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Summer of 76
If you wish you could go back to the summer of 76 to relive your youth or experience it for the first time, we have exciting news for you! One of our volunteers, Will Pearson, has created a new exhibit for the Trent Valley Archives titled “A Peterborough Summer: 1976.”
Featuring photographs he scanned from our Peterborough Examiner collection of negatives, the exhibit highlights what summer in Peterborough looked like 50 years ago through its thoughtful curation of snapshots taken by Examiner photographers in 1976.
The exhibit will be coming to Dreams of Beans Café (141 Charlotte Street in Peterborough) in August, and will officially open on Friday, August 7 during the First Friday Art Crawl from 6pm-9pm. After the opening, the exhibit will be available to view anytime the café is open between August 7 and September 2.
Prior to the exhibit opening, it will be popping up at the DBIA “Movies at the Park” event on Tuesday, July 28 at the Quaker Foods City Square on Charlotte Street.
We hope you’ll take the opportunity to be transported back in time this summer!
Have you seen the updated Heritage Gazette?
We are pleased to continue and expand on the pioneering work of archivist Elwood Jones and Steve Gavard as we explore the near and distant past in this full colour publication. View the current and past issues
As you may have read in this Wednesday's Peterborough Examiner, an exciting discovery was made at the Trent Valley Archives this month! Last Thursday, our archivist, Elwood Jones, together with volunteer Peter Johnston, discovered a 23"x17" map in a tube along with other maps that came to us as part of the Marianne MacKenzie fonds.We have a large collection of Peterborough area maps in our archival holdings, but this map is special as it is believed to be the oldest known map of the City of Peterborough. Created by Richard Birdsall during his survey of Peterborough in August of 1825, it depicts what Peterborough would have looked like 200 years ago, just before the Peter Robinson emigrants arrived. The map features several key Peterborough landmarks at that time, including Peter Robinson's administrative buildings, the market square, and Peterborough's original burial ground (where Confederation Park is today). It is bordered by McDonnell Street, the Otonabee River, Townsend Street, and Aylmer Street. Although a copy made by Marianne in the 1990s, the original has yet to surface, making this discovery significant for those interested in studying what the town of Peterborough looked like in its earliest days. If you want to see the map in person, it will be unveiled during our Open House tomorrow, September 19, from 11am-1pm. We hope you'll join us at our archives building at 567 Carnegie Avenue tomorrow to celebrate this exciting discovery! Thank you to Peterborough This Week reporter Lance Anderson and photographer Clifford Skarstedt for spreading the word about our map. [Image Credit: Clifford Skarstedt] ...
The Peterborough Lawn Bowling Club (PLBC) has a rich history spanning 125 years, a history that has been well-preserved in the archives of the club's activities, now housed at the Trent Valley Archives. These archives formed the basis of our latest publication "Bowling on the Green: 125 Years in Peterborough," which highlights the locations the club has occupied, the challenges it overcame, and the people who took up the sport over the past century and a quarter. Written by Elwood H. Jones with support from avid lawn bowler and club member Steve Russell, the book also provides a glimpse into the history of recreation and sport in 20th century Peterborough. At our open house this Saturday, September 19 from 11am-1pm, we invite you to explore this rich history with the launch of Bowling on the Green. As part of the launch, the author will speak about the book and what the history of the PLBC can tell us about the Peterborough community as a whole. You'll also have an opportunity to take a peek at the PLBC archives and learn more about their contents, in addition to the countless other archival and genealogical resources that can help you with your family, property, and local history research projects. This event is free to attend and open to the public, and you are welcome to drop in anytime between 11am and 1pm. Light refreshments will be provided, and copies of the book will be for sale for $40 each. Let's bowl! ...
Trent Valley Archives is with Highland Park Funeral Centre & Little Lake and Highland Park Cemeteries.
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Discover the untold stories of some of Peterborough's most influential and interesting women on our Women's History tour this Sunday, September 20 at 2pm! As you walk though Little Lake Cemetery, you'll learn about women like the trailblazing Iva Campbell Fallis, Canada's second female senator; the intrepid Frances Stewart, one of the first women to settle in the Peterborough area; and the shrewd Almira Grover Foley, whose remarkable financial gift is still helping Peterborough County residents to this day. The tour is just a few days away, and we don't want you to miss out on your chance to learn more about the women who helped to shape Peterborough into the thriving community it is today! Tickets cost $20 each and can be purchased on Eventbrite, here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/womens-history-tickets-1988560881126?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true[Image Credit: TVA F375, Fairbairn Photograph Fonds.] ...
If you were unable to catch our "A Peterborough Summer: 1976" photograph exhibit at Dreams of Beans Café this August, we have great news to share: the exhibit has been extended until Friday, September 25! Thoughtfully curated by Trent Valley Archives volunteer Will Pearson, the exhibit provides a glimpse into the daily lives of Peterborough residents in the summer of 1976. Featuring over a dozen photographs of Peterburians enjoying casual summertime activities and iconic summer events like Peterborough Days, the Arts and Water Festival, and the Peterborough Exhibition, the exhibit is sure to bring back memories for anyone who grew up in (or is nostalgic for) Peterborough in the 70s. If you visit the exhibit and a particular snapshot catches your eye, you also have the opportunity to purchase it! We're selling the framed, ready to hang, photographs in this exhibit for $40 (for a small photograph) and $65 (for a large photograph). Although we're still a little ways off from the holiday shopping season, a photograph from this exhibit would make a great gift for anyone on your list. Hang onto summer for just a little bit longer by paying this exhibit a visit anytime Dreams of Beans is open! ...
