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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.

This fonds consists of correspondence, lecture notes, material relating to the Department of English, Grade 13 curriculum development, militia training at Queen's University, C.O.T.C. at Queen's University, National Council of Canadian Universities and other organizations; correspondence, research notes, manuscript relating to his work on William Cowper and Alexander Pope (1965-1972).

Fonds consists of correspondence (including about 60 cm. of Principal's office files), photographs, note books, news clippings, speeches, lecture notes and material relating to the Ontario Commission on Investigation of cancer remedies. There is also a large set of files on the Committee on Post-War Reconstruction 1940-1945, with which Dr. Wallace was very involved. In addition, there is a newspaper by the Whig-Standard entitled, "Queen's University 110 Years of Service to Canada through Education," in which Principal Wallace wrote a message in. There is details of the history of Queen's throughout the fonds.

Fonds consists of a series of letters addressed to Francis L. Walsh from authors such as W. H. Draper, J.H. Dunn and W. W. Baldwin a year before his death. Also includes a "Blue Book Department" circular dated December 30th, 1843.

The fonds consists of a limited number of business receipts, accounts and holdings of Ebenezar and Simeon Washburn. Includes receipts for shares purchased in three Steamers being built in the Kingston area: Comodore Barrie, Sir James Kempt and one an unnamed Steamer being undertaken by Calvin of Garden island in 1842.

The fonds consists of correspondence, some personal papers including household bills, and the notes for a biography of Prof. Watson by one of his daughters. There are also notebooks he made on various philosophical topics, manuscripts, lecture notes, poetry and drama written by Watson and even some sketches of billiard shots. Also includes a telegram to Watson from Sir Robert Falconer.

The fonds consists of a letter, 1959, and memorandum on the possibility of a 'death ray' and 'radar', 1935.