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.
This fonds is a collection of postcards, and photos from the family's European tour 1903-06, as well as family daguerreotypes and genealogy. This collection illustrates the personal side of the Chown family. Within the family papers there are national and international postcard albums. As well, there are several family portraits, some with frames and casings.
Fonds consists of subject files; legal records; a CD of the CVP - Kingston, Inc. web site; paper copies of documents posted on the site; photographs of display panels showing children's play areas at various local prisons.
This collection consists of correspondence and subject files. Almost all of the correspondence is from Lorne Pierce to his sister Sara Chester, but a few letters are from Edith Pierce to Sara Chester. The correspondence for 1943 contains an interesting letter in which Lorne Pierce describes Sir Charles G.D. Robert's funeral and his place in Canadian literary history. The subject files include press comments on Lorne Pierce's 25th anniversary with Ryerson, and articles on his retirement.
One name-indexed volume, of which 262 pages are completed, pertaining to debentures and credits in the accounts of individuals and companies involved in the construction to the Chats canal.
