The fonds consists of records documenting Mazo de la Roche's family and professional life, predominantly from 1927 to 1960, though some of the material, in particular the photographs, are from her childhood. The fonds has been divided into the following series: correspondence - mainly with her children; financial records - ranging from daily living expenses to royalties and investments; miscellaneous; photographs; writings - articles, reviews and novels; and, scrapbooks - press clippings pertaining to Mazo or her work from around the world.
The fonds consists of correspondence, news clippings, minutes, reports, bids, specifications and drawings relating to collapse and rebuilding of Quebec Bridge. There are also plans and photo albums of the construction of the Quebec Bridge, including the 1916 collapse of the central span, and a small scrapbook containing material on the railroad bridge disaster at Ashtabula, Ohio, 1876 Dec. 29.
Fonds consists of the Doomsday book of the 6th Field Company Canadian Engineers. The book relates information regarding the unit based on their semi-regular) annual reunions. The minutes of those reunion meetings, menus, clippings, signatures of attendees as well as a small number of photographs of members during the war, as well after, are all bound into the book. While the book was purchased and its assemblage began in 1929, there are some documents that predate that year that are included.
Queen's University. 6th Field Company Canadian Engineers
Cases for the Court of Common Pleas, No. 36, 1856 Sept. 23-1857 May 20. Fallassizes-Counties of Grey, Simcoe, Lincoln, Welland, Halton and Wentworth. Spring assizes-Counties of Wellington, Waterloo, Perth, Leeds and Grenville, Lanark and Renfrew,Carleton, Prescott and Russell, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.
Aerial photographs, (prints & negatives) of Kingston and vicinity as well as Royal visit of 1939, Red Cross nurses, Kingston Collegiate Vocational Institute under construction, Canadian Steamship Lines Grain elevators, Westport, Keyes Supply and scenic shots of the Thousand Islands. The film reel begins with footage of cherry blossoms and then moves on to the 1930 Air Meet held in Kingston. The air show contains scenes of an autogyro, and flour bombing runs on a Model T clad in plywood to resemble a moving tank.
The fonds consists of a letter, dated 1929 Sept. 25, to Mr. Mackenzie, typescripts with holographic annotations for The House of Rebels and other poems, The song of the Undertow, and a typescript of Chapters 1 and 7 of the Castle of Graymoor.
