Scrapbook relates to the restoration of United Empire Loyalist burial grounds. It includes correspondence, reports, photographs, and architecture plans for the restoration of the burial grounds.
The fonds consists of correspondence and records of the United States Department of State, Department of the Navy and the Office of the Secretary of War. Included are records of the negotiations connected with the Treaty of Ghent, correspondence and dispatches from U.S. ministers to Great Britain, letters received from officers and from captains, and miscellaneous letters.
Cases for the Court of Common Pleas, No. 36, 1856 Sept. 23-1857 May 20. Fallassizes-Counties of Grey, Simcoe, Lincoln, Welland, Halton and Wentworth. Spring assizes-Counties of Wellington, Waterloo, Perth, Leeds and Grenville, Lanark and Renfrew,Carleton, Prescott and Russell, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.
Microfilm copies of the Mecklenburg Quarter Session, 1790-1816 and Lunenburg Quarter Session, 1789-1802. Also transcriptions for the Mecklenberg District Sessions as transcribed and compiled by Linda Corupe.
The collection consists of estate files from the Upper Canada Probate and Surrogate Courts, as well as assorted deeds, wills and registers for the counties of Frontenac, Dundas, Hastings, Prescott, Stormont, Leeds and Grenville and Lennow and Addington.
Correspondence, photographs, and notes concerning the 50th, 52nd, 53rd Batteries O.F.A., O.E.F., their activities during World War I and the Association formed after the War. Comments on the opening of the Queen's University overseas record, 1914-1917, manuscript.
Correspondence, game book, news clippings, photographs and documents recording family and civic happenings in Kingston with mention of well-known people and families of their area, 1875-1876 and 1889.
Correspondence, notes, structural information and account information on ordnance lands and Kingston fortifications from the late 18th century to the middle 19th century. Some of the fortifications discussed are the Murney Tower, Fort Henry, French Fort Frontenac, the Blockhouse and palisade defences, Market Battery, the battery near and within Lake Ontario Park, and the Royal Navy Yard. It also includes information on Sir Richard Bonnycastle of the Royal Engineers (RE), and a list of the Royal Engineers who served in Kingston from 1812-1860.