Fonds consists of approximately 20,000 negatives documenting events and people in Kingston and district during the period from the late 1940's to the early 1960's. The fonds has very large sections devoted to Queen's University, Canadian Industries Limited, Fort Henry, and military establishments in Kingston. Also many significant national and international new events are covered.
The fonds consists of correspondence, student notes, lecture notes, student essays and manuscripts of his published works. There are also records of the many academic conferences Dr. Thorburn attended and helped to organize, committee work he was engaged in and records of his students. Taken together the records of Hugh Garnet Thorburn document his life as a scholar from his undergraduate days to his years as Professor Emeritus at Queen's University's Department of Political Studies.
Fonds consists of a Register of lot owners, 1856-1897; cash book, 1853-1883; minutes, 1853-1914; plans; various maps, including the original linen map by Frederick Cornell; assorted deeds; and Burial Registers, arranged chronologically, 1853-1978.
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.
The fonds consists of various collected copies of family trees and other genealogical information for the Acheson, Robertson and Kenyon families from the Tay Valley/North Burgess geographic area. Of particular note is the information pertaining to Grace Kenyon, a cousin of Campbell's, who did missionary work in India in the 1940's. There is a small amount of original material in the fonds including 5 photographs of various Robertson family members. Also includes class exams written by Emma Campbell (nee Acheson) in the early 1940's from her nursing courses in a variety of subjects such as Anatomy and Physiology, Preventative Medicine, Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Psychiatric Nursing, Communicable Diseases, etc.
The collection consists of drawings and plans by Andrew Drummond, George Browne, Thomas Rogers, Joseph Power, Robert Gage, John Howard, A.H. Van Straubezee, R. McCausland, Edward Horsey, Shepherd & Calvin, and others. Includes drawings of Cataraqui bridge.
Fonds consists of diaries, the entries of which represents his activities on an almost daily basis from 1942 to 1990; correspondence; newspaper clippings; photographs and assorted ephemera covering some of the ten years preceding and the almost five years following the span accounted for by the diaries; research and lecture notes; offprints; professional correspondence; and a scrapbook.