The fonds consists of correspondence and news clippings mainly concerning H.J. Symington's retirement as president of Trans-Canada Air Lines, as a director of Canadian National Railways and as Chairman of the Board of Price Brothers and Company Limited. Also includes correspondence from Symington to Fay Christie during their courtship (1908-1910), a press release about Symington handwritten by Louis St-Laurent, and a certificate signed by King George VI. The proceedings and arrangements for the funeral of William Lyon Mackenzie King and lifetime gold passes for CN Rail and Trans-Canada Air Lines are also included. This fonds contains the following series: Correspondence (1908-1965), Subject Files (1925-1965), and Photographs (1948-1962).
The fonds consists of correspondence, maps, clippings and photographs. The material documents the lives and careers of Herbert Horace Roberts and his wife, Margaret (Harrison) Roberts.
The fonds consists of project work, technical papers, subject files and reference material on underground transmission cable systems, design and installation. Includes St. Lawrence River cable crossing.
The fonds consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, news clippings, transcripts of local diaries, and alphabetical family and genealogical files. These genealogical files, which relate mainly to Bay of Quinte and Loyalist families, contain correspondence, research from printed sources, newspaper clippings and some photographs. Also included is a set of ordnance survey maps of Kingston and area dated 1869.
The fonds consists of correspondence to, and from, several Canadian Prime Ministers, British political figures and Canadian writers, a series of reports and articles on both medical and political subjects authored by Dr. Bruce and others, radio broadcasts and speeches, newspaper clippings, and a genealogical chart.
The fonds consists of a complete, and an incomplete typescript, with marginalia, of Mr. Sturgess' memoirs of growing up in Kingston, Ontario. Entitled, 'My Life Story', it contains chapters on 'My Life in the North End'; 'Gone But Not Forgotten', which is dedicated 'to the parents of us kids born in the 30s, 40s, and 50s'; 'Hotels in Kingston 1950, 60 & 70s'; and 'My Career in the Canadian Navy'.
The fonds consists of correspondence, drafts of published works, articles, addresses, pamphlets and notes relating to the history of Kingston, transcripts of addresses and broadcasts of Leonard W. Brockington, 1936-1965, and offprints and news clippings relating to Canadian publishing. Correspondence relates to the Bibliographical Society of Canada, Bliss Carman and Canadian literature. Correspondents include Nathan Cohen, E.J. Pratt, Lady Tweedsmuir and C.B. Sissons. Includes research notes on Bliss Carman. The Gundy papers contain a great deal of valuable information concerning Canadian publishing, Canadian literacy developments and Canadian libraries over a period of almost forty years.
The fonds consists of correspondence, subject files and news clippings relating to the activities of Henry J. Donley as a prominent member of the Progressive Conservative Party in the Kenora-Rainy River district.
This fonds is comprised of is a personal diary kept on a daily basis that commences April 24th 1855 "continued from the other book" ( the other book is not present) aboard HM Steamer Rifleman at Corrientes. It runs to May 7th 1857 where it ends in mid page, with several blank pages remaining. Mackarsie describes the numerous comings and goings of senior officers, visiting officials, civilian visitors and his daily activities. The geographic range of the Ship seems to be along the east coast of South America, mainly in the River Plate estuary with side trips to Rio de Janeirio. The fonds also includes a log of approximately 50 pages, handwritten with entries made in 8 columns, for HMS Spy. The first entry is on Wednesday Sept 26th , 1849 and provides technical information pertaining to wind direction, latitude and longitude, times, and comments about daily sailing observations such as: "observed strange sail, made sail in chase, boarded the French barque Juste of Calais, 11 killed." The last entry for the log is Saturday December 29th of the same year. There are a number of Pay bills (Navy form 86) for Mackarsie also present. Interspersed with the journal, log and pay slips are other items of a more comtemporary vintage. There are several pages of hand written notes, which take the form of an article, speech or radio broadcast which outlines a brief provenance of the material as well as there interest in the historical study of the supression of the slave trade by the British Navy. Also of note is a rough geneaology of the Cock family (wife of Henry Herbert Mackarsie).
