The Art Gallery of Peterborough (AGP) was founded by a group of volunteers in 1973 establishing a Permanent Collection in the same year with a gift of historical paintings donated by the Peterborough Teachers College. The AGP received its Letters Patent from the Province of Ontario on March 15, 1974, incorporating the AGP as a not-for-profit charitable organization, “To establish an art gallery in the City of Peterborough to preserve, maintain, exhibit and display works of artistic interest,”…