The fonds consists of client files, architectural drawings, and presentation material relating to the business of R. Bruce Downey Architect. The records relate to projects predominantly in the Kingston area
The fonds consists of correspondence, letterbooks, ledgers, scrapbooks, legal documents and financial records relating to Kingston business and shipping. The letterbooks, 1887-1889, contain correspondence of the Montreal Transportation Company. There are letters to Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Mackenzie Bowel. Topics include the Orange Order, Catholicism, employment of locals, prices for timber in the hinterlands and the building of ships in Kingston.
The fonds consists of journals written by Beardsley as a Queen's Engineering Student during a trip to Great Bear Lake (Port Radium), Northwest Territories to search for uranium deposits. Also includes a published transcription of the two journals, which includes transcriptions of letters to his future wife, Barbara, and photographs.
Fonds consists of diaries, the entries of which represents his activities on an almost daily basis from 1942 to 1990; correspondence; newspaper clippings; photographs and assorted ephemera covering some of the ten years preceding and the almost five years following the span accounted for by the diaries; research and lecture notes; offprints; professional correspondence; and a scrapbook.
Fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, news clippings, tape recordings, galley proofs, a relatively complete bibliography of his work, a videocassette copy of "Rare 'Home Movies'" originally shot in the 1940's and 1950s, and photographs. Included are memorabilia and conference papers from Mr. Gustafson's career as a poet, critic, and scholar.