The fonds consists of correspondence and miscellaneous cards. The letters are all personal, family letters the bulk of which are from friends and family members serving overseas in the Canadian forces, and in Queen's University Contingents, 1914-1918. Of particular interest are letters sent to Etta Newlands from "Harvey" and Sarah, young nursing sisters serving in Europe during the war at the No. 7 Canadian General Hospital in France, Salonica and Basingstoke. Part of the correspondence has to do with church and professional activities.
Essay on Canadian ferns for M.A. degree, Guelph, Ontario; blueprint for steel specimen case for Professor W. Nicol (1911), and minerology notebook owned by Nicol.
The fonds consists of sermons and funeral eulogies delivered by Nicols when he was a circuit rider in the Guelph-Waterloo and Etobicoke area. Some notes on baptisms and marriages for these areas and the townships of Pickering and Kings are included.
Fonds consists of correspondence; subject files, including those relating to the founding of the firm by Thomas Kirkpatrick in 1828, and its centenary celebrations, plus the life of long-time Kingston lawyer, Joseph Boomer Walkem; photographs; and a scrapbook of clippings relating to W.F. Nickle. Of particular interest are the files relating to the principalship of Queen's University in the 1930s. Also includes the official report from the Dominion Liberal Convention of 1893.
Fonds consists of correspondence, subject files, constituency files, speeches, press releases, newspaper clippings, political memorabilia acquired during Robert Nixon's political career, office records from Nixon's Queen's Park office and from his constituency offices, material about the Nixon family and the political career of former Premier Harry C. Nixon, and a series of videos recording various speeches, dinners, family, and other celebrations.