The portion of Albert Schwenger's collection housed at Queen's University Archives is divided into two manuscript series. The first series consists of documents related to the Milne and MacKay families. The papers originate with Captain William Milne who settled in Ancaster where his daughter Anna Maria married into the MacKay family in the 1820's. His correspondence comments of trade conditions, relations in the native community after the Treaty of Greenville and European wars. Of particular note is a letter of introduction for Captain Milne written in Turkish from 1799. The second series consists of unrelated historical documents primarily from the Niagara area, but includes one British document.
Collection consists of two albums compiled by unidentified numbers of the 21st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force overseas, World War I. Includes group and individual pictures; also Queen's University YMCA; Royal Military College; Belleville, Ont.; Thomasburg, Ont.; Kingston scenes; England; Egypt with Queen's Stationary Hospital and Australian hospital; baseball games.
This collection consists of an album comprising an assortment of post cards from Eastern Ontario, the United States, and Europe, 1905-1911; an accounts ledger from a general store located in Newington, Ontario, 1872-1878.
This collection consists of genealogical research material and photographs relating the Babcock, Boyce, Timmerman and Walker families; histories of churches located in the Wilton/Odessa, Ontario region.
This collection consists of an assortment of notes, jottings, and letters found within a number of books from the Watt Collection which is held in the Special Collections Unit, Stauffer Library, Queen's University at Kingston.
This collection consists of a scrapbook entitled "Scraps", containing correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, speeches, 'Certificate of Incorporation' relating to 'The American Party' and tracts relating to William Sulzer.
The collection consists of correspondence and printed material from William Thompson and family, as well as material related to Freemasonry. Also includes a typescript of “The Storms Below” by Paul Stuewe.
Collection consists of four guest registers (1851-1869) for the Kent and British American Hotels, located in Kingston, Ontario. The registers contain the signatures of a variety of visitors to Kingston including visiting artists, performers and politicians. The proprietors also make note in the pages the times and frequencies of steamboat traffic likely in order to aid their guests in planning their transportation needs.The collection also includes legal documents, donated at a later date, concerning the ownership of the building lots (67 and 88) and a number of financial interests in the hotel.
