The fonds consists of correspondence and records of the United States Department of State, Department of the Navy and the Office of the Secretary of War. Included are records of the negotiations connected with the Treaty of Ghent, correspondence and dispatches from U.S. ministers to Great Britain, letters received from officers and from captains, and miscellaneous letters.
Correspondence, notes, structural information and account information on ordnance lands and Kingston fortifications from the late 18th century to the middle 19th century. Some of the fortifications discussed are the Murney Tower, Fort Henry, French Fort Frontenac, the Blockhouse and palisade defences, Market Battery, the battery near and within Lake Ontario Park, and the Royal Navy Yard. It also includes information on Sir Richard Bonnycastle of the Royal Engineers (RE), and a list of the Royal Engineers who served in Kingston from 1812-1860.
Fonds consists of deeds and other legal documents relating to property holdings in Kingston, Ontario; correspondence, photographs, and news clippings; autographed copy, with many signatures of his classmates, of Maxwell Strange's Tricolor '28 Yearbook.
Fonds consists of microfilm copies of correspondence and other papers of Rev. John Stuart, Sir James Stuart, Andrew Stuart, Sheriff John Stuart from the Archives of Ontario as well as a small amount of original material comprised of correspondence, including some to Bishop White of Philadelphia.
The fonds consists principally of the papers relating to Sutherland's experience as a minister in Bennett's administration and includes correspondence regarding his constituency of Oxford North and official correspondence as Minister of Pensions and National Health, 1934-1935, regarding hospitals across Canada.
Fonds consists of a collection of correspondences, papers and articles. Includes: Typed letter addressed to "Queen's Men Overseas" dated October 31st, 1918 wishing them a Merry Christmas and letting them know how proud the Queen's community is of their service; one copy of Volume XXXVII, Number 4 of the "Journal of The Presbyterian Historical Society" dated December 1959 and including an article entitled "Student Days in Glasgow University" written by R.B. Taylor; letters of correspondence between W.E. McNeill, a former colleague of Taylor's at Queen's; Christmas card from Mr. and Mrs. R.B. Taylor to the student body dated 1922-1923; letter from W.L. Mackenzie King dated October 7th, 1919 regarding the potential problem of acting as a Harvard representative at Queen's while being awarded an honorary LL.D. degree from Queen's; booklet commemorating the festivities put on by the Rocky Mountain Club for Theodore Roosevelt's birthday dated October 27th, 1919. Also includes a bound photocopy of Taylor's unpublished memoir.
The fonds consists of correspondence and a diary (1862) written by James Thomson, as well as genealogical notes on the Thomson family. The correspondence includes letters he wrote to his father, mother and sister in Scotland, and later to his wife in Edwardsburgh. Also includes an obituary notice of his son's (1949).
The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and material relating to his work during the Second World War as Naval correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation, research notes, BBC news scripts, and news clippings.The fonds also includes family material and material on Tunstall's travels after his retirement.
