Fonds comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his personal, academic, and professional activities as a jurist, judge, and professor. Records include those related to Macdonald's involvement with Osgoode Hall, University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, the European Court of Human Rights, the Hague, Peking University, World Academy of Arts and Science, Canadian Council of International Law, United Nations, Institute of International Law, African Society of International Law, British Institute of International Law, Canadian Institute of International Law, International Law Association, and others. Records types include correspondence; meeting minutes and agendas; research materials; photographs; newsletters; newspaper clippings; manuscripts; and off-prints.
Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's items of interest collected throughout his life, including biographical materials, art pieces, newspaper clippings, periodicals, books, and other materials.
Item consists of a pencil and ink study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely from 1945, showing signal flags on an unidentified Canadian naval ship, spelling out "VICTORY".
Item consists of a pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely from 1945, showing two sailors pulling up signal flags on an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of a pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing the beginnings of a wartime harbour town scene from a hillside perspective.
Item consists of a pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, of circular composition placement lines and outlines of a naval officer performing navigational observations on an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of eight small charcoal drawings by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing sailors engaging in deck and equipment maintenance duties on board an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of four small charcoal study sketches by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing naval ships in port. The larger of the four sketches also includes a host of sailors standing on a dock in front of three ships.
Item consists of a charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing a Canadian sailor performing maintenance work on deck equipment.
Item consists of a small pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing two Canadian sailors operating navigation and signalling equipment while in convoy formation, on board an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of a completed charcoal and pencil drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing three sailors wearing cold weather gear, operating a deck gun in heavy seas in convoy formation on board an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of a small pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing sailors standing on the deck of an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of a series of pencil silhouette sketches by D.C. Mackay, likely in the early 1940s. Sketch includes HMCS Saskatoon, USS Kaweah [misidentified as Keweah], and Fort Amherst, as well as four other unidentified ships, in convoy formation.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely in the early-1940s, of the port side perspective of an unidentified Canadian naval ship in convoy formation, with six smaller ships in the distance.
Item consists of a charcoal and ink drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely from 1944, showing a sailor standing on the deck of a pilot boat manoeuvring towards a docked Canadian naval ship under a crane.
Item consists of a completed pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing two sailors wearing wet weather gear performing navigational and signalling duties while in convoy formation on board an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of five small pencil and charcoal sketches by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s. The first three sketches show equipment on the deck of an unidentified Canadian naval ship in convoy formation; the middle sketch shows a focus of legs in motion; the sketch on the right-hand side shows a Canadian sailor walking.
Item consists of a charcoal study sketch by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing a naval officer in cold weather gear looking through binoculars.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing a group of sailors performing maintenance work on the aft deck of an unidentified Canadian naval ship, with another unidentified ship in the background.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay from the early 1940s showing equipment on the starboard deck of an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing a deck turret gun on board an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of a charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing the fore starboard side of an unidentified Canadian naval ship, close to an unidentified shore.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay from the early-1940s showing a starboard side view of the examination ship HMCS Andree Dupre.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal study sketch by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing a naval officer speaking through a megaphone on the deck of an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal study sketch by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing naval officers making navigational observations on the deck of an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal study sketch by D.C. Mackay from the early-1940s showing a naval officer peering through navigation equipment on the deck of an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely in early 1944, showing a sailor wearing cold weather gear holding binoculars, standing in front of "Y" turret on the deck of HMCS Iroquois.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely in early 1944, showing a sailor wearing cold weather gear holding binoculars, standing in front of "Y" turret on the deck of HMCS Iroquois.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing aft deck equipment, including a winch and a life raft, from an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal study sketch by D.C. Mackay, dated June 28, 1943, showing ships in convoy formation from the deck of the minesweeper HMCS Kenora.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely from March 1944, showing the 4.7 inch turret guns on the deck of Tribal-class destroyer HMCS Iroquois.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely from early 1944, showing a sailor holding binoculars on the deck of the HMCS Iroquois in front of "Y" turret.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely in early 1944, showing a sailor holding binoculars, standing in front of "Y" turret on the deck of HMCS Iroquois.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal study sketch by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing weaponry on board the deck of an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of three small pencil and charcoal study sketches by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing unidentified bits of Canadian naval ship deck machinery.
