Collection consists of four guest registers (1851-1869) for the Kent and British American Hotels, located in Kingston, Ontario. The registers contain the signatures of a variety of visitors to Kingston including visiting artists, performers and politicians. The proprietors also make note in the pages the times and frequencies of steamboat traffic likely in order to aid their guests in planning their transportation needs.The collection also includes legal documents, donated at a later date, concerning the ownership of the building lots (67 and 88) and a number of financial interests in the hotel.
Fonds consists of annual reports, financial records, agreements between the company and union locals, employee indices, publications, printed material and clippings, and photographs.
The fonds consists of correspondence including letters from authors such as Earle Birney, Louis Dudek, A.M. Klein, Irving Layton, Dorothy Livesay, Malcolm Lowry, E.J. Pratt, Frank Scott, Anne Wilkinson and others, press clippings and reviews of Contemporary Verse, and radio broadcasts and articles by Crawley.
This fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, financial records, photos and newspaper clippings relating to the Chown Hardware Firm. There is only one folder from the 1864-1870 period. The majority of this collection deals with the business in the 1950s, and 60s. This record reflects the growth and operation of a local Kingston business.
The fonds consists of records which reflects the development of Kingston as the yachting centre for the 1976 Olympics and illustrate the degree of detailed perparation required to satge an Olympic event. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Reference library; Main correspondence file; Filing Index; Hosting and special services; hostesses; Information services; Press services; Protocol; Sailing; Technology; Results system; CORK 75; Films, photographs and transparencies; Miscellaneous manuels; Publications and other printed materials; Specifications and construction contracts; Engineering drawings; and Press Clippings.
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 statutes, minutes, reports, programme and papers delivered at the sixth annual meeting in 1934, including a handwritten version of a paper written and presented by Stephen Leacock entitled "The Revision of Democracy".
