The collection consists of five documents related to the McCallum family in the Charlottenburgh area of Glengarry County in Ontario, Canada. Included are an Indian Land Sale Grant to Archibald McCallum in Charlottenburgh (1860), an indenture between Donald McMartin and his wife, and Peter McCallum for Lots 4 and 5, Indian Reservation, Charlottenburgh (1868), the will of Peter McCallum (1881), an indenture between Archibald McCallum and John Peter McCallum (1887) and an indenture between James E. McIntosh and John P. McCallum for a right of way on Lot 3, Concession 7 in the Indian Reservation lands of Charlottenburgh (1904)
The collection consists of maps depicting various counties in Eastern Canada including New Brunswick/Westmoreland, Nova Scotia/Digby, Nova Scotia/Guysborough, Nova Scotia/Inverness, Nova Scotia/Yarmouth, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ontario/Lanark, Ontario/Leeds and Grenville, Ontario/Lincoln and Welland, Ontario/Ontario, Ontario/Perth, Ontario/Stormont,Dundas, and Ontario/York.
Letters, material relating to the early history of the telegraph system and its original organizers and an autobiography of Henry J. Rogers, a collaborator of Morse.
Fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda and printed material. Most of the material relates to Queen's University. Includes manuscript in ink written on both sides of three pieces of birchbark concerning religious questions and gospel meeting held at Sharbot Lake, Ont., a letterbook for the period 1868-1873, relating to the finances of Grant's church in Halifax (volume 1); correspondence relating to the biography of Principal Grant by his son, W.L. Grant, 1902-1904 (volume 13). Letters from Grant to several well-known figures including Andrew Drummond, C.J. Low, Charles Mair, Sandford Fleming, Alexander Morris, Alfred E. Lavell, William Snodgrass and James Williamson.
