Letter to an unnkown recipient, regarding information on a 1596 voyage of exploration to the Frozen [Arctic] Ocean in search of the Northwest Passage. Also contains research notes on other voyages to the Indian Ocean, etc. in the 16th century.
Account book recording the equalization of the personal accounts of W.F. Grant, ? Walker and John C. Forsyth, the remaining members of the firm of Forsyth Richardson... Includes lists of lands in various townships.
Letters to de Vaux regarding projected colony in Canada and one letter from Lord Camden to Lord Melville relating to de Vaux. Copy of an article on de Vaux.
Report by Sir James Carmicheal-Smyth for the Duke of Wellington on the military defences and requirements, engineering establishments and defence of the Canadian frontier in 1826.
In the letter Gowan Gives the history of his connection with the Orange Order from his admission in 1818 in the County of Wexford, Ireland, to the date of writing. He also outlines the position of the Orange Order in Upper Canada in 1832.
