The fonds consists of correspondence and business papers of the Rankin family : Andrew Rankin, carter; his sons Charles, a carpenter and James W., a tinsmith; and his wife Mrs.Ann Jane Rankin. The papers include business records with such local firms as Anglin, Sowards, Robertson, Livingston, Cartwright, Cunningham, Isaac Newlands, Simmons, Rathbun, McKelvey and Birch, Dalton and Strange; a number of lawyers including John A. Macdonald, Kirkpatrick and Rogers, Britton and Whiting; and a number of doctors.
Fonds consists of drawings of Macdonald Park (blueprint and tracing linen), Kingston, Ontario; and "Blank and Die Piercing", as executed for the Faculty of Applied Science course, Drawing 1A, by Francis Saldarelli, while a student at Queen's University at Kingston.
The fonds consists of five series of household and personal invoices, 1925-1953, of Professor Oliver Tiffany Macklem and Mrs. Katherine Bermingham Macklem, and a letter pressbook of business correspondence 1882 of Cornelius Bermingham and James Harty of Canadian Locomotive Company. There is also a collection of family photographs and a scrapbook with infant's Queen's tricolour sweater.
Collection consists of a series of "Manuals", in pamphlet form, for Sidewalk Superintendents, plus a pamphlet for the general public, on the operations and use of the new Toronto Subway, as published by the Toronto Transit Commission.
The fonds consists of correspondence, written histories, a diary and personal papers. There are also a large number of photographs and two films. This material provides a documentary and pictorial record of the family of Dr. William Henry Rankin and the area around his summer home at Collins Bay. The textual material consists of letters, written histories of Collins Bay, a family tree for the Rankin family, a diary kept by Mr. Harold Clark while he was at Guelph Agricultural College and a few other miscellaneous items. The photographs consist primarily of scenic views and individuals photographed near the Rankin house in Collins Bay from the early part of the century until just after WWII. The moving image material documents Kingston area including the Thousand Islands, the building of the grain elevator near Kingston and some interesting shots of the Rideau Canal. There is also one medical film, likely made at the request of Dr. Rankin.
The fonds consists of photographs of winter activities, sketch books, newspaper clippings and souvenir booklets from various cities in Canada. Included are images of the Bank of Montreal in London, Ontario from the 1890s, snowshoing expeditions and a picnic in the early 1900s, and Revelstoke, British Columbia. Also included are sketchbooks by J. Brown of lanndscapes in 1841.