The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, personal memoranda and assorted printed material. The manuscripts include lectures, articles, short stories, poetry and radio broadcasts. Topics include literature, Canadian history and, the library profession. The personal material includes biographical material.
The fonds consists of correspondence, both personal and business; speeches; subject files; records of homes Mr. Thrift has owned; planning documents; and teaching materials. The bulk of the records in the Eric Thrift fonds are from the time Mr. Thrift was a student at M.I.T. until he became a Professor Emeritus at Queen's University in 1981.
The fonds consists of an inventory of stock (1889 and 1904), minutes and history of firm, letters of incorporation and other legal documents, and advertisements for the store. Also included are family genealogies and correspondence from family members, as well as a diary (1864).
Fonds consists of Engineering Society Council Agenda and Minutes; other Committee Agenda, Minutes, and reports including the Programme, and Educational Excellence Committees; Executive reports; Undergraduate Registration in Engineering at Canadian Universities reports; various incarnations of the Society's Consitution and By-Laws; policy manuals; records relating to the operations of Clark Hall; volume containing the names of various "Executives & Athletics Awards"; and Society handbooks and pamphlets; coloured photographs of the Applied Science year crests [note: several are missing] (1938-1992); whisky glasses and matchbook covers from "Vendetta", the Science '71 Formal.
The fonds consists of correspondence, notebooks belonging to Mrs. Roberts and her grandson, Athelston Roberts, son of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, poems, news clippings, drawings and photographs.