One journal kept by Colin Rankin from September 19, 1853 to September 17, 1854 during his posting to Fort Kikendatch. The journal includes ca. 25 pages of dated and undated notes, poems, transcripts and quotations, not kept in diary format.

One journal kept by Colin Rankin from March 9, 1848, the day he assumed charge of the Mattawa Post, to August 16, 1853, the day before his departure. The journal includes ca. 50 pages of dated and undated notes, poems, transcripts and quotations, not kept in diary format.

Engraved head and shoulders portrait of Colin Ranking later in life created and printed by A. Alexander & Sons Ltd. London, England.

Biographical information copied from the Rankin Family Bible and a copy of a letter to John I. Rankin in Montreal from Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper at Beaver House in London, England, where the Hudson's Bay Company archives were then maintained, regarding a request for information about Colin Rankin. In the response, Cooper quotes directly from the May 1921 issue of The Beaver about Rankin.