The fonds consists of correspondence, subject files, sound tapes, linguistic maps, publications and teaching files related to linguistics especially in the Canadian Maritimes. The documents create a picture of Wilson's personal interests and the direction of the profession as a whole. The field notes and detailed information on dialect surveys, particularly in the Maritimes, and information about professional associations, are revealing about the development of linguistics in North America.
Account of Joseph Allison's stock in the Halifax Banking Company, signed by Samuel Cunard, 8 Nov. 1825. There is also an exchange draft for Samuel Cunard, 15 Sept. 1827.
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.
The fonds consists of four files of correspondence. They cover the years 1926 to 1927 and contain letters from Harcourt Brown to his fiancee and later wife, Dorothy Stacey. In addition there are approximately one-hundred and fifty photographs, plus nitrate negatives, of Queen's University, Kingston and district, 1926-1927. These photographs include images of shipping and the bridge in Kingston harbour, Fort Henry, Wellington Street, Portsmouth village, Kingston Mills and the old military hospital.
The collection consists of transcriptions of meeting minutes of the shareholders and annual reports of the Canadian Land and Emigration Company, 1862-1881, as well as transciptions of Directors of the CLE Company from 1868 to 1881. Also includes a 'Diary of general chit-chat and the farm commencing Oct. 1, 1870' and almanacs for 1865 and 1866.
The fonds consists of a small amount of correspondence, some subject files and copies, typescript and printed, of his newspaper column in the Toronto Telegram. The correspondence and files represent to the two periods that Greer was a researcher for the Ontario Liberal Party, first under John Wintermeyer and then under Stuart Smith. The newspaper columns, arranged chronologically, cover the period 1966 to 1980.
