The fonds consists of general correspondence, correspondence pertaining to grants given by the Society, minutes and financial records relating to the Society's purpose to aid poor children to obtain an education.
Fonds consists of correspondence covering a broad array of topics; memoranda; speeches; subject files; diaries; scrapbooks; photographs; sound recordings of numerous speeches delivered over the years. Of particular interest is the prototype on cheese cloth (bunting), possibly used by Joan O'Malley to sew the first Canadian maple-leaf flag, which was presented to the Canadian Parliament by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. Also includes the "Pearson Pennant."
The fonds consists of correspondence and other papers of three generations of the Craine family from Smiths Falls, Ont. including John Joseph Craine, painter, and Agnes Douglas Craine, M.D.
Family letters of Mrs. Menoah Cronk, Parham. Includes letters from her son, G.S. Cronk (at Queen's University), W.A. Cronk, miner, in northern Ont. (Sudbury district), Sampson and Lawson Cronk. Also includes souvenir postcards and bills of sale.
This collection consists of James A. Eadie's entry in the 'Dictionary of Canadian Biography' on John Stevenson; articles relating to the Rathbun Company, Deseronto, Ontario; essays on Deseronto and the Rathbun Company, written by T.David Martin; slides of Rathbun family portraits, company building and employees with explanatory notes; essay by W.C. Blabe on Deseronto.
Book of extracts from various sources including student notes from the University of Edinburgh 1821-25 session. Notes on home remedies, transcribed poems and manuscript sermons. Essay on taste, notes on the history of the Greeks.
Holograph book of notes on genealogical research regarding the Gelinas family in Quebec; news clipping of article on the graves of those executed for their part in the 1837 Rebellion in Lower Canada. Tracings of documents interleaved in research notebook.