The series consists of letters, petitions, reports, returns and schedules, certificates, accounts, warrants, legal opinions, instructions and regulations, proclamations and other documents received by the Civil Secretary of Upper Canada, 1791-1841, together with copies of some documents of 1766-1809. These were made for reference purposes, form a very miscellaneous series known as the Upper Canada Sundries. This arises from the extensive range of duties performed by the Civil Secretary, and from the custom of plurality, whereby an individual might hold several offices but custom and practice did not give rise to separate record-keeping systems for each office. The post-1841 correspondence received in RG 7, G 20 reflects the narrowing of responsibilities in the Civil Secretary's office in that period. .
The collection consists of material relating to Mary Macdonald, daughter of Sir John A. Macdonald, 1911-1988. Includes an autograph album, photograph of Mary Macdonald, issue of the Times containing the death of Lady Macdonald, September 7, 1920 and notes by Margaret Cohoe. Typescript of A Trilogy: I. Mary Macdonald. II. Sarah Hannah Coward (Mrs. Charles Clarke) and III. St. Aubyns, Hove. Also includes a photograph of Mary Macdonald (1929).
Collection of documents relating to Adolphustown and Napanee area. Family names include Roblin, Steel, Lucas, Miller and Foley. There is also a list of subscribers of a telephone company founded at Adolphustown in 1888. Several invoices from Albert College are also in the collection.
This collection is comprised of papers related to Sir Francis Bond Head. Sir Francis Bond Head (1793-1875) was an English soldier, traveller and author born to James Roper Head of Kent. He was a soldier from 1811-1825 and even served in the campaign of 1815, present at the Battle of Waterloo. He was knighted in 1835 and created a Baronet in the following year. In 1835, he was appointed the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, and had to deal with the rebellion of 1837 led by William Lyon Mackenzie. In response to the rebellion, Britain replaced Bond Head with Lord Durham as Lieutenant-Governor. Bond Head returned to England and never held any office for the rest of his life. Thereafter, he devoted himself to writing, chiefly for the Quarterly Review. Includes: certificate indicating that Head had visited Niagara Falls in1836, and photograph of Head at age of 80.
Autograph album contains autographs and holograph letters from many well-known figures, including Sir Isaac Brock, Lord Elgin, John Keble, John Henry Newman, Bishop Strachan, Lord John Russell, Governor-General Metcalfe and Lord Dufferin.
Three letters to Miss Johnston from John Buchan, 1927, from John Gielgud in 1936 and from Lucy Maud Montgomery, undated. With Montgomery's letter is a one-page manuscript of The Land of Uprightness. With the Gielgud letter is a clipping about Gielgud.
Scrapbooks relating to the American Civil War. Contains news clippings and patriotic cartoons from American newspapers concerning the Civil War and Fenian activities.
