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Fonds consists of a daily journal, with photographs, belonging to Miriam Cohen, detailing her trip to Europe, Palestine, and Egypt in 1930; passports from the Russian Embassy in Bucharest; I. Cohen & Company Limited and Monarch Battery Manufacturing Company Ltd. letterhead; copper printing plates designed for a wedding invitation; photographs of Cohen and Sugarman family members, including Isaac and Mary Cohen, and their residence at 165 University Avenue; Queen's University, and other, pins; and clippings. It also includes the records of Fane Cohen in her various volunteer roles in organizations around Kingston such as Art Collection Society of Kingston; University Women's Club of Kingston; Kingston Art Association; African Students Foundation- Kingston Branch; Grand Theatre Campaign- Kingston Arts Council; and Grand Theatre Board of Management.

Fonds consists of two scrapbooks compiled by Claude W. Cole and his wife, Annie Dodge Cole, relating to Main Duck Island, situated approximately ten miles east of Prince Edward Point, Lake Ontario. Included are both clippings and some photographs.

The fonds consists of correspondence of both a polical and business nature, subject files, mining reports and records of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, press clippings, photographs and a large collection of maps. There is also extensive material regarding an arbitration case between Cementation Company (Canada) Limited and International Minerals and Chemical Corporation (Canada) Limited which includes correspondence, transcripts and evidence.

The collection consists of various documents from Kingston, including receipts, permits and handwritten histories of the area, as well as a map of Port Arthur and a stock certificate for Meridian Gold Mining Company in Nova Scotia. Also includes a permit for privy cleaning, and an overdue notice for library books.

The fonds consists of ship registration records compiled in various ports of registry throughout Canada, including first registers, registers of subsequent transactions and mortgage registers. The registers contain information describing the type, size, dimension and means of propulsion for each vessel registered at a particular port as well as ownership details and ultimate disposition.The registers cover the following ports: Barrington Passage (1888-1907); Kingston (1846-1908); Maitland (1878-1923); New Westminister (1880-1899); Port Dover (1876-1930);St. Catherine's (1874-1895); Victoria (1897-1908); Weymouth (1874-1909); Digby (1877-1939); Picton (1851, 1874-1894); Port Burwell (1851, 1857); Lunenburg(1849-1855); South Hampton (1787); Quebec (1787-1907); St. Johns; Hamilton (1846-1935); Montreal (1832-1867); Dunnville (1861); Oakville (1855); Whitby (1856); Deseronto (1866-1933); Maitland (1874-1890); Port Dover; Medway (1874-1890); Napanee (1875-1890); Newcastle (1861-1923); Brockville (1874-1908); Kincardine (1927-1935); Gaspe (1855-1928); Ile Verte (1856), cobourg (1874-1919); Victoria (1867-1891); Vancouver (1890-1945); Port Rowan (1851-1891); Bowmanville (1888-1905); Truro (1873-1914); Lindsay (1898-1910); Goderich (1847-1899); Magdalen Islands (1856-1950); Port Arthur (1886-1913); and St. John (1841-1843).

The collection consists of literary news clippings on many of Canada's best-known writers including M. Barbeau, Rupert Brooke, L. Burpee, W.W. Campbell, B. Carman, Mazo de la Roche, Merrill Denison, W.H. Drummond, Sir S. Flemming, F.P. Grove, T. Haliburton, E.J. Hathaway, A Jameson, Pauline Johnson, W. Kirby, R. Knister, S. Leacock, N. McClung, J. McRae, W. Macdonald, T.D. McGee, A.M. Machar, Charles Mair, L.M. Montgomery, M. Pickthall, Sir J. Pope, E.J. Pratt, C.G.D. Roberts, M. Saunders, D.C. Scott, R. Service, G. Smith, A. Stringer

Consists of reports from Divisional Inspectors and best reflects the development of the post office service as a mirror of the settlement of Canada. The reports frequently contain useful descriptions of communities requesting new postal services. Included are maps and site plans for housing postal facilities, petitions, biographical information about persons recommended for or seeking postmastership positions, patronage correspondence, recommendations or suggestions for names or name changes or for a change of site and notices of post office closings. The reports are numbered and are in chronological order. The records for the years 1875-1902 are the residue of original dossiers that have not survived. Only correspondence for the years 1875-1902 has been microfilmed. The early `reports' can be applications to establish post offices, copies of correspondence received from community representatives, P.O.D memorandums and the like. Later reports were filed by the Inspectors and include inspection forms, one or two main files per post office, along with related correspondence, memorandums, etc. The original register to the reports for the years 1875-1902 has not survived.

Fonds consists of correspondence from the University of Regina relating to the forming of a National University Pensioners Association; "Echoes in the Halls: An Unofficial History of the University of Alberta"; a copy of "The First Twenty Years", being the history of the Retirees Association at the University of Victoria; and a series of DVDs, produced by the Simon Fraser University Retirees Association entitled, "An Oral History of SFU: The Excitement of the Early Years" (2005), "An Oral History of SFU: A Conversation with Erickson and Massey SFU Architects" (2006), "An Oral History of SFU: The Instant University" (2007), and "An Oral History of SFU: Creating SFU: The Inside Story" (2013).

Item consists of one scrapbook featuring clippings and ephemera regarding the "College Entertainers" group. This was a group of Queen's graduates who created a musical variety show that toured the province in the 1920s. It consisted of Kathleen Elliott (vocalist), Mignon Telgmann (violinist), Dorothy Dowsley (pianist), and J.Blyth Taylor (lecturer). The group was directed and promoted by E.Russell Smith and Morley C. Tillotson (also Queen's graduates).

Fonds consists of a letter from Colley Foster from Kingston to his wife, 1840, a photograph of Foster from a miniature, pencil drawing of Chief Big Smoke, a copy of a grant of a town lot in Kingston and a family tree.