The portion of Albert Schwenger's collection housed at Queen's University Archives is divided into two manuscript series. The first series consists of documents related to the Milne and MacKay families. The papers originate with Captain William Milne who settled in Ancaster where his daughter Anna Maria married into the MacKay family in the 1820's. His correspondence comments of trade conditions, relations in the native community after the Treaty of Greenville and European wars. Of particular note is a letter of introduction for Captain Milne written in Turkish from 1799. The second series consists of unrelated historical documents primarily from the Niagara area, but includes one British document.
The collection consists of the records of 3,427 Ontario cemeteries collected by the Ontario Genealogical Society throughout the province. In addition 22 Quebec cemeteries and three American cemeteries (one from New Jersey, New York and the State of Washington) are represented in the collection.The cemetery records collection consists of transcriptions from individual cemetery records or tombstones. These have been arranged alphabetically by country, and within, by township and then cemetery name. This collection includes cemetery recordings for the following: Leeds County; Prince Edward County; Grenville County; Dundas County; Carleton County; Kent County; Ontario County; Russell County; Glengarry County; Thunder Bay; Plymton Township; Adjala Township; Murray, Northumberland County and Dack Township.
Collection consists of architectural and construction drawings of Kingston buildings designed by local architects including Power and Son, Robert Gage, William Newlands, Jr., and Arthur Ellis.
Collection consists of two albums compiled by unidentified numbers of the 21st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force overseas, World War I. Includes group and individual pictures; also Queen's University YMCA; Royal Military College; Belleville, Ont.; Thomasburg, Ont.; Kingston scenes; England; Egypt with Queen's Stationary Hospital and Australian hospital; baseball games.
Collection consists of a notebook of a family doctor practicising in Prince Edward County in 1858, and includes records of births, deaths, and general illnesses and treatments. Included is a tribute to Wes Curran on Sunday, 5 July, 1981. Also includes copies of Queen's Meds class pictures (some with identification keys) including H.W. Curran. A copy of the 1941-1945 notebook was made in 2005.
The collection consists of specifications, architectural drawings and photographs of Diesel Locomotives built by the Canadian Locomotive Company in Kingston.
The collection consists of a number of tintypes and other photographs collected by Herman Balesic over the years. The hand-tinted tintype portraits were mainly taken by J.D. Wallis, melainotype artist, who had an office on Market Square in Kingston, Ontario. The other portraits are examples of the work of other local photographers such as Spohn, Bell, Abbott and Sheldon and Davis.
The collection consists of maps depicting various counties in Eastern Canada including New Brunswick/Westmoreland, Nova Scotia/Digby, Nova Scotia/Guysborough, Nova Scotia/Inverness, Nova Scotia/Yarmouth, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ontario/Lanark, Ontario/Leeds and Grenville, Ontario/Lincoln and Welland, Ontario/Ontario, Ontario/Perth, Ontario/Stormont,Dundas, and Ontario/York.
The collection consists of postcards, photographs and a dinner menu assembled by Margaret Hutson pertaining to Harry Litchfield. Of particular note are the photographs of the Thousand Islands Railway engine and the early model automobiles.
