Fonds consists of numerous scrapbooks (5) pertaining to life in Pittsburgh township primarily comprised of news clippings about families, businesses and municipal concerns in the area. One volume is dedicated to the quilting history of the Township. There are also 2 volumes of Tweedsmuir History with material related to Pittsburgh Women's Institute and the clubs, societies, sports, farms, buildings, events, schools, trees, churches and families of Pittsburgh Township. One of the Tweedsmuir volumes has family histories arranged by lot and concession numbers. Of particular note is an example of the needlework skills of the members in the form of a tapestry designed by Antanas Tamošaitis for the Township offices.
This collection contains miscellaneous documents about specific (not all) parcels of land, identified by lot and concession numbers, across southern Ontario from the earliest surveys to Confederation. They document activities on particular lands, including routine correspondence, survey information and some copies of formal instruments, dated mainly before the Crown grant was issued. The papers are filed by township, town or village. Within townships, they are arranged in numerical order by concession and within each concession by lot number. Within towns or villages, documents are arranged alphabetically by name of locatee.
Ontario. Department of Natural Resources. Land Branch
This fonds consists of memorabilia, including dance programmes and invitations to various campus social events, acquired while Mary W. Burns was a student at Queen's.
The fonds consists of correspondence; memoranda; reports; publications; plans and drawings; and maps regarding various projects Donald Beckett was involved with including the St. Lawrence Seaway, Champlain and Welland Canals, Mackenzie Highway, East Pakistan Power Water Development Authority terrain, geotechnical, construct and planning,. There is also material relating to his father's time with the St. John's Drydock.
This fonds consists of bound volumes of 'Pride, Prejudice and Politics', a scholarly history of the Lloyd family in Wales, Pennsylvania, and Canada including the Newmarket and Aurora, Ontario, areas (870-1984); and a history of the Macdonald Manufacturing Company Limited, Toronto, Ontario (1874-1980), by Loftus L. Lloyd.
This fonds consists of correspondence; programmes; speeches; clippings; photographs; and memorabilia pertaining to various dinners and other University-related events held both at Queen's and around the country. There are also records involving the Kingston Rowing Club, and the Council for Canadian Unity.
This collection consists of the 'Canadian National Railways: Report of Operations, 1919-1921.' This document provides a detailed account of all operations of the railroad for the three years following the consolidation and reorganization, by Order-in-Council (September 1918) of the Canadian Government and Canadian Northern Railways (November 1918) and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (July 1920).
