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Fonds documents the life and career of the Rt. Hon. John G. Diefenbaker. The fonds includes records relating to both of Diefenbaker's careers; that of a respected defence lawyer and as Canada's thirteenth prime minister. The fonds provides information on all aspects of Diefenbaker's political career, including his work within the Conservative Party, as a Member of Parliament, Leader of the Opposition and Prime Minister. These political records document policy development, program initiatives, such as northern development and the Bill of Rights, as well as international affairs, the cold war and government scandals. The fonds contains extensive records pertaining to Diefenbaker's personal life, and that of his family. Olive Diefenbaker's life as a political wife is also well documented. Diefenbaker's strong desire to preserve material relating to his personal history and that of his family has resulted in a comprehensive set of family papers. In addition to records about the 'Chief', the fonds contains a great deal about life in western Canada, particularly Saskatchewan, in the first half of the twentieth century. For example, Diefenbaker's legal records offer insight into the activities of a small town, prairie lawyer in the 1920s and 1930s. The Saskatchewan political scene is captured in these records, and much of the family correspondence depicts the lives of ordinary Canadians trying to build a life on the prairies. Aforementioned textual records have been divided into the following series: Legal series; Pre-1940 series; 1940-1956 series; Leader of the Official Opposition; Family series; Prime Minister's Office: Numbered files, 1957-1963; Reference series, 1957-1967; and PMO unnumbered correspondence series.

This collection consists of 12 glass plate negatives of Wolfe Island people (ca.1890); one photo print of the Wolfe Island Band (1894); one photo print of the Woodman Family (1944).

This collection consists of a 'Courtesy Book' compiled by a woman, living in Toronto, with the initials Jeannie M(?). S(?).

Consists of correspondence, memoranda and other material relating to the 1973 Royal Visit to Kingston.

Fonds consists of files relating to her work on several committees of which she was a member (including several sesquicentennial events); visual scenes of Wolfe Island, Ontario, and photos of numerous events held at Summerhill, Queen's University at Kingston.

Includes calendars, 1841-1911, Kingston Women's Medical College calendars, 1883/84 - 1893/94, School of Mining annual reports, 1894-1915, and Queen's letters and deeds.

Collection consists of chronologically arranged general correspondence and memoranda sent directly to the Surveyor General or his successors, the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Upper Canada, Canada West and Ontario or referred to them by other government departments. The contents of this collection concern all aspects of the administration of land in the province, including settlement, roads, and resource development. Each letter is assigned a unique number from 1 to 33,896.

Studies and reports relating to the study of the restoration of Fortress of Louisbourg.

The fonds consists of 3 albums: album 1 consists of approximately 90 photographs of the Strathy family (Ford, his sisters Mary, Frances, Grace, and his mother, and father, Stuart) are shown camping in Northern Ontario(1911-12) vacationing at Niagara Falls (1913) and on a trip to England (Devonshire) and Rosapenna, Ireland in 1913; album 2 depicts F.S. Strathy's pilot training between 1916 and 1917, and his period of service on the Western Front in 1917. He is shown with J.N. 2 & 3 (Curtiss) machines at the Curtiss Aviation School in Long Branch, Ontario. Also shown is his training in Vendome, France (after a stop in London) in February 1917, and the photographs indicate he later visited Paris. In France, Ford flew D.H. 4 machines. He is also seen involved in various leisure activities, and on the ground taking machine gun training; the third album contains letters, clippings, photographs, and documents compiled by the Strathy family during the war, and added to after Ford's death. The letters begin in 1916 as Strathy moved across Canada (Montreal, Halifax) and crossed the ocean (arriving in London) and are addressed to his family in Toronto. The letters describe the continuation of his flight training in England and France in 1917, and his visit to Paris. He concluded his flight training in May in Cranwell, Lincolnshire. In July, Flight Sub. Lieut. F. S. Strathy went on active service in France flylng a Sopwith "Camel." In letters home, he described in detail his daily activities including his only "confirmed kill" during aerial combat on 15th of August,1917. Two days later F. S. St.rathy was shot down over German lines. The remainder of the documents include his military papers, and record the aftermath of his death including a letter from a comrade who had witnessed his last battle. Ford's letters often included diagrams which illustrated training and combat activities. Two diagrams and part of one letter of his were published in Thre Argus (19 December, 1917) and the Daily Express, (2 April, 1918).

This fonds consists of an album containing photographs of employees, correspondence, programmes, promotional material, and clippings relating to the Department of Munitions and Supply, Government of Canada, Ottawa.