The collection is comprised of correspondence, articles, telegrams and official military documentation collected and received by Martha and George Lockyer from their son, Chris Railton Lockyer who died on active service (17 August 1917) in the Battle for Hill 70, near Vimy. The collection also includes a number of letters from Alec Lockyer to his parents and siblings. This material was organized by Don Lockyer into two named volumes "Far from Home" and "Somewhere in Europe". The volumes intersperse non-contemporaneous articles and materials framing and contextualizing this material within a larger narrative. Also included are some supplemental letters, photographs and a memorial marker for C.R. Lockyer.
This collection consists of indices referencing Queen's University publications. The indices were originally on index cards (Faculty Index and Queen's Alumni Review index), and in print (Queen's Quarterly and Queen's Gazette).
The collection consists of statistical data, photographs, clippings and correspondence relating to the sport of ice hockey in North America. Includes statistics on individuals, teams and leagues covering most of the twentieth century, correspondence with National Hockey League franchises, as well as amateur and semi-professional hockey leagues, and press releases, media guides and rosters for the World Hockey Association, University hockey leagues and amateur associations.
Collection consists of 23 home movies taken of various Amos family activities. Outdoor activities such as skiing, horseback riding, picnic are depicted. There are also a number of films that have to do with mines and mining in the Cobalt area of northern Ontario.
This collection consists of two deposits of correspondence between Shane MacKay, Executive Editor of the Winnipeg Free Press and Grant Dexter, Editor Emeritus of the Free Press. During these years, Dexter was in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, analyzing the political situation for the Free Press. The correspondence contains comment on the policy of the Free Press, notes of confidential conversations with politicians and some background information on the reports that Dexter filed. Includes several obituaries and appreciations of Dexter from the Free Press.
The collection is comprised of sixty letters written during the years of 1843 to 1872 to George Copeman in England.Fifty-three are original letters, four are copies of the originals which are housed in the Dr. Albert E Senkler, (EJS’s son) collection at the Minnesota Historical Museum in St Paul, and three that were transcribed by hand by his grandson Edmund J Reynolds ( EJR) but the whereabouts of the originals is no longer known.
Transcriptions of the original letters are also available and appear to have been transcribed by EJR, perhaps in the 1920s.
Collection consists of four guest registers (1851-1869) for the Kent and British American Hotels, located in Kingston, Ontario. The registers contain the signatures of a variety of visitors to Kingston including visiting artists, performers and politicians. The proprietors also make note in the pages the times and frequencies of steamboat traffic likely in order to aid their guests in planning their transportation needs.The collection also includes legal documents, donated at a later date, concerning the ownership of the building lots (67 and 88) and a number of financial interests in the hotel.
