The fonds consists of correspondence, letterbooks, ledgers, scrapbooks, legal documents and financial records relating to Kingston business and shipping. The letterbooks, 1887-1889, contain correspondence of the Montreal Transportation Company. There are letters to Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Mackenzie Bowel. Topics include the Orange Order, Catholicism, employment of locals, prices for timber in the hinterlands and the building of ships in Kingston.
These albums contain albumen prints of: Kingston Mills and Locks; Rice Lake; Cobourg; Kingston; Tete du Point; Fort Henry; tennis courts; field hockey games; skiff sailing races; and railroad construction.
The fonds consists of journals written by Beardsley as a Queen's Engineering Student during a trip to Great Bear Lake (Port Radium), Northwest Territories to search for uranium deposits. Also includes a published transcription of the two journals, which includes transcriptions of letters to his future wife, Barbara, and photographs.
The collection consists of photographs of Kingston, particularly Sydenham Ward and Queen's University, several local ferry boats, Queen's radio station CFRC, some travel photos from Ontario and Quebec, and a few pictures of steam locomotives.This collection seems to reflect the interests of Mr. Clench in the 1950's and the early 1960's. In particular it shows his interest in Kingston and its surroundings during Ralfe's student days at Queen's.
Fonds consists of diaries, the entries of which represents his activities on an almost daily basis from 1942 to 1990; correspondence; newspaper clippings; photographs and assorted ephemera covering some of the ten years preceding and the almost five years following the span accounted for by the diaries; research and lecture notes; offprints; professional correspondence; and a scrapbook.
Fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, news clippings, tape recordings, galley proofs, a relatively complete bibliography of his work, a videocassette copy of "Rare 'Home Movies'" originally shot in the 1940's and 1950s, and photographs. Included are memorabilia and conference papers from Mr. Gustafson's career as a poet, critic, and scholar.
