Title: Anson House Board of Directors
Creator: Successive President of the Board of Director
Dates of Material: 1911-2006
Physical Description: .4 metres ( 18 inches)
Scope and Contents:
Minutes; 1994-2006, Annual reports; 1920-1930, 1932, 1936-1958, 1960-1963, Transitional plan 2003, Correspondence; 1931; 1912-1927, Inspection report; 1932, 1936, 1939, news clippings, Committee reports, Report to Municipal Affairs ( and City of Peterborough ) 1934, Superintendents report; 1940, Income Tax 1938 – 1945, Applications, Employment report 1943, “Verses from a Hill” by Annie Margaret Lancaster, superintendent c. 1920, Anson House Auxiliary; 1965-1966, Documents related to City of Peterborough 1911-1913, Hilliard Park Non Profit Housing, Dialysis Clinic, Dissolution of Anson House 2006-2007, Symbolic Trowel
Access Conditions:
Open to researchers.
Finding Aids:
None Available on site.
Accruals:
None expected.
Custodial History:
Donated in 2006 to the Trent Valley Archives, by Tom Robinson, the final president of the board. The records were donated to TVA as it already had the major archives for Anson House (Fonds 35).
Biographical Sketch/ Administrative History
The Peterborough Relief Society was founded in 1862 with a view to providing outside relief for the poor of Peterborough. The mandate was narrowed to be primarily Protestants, and primarily women and children, in 1863. The organization continued to dispense some outside relief, but beginning in May 1865 its prime concern became the Peterborough Protestant Home, located by 1870 on Steward St. just north of Brock St, and after 1911 at the location on Anson St; its name was changed to Anson House, in 1931. At different time, there were pressures (usually resisted) to have the Home operate as a House of Refuge, but its mandate was not so widened.
Access points
Anson house, fonds 35
Anson House Project, students at Trent University, fonds 48
Anson House Board of Directors, F 456
Ketchabaw, Barbara, F457
Hilliard Park Non Profit Housing
Peterborough Relief Fund
Ontario Department of Public Welfare
File List
0 File on provenance
1 Minutes of Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Minutes from meetings from June 1994-April 1995
2 Minutes of Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Minutes from meetings from May 1995-April 1996
3 Minutes of Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Minutes from meetings from May 1996-April 1997
4 Minutes AGM
Minutes from annual meeting April 16, 1997
5 Minutes of Board of Directors
Minutes from meetings May 1997-April 1998
6 Minutes AGM
Minutes from annual meeting April 15, 1998
7 Minutes of Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Minutes from meetings May 1998-April 1999
8 Minutes of Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Minutes from meetings May 1999-April 2000
9 Minutes AGM
Minutes from annual meeting April 19, 2000
10 Minutes of Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Minutes from meetings May 2000-April 2001
11 Minutes AGM
Minutes from annual meeting April 17 2001
12 Minutes of Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Minutes from meetings May 2001-April 2002
13 Minutes AGM
Minutes from annual meeting April 16, 2002
14 Minutes of Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Minutes from meetings May 2002- April 2003
15 Minutes AGM
Minutes from annual meeting April 15 2003
16 Anson House Transitional Plan 2003
Prepared by Kevin M. Duguay
17 Minutes of Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Minutes from meetings May 2003-April 2004
18 Financial Statements
Anson Financial Statements June 2004
19 Minutes AGM 2004 and Board June 2004
20 Minutes of Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Minutes from May 2004-May 2006
21 Annual Report
1920-1921
22 Review of the year 1920-1921
23 Annual Report 1922
24 Yearly Report 1924
25 64th Annual Meeting 1925
Yearly report 1924-1925 and accounts
26 65th Annual Meeting 1926
Yearly report 1925-1926 and accounts
27 1926 Revenue accounts
28 66th Annual Meeting 1927
Board Secretary Report 1927
29 Balance Sheet 1927
30 67th Annual report and accounts
Annual Report 1928
31 68th Annual Report and accounts
Annual Report 1929
32 Annual Report and financial records
Reports 1930
33 Statistical Return 1930
34 Department of Public Affairs letter Financial statement
Letter requesting info on inmates financial report for 1931
35 Minutes of the Annual meeting of the board
71st annual report and financial report 1932
36 Inspection of Anson House
Fire Marshall’s report of inspection 1932 and financial report for 1932
37 Lodgers 1932
Hand written accounting
38 Letter 1933, financial report and news clipping
Letter from W. G. Morrow for $25 donation , finacial report 1933, clipping; $200 gift from board of Anson house to Peterborough Relief Fund
39 Garden Produce reports, financial report
Garden reports for 1925, 1933, 1934, financial report for 1934
40 Financial report and notes of explanation of report Dec 1935
Report for prior 5 month period
41 Municipal Affairs report to
Chartered Accountant’s report 1935
42 72nd Annual Meeting of the board
Annual Report 1936, 2 copies of auditors report Dec 1936
43 Census of Institutions
Census 1936
44 75th Annual Meeting of the board
Minutes and financial report 1937
45 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1938, 3 copies
46 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1939, 3 copies
47 Inspection of Refuges
Department of Public Welfare annual report 1939
48 Annual Report
Superintendents report 1940, hand written
49 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1940, 2 copies
50 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1941, 2 copies
51 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1942, 2 copies
52 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1943, 2 copies
53 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1944, 2 copies
54 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1945, 2 copies
55 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1946
56 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1947, 2 copies
57 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1948
58 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1949
59 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1950
60 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1951
61 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1952
62 Anson House financial report
Annual balance sheet Dec 1953
63 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1954
64 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1955
65 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1956
66 Anson House financial report
Annual report Dec 1958
67 Ontario Department of Public Welfare
Financial reports 1929-1944
68 Companies Information Act
Information and Particulars of the Anson House 1935-1944
69 Anson House Income Tax
Income tax forms 1938-1945
70 Anson House Census, DBS Census of Institutions, 1941
Census 1941
71 Canada Department of Labour
Report on Employment 1943
72 Application for entry
Applications for several inmates into Anson House
73 Brief history of Peterborough Protestant Home later called Anson House
Photo copy c.1961
74 Anson House financial report
Annual report 1960
75 Anson House financial report
Annual report 1961
76 Anson House financial report
Annual report 1962
77 Anson House newsletter
Newsletter #1 May 1962, also brief handwritten history of Anson House
78 Anson House Board of Directors
List of directors, 1962, open house invitation June 1962
79 Anson House Open House Tea report 1966, Auxiliary meeting minutes 1965-1966
80 Anson House residents
List of residents Nov 1968
81 Verses from a Hilltop
Booklet of verses written by Annie Margaret Lancaster, a superintendent of Anson House c. 1920
82 Historical notes from newspapers
Mentions Anson House
83 Notes from Peterborough Protestant House records
84 By-Laws of PPH 1913, letter regarding lease of Hilliard farm land
85 Agreements with city 1911-1912
86 By-Law 20
87 City of Peterborough Agreement 1911
88 Incorporation 1911
Memorandum of Agreement
89 Letters Patent signed April 15, 1911
90 Construction Tenders of building 1911
91 Letter from Roman Catholic diocese Of Peterborough regarding payment of 172.77 payable to the House of Providence with regards to the Hilliard farm
92 Ross, Thomas agreement
93 Protestant Churches, yearly reps on the board
94 Correspondence 1912-1927 pertaining to goings on at Anson house
95 Graham, Ellen estate 1920
96 Statement of Return of Affairs as of December 1930
97 Change of Name from the Peterborough Protestant Home to Anson House 1931, original and copy
98 Reid, Mary estate
99 Proposal of United Church
Proposal and news clipping of United Church interest in purchasing Anson House 1959
100 Anson House financial report
Statement Dec 1963 and correspondence
101 By-Law 21 1964
102 Deed of Land
Corporation of Peterborough to Anson House 1972 , original and 2 copies
103 Agreement
Agreement between city of Peterborough, Anson House and Five Counties Children Centre 1974
104 William Hall Trust
Correspondence regards to by-laws, and William Hall Trust Fund, 1974
105 Submission to City Council
Request a capital grant from council to build a dining room and kitchen facility at Anson House, 1986
106 Exchange of location easement
Agreement with Ontario Hydro and Anson House Corporation, 1992
107 Approval of Sale of Property
Approve the severance and sale of part of the property owned by Anson House to Hilliard Park Non-Profit Homes Inc., 1992
108 Ronald Awde Architect Proposal
Proposal for renovation and retrofit of Anson House 1994
109 Elevator Licence
Permit for passenger elevator Anson House 1996
110 Dialysis Clinic, By-Laws
Establish a dialysis clinic for use and benefit of Peterborough area, by-laws, 1996-1999
111 Dissolution of Anson House Corp., 2007, letters and documentations 2006-2007
112 Symbolic trowel used to lay corner stone, 1911