The fonds consists of the records created and held by the Synod of the Presbyterian Church in Canada in Connection with the Church of Scotland. It includes correspondence; memoranda; addresses to the King or Queen, Lieutenant-Governor of Governor-General; synod rolls; legal documents; memorials; overtures; petitions, including the 10 July 1844, 'Dissent and Protest of Mr. Bayne and Others'; resolutions; motions and minutes; reports; financial Records; statistics. A considerable portion of the papers documents the close connection of the church with the growth and development of Queen's College. There is also considerable material relating to the union of the various branches of the Presbyterian Church which took place in 1875.
This fonds consists of correspondence with Elizabeth Shortt, and Eldon M. Boyd; biographical material; articles, including 'A Short Account of the Kingston General Hospital' (1935); and a typescript of 'The Litchfield Saga' (1940); excerpts from the Minutes of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Kingston, and the Queen's University Medical Faculty; medical lecture attendance cards (1872 - 1891); prints of well-known 16th, 18th, and 19th century physicans including John Bostock Jnr., Richard Brocklesby, Girolamo Cardano, William Cullen, John Huxham, Edward Jenner, John Coakley Lettsom, Joseph Lister, and Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann.
The fonds consists of correspondence, newspaper material, speeches and political material concerning the activities of the Toronto Independent Labor Party, the Theosophical Society, as well as general clippings on the period 1918-1940.
The fonds consists of a contract between the Honourable George Markland and Mr. John Mason to superintend the mason's work in building the Frontenac County Court House.
The fonds consists of correspondence, material relating to Queen's University, to the ministry, and to the Presbyterian Church, sermons, speeches, scrapbooks, printed material and news clippings. Rev. Gordon was chaplain to the troops during the second Riel rebellion and some materials relate to this episode. The correspondence deals mainly with his position as principal, Queen's University.
