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This collection contains material pertinent to the Fort as museum and consists of thirty-three scrapbooks of printed clippings covering Fort Henry and local activities from opening of Fort as museum in 1936, ( v.1) to 1982 (v.33).

Fonds consists of correspondence and other material relating to several family members from Portsmouth, Ontario, who fought with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War One.

The "Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts" collection provides a wealth of source material on a range of major writers. John Forster owned the largest collection of Samuel Richardson manuscripts in existence. Forty-seven poems, including odes, sonnets, dramatic prologues and epilogues are included, along with the major archive of his correspondence. Eight-hundred and fifty letters are reproduced, many relating to his work on the major novels "Pamela," "Clarissa" and "Sir Charles Grandison." A vast collection of literary manuscripts, letters and papers of Jonathan Swift are also included in Part Two. Among them is Swift's private diary, that dates from 1727, many personal accounts, correspondence, verses, riddles, a problematic first edition of "Gulliver's Travels" with manuscript alterations that may be autograph and the Dublin Inquisition's Commission of Lunacy on Swift of 1742. Manuscripts of Samuel Johnson include the proof sheets of his "Lives of the English Poets," along with varied correspondence. Correspondence of major authors of the period include that of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Mrs. (Elizabeth) Inchbald, Robert Burns, Edmund Burke, William Cowper, Horace Walpole and David Hume. Some early letters of William Wordsworth date from 1797 and there is a large volume of verse by James Thomson.

The fonds consists of 3 albums: album 1 consists of approximately 90 photographs of the Strathy family (Ford, his sisters Mary, Frances, Grace, and his mother, and father, Stuart) are shown camping in Northern Ontario(1911-12) vacationing at Niagara Falls (1913) and on a trip to England (Devonshire) and Rosapenna, Ireland in 1913; album 2 depicts F.S. Strathy's pilot training between 1916 and 1917, and his period of service on the Western Front in 1917. He is shown with J.N. 2 & 3 (Curtiss) machines at the Curtiss Aviation School in Long Branch, Ontario. Also shown is his training in Vendome, France (after a stop in London) in February 1917, and the photographs indicate he later visited Paris. In France, Ford flew D.H. 4 machines. He is also seen involved in various leisure activities, and on the ground taking machine gun training; the third album contains letters, clippings, photographs, and documents compiled by the Strathy family during the war, and added to after Ford's death. The letters begin in 1916 as Strathy moved across Canada (Montreal, Halifax) and crossed the ocean (arriving in London) and are addressed to his family in Toronto. The letters describe the continuation of his flight training in England and France in 1917, and his visit to Paris. He concluded his flight training in May in Cranwell, Lincolnshire. In July, Flight Sub. Lieut. F. S. Strathy went on active service in France flylng a Sopwith "Camel." In letters home, he described in detail his daily activities including his only "confirmed kill" during aerial combat on 15th of August,1917. Two days later F. S. St.rathy was shot down over German lines. The remainder of the documents include his military papers, and record the aftermath of his death including a letter from a comrade who had witnessed his last battle. Ford's letters often included diagrams which illustrated training and combat activities. Two diagrams and part of one letter of his were published in Thre Argus (19 December, 1917) and the Daily Express, (2 April, 1918).

Copies of correspondence, lists of discharges, transfers and casualties of Royal Engineers working on the Rideau Canal, 1830-1837, and information relating to the military hospital at Newboro during the construction of the Rideau Canal. The papers also contain certificates, receipts and examinations of the Medical Council of Canada, Canadian Medical Association Code of Ethics (1922).

The fonds consists of correspondence, legal documents and financial records of Nathan Ford, agent for Samuel Ogden, proprietor of Ogdensburg, 1797, his brother, David Ford, Morristown, N.Y., and of succeeding generations who married into the Jones family, Brockville, Ont.

The fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, subject files, deeds, and wills relating to the legal practice conducted by John Protaise Foley in the same town (1845-1976); correspondence pertaining to James Foley, Clerk of the Senate, (1882-1896); scrapbooks. This fonds, predominantly covering the period 1869 to 1956, contains financial records from D. Foley & Co., a general merchantile and forwarding business located in Westport, Ontario (1875-1944).

The fonds consists of a scrapbook containing news clippings, notes, telegrams and photographs relating to Private McNaughton's service with the Canadian Contingent in the Boer War.

Fonds consists correspondence to and from Florence Tait and her family, student friends, and future husband, Stuart Schofield, while attending Queen's University at Kingston, and on travels to Europe and the Far East; subject files; diaries; and photographs and photo albums compiled by both Florence (Tait) and Stuart Schofield during their time as students at Queen's, with images of many interior and exterior shots of boarding houses, such as 44 Stuart Street; classmates; campus scenes with buildings and other University events such as the visist by H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught; Kingston and district scenes, including Macdonald Park with the Golden Lion and tulip bed, the waterfront (the "Old Ontario Strand"), S.S. Harmonic and Huronia; scenes in Western Canada in such locales as Winnipeg, Strathcona (Edmonton), Banff, the Geological Survey in the Rockies, Kootenays, and other British Columbia interior locations, aboriginal people at Illes des Prairies; geological consulting trips to Mexico and China; earthquake in Yokahama, Japan; summer excursions around Ontario, and to the West to Bulyea and Romford, Saskatchewan; Lake Superior; Quebec City; the Parliament Buildings and Library, and other views in Ottawa; the Canadian Expeditionary Force; visits to Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, and Vancouver Island. A number of the photos have also been hand coloured.