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This collection contains miscellaneous documents about specific (not all) parcels of land, identified by lot and concession numbers, across southern Ontario from the earliest surveys to Confederation. They document activities on particular lands, including routine correspondence, survey information and some copies of formal instruments, dated mainly before the Crown grant was issued. The papers are filed by township, town or village. Within townships, they are arranged in numerical order by concession and within each concession by lot number. Within towns or villages, documents are arranged alphabetically by name of locatee.

This collection consists of the 'Canadian National Railways: Report of Operations, 1919-1921.' This document provides a detailed account of all operations of the railroad for the three years following the consolidation and reorganization, by Order-in-Council (September 1918) of the Canadian Government and Canadian Northern Railways (November 1918) and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (July 1920).

This collection consists of copies of a number of albumen prints, possibly taken by Thomas Bartley Tracy, a member of the International Boundary Commission, durings its survey of the 49th parallel west of Lake of the Woods. Includes many images of Red River and the surrounding district (ca.1872-1873); correspondence from the Boundary Commission and other sources relating to the photographs (ca.1900-1940); genealogical material pertaining to the Tracy and Boyd families.

This collection consists of one example of a new Canadian flag (the "Pearson Penant") that was put forward to the House of Commons Flag Committee, during the country's 'great flag debate'.

Fonds consists of correspondence, research notes, manuscripts, interviews and photographs that went into the writing of the book entitled, "Their Enduring Spirit - The History of Frontenac Provincial Park, 1783-1990". The records document the social and family life around Frontenac Park, as well as the extensive mining, farming and logging industry in that area.

This collection consists of one sepia-tone, digitally enhanced copy print; two black and white, 4 x 5 copy negatives; and three, 35 mm. copy slides; of 'Camp Iroquois', a summer home built in 1875 by James Wallace, and located on Bostwick Island in the Thousand Islands, Ontario.

The collection consists of non-photographic, panoramic maps of various Canadian cities and urban centres including Halifax, Lunenburg, Moncton, Montreal, Sherbrooke, Sorel, Brantford, Kingston, London, Ottawa, Port Arthur, Simcoe, St. Catharines, Tillsonburg, Toronto, Morris, Winnipeg, Victoria, and Yukon. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, major Canadian cities and urban centres followed a North American trend in having panoramic maps - more commonly called bird's-eye views - prepared. These non-photographic illustrations viewed cities from above at an oblique angle - a remarkable achievement in the days before aerial photography. They showed street patterns, major landscapes, and a variety of structures including churches, mansions, single dwellings, industrial plants, office blocks, retail and wholesale businesses, and government buildings.

The Collection consists of a microfilm copy of the 'Register of Recruits of the 253rd Battalion Queen's University Highlanders Canadian Expeditionary Force' (1916-1917), with an introduction by Craig Mantle; an 'Addendum to the 'Register of Recruits', introduced and compiled by Craig Mantle; and a copy of the 'Nominal Roll of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men'.

The collection consists of prints and negatives of original blueprints, created by the New York architectural firm of Warren & Whetmore, for Midriver Farm, Grindstone Island, New York, as commissioned by the owner Charles Bohlen.

This collection consists of a number of pictures of the Whig-Standard Building decorated for the Royal visits of of 1939 and 1959, VE day and Coronation Day. There are also pictures of local sites: the Market Battery; Princess Street; Kingston harbour; the Eastern Ontario Air Meet of 1930; and the covered bridge on Highway 2, crossing the Napanee River into Napanee.