The collection consists of pictures taken by an unknown photographer, or photographers, in Kingston and the surrounding area, around the turn of the twentieth century. The photos show local landmarks such as Kingston City Hall, Kingston homes, Kingston Mills, Martello Towers and Jones Falls. Also included are photographs of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, men, horses and guns. Steam vessels such as the Rideau Queen, the Toronto and even pleasure sail boats, ice boats and quite a number of pictures of canoes and canoeists are included along with pictures taken at or near the Kingston Yacht Club. There are many pictures of as yet unidentified individuals in various poses including family scenes, picnics and fishermen. Another sizable lot of pictures were taken away from Kingston at various sites that have yet to be identified. One series were shot in what looks like a summer resort area and several others are of cities or a city yet to be identified.
Collection consists of a visual record of theatre promoter, "Roxy and His Gang's" visit to Ontario. Includes photographs from New York, Toronto, Kawartha Lakes, Lake of Bays, Algonquin Park, Thousand Islands, Temagami, Nipigon, and Northern Ontario.
The collection consists of alphabetical files created by Mr. Waller while researching his book on local families, as well as copies of some of his transcribed publications. The records relate particularly to families of United Empire Loyalist lineage.
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 correspondence, memos, attestation forms, and supply forms for Military District 3 (Kingston, Napanee, Belleville, Cobourg, Port Hope), including records about militia, artillery, and cavalry units.
Collection consists of hockey memorabilia, including materials relating to the Ontario Hockey Association, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, among other associations. Also includes a collection of records and other personal items that belonged to James T. Sutherland.
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.
Fonds consists of records detailing involvement with the Federation Egalitarion Communities and the legal demise of Dandelion, as well as a run of Communities magazine.
