Fonds consists of records relating to the operation of the municipality of Frontenac County from 1837 until the 1970s. The fonds has been arranged into the following series: Correspondence; Financial records; County bylaws; County Council Minutes and Proceeedings; Roads and bridges; Education; Tenders; Subject files; Reports; Canadian Patriotic Fund; and, Rigney legal firm. Of particular note is a group picture of Frontenac County Council 1901, members identified, in Council Chamber. Included too, is a Bailiff's Process Book for the 6th Division Court (1887-1905); and Voters' Lists for the Township of Storrington.
The fonds consists of correspondence, subject files relating to MacLachlan's role as secretary to Norman Rogers and as a member of the Queen's University Board of Trustees. Of particular note is a wooden bound volume titled "A Potpourri of Sidelights and Shadows from Turkey." This collection of sketches was printed for private circulation only. Rev. Alexander Grant MacLachlan Sr. (Queen's 1884) attended Union Theological Seminary, New York City,and was appointed a teaching missionary eventually becoming President of the International College at Smyrna. These memoirs show the outreach of American missionary activity and political and military developments in Asia Minor from his forty years in the educational missionary service in Turkey including during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).
The fonds consists of letterbooks and financial records pertaining to the McLaughlin Carriage Works in Oshawa. The letterbooks and financial records offer a very full picture of the commercial activities of the McLaughlin carriage business, the forerunner of the McLaughlin automobile enterprises. Also included are a collection book and a general ledger.
The fonds consists of a scrapbook containing newsclippings of poetry, cartoons, and photographs of Lindsay, Kingston, Toronto, the MacLennan family, Ontario judges, George Grant and others.
The fonds consists of correspondence relating to his memoirs, A Goodly Heritage and a copy of the memoirs. They include a description of his days at Queen's University.
The fonds consists of a scrapbook containing news clippings, notes, telegrams and photographs relating to Private McNaughton's service with the Canadian Contingent in the Boer War.
