This fonds contains publications, along with a small amount of correspondence and ephemera, relating to graduates (alumni) of Assumption College and University dating back to 1870. All items were produced in the 20th c. but may include information related to 19th c. alumni as well. Publications present in the fonds include the Catalogue of Assumption College, Kaleidoscope, Alumni Times, and Alumni Chatter. Also present are several 1990s issues of the University of Windsor’s Emeritus Society News. Of note: words and music for Assumption fight songs.

This fonds consists of a narrow, hardbound ledger book containing handwritten entries of accounts held by customers of an unknown merchant identified as “E.H” (possibly E. Hall), 1826-1831. E.H. was likely based in the vicinity of present-day Windsor, Ontario. The ledger presents itemized lists of goods purchased and amounts owing or paid, under each customer’s name. Roughly two-thirds of the volume is unused. E.H.’s customers came primarily from Essex and Kent counties and Detroit, Michigan, but also elsewhere along the upper Great Lakes, including Drummond Island. Both male and female names are present, and some customers’ occupations are given as well, including blacksmith, miller, distiller, cooper, cook, merchant, labourer, crevier, regimental sergeant, ship’s carpenter, seaman, sailor, engagé, servant woman, and inhabitant. Many customers are French-Canadian; one may have been Black, and another Indigenous.

This fonds contains financial records of Assumption College and University, ca. 1856-1999. These include general cash books, financial statements, correspondence, and records of accounts, as well as real estate acquired, constructed, maintained, or sold by Assumption and/or the Basilian Fathers in the vicinity of the present-day campus, from Tecumseh Road north to the Detroit River. Included are land deeds, contracts, and other legal documents, as well as architectural or schematic drawings and specifications for campus buildings. Notably, this includes records of property acquired in the early days of the college, and campus properties sold by Assumption in the 1960s to the University of Windsor. Of special note: a small number of 1950s-1960s records relating to Essex College, the non-denominational affiliated college that helped secure provincial government funding for the campus.

This fonds primarily contains personal papers, publications, and oral histories (ca. 1870-1984) relating to the Basilian Fathers who served as teaching staff for Assumption College and Assumption University. Included are diaries, notebooks, correspondence, memoirs, recorded interviews, memorials, manuscripts and published works. Of special note are the extensive papers of Bishop Leo C. Nelligan, records of O’Connor House, and a few records from Rev. Pierre Tourvieille. Secondarily, this fonds contains extensive administrative records documenting the history of Essex College, found in the papers of professor W.H. Arison.

This fonds consists of a single printed booklet of stock shares (roughly the size and shape of a brick) that could be filled in by hand and torn off, with a stub (receipt) remaining. Of the 330 total pages, 31 have been used, many for more than one share. Either the share or stub indicate the name and date of the shareholder, indicating sales between 1870 and 1889. Many shares were held by prominent locals from the Baby, Askin, and Rankin families, as well as founding co-directors Arthur Rankin and Josiah Strong.

This fonds contains records connected with 22 Superiors or Presidents of Assumption College and University, ca. 1861-2009. For the most part it is organized chronologically by individual, although later accruals to the fonds have led to some quirks in file numbering or arrangement. Much of the fonds consists of administrative correspondence connected with institutional matters. There are also photographs, reports, publications, statistics, and notes on various subjects.