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Turner, J.J. (John James)
Person · b. 1850

J. J. Turner, sr. was born in London, England, in 1850. After some years of working in lake shipping and at Hamilton Ontario and New York City, he started the firm of Turner and Roper in Colborne, Ontario. He came to Peterborough around 1894 and did considerable business in sails and tents. He was a mayor of Peterborough in 1925 and was active in local affairs.

J. J. Turner and Company built an impressive factory building on the corner of George and King in downtown Peterborough around 1910. The company had been in Peterborough since about 1875 and was a premier Canadian producer of canvas products. The 1932 catalogue shows various styles of awnings and tents as well as chairs, bags and flags. Additionally, the catalogue carries items that were supplied to them by manufacturers in the Peterborough area, notably canoes and skis.

Tolmie, Archie
Person

Archie Tolmie is a local historian in the Peterborough area.

Stephenson, Gerry
Person · 1938-2003

Gerry Stephenson (1938-2003) worked for Bell Canada in Peterborough. After early retirement he turned his attention to the career of his grandfather, John Stephenson, and his identification with the history of the Peterborough Canoe. He was greatly assisted by the ongoing research of Dr Cameron who presented his findings to the Peterborough Historical Society in 1975. Working from this base, Gerry pursued patent records and newspaper and magazine account. In 1987, he published his findings in a Peterborough Historical Society occasional paper entitled “John Stephenson and the Famous ‘Peterborough’ Canoes” (1987). He continued to pursue research on wooden canoes and boats and at his death was pursuing the influence of George Stephenson in Maine canoe-making.

Rose, Rex
Person · 1930-

Rex Rose is a resident of Peterborough who served on the Anson Board of Directors in the 1990s.

Rogers, Harry
Person

Henry G. Rogers was a son of R. B. Rogers and Mina Calcutt.

Robert Delledonne
Person · 1932-2002

Robert Delledonne was a local historian whose research culminated in the work, “From Nelson to Lakefield” published in 1999. This collection is rich in social and cultural history of the village of Lakefield in the 19th century.

Pammet, Howard T.
Person · 1909-1993

Howard T. Pammett was born in Young’s Point, raised in Ashburnham, and educated at Peterborough schools, Peterborough Normal School, and Queen’s University. His MA thesis on the Peter Robinson settlers, from the Assisted Emigration of 1825 has been serialized in the Heritage Gazette of the Trent Valley since May 2000. He taught in the 1930s, and worked for the federal Department of Labour from 1941 to 1970. His major publication projects were the newspaper series, “The Progress of Peterborough,” Peterborough Examiner, 1950-51; Through the Years in Douro (1967); Lilies and Shamrocks: A History of the Township of Emily in the County of Peterborough (1973).

Ogilvie, William G.
Person · 1899-1992

Born in 1899 in Lakefield, Ontario, William G. Ogilvie was a prolific writer of both fictional and non-fictional literature, primarily documenting his varied and dynamic life adventures, and his love of boats and boating. At the age of seventeen, Ogilvie enlisted in the army and spent the duration of the war as an Artillery signaller. Returning home after the war, he spent the summer of 1920 as a canoeing expert and guide at Algonquin Park. Owing to his boat handling experience and fitness, he was recruited in 1921 to become an active member of the W.S. Dyer Syndicate formed for the purpose of staking oil claims in the Fort Norman oil field. Ogilvie was profoundly affected by this epic adventure and would write much about the Canadian north for the remainder of his life. Ogilvie had a short career following his north trip as a cub reporter with the Toronto Telegram. He resigned in 1922 to join the staff of the Disappearing Propeller Co Ltd as he had become an expert on this vessel on his trip to the Canadian North. In the fall of 1926, Ogilvie started his own boat building company and when this failed in 1929, he became a Yacht Broker and was able to continue this profession until he sold it in 1973. He resided in his later years in Lakefield where much of his written material was produced in Ogilvie’s 70’s,80’s and 90’s.

William Ogilvie held positions as a yacht broker, salesman, wartime government inspector and operated a boat business for over 60 years. An essayist and short story author as well, he wrote, 49th Parallel (1991), a book on his father’s recollections of international survey; Way...Way...Down North (1989), on canoeing adventures in the Canadian North; Umpt-iddy-umpty (1982), a story of a Canadian Signaler in the First World War; Silver Toes (1987-91) a children’s series. William Ogilvie also wrote articles in the Muskoka Sun under the title, Of Boats and Things (1991). George Gilbert Ogilvie (1851-1945) was a surveyor with the International Boundary Survey Commission in 1873-74, who travelled as far as Texas before returning to Lakefield.