Please be advised that Queen's University Archives will be closed to the public from 16 June to 1 July 2025. We will reopen for regular hours on 2 July.

Dr. Steven Maynard presented the 42nd Annual Archives Lecture, "An Adventure in Fairyland": Sexual and Gender Nonconformity at Queen's in Times of Austerity - Lessons from the 1930s on 24 October 2024.

Peter L. Twohig presented Preparing for ‘intelligent and thoughtful practice’:  University education and health care workers, 1965-1975 on October 27th, 2023.

With Homecoming just around the corner, here are some collections in the Queen’s University Archives to get you in the mood to celebrate and reflect.

Queen’s University Archives is proud to contribute to the CFRC 100th anniversary with a Pop-Up exhibit during their open house on October 7th, 2022. The CFRC fonds at Queen’s University Archives consists of 4.70 m of textual records, 64 photographs, 22 audio cassettes, 3 audio compact discs and 4 audio reels from its inception to present day. You can learn more about CFRC's history by looking at the Queen's University.

Queen's University Archives is pleased to invite you to view the 40th Annual Archives Lecture.

Dr. Karen Dubinsky presented An Artistic Chronicle of Havana in the 1960s: Cuban-Canadian Harry Tanner on October 20th, 2022.

Queen's University Archives is please to announce the launch of our new website. This redesign brings us into better compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, reorganizes and harmonizes pages within the website, and refreshes some of our most often used content.

Queen's University Archives is pleased to invite you to view the 39th Annual Archives Lecture.

Dr. Swen Steinberg presented Queen’s Refuge? Thoughts About an Exhibition Project and Refugee Research from a Historical Perspective.  

Virtual Exhibit: Queen’s Refuge: Refugees and the University

Queen’s University Archives wishes to offer sincere condolences to the family of Edwin Charles Beer on his recent passing. Charles Beer was the first archivist at Queen’s, taking up that role in 1960.  He moved on to Dartmouth College in 1966 to undertake a three-year post as Associate Director of the Daniel Webster Papers Project.