Scrapbook contains original poems and drawings related to Kingston about 1840-1846. There is a coloured lithograph of St. George's Cathedral after its renovations in 1846, drawings and watercolours of other Kingston scenes.
Fonds consists of correspondence, articles, diaries, subject files, news clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, manuscript notes, notebooks, cartoons, watercolours, and medals. Adam Shortt's involvement with Queen's University, his work as Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, his work as first Chairman of the Board of Historical Publications of the Public Archives, his active career as a public speaker, and his creative output are all reflected in the papers. There is also a large series of autographs that Shortt collected over the course of his life.
Copy of a letter relating to artistic copyright and the anauthorized copying of paintings in the Academy by Gagnon, Coburn, Pilot and others for greeting cards, calendars, etc.
The fonds consists of correspondence, articles, translations, notes for speeches, news clippings, scrapbook, broadcasts on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, photographs, certificates and material relating to the study of French in schools.
The fonds consists of correspondence, speeches and subject files documenting the various phases of Mr. Sifton's career as a prominent newspaper owner and publisher. Correspondents include J.W. Dafoe, T.A. Crerar and Grant Dexter.