This historical collection contains primarily of secondary source information pertaining to a number of subject areas including churches, industries, institutions, historical events and celebrations. Includes research files, subject files, publications, clippings and ephemera. There is some original material within the collection; of particular note is a polling book for the election between John A. Macdonald and Mowat when they ran against each other for a legislature seat in Kingston in 1861; a boat-building contract (in french) from 1808; specifications for the Richardson Bath House (1918), and material pertaining to visits, royal and otherwise, to the City over the years.
This fonds consists of membership lists, correspondence, and programmes relating to annual business meetings. There is also a significant number of records which pertain to the Kingston Junior Music Club from the 1970's to 2010.
The fonds consists of minute books of the Board of Inspectors, daily journal of the warden, correspondence, accounts and receipts for labour of convicts in the penitentiary, punishment record books; hospital records; daily reports; liberation question books; duty rosters; Protestant Chaplain's registers; letter registers; and convict biographical information.
Item is a copy of "Kingston Penitentiary is On The Air", which contains two radio shows, first recorded in July and August 1952, featuring "an hour's worth of perfomances by inmate entertainers from Kingston Penitentiary, as originally recorded over the public airwaves" by Radio Station CKWS.
The fonds consists of two handwritten minute books for the Executive meetings of the Society taking a standard form with attendance noted, finances discussed and the work of the members reported.
Fonds consists of contracts regarding post and mail operations in the County of Frontenac between Loughborough to Lake Opinicon on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Victoria's mails, complete with wax seals.
