The collection consists of Edith Smellie's diary, a photograph, and notebook "Visiting List." The first section of her diary recounts a trip from Brockville, Ontario, to New York from October 2-10, 1888. She and her companions left Brockville by steamboat and transferred to rail at Morristown. The diary details visiting Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as Macy's and other stores. The final pages of the diary contain calculations and a short list of purchases, including boots, shoes, paints, and collars. A few pages in the diary begin to recount a second trip in 1889, as well as some poems. In addition to the diary is a sepia cabinet portrait by Sheldon & Davis, Kingston. The visiting list contains numbered entries of visitors for 1897, 1898, and 1899. There are also some addresses.

File contains 1 autograph letter signed. Includes correspondence with Dr. Casey A Wood.

File contains 1 autograph letter signed.

File contains 1 autograph letter signed. Includes correspondence with Longinos Navás S J.

File contains 1 autograph letter signed. Includes correspondence with Bowdler Sharpe.

File contains 2 typed letters signed. Includes correspondence with F C Morgan, Esq..

File contains 1 typed letter (unsigned), 1 typed letter signed. Includes correspondence with Dr. Casey A Wood.

The collection consists of 92 black and white photographs, mounted on black paper, depicting the construction of the dry dock in Lauzon, Quebec, from 1917 to 1923. It also includes a diary written by Ford Cushing Smith in 1922, which details activities related to the dry dock at Lauzon, and an accompanying typewritten letter from I. D. Macorquodale, Eng., explaining the donation in detail.

A note with lot numbers of burial plots, with the names and burial dates of members of the Hall, Morrison, and Symes families. Includes marginal note in pencil identifying Charlotte Hall and John Hall as the writer's great-grandparents.

A handwritten Lepailleur [LePallieur] family tree, including Charles Louis Lepailleur, his two wives, and their children.