The collection consists of both Leal's own photographs and those he collected. There is a large number of portrait photographs which are arranged by surname but are undated. There are also a number of personal photographs which are listed by date (1937-1953) and topic and include such subject matter as the royal visit of King George to Kingston in 1939, some World War II activities, social events of the Canadian Locomotive company as well as collected photographs of air races, 1928-1930. There are also a number of commercial business photographs.
The fonds consists of correspondence, biographical data, certificates, legal documents, news clippings, and telegram books. The bulk of the collection is legal documents concerning his considerable land holdings in northern Ontario. His subject files include his indenture to John A. Macdonald as a law student. There is also the original manuscript of his prize winning essay: Canada and Her Resources.
The fonds consists of correspondence, legal records, scrapbooks and photographs. These papers illustrate mainly Dr. Morse's editorship of the Canadian Bar Review. There are a few personal papers: financial records and scrapbooks.
The fonds consists of the records created and held by the Synod of the Presbyterian Church in Canada in Connection with the Church of Scotland. It includes correspondence; memoranda; addresses to the King or Queen, Lieutenant-Governor of Governor-General; synod rolls; legal documents; memorials; overtures; petitions, including the 10 July 1844, 'Dissent and Protest of Mr. Bayne and Others'; resolutions; motions and minutes; reports; financial Records; statistics. A considerable portion of the papers documents the close connection of the church with the growth and development of Queen's College. There is also considerable material relating to the union of the various branches of the Presbyterian Church which took place in 1875.
This fonds consists of correspondence with Elizabeth Shortt, and Eldon M. Boyd; biographical material; articles, including 'A Short Account of the Kingston General Hospital' (1935); and a typescript of 'The Litchfield Saga' (1940); excerpts from the Minutes of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Kingston, and the Queen's University Medical Faculty; medical lecture attendance cards (1872 - 1891); prints of well-known 16th, 18th, and 19th century physicans including John Bostock Jnr., Richard Brocklesby, Girolamo Cardano, William Cullen, John Huxham, Edward Jenner, John Coakley Lettsom, Joseph Lister, and Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann.
The fonds consists of correspondence, newspaper material, speeches and political material concerning the activities of the Toronto Independent Labor Party, the Theosophical Society, as well as general clippings on the period 1918-1940.