The collection consists of a copy of "Notices of the Rideau Canal" (1832) signed by Esther March By, a letter to Col. John By (8 Apr. 1833), a history of "Col. By and the Rideau Canal" produced on the centenary of the Canal (1932), an address from a Rotary luncheon in Gananoque on "The Rideau Canal System" (1943) by Charles E. Kidd, and clippings relating to the canal.
Collection consists of: Plan of the Works at Kingston Mills – 22 Jan. 1831; Survey of Brewers Upper Mill and Round Tail being the first plan of the series of the Survey of the Cataraqui Creek – 22 Jan. 1831; the Woodwork of the Face Sluices Jones Falls & Kingston Mills; Plan of Section of Waste (water?) Gate, Brewers Mills; Plan of Section of Face Sluices Jones Falls & Kingston Mills; Report of the State of the Works at Brewers Upper Mills; Report of the State of the Works at Kingston Mills; and, Plan showing the waters through which the Route of the Rideau Canal will pass. Also includes photographic copies from drawings held at the Archives of Ontario.
All maps signed by Colonel John By, one map signed by Burrowes (though likely responsible for all drawings).
The collection consists of postcards depicting scenes in Kingston, Napanee, Belleville, Brockville, Prescott and the Thousand Islands, as well as digital images of photographs of the Tannery staff, 1938, and the Kingston Penitentiary staff, ca. 1955.
Fonds comprises nine volumes of Robert Galway’s series, “People, Places, People, and Pilots,” a history of bush-plane aviation and aviation generally in Ontario (1,2,3,4,6,7,10,14,15); digital and analogue photographs and negatives by or of pilot Roy Maxwell covering the 1929 Treaty 9 Adhesion trip with Herbert Nathaniel Awrey from the Indian Affairs Department representing Federal government and Walter Cain, Deputy Minister of Lands and Forests representing Ontario; and includes the manuscript memoirs of bush-plane pilot H. H. (Holly) Parsons with accompanying images from the Treaty 9 area + CD-Rom. Also includes USB thumb drive of digitized Roy Maxwell and Holly Parson images and Robert Galway's research.
Collection consists of legal documents relating to Robert Headlam, his clients and others, plus his legal successors, including a rare Indenture, printed several years prior to any previously known document having been commercially produced by him.
Fonds consists of team photos of various Kingston and area baseball and hockey champions; includes photographs of the Kingston Ponies, the Red Indian Hockey Club, one action photo of Queen's football team, ca. 1928, and three miscellaneous photographs of a Kingston barbershop and the Grocers' and Butchers' Parade (1934).
The collection consists of two series of records containing: subject files gathered by Mr O'Hara as an interested employee; subject files, financial records, and company reports gathered in his capacity as a director; internal memoranda created in his capacity as a general manager of one subsidiary company of Cockfield, Brown; and legal records documenting his case against the company and its trustees.
The collection consists of original letters and documents. Includes items signed by Louis Xlll of France, Sir John A. Macdonald , Sir John Colborne, William Lyon Mackenzie, William McDougall, Israel Tarte, Sir John Thompson, Guglielmo Marconi, Lord Monck and L.S. Huntington. The microfilm contains articles relating to the death of Colonel Robert Samuel McLaughlin,