Fonds consists of correspondence, articles, diaries, subject files, news clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, manuscript notes, notebooks, cartoons, watercolours, and medals. Adam Shortt's involvement with Queen's University, his work as Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, his work as first Chairman of the Board of Historical Publications of the Public Archives, his active career as a public speaker, and his creative output are all reflected in the papers. There is also a large series of autographs that Shortt collected over the course of his life.

Fonds consists of correspondence, diaries, general remark book, H.M.S. Algerine, China Station, 1899; minute and letter book of Commander in Chief, East Indies, 1909 Mar. 3, lectures at Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and papers written by Slade for Submission to the First Lord.

Fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, diaries, travel diaries, calendars, sketch books, sketches and drawings, programmes and invitations pertaining to shows and exhibitions, inventories, speeches, awards, miscellaneous and printed material, photographs, slides and sound recordings covering all aspects of his life as a student, teacher, traveller, world-renowned artist and chronicler of the country he loved. There is also a small amount of material created and maintained by Ruth Collier (nee Brown) and some family genealogy files.

The fonds consists of correspondence, diaries, manuscript sermons and material relating to World War l.

The fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda, diaries, material by and about J.W. Dafoe, subject files, scrapbooks and miscellaneous pamphlets. The correspondence files, arranged chronologically, contain memoranda of confidential interviews on Canadian politics, trade, the economy, external affairs, defence. Often these memoranda are in the form of letters or vice versa, so the two have been filed together. The Diaries written by Grant Dexter in 1938-39 while he was in England touch on many aspects of Canadian External Affairs. Also included is a diary kept by Grant Dexter's wife Alice, outlining their life in London in 1937.

Fonds consists of correspondence, subject files, photographs, and drafts of his manuscript William Henry Bartlett: Artist, Author, Traveller (1965-1974); correspondence, diaries, subject files, theatrical and musical programmes; photographs; and writings, pertaining to his time, and that of his wife (the late Irene Joan Porteous) as students at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, as an officer in World War Two, a professor and administrator at the University Geulph, and author and traveller; book reviews for "The Picturesque" and "A Part of Me is Missing"; manuscript material and reviews relating to "Slow march to a Regiment", "Sullivan Ross", and "Fast in My Enchantments"; early postcards to, and from, various family members and friends.

The fonds consists of family correspondence, subject files relating to the Kingston Conference of Artists, 1941, the Federation of Canadian Artists, 1941-1951, a family history by Dr. Biéler's father and mother, diaries covering the period 1860-1980, newspaper clippings, exhibition notices, a sketch book by his mother Blanche Biéler (ca. 1884-1886) and a copy of 'Nos Origines' written by André Biéler's parents; interviews, captured on video featuring André Biéler speaking with Peter Harcourt and Tom Evans.

Fonds consists of architectural drawings and other material related to a number of projects in Kingston and the surrounding area; correspondence; diaries; invoices; contracts; specifications; tenders; notebooks; and financial statements relating to the life and career of Mr. Connidis

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, memorabilia and photographs. The papers are divided into two series: Correspondence of Anna Walling - prominent correspondents include Charlotte Perkins Gliman, Emma Goldman, and Selig Perlman, and Correspondence of Others - including correspondence of William English Walling, other family members and Leonard Abbott. The correspondence (1897-1964) which includes family, friends and political associates documents Walling's involvement in political causes. The letters also reveal Anna Walling's feelings on personal matters, social questions and her reactions to meetings with prominent persons both in the United States and abroad.

The fonds consists of correspondence, diaries, writings and subject files documenting the career of Professor Currie as historian and university professor. The files of his writing show his broad interests in the field of Canadian economic history, Canadian transportation history and the Grand Trunk Railway.