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Appointments to Christopher A. Hagerman, William Henry Draper and William Conway Keele as commissioners to look after an estate.

Includes f A3.5 : 016. Two bills of exchange for 616 pounds drawn on London joint Stock Bank, signed F.A. Harper and John Solomon Cartwright, 1841 Nov. 24. Volume of bills protested from the bank. These are promissory notes that had not been accepted as legal tender after endorsation.

Item is a ribbon, commemorating the marriage of Albert Edward and Alexandra, the Prince and Princess of Wales.

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.

Original and photocopy of diary. The Diary covers the period from August, 1794 to January, 1796.

Fonds consists of a letter from Colley Foster from Kingston to his wife, 1840, a photograph of Foster from a miniature, pencil drawing of Chief Big Smoke, a copy of a grant of a town lot in Kingston and a family tree.

Item consists of one scrapbook featuring clippings and ephemera regarding the "College Entertainers" group. This was a group of Queen's graduates who created a musical variety show that toured the province in the 1920s. It consisted of Kathleen Elliott (vocalist), Mignon Telgmann (violinist), Dorothy Dowsley (pianist), and J.Blyth Taylor (lecturer). The group was directed and promoted by E.Russell Smith and Morley C. Tillotson (also Queen's graduates).

Fonds consists of correspondence from the University of Regina relating to the forming of a National University Pensioners Association; "Echoes in the Halls: An Unofficial History of the University of Alberta"; a copy of "The First Twenty Years", being the history of the Retirees Association at the University of Victoria; and a series of DVDs, produced by the Simon Fraser University Retirees Association entitled, "An Oral History of SFU: The Excitement of the Early Years" (2005), "An Oral History of SFU: A Conversation with Erickson and Massey SFU Architects" (2006), "An Oral History of SFU: The Instant University" (2007), and "An Oral History of SFU: Creating SFU: The Inside Story" (2013).

Consists of reports from Divisional Inspectors and best reflects the development of the post office service as a mirror of the settlement of Canada. The reports frequently contain useful descriptions of communities requesting new postal services. Included are maps and site plans for housing postal facilities, petitions, biographical information about persons recommended for or seeking postmastership positions, patronage correspondence, recommendations or suggestions for names or name changes or for a change of site and notices of post office closings. The reports are numbered and are in chronological order. The records for the years 1875-1902 are the residue of original dossiers that have not survived. Only correspondence for the years 1875-1902 has been microfilmed. The early `reports' can be applications to establish post offices, copies of correspondence received from community representatives, P.O.D memorandums and the like. Later reports were filed by the Inspectors and include inspection forms, one or two main files per post office, along with related correspondence, memorandums, etc. The original register to the reports for the years 1875-1902 has not survived.

The collection consists of literary news clippings on many of Canada's best-known writers including M. Barbeau, Rupert Brooke, L. Burpee, W.W. Campbell, B. Carman, Mazo de la Roche, Merrill Denison, W.H. Drummond, Sir S. Flemming, F.P. Grove, T. Haliburton, E.J. Hathaway, A Jameson, Pauline Johnson, W. Kirby, R. Knister, S. Leacock, N. McClung, J. McRae, W. Macdonald, T.D. McGee, A.M. Machar, Charles Mair, L.M. Montgomery, M. Pickthall, Sir J. Pope, E.J. Pratt, C.G.D. Roberts, M. Saunders, D.C. Scott, R. Service, G. Smith, A. Stringer