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 The second series consists of unrelated historical documents primarily from the Niagara area, but includes one British document.
Farmer's work diary and accounts, 1890-1893, agricultural periodical and advertisements, 1898, and religious pamphlets. Includes: one Constitution, By-Laws, Rules of Order etc for Cataraqui Lodge, No. 10 of the Independent Order of Oddfellows; two Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book, designed for Farmers, Mechanics and All People; one Catechism for Confirmation; one "Are You Regenerate?" booklet relating to being "born again"; one notebook containing farm happenings includes harvests and animal deaths or purchases etc; one issue of The Canadian Horticulturist (Oct 1898); one Pocket Compendium for the Friends of Massey-Harris Co. Limited; one price list of E.D. Smith Nursery in Winona, Ontario; one envelope for Green's Nursery Co., Rochester, NY; one Surprise Soap catalogue (1899); one Elipse Soap catalogue; one Almanac & Notebook containing rough notes; and one The Perfect Life booklet.
Fonds consist of both First and Second Class examination papers for students administered by the County of Lennox & Addington Board of Public Instruction.
Collection consists of a visual record of theatre promoter, "Roxy and His Gang's" visit to Ontario. Includes photographs from New York, Toronto, Kawartha Lakes, Lake of Bays, Algonquin Park, Thousand Islands, Temagami, Nipigon, and Northern Ontario.
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.
Four architects' sketches of Fleming and Carruthers Hall (School of Mining), Ontario Hall (Physics) Kingston and Grant Hall (Convocation Hall) from east and west.
