The fonds consists of correspondence, biographical data, certificates, legal documents, news clippings, and telegram books. The bulk of the collection is legal documents concerning his considerable land holdings in northern Ontario. His subject files include his indenture to John A. Macdonald as a law student. There is also the original manuscript of his prize winning essay: Canada and Her Resources.
Letters to two unidentified persons. It appears that one at least is to James Gow, Windsor. In it McLachan tells of family matters, books he has read and the support spiritualism has given him through talks with his dead son, John.
The collection consists of annotated typescripts surrounding the commemoration of Col. Alexander Macphail, as well as correspondence and clippings about Prof. Macphail.
The fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda and notes created during the political career of Alexander Mackenzie. Includes letters from Mackenzie to members of his family, 1842, 1874-1888. It also contains various papers of his grandfather, Malcolm Mackenzie, 1776-1785 and of his father, Alexander Mackenzie, 1784-1836.
The fonds consists of committee reports and minutes of McDonald's connection with Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association including constitution and revisions, financial records and with the North Atlantic Assembly including reports of military tours of NATO countries. There are also some personal papers and speeches.
The fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda, diaries, material by and about J.W. Dafoe, subject files, scrapbooks and miscellaneous pamphlets. The correspondence files, arranged chronologically, contain memoranda of confidential interviews on Canadian politics, trade, the economy, external affairs, defence. Often these memoranda are in the form of letters or vice versa, so the two have been filed together. The Diaries written by Grant Dexter in 1938-39 while he was in England touch on many aspects of Canadian External Affairs. Also included is a diary kept by Grant Dexter's wife Alice, outlining their life in London in 1937.
Journal, 1802-1803, and bound volume of Tables of Contents, of the lands of Blairo'er, the property of Alexander Gow, Esquire, referring to a plan of the same, made out from survey by David Smith, in 1819. .
