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The fonds consists of correspondence, diaries, writings and subject files documenting the career of Professor Currie as historian and university professor. The files of his writing show his broad interests in the field of Canadian economic history, Canadian transportation history and the Grand Trunk Railway.

This sous-fonds consists of the business papers of three members of the Craine family who lived in the town of Smiths Falls. The papers cover the period from 1852-1938 when they end with the death of Dr. Agnes Craine. The bulk of the papers consists of consist of mortgages, insurance policies, stock holdings, day books and wills of three family members - John Joseph Craine, John Craine and Dr. Agnes D. Craine. There is also some correspondence from family relations, travel diaries of Agnes Douglas Craine, news clippings, wills and estate holdings of Craine relations from the Isle of Man, and a brush drawing of Douglas Craine.

The fonds consists of personal correspondence, school notebooks, lecture notes and classroom material, manuscripts and published material, political posters and pamphlets, addresses, scrapbooks and a photograph album.The fonds has been arranged in the following series: Personal and family correspondence, 1859-1963; Gordon family material, 1850's-1950's; Organizations (includes IODE, Women's Missionary Society, Dominion Drama Festival and Levana), 1920-1950; School notebooks, 1890-1908; Personal record books (includes diaries), 1899-1951; English department material, 1909-1950; Manuscripts and publications, 1920's-1950's; and Miscellaneous items, 1822-1860.

Fonds consists of diaries and journals; published and unpublished poetry, short stories, and columns in The Kingston Whig-Standard; records relating to income from writing; portfolios of published work; and copies of publications containing her poetry, articles, and photographs.

Collection consists of correspondence; assessment receipts; diaries written by Tressa Kish, reflecting life in Cataraqui Village, Ontario (1918-1957); photograph of the original family home.

The fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda relating to the Canadian Pacific Railway, pamphlets, diaries, sketches and a framed book-plate silhouette of Oscar Wilde created by Fleming.

Fonds consists of diaries, military manuals, and war medals. Includes a motorcycle manual that was grazed by bullets.

Fonds consists correspondence to and from Florence Tait and her family, student friends, and future husband, Stuart Schofield, while attending Queen's University at Kingston, and on travels to Europe and the Far East; subject files; diaries; and photographs and photo albums compiled by both Florence (Tait) and Stuart Schofield during their time as students at Queen's, with images of many interior and exterior shots of boarding houses, such as 44 Stuart Street; classmates; campus scenes with buildings and other University events such as the visist by H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught; Kingston and district scenes, including Macdonald Park with the Golden Lion and tulip bed, the waterfront (the "Old Ontario Strand"), S.S. Harmonic and Huronia; scenes in Western Canada in such locales as Winnipeg, Strathcona (Edmonton), Banff, the Geological Survey in the Rockies, Kootenays, and other British Columbia interior locations, aboriginal people at Illes des Prairies; geological consulting trips to Mexico and China; earthquake in Yokahama, Japan; summer excursions around Ontario, and to the West to Bulyea and Romford, Saskatchewan; Lake Superior; Quebec City; the Parliament Buildings and Library, and other views in Ottawa; the Canadian Expeditionary Force; visits to Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, and Vancouver Island. A number of the photos have also been hand coloured.

Three volumes of account books combined with daily diaries on weather and local events; newspapers clippings.

The papers of Charles Wilkes (1798-1877) span the years 1607-1959, with the bulk of the material dated between 1841 and 1865. The collection contains family, official, and general correspondence of Charles Wilkes, letterbooks of Wilkes and another United States naval officer, journals and diaries, a draft autobiography, scientific tracts and notes detailing weather and tidal observations, genealogical charts, newspaper clippings, Confederate currency, and printed matter. There are also marriage and building contracts, leases, inventories, promissory notes, trust agreements, and debt records dating from the seventeenth century that relate to the Wilkes family in England and America. The papers illustrate much of Wilkes's career, including his command of an expedition of 1838-1842, which engaged in surveys and exploration of the Antarctic, islands in the Pacific Ocean, and the northwest coast of the United States. The collection also covers Wilkes's seizure of Confederate commissioners J. M. Mason and John Slidell aboard the British mail steamer Trent in 1861. Notebooks, observation records, and correspondence relate to the expedition, but most of the material relates to his special duty in Washington, D.C., in the period 1843-1861, when Wilkes consolidated the scientific data gathered on the mission and prepared his narrative of the voyage together with other scientific volumes for publication. With these publications came a measure of fame and recognition, not only as an explorer but also as a nautical scientist. Wilkes's capture of the Trent is chiefly reflected in his correspondence for the period 1861-1862, which contains letters from committees honoring him and letters indicating favorable public reaction. More vividly portrayed are Wilkes's commands in 1862 of the James and Potomac River flotillas and of the West India Squadron operating near the Bahamas against Confederate commerce destroyers. The General Correspondence and Letterbooks series contain an exchange of letters between GideonWelles, George Brinton McClellan, and Wilkes touching upon the military operations of the 1862 Peninsula Campaign. Scattered references throughout the papers relate to Wilkes's business interests in the South, especially in North Carolina. Correspondence in the papers also pertains to the Wilkes family. Included in the Family Correspondence series are letters of Charles Wilkes, his son John, daughters Jane and Eliza, his wives, Jane Renwick and Mary Lynch Bolton, and cousins and other family members. Their letters chronicle the family's celebrations and tragedies as well as their activities and interests prior to the Civil War. Wilkes's daily records in the Journals and Diaries series record events of special interest and supplement those periods lacking in correspondence. His autobiography provides information relating to his career and personal life. The Miscellany series includes three official letterbooks of William Compton Bolton, a United States naval officer and the first husband of Wilkes's second wife, Mary Lynch Bolton. Prior to his death in 1848, Bolton and his wife were close companions of the Wilkeses in Washington society. Originally named William Compton Bolton Finch, his name was changed in 1833. The name Finch appears on the first two volumes. Frequent correspondents in the papers include Louis Agassiz, James Dana, Joseph Drayton, Asa Gray, George Brinton McClellan, Fred D. Stuart, and Gideon Welles. The collection is arranged in thirteen series: Journals and Diaries, 1841-1875; Letterbooks, 1841-1863; Family Correspondence, 1836-1915, n.d.; General Correspondence, 1835-1876, n.d.; Official Correspondence, 1862-1863, n.d.; Expedition File, 1828-1863, 1940, n.d.; Autobiography and Other Writings, 1855-1877, n.d.; Financial and Business Papers, 1833-1876, n.d.; and Miscellany, 1817-1921, n.d.