Fonds consists of correspondence, sales, designs and other records relating to the operations of Kinnear d'Esterre Jewelers. Includes promotional recordings (advertisements).
Fonds is predominantly comprised of programmes for a variety of theatrical productions staged by the Kinsmen Club of Kingston over a 45 year period (1946-1991). There are also rosters for the club (1947-1977), newsletters (1965-1969) and minutes from the Annual General and Executive meetings of 1970.
The fonds primarily consists of correspondence. Letters to Thomas Kirkpatrick in Kingston from his mother, and other members of his family in Dublin, during the years 1823-1837 make up the bulk of the collection. In addition to personal correspondence there is some professional correspondence relating to Thomas Kirkpatrick's mission to London in 1837 to propose Kingston as the capital of Canada. Also included are photocopies of letters from Stafford Frederick to their brother, Alexander, who remained in Dublin.
The fonds consists of letterbooks, journals, ledgers, blotters, court dockets and registry office books that reflect the business of the law firm in handling estates and cases for their impressive list of clients. The papers reflect the input of all the major partners in the business since it's inception and include Thomas Kirkpatrick, George A. Kirkpatrick, R. Vachon Rogers, W.F. Nickle and John Macaulay. Of particular interest is an account book recording lots in Wolfe Island sold by C.W. Grant, fifth Baron de Longueuil. Individual records of various estates handled by the firm have been arranged and described as sous-fonds.
The fonds consists of correspondence; administrative records, including minutes, agendas and reports; event and project files; photographs; and various publications. Also includes bound scrapbooks, containing announcements of regular meetings, newspaper clippings and event advertisements. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Correspondence (1952-2003), Administrative (1920-2011), Bulletins (1966-2006), Events and Projects (1947-2011), Publicity (1929-2005), Photographs ([1922]-2000), and Scrapbooks (1925-1968).
The fonds consists of a ledger for the Kingston branch of the Knights of Labor (Local Assembly No. 553). The ledger was later used as a scrapbook, and has many pages pasted over with news clippings.
Correspondence from the Department of the Interior about a canoe trip from Georgian Bay to Kingston 1930, and from the Hudson's Bay Company about a trip to James Bay, 1940 and 1945. The collection also contains a memorandum of supplies needed on James Bay Trip.
The fonds consists of land records, receipts, ledgers, records of military service, paper silhouettes, an autograph book and correspondence. Taken together these record activities of the various branches of the family since its arrival in Canada. It must be noted here that these papers are not by any means a complete record of these activities but they do provide an interesting insight into the family at various times over the years.
