Collection consists of a 'scrapbook' of Queen's University student ephemera including attendance cards, programmes, invitations, and other printed material belonging at one time to John Charles Smith and Edwin Ashley; plus H.P. Roe's "Qualitative Analysis" chits from the Chemical Laboratories at Gordon Hall, Queen's University.
The fonds consists of a typescript of a study entitled The Development of Legislation Relating to Immigration to Canada before Confederation and the Process of its Administration, The study consists of two parts, a general survey of the subject and a collection of relevant documents.
The fonds consists of scrapbooks containing literary references, poems, articles, a short series on various counties in Ontario and news clippings of World War l. A notebook entitled The Heart of a Boy contains manuscripts and articles, 1884-1891. Three issues of The Maritime Advocate and Busy East, 1935, contain articles about Nova Scotia and enclosed correspondence.