The collection consists of subject files, court records, diaries and photographs. The material illustrates many aspects of the history of Montague and Kitley Townships as well as the activities of Lockwood Family. The files also contain a great deal of research material relating to the Loyal Orange Lodge and the Rural Telephone Company of Kitley Limited. Petitions to the Montague Township Council and Township Assessment rolls are invaluable for a study to the early history of this township. A large collection of photographs illustrate the social history of the area.
Collection consists of correspondence; assessment receipts; diaries written by Tressa Kish, reflecting life in Cataraqui Village, Ontario (1918-1957); photograph of the original family home.
Collection consists of scrapbooks, accounts, diaries, photos, etc. of Knapp-Anglin- McCuaig family; watercolour of Fort Frontenac, Tete du Pont; Collection consists of land records relating to Kingston and area families including Derbyshire, Hodgson, Leonard, McLeod, Moon, the Opinicon Ranching Company, and Wiskin; financial records relating to the Knapp family; and subject files relating to the Canadian Women's Chritian Temperance Union, G.A. Stinson & Company, The King Edward Hotel Company Limited, and a former Japanese student studying at Queen's named Toshi. Also included a book of pressed flowers from Jerusalem.
The collection is comprised of holograph lecture notes on: Metaphysics; Spelling; Grammar; Mathematics, Classics; Junior Philosophy; Junior English; European and Roman History; Moral Philosophy; Latin; Psychology; Inorganic Chemisty; Political Economy; Medicine; and History. There are also diaries and correspondence.
The collection consists of copied plans for Kingston town hall and Kingston market house as well as a house plan on St. Denis Street in Montreal for the Heirs Hunt. There is one original set of plans, attributed to George Browne, for the Bank of Montreal (Frontenac Club) on King Street, Kingston.
Collection consists of architectural and construction drawings of Kingston buildings designed by local architects including Power and Son, Robert Gage, William Newlands, Jr., and Arthur Ellis.
The collection consists of copies of drawings for Twin Oaks on Schooner Island, built circa 1920 for E.H. Morris, collected as part of the "Ah, Wilderness" exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.
The collection consists of drawings for a cottage on Sunnyside Island, designed by H.J. Hardenberger of New York for S.E. Brown, as well as drawings for the Yacht House and specifications for carpentry and masonry.
The collection consists of drawings for a farm house on Hickory Island for J.W. Wood by Warren, Wetmore and Morgan Architects of New York, collected as part of the "Ah, Wilderness" exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.
The drawings represent heritage buildings in many towns and regions in southern Ontario such as Adolphustown, Bath, Claireville, Cobourg, Cornwall, Grafton, Islington, Kingston, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Perth, Port Hope and Toronto. Two northern towns are represented by North Bay and Penetanguishene. The drawings represent a variety of structures from churches, clubs and rectories to commerical buildings, factories and mills. The material is organized alphabetically according to town or region.
