Community Event - Peterborough/Lindsay - Tom Symons: A Canadian Life as Told by his Files
Peterborough Historical Society public lecture. A remarkable Canadian and resident of Peterborough, Tom Symons, founding President of Trent University and author of To Know Ourselves: The Report of the Commission on Canadian Studies, was in the forefront of multiple critical issues, including Indigenous rights, human rights, language rights and heritage preservation. Speakers are Bob Taylor-Vaisey, retired corporate archivist and senior document management consultant for Imperial Oil Limited, who has been organizing T.H.B. Symons' files for transfer to Trent University, and Kathryn Matheson, a graduate of the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University, and currently Researcher and Administrative Coordinator for Professor Symons.