Fonds Number: 410

Title: Duncan T. Bath Fonds

Creator: Duncan T. Bath

Dates of Material: 1941, 1984-2013

Physical Description: 13 inches (32 cm)

Scope and Contents:
Papers relating to work as an engineer at CGE, and related to his interests in standard dating and measurement and in his interests in advocating the continued construction of the Peterborough Parkway. There are also files related to the Waste to Energy efforts. The bulk of the collection relates to his interest in writing letters to the Peterborough Examiner.

Access Conditions:
Open to researchers.

Accruals:
None expected.

Custodial History:
These records were accumulated over the years by Duncan T. Bath, an engineer by profession, but best known in the community for his thoughtful letters to the editor. Donated to Trent Valley Archives by his widow, Isabel Bath on 28 February 2014.

Biographical Sketch/ Administrative History
Duncan Thomas Bath (1921-2013), in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta, 1945, and worked as a CGE electrical eginee for 41 years. He was married to Isabel (nee Shearer), and had one son, Warren (Janet) who had two children, Cameron an Aaron.

Access points

Peterborough, Ontario
Peterborough Parkway
City of Peterborough Transportation studies
Waste management
Waste to Energy initiative
Solar Farm
9/11

Standard dating
Standard measurement [S.I.]
Engineering
Generators
Hydro Generator Bearing Test Rig
Canadian General Electric

List of files:

0 Duncan T. Bath

Peterborough Parkway, 1991-2013, files 1-30, 7 inches, 18 cm.
1 Traffic Operations Review, 1991
2 Benefit Cost Analysis Guide 1998
3 Peterborough Comprehensive Transportation Plan, April 2002
4 Parkway, 2002- 2003
5 Parkway, 2002-2003
6 Parkway, 2002-2006
7 Parkway, 2003
8 Parkway: Speaking to Council [2003]
9 Parkway, 2003
10 Parkway Cost Benefit Analysis, 2003-2004
11 Parkway, 2003-2004
12 Parkway, 2003-2004
13 Parkway, 2003-2004
14 Peterborough Regional Hospital Centre, 2004
15 Parkway Cost Benefit Analysis, 2004
16 Parkway, 2005-2010
17 Parkway, 2006-2007
18 Parkway, 2006-2008
19 Parkway, 2006-2009
20 Parkway, Road Mileage, 2006-2009
21 Parkway, 2007
22 Parkway, 2007
23 Parkway route, 2007
24 Parkway, St. Peter’s School, 2008
25 Transportation Plan Update, 2011
26 Parkway, Jackson Creek, 2011-2013
27 Parkway, 2012-2013
28 Parkway, Peterborough Examiner, 2012-2013
29 Parkway, 2013
30 Parkway, 2013

Waste Management, files 31-37, 200-2013, 2 inches, 5 cm
31 Landfill, 2000
32 Landfill, Waste Management, 2001-2008
33 Waste To Energy, 2003-2010
34 Waste Management, 2011
35 Waste to Energy, 2011
36 Waste Management, 2011-2012
37 Waste To Energy, 2013

38 Solar Farm, Lily Lake Road, 2010

39 9/11, 2001
Copies of the House of Commons debates related to 9/11, and sent by Peter Adams, MP, 2 October 2001.
Trent Valley Archives has a fonds devoted to the newspaper coverage of 9/11.

Standard Measurement, files 40-44, 2001-2013
40 Standard dating on cheques, 2001
41 Standard dating, YYYY-MM-DD, 2001-2010
42 Standard dating, 2005
43 Photographs, 2013
Photographs of the display panels prepared for the funeral, December 2013
44 SI units in Engineering, 2012-2013

Engineering, files 45-49, 1941, 1984-1991, 2000, 3 inches, 8 cm
45 Mathematical and physical tables, reprint 1941
46 General Electric, Generator protection, “pre-emptive strike”, 1984-1987
47 Generator Engineering, Velocities and Static Pressures in Thrust Bearing Oil Pot, 1991
48 Bearing Test Rig, 1991
49 GE Hydro, Hydrogenerator Thrust Bearing Test Rig, 1991

50 Quebec Clarity Act, 1999-2000