Fonds consists of an album of photographs taken by Lyell Spence after enlisting, sailing to Great Britain, and being deployed to France with the No. 7 Canadian (Queen's) Stationary Hospital.
Fonds consists of programmes of various regattas and championships held by a number of canoe clubs under the auspices of the Canadian Canoe Association; correspondence, minutes, technical reports and bulletins, and clippings relating to the canoe events at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
The fonds consists of photographs of winning horses, their drivers and trainers at Frontenac Downs Racetrack. Many photos are composites, annotated with details on the race, and include finish-line shots of each race.
Fonds consists of an album of photographs showing Queen's University at Kingston, its buildings and students, plus geology class expeditions; the community of Kingston and its environs, including Kingston Mills; Upstate New York, including Lake Champlain; and other locations in Western Canada and the western United States, including California.
The collection consists of recordings of Canadian writers and poets, produced by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education as the series "Canadian Writers on Tape" and "Canadian Poets on Tape." The authors represented include Al Purdy, Morley Callaghan, Margaret Laurence, Earle Birney, Mordecai Richler, among others.
Fonds consists of correspondence; photographs; and his long lost memoirs largely relating to his involvement in the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion; and his interactions with such notables as William Lyon Mackenzie, Sir John A. Macdonald, Edward Barker, Pirate Bill and his daughter Kate, and a murderous Captain of the Fort Henry Guard.
