Title: Peterborough Examiner editorial fonds

Creator: Peterborough Examiner editorial writers

Dates of Material: 1884, 1935, 1963-1965, 1967

Physical Description: 7 cm

Scope and Contents:
Various items that had been kept in the editorial offices of the Peterborough Examiner, including:

1. Peterborough Examiner, 9 October 1884.
2. Scrapbook of Homer Moore’s articles, January to August 1935, on “Peterborough’s Possibilities.”
3. Book Ben Jonson, Five Plays (Oxford World Classics edition, 1953) bearing inscription in green, and in the hand of Robertson Davies, “Robertson Davies Feb 20 : 1953.
4. Collection of articles in G. Wilson Craw’s 15-part series on “The growth of Municipal Government” which ran from 2 November 1963 to 17 April 1965. The Peterborough Examiner published the series, but without the photographs and illustrations, as G. Wilson Craw, The Peterborough Story: Our Mayors 1850-1951 (1967).
5. Photostat of G. Wilson Craw, “1818-1867 A History of Springville Area and Congregation” which was given as an address at the Springville church, 5 May 1967.

Access Conditions:
Open to researchers.

Finding Aids:
None; however, some documents are digitized.

Accruals:
None anticipated in the short term.

Custodial History:
Ed Arnold, Managing Editor of the Peterborough Examiner, gave these items to the Trent Valley Archives on the occasion of its annual meeting, April 2004.

Biographical Sketch/ Administrative History
G. Wilson Craw, former Executive Editor of the Peterborough Examiner, served the paper as a reporter and editor from 1926 until he retired in the late 1960s. Robertson Davies, the famous author, was the publisher at the Peterborough Examiner from 1940 to the 1960s. We have not been able to identify Homer Moore, but the articles seem autobiographical. Ed Arnold has been with the Examiner in various capacities since the late 1970s.

File listing:

1. Peterborough Examiner, 9 October 1884. This is a single sheet production uncut which illustrates the size of the flat-bed press on which the paper was printed in those days. The paper is in very good physical shape even though kept for many years mounted between two sheets of pane glass. Researchers should use the xerox copy. The content is quite remarkable and provides a very interesting snapshot of life in Peterborough of the 1880s. Highlights include coverage of the local fairs at Keene and Baillieboro’; the official launch of the millinery fall fashions; reports on the Town Council of Peterborough, with George A. Cox as mayor; informative advertising of many local enterprises; reports from correspondents in Cavan, Smith and Fraserville; the Ontario & Quebec railway accident in which Thomas Brennan was killed; reports from the curling club; a fire near the R. C. Cemetery; and varied materials.
3. Scrapbook of Homer Moore’s articles, January to August 1935, on “Peterborough’s Possibilities.”

a.	Article 1	(incomplete)
b.	Article 2	missing
c.	Article 3	Burleigh township and radium.
d.	Article 4	Galway township and the mineral resources of the north part of Peterborough county.
e.	Article 5	Cavendish township and the possibilities of gold.
f.	Article 6	Chandos township and Loon Lake
g.	Article 7	Methuen township
h.	Article 8	Belmont township
i.	Article 9	The importance of utilizing these resources now.
j.	Article 10	The importance of ideas.
k.	Article 11	Make an inventory of human values
l.	Article 12	Oil
m.	Article 13	Ingenuity
n.	Article 14	missing (perhaps no article was numbered 14)
o.	Article 15	Capitalism and brains
p.	Article 16	missing
q.	Article 17	Engineers and specialists
r.	Article 18	The importance of money
s.	Article 19	Townships of North Monaghan, Dummer, Smith, Douro, Asphodel, Ennismore
t.	Article 20	Building on cumulative effort; supplies
u.	Article 21	Peterborough to Glen Alda
v.	Article 22	Everything in the northern districts has a use
w.	Article 23	Overcoming complexities
x.	Article 24	Importance of long visions
y.	Article 25	The rocks of India
z.	Article 26	Processing gold
aa.	Article 27	Coal
bb.	Article 28	Developing resources
cc.	Article 29	Talcum powder
dd.	Article 30	Feldspar
ee.	Article 31	Pre-Cambrian rocks
ff.	Article 32	The stone-book
gg.	Article 33	“To get to the top you must climb.”
hh.	Article 34	Emery manufacturing plant
ii.	Article 35	Corundum
jj.	Article 36	Rock-crystal
kk.	Article 37	Tour local wonders
ll.	Article 38	Deloro Reduction Plant; garnet abrasive factory
mm.	Article 39	Glass and silica
nn.	Article 40	Slate
oo.	Article 41	“Bill” the mining engineer; zinc
pp.	Article 42	Sulphur
qq.	Article 43	Puzzles; graphite
rr.	Article 44	Lumbering and mineral development
ss.	Article 45	Paper mill
tt.	Article 46	The Triangle Trip
uu.	Article 47	Apatite fertilizers
vv.	Article 48	Amber and zircon; Peterborough “the outfitting city”
ww.	Article 49	Olivine and gneiss
xx.	Article 50	Diamonds
yy.	Article 51	Gems
zz.	Article 52	Emeralds

4. Book Ben Jonson, Five Plays (Oxford World Classics edition, 1953) bearing inscription in green, and in the hand of Robertson Davies, “Robertson Davies Feb 20 : 1953.
5. Collection of articles in G. Wilson Craw’s 15-part series on “The growth of Municipal Government” which ran from 2 November 1963 to 17 April 1965. The Peterborough Examiner published the series, but without the photographs and illustrations, as G. Wilson Craw, The Peterborough Story: Our Mayors 1850-1951 (1967).

First Series, 1963-1964

1.	Democracy came slowly to Upper Canada
2.	Getting Peterborough started as a Town
3.	Peterborough’s First Mayor: 1850-1851
4.	Mr Hudson’s Civic Dinner
5.	A Railroad and the Taverns
6.	He Built the Lumber Business and Read the Riot Act
7.	Ten Times Mayor of Peterborough
8.	Mayor, M.P., and Radical
9.	A Railway and a Royal Visit
10.	The Industry of the City Takes Shape
11.	A Potential Conservative Leader
12.	The Millionaire Mayor
13.	Firewater and Firefighting in the ‘70s
14.	A Turn-of-the-century Cow Town
15.	Then there was Light, and Water
16.	Mayor, M.P., and Textiles Expert in Prosperous Times
17.	Mayor of his Word Workman’s Friend
18.	Son-in-law of Mr. Capitalist Elected
19.	Time of Industrial Boom
20.	The Lift Lock opens in a Time of Boom
21.	First city mayor, a man with wanderlust
22.	Mayor’s talents recognized everywhere – except in Peterborough
23.	Mayor of the City by popular request
24.	The Morrow bequests: money and foresight

Second series, 1965

1.	(missing)
2.	Buller was wartime mayor: strove to improve facilities
3.	Salesman and mayor Finishes in Senate
4.	Difficult Time for Mayor Duncan As Class Struggle Splits Council
5.	Candidates’ ages a factor as town clerk breaks tie
6.	Mayor Taylor faced depression, Strife with police chief, firemen
7.	1924: 4,000 women given right to vote
8.	Holloway’s term as mayor was turning point for city
9.	Inducing Outboard Marine to Settle in Peterborough Victory for Denne Hauling Guns To Dump Sparked a ‘War’
10.	Mayor Roland Denne loved his city, and gave it gallant leadership
11.	George A. Macdonald became mayor of Peterborough in 1936 With depression almost over; but many citizens on relief Industrial unions appear in Canada: Bitter strikes hit city woollen mills
12.	Council coveted surplus earned by city trust
13.	War changed Morrow Park into bustling military camp: A place of happy memories
14.	Servicemen back from war heighten housing shortage Born in Cobourg
15.	Ashburnham’s Max Swanston was mayor when new city hall opened in 1951

6. Photostat of G. Wilson Craw, “1818-1867 A History of Springville Area and Congregation” which was given as an address at the Springville church, 5 May 1967. The text of this address was printed in Heritage Gazette of the Trent Valley, 9-2, August 2004, 5-11. Craw’s father had been the minister of the Presbyterian church in Springville, 1914-1925, and his history has memoir qualities.
7. Lithograph page, 30 March 1939, oversize item
   Filed in map drawer.

Access Points:
Springville, Ontario
G. Wilson Craw
Homer Moore
Robertson Davies