Ontario's first macadamized road. This album is comprised of photographs taken in the 1910's of work being done on Highway #2, also known as Kingston Road or York Road.
This album consists of pictures from the Thousand Islands taken during the summer of 1911. Includes views of Ryder cottage, Wilson's Canal, yachts the 'Ramona' and 'Rowena', the 'Parthia', a barge, and engine hoist of the Kingston Salvage Company, and a couple of Steamers.
This discrete item is a hand-made recruitment poster, likely used during the campaign to enlist men for the second contingent of the 5th Field Company in 1916. There are photographs sewn onto a piece of khaki canvas depicting the winter quarters of the 5th Field Company, the Barriefield camp, groups of engineers, and a watertower.
Item is a photocopy of "Les arpents de neige au printemps," a talk given by Larkin Kerwin, who was the first Roland Michener Visitor at Queen's University.
Unbound copybook with approximately 150 pages. The copybook contains detailed sets of instructions and specifications for all of the various building trades for a number of different buildings in the Kingston and Ottawa area. Includes spcifications for the Bell Telephone building and Cooks Presbyterian Church in Kingston and a number of residences on O'Connor Street in Ottawa.
