File consists of a recording of the event “Waltz for a rainy bebop evening: an evening of swingin’ bebop vocal jazz,” held on Saturday, March 25, 2004, at the Gumboot Café in Roberts Creek, B.C. The performance featured Peter Trower, Karin Plato, Ron Thompson, Ken Dalgleish, and Jacquie Allan.

Series consists of records relating to Peter Trower’s business and financial interests. Includes several copies of Trower’s curriculum vitae, contracts and agreements, correspondence, royalty statements, mortgage records, and invoices.

File consists of a recording of the event “Waltz for a rainy bebop evening: an evening of swingin’ bebop vocal jazz,” held on Saturday, March 25, 2004, at the Gumboot Café in Roberts Creek, B.C. The performance featured Peter Trower, Karin Plato, Ron Thompson, Ken Dalgleish, and Jacquie Allan.

Series consists of journal and newspaper articles and reviews pertaining to Peter Trower, books he has published or contributed to, his musical albums, and his participation in the band Industrial Accident. Also includes relating to awards and honours received by Trower, his activities and projects, and also include articles of a biographical nature. Series also includes sound and video recordings of interviews with Trower recorded between 1976 and 2000.

File consists of earning summaries and royalty reports, financial agreements (including agreements between Trower and Simon Fraser University Library), invoices, and a bank statement.

File consists of a magazine clipping from an undated publication entitled “British Columbia.” It also includes a newspaper clipping from the Vancouver Sun by Bob Hunter, which appears to be a response to the magazine article, but refers to the article as being from the February 1975 issue of MacLean’s magazine rather than from British Columbia Magazine.

Series consists of records relating to Peter Trower’s readings, his musical performances, and his participation in various literary festivals, conferences and other events. Series includes video and sound recordings of readings by Trower and readings by other authors, including Al Purdy and Patrick Lane. Also included are video and audio recordings of Caulk Boots & Marlin Spikes performances that Trower participated in, and a video recording copy of the "Between the Sky and the Splinters" documentary, filmed by the CBC in 1976. Record types include correspondence, notes, reading programs, set lists, newspaper articles and clippings, as well as posters, brochures, and other promotional material.

Series consists of correspondence, certificates, and promotional material relating to various awards and honours received by Peter Trower. Includes records relating to Trower’s receipt of a BC 2000 Book Award, the BC Gas Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 and the Canadian Author’s Association Jack Chalmers Poetry Award in 2005. Series also includes records relating to his third place finish for the BC Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2001 and his nomination for a 2003 ReLit Award in the poetry category.

Records originally loose in box when processed.

File consists of a letter relating to Trower’s book “Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys” winning a Canadian Authors Association’s Jack Chalmer’s Award for Poetry in 2005.

Series consists of photographs of Peter Trower, his partner Yvonne Klan, and their family, friends and other acquaintances. Photographs relate to Trower’s writing, musical and personal activities, his childhood in England and Canada, and his family life. Series includes many photographs of Trower with writer and publisher friends, giving readings, attending literary events, awards ceremonies, and book signings and performing with former bandmates Mike Dunn and Ken Dagliesh, Industrial Accident and the Caulk Boots and Marlin Spikes production. Also included are photographs taken during the filming of the documentary "Between the Sky and the Splinters" in 1976, photographs of Trower’s travels with Yvonne, his various residences, publicity shots for book covers, and photographs from his seventieth birthday party in 2000. Fellow writers appearing in photographs include Earle Birney, Trevor Carolan, Jim Christy, Lorna Crozier, Jamie Mandelkau, John Moore, Cath Morris, Mary Nichol, Stuart Nutter, Richard Olafson, Malcolm Parry, George Payerle, Joe Perone, Ted Poole, Greg Potter, Al Purdy, Robin Skelton, Carol Skoloff, Godfrey Stephens, Alan Twigg, Howard White, and Carolyn Zenailo.

File consists of 21 colour slides (MsC 36b.37 – MsC 36b.57). Photographs depict Trower and Carl Chrismas around Red Tusk Valley, British Columbia.

File consists of a colour photograph printed on electronic imaging paper. Title in Trower’s inventory reads as follows: “Photo of Trower taken by Brad Benson and used on his website.”

File consists of 3 pages of black and white photocopied photographs.

File consists of 14 photographs (MsC 36b.1 – MsC 36b.14) of Peter Trower and others at the ceremony for the 2002 BC Gas Lifetime Achievement Awards (later renamed the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award).

File consists of 22 photographs (MsC 36b.15 – MsC 36b.36) that were originally loose in box when received from donor. The photographs depict Peter Trower, his friends, and his family, and span a broad range of time. Photograph MsC 36b.33 depicts Trower in the musical and storytelling group "Caulk Boots & Marlin Spikes." Photographs are undated and predominantly have no titles or captions.

File consists of 56 pages of photocopied reproductions of drawings, some colour and some black and white.