Fonds consists of the Doomsday book of the 6th Field Company Canadian Engineers. The book relates information regarding the unit based on their semi-regular) annual reunions. The minutes of those reunion meetings, menus, clippings, signatures of attendees as well as a small number of photographs of members during the war, as well after, are all bound into the book. While the book was purchased and its assemblage began in 1929, there are some documents that predate that year that are included.
Queen's University. 6th Field Company Canadian Engineers
The Collection consists of a microfilm copy of the 'Register of Recruits of the 253rd Battalion Queen's University Highlanders Canadian Expeditionary Force' (1916-1917), with an introduction by Craig Mantle; an 'Addendum to the 'Register of Recruits', introduced and compiled by Craig Mantle; and a copy of the 'Nominal Roll of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men'.
Queen's University. 253rd Battalion Queen's University Highlanders
The collection consists of prints and negatives of original blueprints, created by the New York architectural firm of Warren & Whetmore, for Midriver Farm, Grindstone Island, New York, as commissioned by the owner Charles Bohlen.
This collection consists of a number of pictures of the Whig-Standard Building decorated for the Royal visits of of 1939 and 1959, VE day and Coronation Day. There are also pictures of local sites: the Market Battery; Princess Street; Kingston harbour; the Eastern Ontario Air Meet of 1930; and the covered bridge on Highway 2, crossing the Napanee River into Napanee.
The album depicts scenes of: Kingston - Murney Tower, City Park, Richardson Pavillion, Court House, Water Works; Kingston Mills - Old Mill, train bridge, Blockhouse; Thousand Islands; Rideau Canal; and various social functions - picnics, boating, bicycle riding. The album has been dismantled and the photographs individually sleeved.
Ontario's first macadamized road. This album is comprised of photographs taken in the 1910's of work being done on Highway #2, also known as Kingston Road or York Road.
