The fonds consists of correspondence, both personal and business; speeches; subject files; records of homes Mr. Thrift has owned; planning documents; and teaching materials. The bulk of the records in the Eric Thrift fonds are from the time Mr. Thrift was a student at M.I.T. until he became a Professor Emeritus at Queen's University in 1981.
The fonds consists of an inventory of stock (1889 and 1904), minutes and history of firm, letters of incorporation and other legal documents, and advertisements for the store. Also included are family genealogies and correspondence from family members, as well as a diary (1864).
Fonds consists of Engineering Society Council Agenda and Minutes; other Committee Agenda, Minutes, and reports including the Programme, and Educational Excellence Committees; Executive reports; Undergraduate Registration in Engineering at Canadian Universities reports; various incarnations of the Society's Consitution and By-Laws; policy manuals; records relating to the operations of Clark Hall; volume containing the names of various "Executives & Athletics Awards"; and Society handbooks and pamphlets; coloured photographs of the Applied Science year crests [note: several are missing] (1938-1992); whisky glasses and matchbook covers from "Vendetta", the Science '71 Formal.
The fonds consists of correspondence, notebooks belonging to Mrs. Roberts and her grandson, Athelston Roberts, son of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, poems, news clippings, drawings and photographs.
The fonds consists of various collected copies of family trees and other genealogical information for the Acheson, Robertson and Kenyon families from the Tay Valley/North Burgess geographic area. Of particular note is the information pertaining to Grace Kenyon, a cousin of Campbell's, who did missionary work in India in the 1940's. There is a small amount of original material in the fonds including 5 photographs of various Robertson family members. Also includes class exams written by Emma Campbell (nee Acheson) in the early 1940's from her nursing courses in a variety of subjects such as Anatomy and Physiology, Preventative Medicine, Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Psychiatric Nursing, Communicable Diseases, etc.
Two scrapbooks; one bound in purple with gold lettering and inscribed on the first page. The 100 pages of this album have been numbered by machine, The other volume is bound in green and black with gold lettering andsome of its pages have been numbered by hand. Both books contain news clippings on matters concerning medicine, women's rights, spiritualism and political personages.