The item is an extensive, multi-part manuscript of a bibliography of Canadian Federation Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry. Pages are hand-written, typed or have clipped excerpts from published catalogues stapled to legal sized sheets. There are extensive hand-written annotations throughout.
The fonds consists of correspondence pertaining to publications of the Society or colloquiems sponsored by the Society; minutes of the Council; subject files relating to bibliographies on a number of subjects as well as files on publications; constitutional material; publications; book reviews and proofs; members' photographs and photographs of events; miscellaneous material.
The fonds consists of subject files, research files, clippings relating to women's issues in Canada and at Queen's University, as well as relating to her work at Queen's.
Fonds consists of a scrapbook containing memorabilia related to her time as a student at Queen's University at Kingston; an oil painting of Grant Hall, executed and given to her as a birthday gift, by Dr. Alex Bryans; photographs of the Queen's University campus, its buildings and events, Kingston, and Avonmore, Ontario, and Queen's University Officer Training during World War One.
The collection consists of correspondence, subject files, material relating to Canadian writers, photographs and writings of Lorne Pierce. The material provides invaluable research materials relating to the careers of her father and mother, Lorne and Edith Pierce, as well as manuscripts from many other writers including Bliss Carman, Charles G.D. Roberts, Duncan Campbell Scott, Marjorie Pickthall, Constance I. Davies, John Richardson, and Georges Bugnet. Also includes photographs of the Pierce family.
The fonds consists of records that span the congregation's entire history and breadth of activities and governance. The material has been organized into the following series: Board activities; Board committees; Affliated groups; Publications and ephemera; and, Audiovisual material.
Fonds consists of letters home to various family members, during the course of World War One, from the MacKenzie brothers describing their life and experiences with various units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, including No.7 (Queen's) Canadian General Hospital and The Canadian Field Artillery.
The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, lecture notes, student papers, personal papers and research studies. A large part of the material details the work on various committees such as the Committee on Scientific Research, correspondence with such bodies as the National Research Council and conferences like the International Conference on Nuclear Structure (1960). There are a number of interesting files describing the aborted attempt to build a high energy physics laboratory near Kingston.
