The collection consists of pictures taken by an unknown photographer, or photographers, in Kingston and the surrounding area, around the turn of the twentieth century. The photos show local landmarks such as Kingston City Hall, Kingston homes, Kingston Mills, Martello Towers and Jones Falls. Also included are photographs of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, men, horses and guns. Steam vessels such as the Rideau Queen, the Toronto and even pleasure sail boats, ice boats and quite a number of pictures of canoes and canoeists are included along with pictures taken at or near the Kingston Yacht Club. There are many pictures of as yet unidentified individuals in various poses including family scenes, picnics and fishermen. Another sizable lot of pictures were taken away from Kingston at various sites that have yet to be identified. One series were shot in what looks like a summer resort area and several others are of cities or a city yet to be identified.
Collection consists of 23 home movies taken of various Amos family activities. Outdoor activities such as skiing, horseback riding, picnic are depicted. There are also a number of films that have to do with mines and mining in the Cobalt area of northern Ontario.
This collection consists of two deposits of correspondence between Shane MacKay, Executive Editor of the Winnipeg Free Press and Grant Dexter, Editor Emeritus of the Free Press. During these years, Dexter was in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, analyzing the political situation for the Free Press. The correspondence contains comment on the policy of the Free Press, notes of confidential conversations with politicians and some background information on the reports that Dexter filed. Includes several obituaries and appreciations of Dexter from the Free Press.
The collection consists of copied plans for Kingston town hall and Kingston market house as well as a house plan on St. Denis Street in Montreal for the Heirs Hunt. There is one original set of plans, attributed to George Browne, for the Bank of Montreal (Frontenac Club) on King Street, Kingston.
The collection is comprised of letters written to Howard and Daisy Gerring by Alan and Ruth Collier during their summer sketching trips from 1956 to 1987. The letters are very detailed and were often created in a diary-type format with each letter containing daily accounts of the Colliers' travels. The letters reference people met on the journey, issues pertaining to the maintence of the their vehicle, and events that happened along the way. The material was arranged chronologically in binders by the Gerrings.
The collection consists of alphabetical files created by Mr. Waller while researching his book on local families, as well as copies of some of his transcribed publications. The records relate particularly to families of United Empire Loyalist lineage.
Collection consists of correspondence, financial and legal records, relating to the Dewar, Hunt, and Kennedy families residing in the Cornwall, Ontario area; subject files relating to the Avonmore, Ontario area; photographs of Queen's University and the Kingston, Ontario area; daybooks, ledgers, and journals relating to the Barkley General Store, located in Avonmore, Ontario; ledger and account book and business records relating to J.D.Wiggins, a steam and gas-fitter, located in Avonmore, Ontario; ledger and account book relating to William Petrie & Company General Store, located in Finch, Ontario.
The fonds consists of mock-ups, prints, original pen and ink drawings, contracts and publicity surrounding the production and sale of the Limestone Calendar between the years of 1985 and 1990.
The collection consists of transcriptions of meeting minutes of the shareholders and annual reports of the Canadian Land and Emigration Company, 1862-1881, as well as transciptions of Directors of the CLE Company from 1868 to 1881. Also includes a 'Diary of general chit-chat and the farm commencing Oct. 1, 1870' and almanacs for 1865 and 1866.
The collection consists of both originals and copies of correspondence between Eddington and other scientists. The records provide a brief glimpse of the development of the field of astrophysics. The correspondents include Albert Einstein, Erwin Shrodinger, Harlow Shapley, Henry Norris Russell, Walter S. Adams and J.C. Kapetyn. Also included are two copies of pages from the manuscripts, Differentiation of any tensor (1918) and Mass-luminosity equation (1924).
