The fonds is predominantly comprised of photographs of Sunny Acres Nursery and members of the Paterson family. There is material and photographs from or about each immediate family member: James (father), Edith (mother), Helen (sister), Rowan (sister), and William. As the longest living member of the family William Paterson was the holder of the family archives.There is a small amount of material relating to horticulture and the business of the Nursery.
The fonds consists of four accruals. This first was a set of three volumes, kept by Punshon of his daily activities, speaking commitments and encounters of his European tours and his trip to British Columbia. The first volume contains records of two European trips, one from September through November of 1865, the second from a trip in May and June of 1866. The second volume records a European trip in September and October of 1867. The third journal chronicles a return journey made between Toronto and British Columbia from March through May of 1871, partially through the United States. It chronicles a a meeting with Brigham Young in Salt Lake City, travels through California, encounters in Nanaimo with the local Indigenous community, and journeys to New Westminster, Fort Hope and Fort Yale. All of the journals are illustrated by photographs, newspaper clippings, pressed leaves, flowers and plants of the various areas. The second addition to this fonds were two photocopied letters to J. C. Aikens detailing Punshon's desire to send a missionary to the Red River Rebellion in Manitoba and another from two years later in 1872 outlining his thoughts about the province. The third accrual is a lithograph of Punshon from the World Illustrated news. The fourth accrual is another travel journal that curiously covers the exact same time period as the May through June 1866 journal in the first accrual, with entries and photographs from the same journey with slightly different phrasing or inclusions. A handwritten copy or predecessor.
The fonds consists of correspondence, commissions, and other documents pertaining to a variety of topics and interests of William Morris - elementary and university education, Clergy Reserves, church missions, synod and presbytery affairs, church unions and contemporary politics, particularly where the affairs of state bore religious consequence. The material is relevant to Morris's political career and includes several Royal Warrants authorizing his appointment to the Legislative Council, the Executive Council, and as Receiver-General of Canada as well as material pertaining to the history and founding of Queen's University. Of particular note is one letter from John A. Macdonald.
The fonds consists of a ledger of outgoing military correspondence (1899-1901) and personal correspondence from the First World War, as well as newsclippings of poems and pamphlets on the topics of war savings, insurance and food. The personal correspondence provides insight into life during the war from the perspective of a nurse and the father of a soldier.
The fonds consists of correspondence, financial papers, constitution, reports, educational and publicity material of the Commonwealth Cooperative Federation (C.C.F.) and lists of members and other records of the Hamilton East Polling Division.
Fonds consists of a copy of "Queen's", published by the Queen's University Alumnae Association in 1922; photographs of student associations he was part of while a Commerce student at Queen's; team crests of various University and community teams he was a member of, including Arts '43 Intramural Ski Champions (1941), Ontario Athletic Commission Camp (1938); and the EOABA Junior (1940) and Intermediate 'A' Champions (1942); and obituary.
The fonds consists of nearly 1200 drawings, blueprints, and specifications spanning the career of Kingston architect William Newlands, from 1882 until his death in 1926. The subject matter of most of the material is specific to Kingston and all facets of enterprise in Kingston are represented - dwellings, businesses, schools, hospitals, churches, charitable institutions and government institutions.
Essay on Canadian ferns for M.A. degree, Guelph, Ontario; blueprint for steel specimen case for Professor W. Nicol (1911), and minerology notebook owned by Nicol.
Fonds consists of correspondence sent by William Peruniak to his mother during the Second World War and during his time as a student at Queen's University.
