Transcript of court proceedings in The Court of Error and Appeal for Upper Canada. Case involved Reverend Alexander Mathieson and others as the appellants and Reverend George Weir and others as respondents.
Letter dated 3rd of February 1876, from the Earl of Carnarvon to the Earl of Dufferin regarding a monetary donation from the Queen to a woman, Mrs. Lynn, in honour of her giving birth to triplets. On the other side of the sheet is a disparaging Report of Frog Hollow School by the teacher, Carman Lynn, addressing the issues of expenses, attendance, behaviour and the caretaker's work.
Fonds consists of correspondence; minutes; memoranda; reports; submissions; budgets; and promotional material relating to the administration of the 150th Anniversary celebrations of Queen's University at Kingston.
Queen's University. Office of the Sesquicentennial
From 1843 to 1857 the capital of Canada had moved between Kingston, Montréal, Toronto and Quebec City. Seeing as agreement on a permanent capital was so contentious, the matter was deferred to the young Queen Victoria. The 2 pocketbooks contain articles about the proposed locations of the capital of Canada, reflecting the decidedly biased opinion that Kingston would be the best choice due to the City's location, security and lifestyle.
