This file contains a notebook with lists of students and expenses. Includes looseleaf notes, cards, clippings inserted.

File consists of an autobiography prepared by James Dawson around approximately 1859, entitled 'Incidents of a Life: being a record of 70 years experience of God's goodness and mercy.'

File consists of bills, receipts and shipping documents.

File consists of loose newspaper clippings and a bound notebook with label “Extracts relating to Protestant Education in Lower Canada, Notices of Dankin, J.W. Dawson” containing clippings and offprints. “Notices of Dankin” refers to clippings about the death of Judge Dankin.

File includes a copy of the Journal of Education, Upper Canada, vol. XIII, no. 10.

File includes a collection of 12 short essays written by George Mercer Dawson as a child. On the verso of many is a title, date, and a sketch. The titles of the essays are: "The Indian Antiquities (of Montreal)"; "Fishes"; "Winter"; "Rivers"; "Mountains"; "The Ocean"; "Paper"; "Flowers"; "Vegetation"; "The Wolf"; "Europe"; and "The Lion." The first essay ("Indian Antiquities") discusses the discovery of objects belonging to previous Indigenous inhabitants of the region, including pottery, knives, etc.

Two copies of a paper by J.W. Dawson.

This file consists of a bound volume containing notes, sketches and diagrams from 1861, during trips to Maine, and Murray Bay (La Malbaie, Quebec). Includes a section about Limulus horseshoe crabs.

File consists of materials related to Anna's education at the Establishment for the Education of Young Ladies, including first class certificate signed by Lucy Simpson, 2 prize and honour lists, session certifications from the Montreal Ladies Education Association, and school informational pamphlets. Also contains a letter dated 1872 from Gordon Smith.

File consists of two childhood diaries. The diary dated from summer 1865 recounts a trip to the United Kingdom taken with his father when George Mercer Dawson was 16 years old. The diary dated 1861 was kept while George Mercer Dawson was 11 years old and begins 1 March 1861. One loose leaf with instructions for a magic lantern was previously laid in the diary. 1861 diary speaks of lessons with "Miss," tells of pasttimes and games including tops and marbles, siling boats, tag, bow and arrows, magic lantern, etc. Speaks also of continued headaches and being tired.