Trent Valley Archives

Rural heritage tours of Peterborough County: a student fieldtrip in Smith-Ennismore- Lakefield Township

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Creator (cre): Attley, Stephanie, Other (oth): Trent University Geography Dept, Supporting host (sht): Trent Valley Archives, Issuing body (isb): Trent Centre for Community-Based Education
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The purpose of this research project was to assemble the information needed for the TVA to offer two tours (one for adults, one for students) of the rural heritage of Peterborough County. In order to address these goals and to develop an effective fieldtrip, an analysis of literature that was relevant to the research topic was required in the form of a literature review.

2005

The connection between canoe building and canoe culture in Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada and the regions of Suffolk County, Massachusetts and Oxford County, Maine, U.S.A: George Stephenson as the link

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Creator (cre): Chapelle, Kimberley, Creator (cre): Stephenson, George, Supporting host (sht): Trent Valley Archives, Other (oth): Trent University Geography Dept, Issuing body (isb): Trent Centre for Community-Based Education
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The purpose of this project was to aid the Trent Valley Archives in conducting research using certain aspects of the Gerry Stephenson canoe history fonds in order to determine what the contents can tell us about canoe building and canoe culture; and whether a short history can be published highlighting any links between canoe building and canoe culture in Peterborough, Ontario and the region of Oxford in Maine, U.S.A.

2005