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The fonds reflects Margaret Peterson’s artistic processes and practices, research interests, pedagogy, her relationship with Howard O’Hagan, and her relationships with friends, patrons, fellow artists, galleries and various institutions.

The fonds consists of correspondence, photographs, biographical documents, diaries and notebooks, financial and business-related documents, grant applications, teaching materials, unpublished poetry and manuscripts, exhibition catalogues, clippings and publications, drawings and small artworks, painting materials, objects collected by Peterson, and various ephemera.

Correspondents include Howard O’Hagan, Elza Mayhew, Glenn Wessels, J. Russell Harper, Jean Varda, Dorothy and John B. Grover, Joy Ling, Walter Askin, Robert and Sarah Amos, Helen Anderson, R.W. Peterson, Ellen Charlotte Peterson, and Jane Hanks.

The fonds has been arranged into five series: Biographical, Art Practice, Publications, clippings and collected ephemera, Teaching, and Howard O’Hagan Materials.

• Mark Henderson, Pugwis, OPG, #1430, 13c, July 26/88, 130+
• Robert Amos, Morning on the Harbour, July 28/88, #1431, 4 colours, 150+
• Joan Rodgers, Wine Label, 1c, #1432, ~200, July 29, 280
• Robert Sebastian, Eagle, #1433, Aug 4/88, 5c, 110
• Richard Hunt, Frog, OPG, #1434, 5c, 150
• Robert Sebastian, Good, OPG, #1435 5c, 100+

• Calvin Hunt, T-bird & whale, #1744, 200
• Pel Catalogue covers, #1745, 100
• Calvin Hunt/John Livingston, Copper frog, #1746, 200
• Reproduction, #1746, 100
• John Laford, Tutle, 1748, 1st colours, 140
• Eugene Issacs, Wolf knight, 1749, 150
• Robert Amos, 1750, 125

• 2005, John Laford, Chief Red Feather, Jan 30/05, pel, 9c, #2375, 200
• George Hunt Jr, Frog, #2376, 200, 4c
• V.R., Valentines Day, 10 #2377, 1 colour
• Robert Amos, Shanon Jolley, #2378 250, 4c
• Patrick Amos, Salmon Moon, #2379, 4c, 200
• Francis Dick, Butterfly, #2380 43, 100

Collection consists of brochures, catalogues, postcards, and posters amassed by Amos. Also included is scanned compilation of Amos’s Times Colonist articles and research material including handwritten notes, newspaper articles, and more related to the collector’s work in putting together a biography of the local artist, Myfanwy Pavelic (unpublished), and a biography of photographer Henry Mortimer Lamb titled, “Harold Mortimer Lamb: The Art Lover” (2013).