The fonds consists of correspondence; minutes; scrapbooks; brochures, including a promotional booklet entitled, "You will be welcome in Kingston" containing various aerial views of the City's waterfront and inner harbour, the Alcan and Dupont plants, the Kingston Dry Dock, the Kingston Yacht Club, and Old Fort Henry; plans; newsletters; financial records;and photographs detailing the work of a medium sized city Chamber of Commerce in Canada.
Collections consists of Memorial Books relating to both Lorne and Edith Pierce; travel diaries; photographs; and a copy of Edith Chown Pierce's, "Canadian Glass: A Footnote to History". Nearly every Canadian literary figure of note for the period 1920 to 1960 is representedby at least some manuscript material in this collection. Among its many highlights the collection includes the letters and manuscripts of William Wilfred Campbell; Desertion in Canada by Major John Richardson; the original manuscript of William Kirby's novel, The Golden dog; manuscripts written and decorated by Wilson Macdonald; letters, manuscripts and memorabilia of Sir Charles G. D. Roberts; and the Marjorie Pickthall papers which include her diaries, letters manuscripts and sketches. Also represented are Raymond Knister, Duncan Campbell Scott, Archibald Lampman, Camille Roy, Stephen Leacock, Marius Barbeau,Audrey Alexandra Brown, Earle Birney, Katherine Hale, A. J. Pratt and Al Purdy. Some papers of artists J.E. H. Macdonald, A. Y. Jackson, C.W. Jefferys and Thoreau Macdonald are included in this collection.
The fonds consists of two handwritten minute books for the Executive meetings of the Society taking a standard form with attendance noted, finances discussed and the work of the members reported.
Collection consists of correspondence from George Whalley to Cecilia Speight, clippings related to George Whalley, and off-prints of Whalley publications (many signed). Also includes family photographs.
Fonds consists of an album containing photographs of Kingston and Barriefield during the Second World War. Album includes images of the automotive, motorcycle, and munitions training centres, individuals, and soldiers marching in the city, as well as military buildings and equipment.
Fonds comprises records documenting the activities of the Pharmacological Society of Canada [PSC] (founded 1956), which merged with the Canadian Society of Clinical Pharmacology in 2008 to form the Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Includes minutes, AGM records, constitutions, policy reports, and other materials. Also includes records of the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies on whose board the PSC had two representatives.
Fonds consists of minutes; subject files; final reports and timelines; "Artists' Statements"; exhibition programmes; promotional material; photographs; and clippings relating to the Kingston Prize for Contemporary Canadian Portraiture for 2005 and 2007.