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).
Collection consists of a facsimile copy of "Lady Macdonald's Manuscript Receipt Book", originally found in "The Manuscript Book and Household Treasury".
Collection consists of photographs of Queen's University campus during Ruth Allan Walker's time at Queen's University. Includes images of the fire at Kingston Hall in March of 193l, the Engineering Society's "At Home" event of 1931, initiation-like activities in Richardson Stadium, interiors of dorm rooms and other rooms at Ban Righ, and the old tennis courts behind Douglas Library.
Three booklets compiled by Fern Small and Ken Collins for the Ontario Genealogical Society pertaining to the cemeteries on Wolfe Island. One booklet of Horne & Point Alexandria United Church Cemetery, concessions VIII &IX - Lots 10 map reference #898875 (1973). One booklet of Trinity Church Anglican Cemetery, Concession IV - Lot 3 map reference #846938 (1973). One booklet of Scared Heart Roman Catholic Cemeteries, Old Cemetery Concession VI - Lot 4 map reference #845937 & New Cemetery Concession VII - Lot 3 map reference #848936. Each booklet outlines a variety of information ranging from the location, history, graveyard dimensions, records, and maps of those buried at each cemetery while also making reference to the history of the churches and congregations involved with each cemetery.
The collection is comprised of Queen's University memorabilia and includes: one black & white photograph of possible Queen's alumni (1970); one "Programme and Engagement" card for the Combined Junior Years Social Evening held on Friday, February 6th, 1920; a copy of a poem entitled "The Street That Was" by Margaret Harvey Wilton from the Queen's Review commemorating the Wilton Home on Arch Street razed to make room for the new Biology Building - including photos of house and new building; a Graduating Year Dinner in Medicine program for an event held at the Frontenac Club on Wednesday, April 4th, 1923; the Levana Society Constitution (date unknown); an Arts Twenty Graduating Banquet program held in the Red Room, Queen's University on Monday, March 22nd, 1920 - includes signatures of some of the attendees on the back; a photograph of KGH Medical Interns including Clifford M. Bracken, husband of Florence M. Willson; and, a print of sketch entitled "College Ties" (date unknown).
Collection consists of photographs acquired by Blake McKendry representing several Kingston photographers including William P. Bell (W.P. Bell & Son, Bell & Son), John F. Lochhead, and Guthbert Esmond Marrison.
Collection consists of photographs of Kingston area buildings including Bajus Brewery; Cartwright House; Sir John A. Macdonald's house on Rideau Street; Bellevue House; the Macdonald Monument in City Park; the Church of the Good Thief, Portsmouth; Fort Frontenac; the Martello and Point Frederick Towers; and the Old Mill at Collins Bay.
Collections consists of a typed article from The Monthly Review on Currency from 1841, photographs of Kingston currency and a clipping about Kingston currency, as well as three pages of bank or promissory notes from each of the Commercial Bank of Canada - Kingston (1859), Commercial Bank of the Midland District - Kingston (1842) and Watkins & Harris - City of Toronto.
