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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 correspondence, subject files, material relating to Canadian writers, photographs and writings of Lorne Pierce. The material provides invaluable research materials relating to the careers of her father and mother, Lorne and Edith Pierce, as well as manuscripts from many other writers including Bliss Carman, Charles G.D. Roberts, Duncan Campbell Scott, Marjorie Pickthall, Constance I. Davies, John Richardson, and Georges Bugnet. Also includes photographs of the Pierce family.

The fonds consists of British legal documents and instruments relating to one piece of land in Ipswich, Suffolk, England.

Collection consists of letters to and from Benjamin Disraeli.

The collection consists of letters from Robert Service to Constance MacLean and Isabel MacLean, holograph poem, The Coming of Miss MacLean, early typescript, The Cremation of Sam McGee, several variations from published versions of the Cremation of Sam McGee, photograph and news clippings relating to E. Pauline Johnson.

Letters to H. Smith, Warden of Kingston Penitentiary, 1839-1843.

Fonds consists of business ledgers from the Barker Grist and Saw Mill, General Store, and Funeral Home located in Arden, Kennebec Township, Ontario; land records relating to Joseph Barker; clippings of the Barker family including John B., W.O. Clark, and Frank Barker; photographs.

The collection consists of correspondence of explorers who surveyed the boundary zones between Canada and the United States, and of several other diplomats, officers and aids who became involved in the arbitration of the border. There are also several bound and unbound manuscripts, including various treaties, arguments, awards, memorials and commissioners' proceedings relating to settlements of the Canadian-American border.

Collection consists of audio recordings from CBC, interviews with African writers, and other recordings related to African authors. Includes recordings of Chinua Achebe and Douglas Killam (an Achebe scholar).

Collection consists of correspondence, copy of the Will, clippings, a photograph of the Harvey Family coat-of-arms, and a PMT relating to Arthur Harvey and his descendants.