Dates: 1840-2022

The fonds consists of research material, notes, correspondence, photographs, maps, booklets and newspaper clippings regarding the history of the village of Lakefield, Ontario.
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Access Points: Industry; Business; Railways; Lakefield Police history; Canada Cement, Lakefield; Canadian General Electric; Colonial Glass Company; Lakefield Canoes; Lakefield Dentists, Doctors; Lakefield College School; Millage Plumbing; Orange Lodge; Roy Photography Studios; Peterborough Liftlock; The Salvation Army; The Gideons; Bickell Family; Birdsall Family; Choate Family; Sherin Family; Moodie Family; Strickland Family; Traill Family; Catharine Parr Traill; Susannah Moodie; Rev. Mark Burnham; Mark S. Burnham; William Dennon; Andrew Onderdonk; R.B. Rogers

Dates: 1977-2011

The fonds consists of reports, manuals and publications related to Robert Rehder’s career at Canadian General Electric in Peterborough, Ontario in the design and development of switchgears and insulation systems for motors and generators.
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Access Points: Canadian General Electric; Electric Engineering; Switchgear Engineering; Insulation Systems; Hope Mill; Ontario Hydro; La Grande Complex

Dates: 1887-1960

The fonds consists of a book and five photographs. The book is the Western Manufacturing Co. Regina Catalogue No. 5 showing Builders Woodwork and an official price list and illustrations for 1919 done for wholesale manufacturers and jobbers in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.

The photographs include a Roy Studio shot of General Electric products at a home show or exhibition; advertising for Watson Tire & Radio Supply at 446 George, and W. Gordon Hall, at 88 London St., Peterboro, c. 1922; G. Hudson Hall; two photos of a group being trained in a training facility, c. 1945; and a photo of CGE seen from the Monaghan Road entrance c. 1950s.
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Access Points: G. Hudson Hall; Western Manufacturing Co.; Canadian General Electric; Watson Tire and Radio Supply; Peterborough, Ontario