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Forster and Dyce Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts collection

  • CA ON00239 F1321
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1735]-1762

The "Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts" collection provides a wealth of source material on a range of major writers. John Forster owned the largest collection of Samuel Richardson manuscripts in existence. Forty-seven poems, including odes, sonnets, dramatic prologues and epilogues are included, along with the major archive of his correspondence. Eight-hundred and fifty letters are reproduced, many relating to his work on the major novels "Pamela," "Clarissa" and "Sir Charles Grandison." A vast collection of literary manuscripts, letters and papers of Jonathan Swift are also included in Part Two. Among them is Swift's private diary, that dates from 1727, many personal accounts, correspondence, verses, riddles, a problematic first edition of "Gulliver's Travels" with manuscript alterations that may be autograph and the Dublin Inquisition's Commission of Lunacy on Swift of 1742. Manuscripts of Samuel Johnson include the proof sheets of his "Lives of the English Poets," along with varied correspondence. Correspondence of major authors of the period include that of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Mrs. (Elizabeth) Inchbald, Robert Burns, Edmund Burke, William Cowper, Horace Walpole and David Hume. Some early letters of William Wordsworth date from 1797 and there is a large volume of verse by James Thomson.

Richardson, Samuel

George E. Merkley fonds

  • CA ON00239 F865
  • Fonds
  • 1741-1915

The fonds consists of correspondence, writings, educational material, news clippings, photographs, and genealogical data relating to the Merkley family. Includes indentures, memorials and miscellaneous documents.

Merkley, George E.

Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Kingston and Quebec fonds

  • CA ON00239 F1147
  • Fonds
  • 1747-1823

The fonds consists of an extract from register of baptism, marriage and burial of parish of Quebec (1817 and 1823), register of baptisms, marriages and burials for parish of Kingston (1816-16, 1819-20) and a register of St. Francis, Royal Fort Frontenac (1747-52).

Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Kingston and Quebec

Jeffrey Amherst fonds

  • CA ON00239 F536
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1750]-1763

The fonds consists of official papers and correspondence.

Amherst, Jeffrey, 1st Baron

Allan Neil MacLean fonds

  • CA ON00239 F1385
  • Fonds
  • 1752-1847

Correspondence, newsclippings, photographs and photocopies relating to Allan Neil MacLean and his family. Some names in the family tree are Strange, Warburton and MacPherson.

MacLean, Allan Neil

British Military and Naval Records "C" Series fonds

  • CA ON00239 F2252
  • Fonds
  • 1757-1899

The 'C' Series consists of 2020 volumes of records accumulated by the British forces stationed in Canada. With very few exceptions the contents of the volumes relate to the period extending from the arrival of Lord Dorchester as Governor General and Commander of the Forces in 1786 to the date of transfer of the fortress of Halifax to the military authorities of Canada. The documents obtained from Halifax in 1873 by the consent of the War Office formed the nucleus of this series. These mainly consist of the letters and despatches with their various enclosures which accumulated in the office of the Military Secretary to the Commander of the Forces in Canada over the course of eight-five years. Also included in this collection are records relating to the administration of justice and civil government, the construction of bridges, canals, docks, lighthouses, roads, wharfs, and public buildings, immigration and the location of settlers, the management of Indigenous affairs, the conveyance of mails, the exploration of the country, the provincial marine establishment and shipping on the lakes, the state of political feeling, and relations with the United States. Of particular note are the reports and statements of confidential agents, deserters, prisoners, and spies and the matter of fact journals of officers on special service which have been preserved. The fonds been arranged into the following series: Correspondence of the Military Secretary of the Commander of the Forces; Records of the Canadian Command; Records of the Nova Scotia Command; and Miscellaneous records.

Great Britain. Army

Frederick Haldimand fonds

  • CA ON00239 F769
  • Fonds
  • 1758-1784

The Haldimand papers and maps document events in North America during the pivotal period from the beginning of the Seven Years' War to the end of the American Revolution and early Loyalist settlement. The material provides information bearing on many of the significant developments of the time and includes correspondence with military figures such as Generals Jeffery Amherst, Thomas Gage, James Murray and Sir Guy Carleton; correspondence with various civil and military offices and their heads such as the Admiralty, the Provincial Navy, Lord Barrington, Secretary at War; Lord Dartmouth, and Lord George Germain, Secretaries of State; and various governors and lieutenant-governors. Also included are records relating to Indigenous affairs, civil government, loyalists, explorations, military affairs, secret intelligence, state prisoners and personal papers.

Haldimand, Sir Frederick

Waldo Edward Lovel Smith fonds

  • CA ON00239 F520
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1917]-1991

Fonds consists of correspondence, including letters home to his wife during his time overseas in WWII; sermons, extending over half a century as well as many dating from his time as a Navy Chaplin; writings; research notes and lectures, from his time at Queen's University as an educator; photographs; subject files, both personal and professonial; prayers; and diaries, dating from 1921 until 1984.

Smith, Waldo Edward Lovel

Zoe Vignau fonds

  • CA ON00239 F2066
  • Fonds
  • 1763-1990

The fonds consists of correspondence from Zoe Vignau and her husband, David C. Low, to Madame Vignau in Boucherville, Quebec. It contains many important descriptions of political and social life in India in the 1820s. It also includes a family tree of the Wattsford-Low families and a copy of Une ville seigneurie Bouchervilles: Chroniques portraits et souvenirs (Montreal, 1890).

Vignau, Zoe

Upper Canada. Land Board fonds

  • CA ON00239 F1721
  • Fonds
  • 1765-1804

The fonds consists of the records of the Land Board for the old districts of Hesse, Nassau, Leneburg and Mecklenburg. The minutes and correspondence of, instructions to and reports by the Land Boards form a single series. The records include documents antedating the establishment of the Land Boards which were brought forward in support of applications for grants, and a few records of later date.

Upper Canada. Land Board

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