The fonds consists of the correspondence of Sir John A. Macdonald. Included are letters from politicians, cabinet ministers, bureaucrats, religious figures and businessmen. There are approximately 100 individuals represented in this series with whom there was considerable correspondence. Among the most voluminous correspondence is that from Gilbert McMicken (secret service reports); Sir George Stephen; Sir Alexander Campbell; Hon. Edgar Dewdney; Sir Alexander T. Galt; Lawrence Vankoughnet; Sir David Macpherson; and Sir Charles Tupper.
The fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda and notes created during the political career of Alexander Mackenzie. Includes letters from Mackenzie to members of his family, 1842, 1874-1888. It also contains various papers of his grandfather, Malcolm Mackenzie, 1776-1785 and of his father, Alexander Mackenzie, 1784-1836.
The fonds consists of a series of diaries containing an almost daily holograph record of the activities of the farm near Brockville, Ont., and surrounding district.
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.
Fonds consists of her diary written during 1874, in the Marlbank, Ontario, area, and includes accounts, a list of persons deceased the same year, and again in 1891-1892, and snippets of poetry and biblical passages; a photograph of ?Anna Young?; and two promissary notes relating to George Young.
The fonds consists of correspondence from various members of the family, land grants, deeds, mortgages, stocks, wills, probates, power of attorney, financial records and a copy of the Herchmer Family Tree. Most of the material relates to Johan Jost Herkimer; his son Lawrence Herchmer; Lawrence's son, the Reverend Willam Macaulay Herchmer and his wife Frances and his son Col. William Macaulay Herchmer of the North-West Mounted Police.
Original letters, along with typed transcripts and 'Douglas Library Notes' dealing with same, of John Wilson to James M. O'Leary about Grosse Ile, the epidemic of 1847 and Irish immigration to Canada.
