The fonds consists of journals written by Beardsley as a Queen's Engineering Student during a trip to Great Bear Lake (Port Radium), Northwest Territories to search for uranium deposits. Also includes a published transcription of the two journals, which includes transcriptions of letters to his future wife, Barbara, and photographs.
These albums contain albumen prints of: Kingston Mills and Locks; Rice Lake; Cobourg; Kingston; Tete du Point; Fort Henry; tennis courts; field hockey games; skiff sailing races; and railroad construction.
The fonds consists of correspondence, letterbooks, ledgers, scrapbooks, legal documents and financial records relating to Kingston business and shipping. The letterbooks, 1887-1889, contain correspondence of the Montreal Transportation Company. There are letters to Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Mackenzie Bowel. Topics include the Orange Order, Catholicism, employment of locals, prices for timber in the hinterlands and the building of ships in Kingston.
The fonds consists of client files, architectural drawings, and presentation material relating to the business of R. Bruce Downey Architect. The records relate to projects predominantly in the Kingston area
Items are a signed specification for designs for the Queenston and Lewiston Bridge, including an annotated plan, and a book titled "Clarke on Iron Bridges of Very Large Span."
Transcript of court proceedings in The Court of Error and Appeal for Upper Canada. Case involved Reverend Alexander Mathieson and others as the appellants and Reverend George Weir and others as respondents.
Collection consists of articles relating to the School, derived from various publications; clippings; copies of graduation diplomas issued by the School; an unpublished history of the School by Dr. T.W. Dukes (1997).