University of Guelph
Scottish Collection

Visit the Largest Scottish Collection outside of Scotland!

The library at the University of Guelph contains one of the largest collections of Scottish material outside Scotland, including both printed materials on Scottish and Scottish-Canadian topics and a large amount of manuscript source material in the form of letters and business documents.

Visit the Scottish Collection

Collections include:

  • Ewan Grahame collection of correspondence amounting to some 12,000 letters (1750-1840)
  • Scottish chapbooks
  • Covenanting, Jacobite and Disruption pamphlets
  • Campbell of Monzie papers dating from 1416
  • Letters of the Campbells of Kildonan
  • Collection of first editions from the Foulis press
  • Nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels
  • Collections from families in the Guelph area
The collection is particularly strong in local histories and genealogical materials. Access to the collection is open to the public, please visit Library World Wide Web site.