Item is a handwritten ledger reflecting the work of Thomas Burrowes Justice of the Peace at Kingston Mills, Township of Kingston, Frontenac County. The ledger contains Memoranda of Fees and Charges, Return of Convictions and printed Schedules of Summary Convictions. The ledger documents the nature of the case, offense committed, dates, names of all parties such as prosecutor, witness(es), defendants, and Constables involved. It also notes fees levied and paid. There are a few loose receipts pinned onto one of the blank pages towards the back of the ledger. Of particular note is a hand drawn map of Pittsburgh Township, from Opinicon to Kingston along the Rideau Canal, dated May 4, 1841.
Fonds consists an unpublished manuscript entitled "And No Birds Sing: Patrons, Myth, and Imagery in the Poetry of Ovid's Exile" written by Dr. Janet Patricia Bews.
Collection consists of photographs of Queen's University and Kingston, including images of snow sculptures, buildings and events on Queen's campus, as well as photo albums of families in Kingston with images of Royal Military College, military encampments, and various Kingston buildings. Also includes the films of O.T. Macklem.
The fonds consists of black and white photographs, colour slides, black and white negatives, and contact sheets of examples of early Upper Canadian and Ontario furniture from a number of European and North American traditions including Anglo-American, German, Polish, French-Canadian, and others. These images were taken during the course of research for the author's book, 'The Heritage of Upper Canadian Furniture: A Study in the Survival of Formal and Vernacular Styles from Britain, America and Europe, 1780-1900', first published in 1978.
The fonds consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, news clippings, transcripts of local diaries, and alphabetical family and genealogical files. These genealogical files, which relate mainly to Bay of Quinte and Loyalist families, contain correspondence, research from printed sources, newspaper clippings and some photographs. Also included is a set of ordnance survey maps of Kingston and area dated 1869.
