G G3; End of Library Shelves Room E
Date of the items: 1907-1929, 1940
Physical description: 30 cm
Title: T. Frank Matthews Family Fonds
Creator: T. Frank Matthews
Repository: Trent Valley Archives
Reference number: TVA Fonds 425
Scope and contents: The fonds consists of documents, photographs, photo albums and other ephemera compiled by the Matthews family.
Access Conditions: No Restrictions
Finding aid: See separate file listing in Excel
Accruals: No further accruals are expected
Custodial history: Donated by Joan and Wally Wilkins on September 29 2015, October 31 2015 and November 4 2015. The photographs in the two Victorian albums were removed and placed in photograph preservers; the albums were preserved separately.
Biographical sketch: T. Frank Matthews was born in Lindsay in 1869 to parents George Matthews and Anne Smithson. At the age of 12, he began working for his father’s packinghouse company, which moved from Lindsay to Peterborough in 1888. The company amalgamated with Parker Blackwell Company Ltd in 1911, which then became part of Allied Packers in 1919 and their Canadian operations, Canada Packers, in 1927. Frank served as the secretary of the company and became manager of the company in 1889, a position that he held until June of 1919 when he moved to Toronto to retire.
In addition to his work as a businessman, Frank was very active in the Peterborough community. He was a member of the Peterborough Water Works board from 1902-1919 and the Peterborough Library Board from 1913-1914, and chaired the Peterborough Utilities Commission from 1914-1919. A fan of athletics, he was also a part of the Peterborough Golf Club and the Peterborough Curling Club.
On June 7, 1892, Frank married Martha Stratton, the daughter of James Stratton. They had three sons and one daughter: Harold (who died in 1916 during the First World War); Gordon; Jessie and James. He passed away in 1947.
Related fonds at TVA: See F311 Hunter/Darling Family and F687 Sommerville for materials related to the Matthews family.
Access Points:
Royal Military College, Kingston, ON
World War I
Kells Family
Peterborough Photographers: P. H. Green; G. B. Sproule, H. J. Byers; Louis Mendel
Other photographers: S. J. Jarvis
Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School
Peterborough Exhibition
S. S. Acquitania
570 Water Street, Peterborough, Ontario (home of Matthews family)
Lt. F. A. Heymann