The collection consists of handbills and broadsheets from Kingston, Montreal and elsewhere in Ontario. Includes feight tariffs for steamboats and stagecoaches, a listing of goods for C & J McDonald in Gananoque, a dissolution notice for A&W Morris & Co. of Brockville, a petition for a cheese factory and other material.
Collection consists of memorabilia relating to various family members' time at Queen's University, with the majority of items from Margaret Purcell Arts'30 and her husband Charles Green Science ' 31. This includes photographs around Queen's campus and Kingston, and the diplomas and convocation hoods for Margaret Purcell Green and Charles Stanley Green.
The collection consists of subject files, court records, diaries and photographs. The material illustrates many aspects of the history of Montague and Kitley Townships as well as the activities of Lockwood Family. The files also contain a great deal of research material relating to the Loyal Orange Lodge and the Rural Telephone Company of Kitley Limited. Petitions to the Montague Township Council and Township Assessment rolls are invaluable for a study to the early history of this township. A large collection of photographs illustrate the social history of the area.
The collection is comprised of letters written to Howard and Daisy Gerring by Alan and Ruth Collier during their summer sketching trips from 1956 to 1987. The letters are very detailed and were often created in a diary-type format with each letter containing daily accounts of the Colliers' travels. The letters reference people met on the journey, issues pertaining to the maintence of the their vehicle, and events that happened along the way. The material was arranged chronologically in binders by the Gerrings.
Collection consists of photographs of Queen's University and Kingston, including images of snow sculptures, buildings and events on Queen's campus, as well as photo albums of families in Kingston with images of Royal Military College, military encampments, and various Kingston buildings. Also includes the films of O.T. Macklem.
Collection consists of photographs of engineering plans for various components associated with different sections of the Rideau Canal, including dams, lock gates, sluice gates, and bridges.
Fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda and printed material. Most of the material relates to Queen's University. Includes manuscript in ink written on both sides of three pieces of birchbark concerning religious questions and gospel meeting held at Sharbot Lake, Ont., a letterbook for the period 1868-1873, relating to the finances of Grant's church in Halifax (volume 1); correspondence relating to the biography of Principal Grant by his son, W.L. Grant, 1902-1904 (volume 13). Letters from Grant to several well-known figures including Andrew Drummond, C.J. Low, Charles Mair, Sandford Fleming, Alexander Morris, Alfred E. Lavell, William Snodgrass and James Williamson.