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Items are programmes outlining the talks given during seasons of the Thursday Travel Club.

Diary of a young woman touring the Thousand Islands for the month of August 1883 starting in Hartford, Connecticut on August 1st, 1883 and ending in Montreal on September 1st, 1883. The author spends much of the diary remarking on the beauty of the scenery, the quality of the food and variations in the weather. She recounts day excursions on both American and Canadian islands and towns and mentions Clayton, Alexandria Bay, Gananoque, Brown's Bay, Hay's Island, Whitney Point, Guernsey Point, and Stave, Bluff and Skinner islands. She is traveling with the Redfield family (Mr. and Mrs. Redfield and their children George and Henry) and the "Professor". They encounter a Dr. Norris who is known to the family. When they arrive in Montreal they stay at the Windsor Hotel, which is greatly admired.

There is an additional three page entry at the end of the diary describing a trip to the White Mountains in New Hampshire in September of 1885.

The collection consists of scrapbooks and news clippings surrounding the founding years of TIARA.

This album consists of pictures from the Thousand Islands taken during the summer of 1911. Includes views of Ryder cottage, Wilson's Canal, yachts the 'Ramona' and 'Rowena', the 'Parthia', a barge, and engine hoist of the Kingston Salvage Company, and a couple of Steamers.

Fonds consists of a promotional booklet outlining new and improved steamer transpotation to Montreal, Quebec and Kingston, Ontario.

Fonds consists of copies of original plans for the layout of the Long Lac Country Club (Kenogamisis Golf Club), Geraldton, Ontario.

This fonds consists of correspondence (1952-2005); editorials in British papers (1946-1950) and the 'Winnipeg Free Press' (1950-1960); subject files relating to his time as advisor to the Liberal Party and Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson; notes on the development of social policy and the Canada Pension Plan; papers and lectures written by Kent; published articles and volumes; presentations to parliamentary committees; files relating to the Royal Commission on Newspapers (1980-1981); honours and awards.

The fonds consists of a day book from Thomas McCrea's carriage works.

This fonds consists of articles relating to the School from various publications, clippings, copies of diplomas issued by the School; all forming part of his research for an unpublished history of the Queen's School of Veterinary Science, by Dr. T.W. Dukes (1997).

Fonds consists of lecture notes and course material relating to courses taught at Queen's University at Kingston, Harvard University, and Hong Kong; research notes; lithographed 1932 campaign poster signed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt; records of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation documenting the creation of the Arctic Council.