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Lockyer family collection

  • CA ON00239 F3012
  • Collection
  • ca. 1900-2006

The collection is comprised of correspondence, articles, telegrams and official military documentation collected and received by Martha and George Lockyer from their son, Chris Railton Lockyer who died on active service (17 August 1917) in the Battle for Hill 70, near Vimy. The collection also includes a number of letters from Alec Lockyer to his parents and siblings. This material was organized by Don Lockyer into two named volumes "Far from Home" and "Somewhere in Europe". The volumes intersperse non-contemporaneous articles and materials framing and contextualizing this material within a larger narrative. Also included are some supplemental letters, photographs and a memorial marker for C.R. Lockyer.

Lockyer family

Russell Smith collection

  • CA ON00239 F2928
  • Collection
  • 1984-1994

Collection consists of a script for a screenplay entitled, "Revenge", written while a student at Queen's University at Kingston; photographs of student days, standing with Bob Rae at his nomination for a Trillium Award, and contact prints for the cover of his novel entitled, "how insensitive."

Sinclair Family collection

  • CA ON00239 F2909
  • Collection
  • 1982

Collection consists of thesis data and a scrapbook, compiled by Elizabeth (Bess or Bessie) Sinclair following the death of her husband, R. Gordon Sinclair, who drowned in Collins Bay; correspondence, speeches, and photographs relating to Huntly M. Sinclair, as well as a certificate recognizing him as a Baden-Powell Fellow for his generous support of world scouting; and a file relating to the Sinclair Cemetery (a.k.a. the Scotch Corners Cemetery), located in Beckwith Township, Ontario.

Loyal Orange Lodges of Kingston collection

  • CA ON00239 F2940
  • Collection
  • 1909-1974

The collection consists of minute books, membership rosters, treasurer's books, and certifcates of degrees awarded in the Lodges. Includes records from Loyal Orange Lodges No. 6, No. 481, No. 577, and No. 2659.

Loyal Orange Lodge No. 6 (Marshall)

Drummond Family collection

  • CA ON00239 F2937
  • Collection
  • 1791-1969

Collection consists of legal and financial documents, plus some correspondence, associated with the Drummond Family, from the Johnstown District of Eastern Ontario, and primarily Captain Peter Drummond, formerly a Lieutenant in Jessup's Rangers, towards the end of his life when he was no longer associated with the military.

Drummond (family)

Lorne and Edith Pierce collection

  • CA ON00239 F451
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1812]-1961

Collections consists of Memorial Books relating to both Lorne and Edith Pierce; travel diaries; photographs; and a copy of Edith Chown Pierce's, "Canadian Glass: A Footnote to History". Nearly every Canadian literary figure of note for the period 1920 to 1960 is representedby at least some manuscript material in this collection. Among its many highlights the collection includes the letters and manuscripts of William Wilfred Campbell; Desertion in Canada by Major John Richardson; the original manuscript of William Kirby's novel, The Golden dog; manuscripts written and decorated by Wilson Macdonald; letters, manuscripts and memorabilia of Sir Charles G. D. Roberts; and the Marjorie Pickthall papers which include her diaries, letters manuscripts and sketches. Also represented are Raymond Knister, Duncan Campbell Scott, Archibald Lampman, Camille Roy, Stephen Leacock, Marius Barbeau,Audrey Alexandra Brown, Earle Birney, Katherine Hale, A. J. Pratt and Al Purdy. Some papers of artists J.E. H. Macdonald, A. Y. Jackson, C.W. Jefferys and Thoreau Macdonald are included in this collection.

McPhedran-Hale/Garvin collection

  • CA ON00239 F2924
  • Collection
  • 1914-1952

The fonds consists of a number of inscribed chapbooks (Flute, Grey Knitting, White Comrade), some newspaper clippings pertaining to Katherine Hale, and a number of inscribed books to Marie McPhedran from Katherine.

Robert Headlam collection

  • CA ON00239 F2939
  • Collection
  • [18-?]-1940

Collection consists of legal documents relating to Robert Headlam, his clients and others, plus his legal successors, including a rare Indenture, printed several years prior to any previously known document having been commercially produced by him.

Nancy Baltzan collection

  • CA ON00239 F2914
  • Collection
  • 1841-1925

Collections consists of land documents relating to Lot 9 and Lot 10, located at the corner of King and Rear Streets, in Portsmouth Village, Ontario.

Henry Smith collection

  • CA ON00239 F2941
  • Collection
  • 1838-1893

Collection consists of military papers, correspondence, and other material, including an edited copy of "An Act to Incorporate the Ontario College at Picton" (1868).

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