Colum Diamond and other volunteers on the Peterborough Examiner Project think that a sampling of this photographic series would make an excellent book. Newspaper photographers capture many aspects of community life. By the 1960s, Yunge-Bateman was pursuing five or six stories a day. . Read on...

Telling Tales:
Workshop Participants bring the art of storytelling to their own family stories
May 5th and 6th, 2012: When TVA Volunteer Ruth Kuchinad wanted some assistance with writing her personal memoir and family history she asked Brooke Broadbent for help. In a brainstorming session with Elwood Jones, the three of them came up with the idea of offering a workshop on researching and sharing family history. Click here to read about the results...

A New Face at Trent Valley Archives
Trent Valley Archives Hires New Assistant Archivist
April 12, 2012: TVA is delighted to announce that Heather Aiton-Landry will be joining our organization in the role of full-time Assistant Archivist, as of March 27th, 2012. Click here to read more...

*New* Members Only Chat Room
Hey - genealogical research doesn't have to be lonely... Why work in isolation when you could connect to like-minded people doing research just like you? Ask questions, share solutions... We're all about connections here at TVA - to the living AND the dead. So join up, sign in and get chatting!