The records contain the following series; Secretaries' and Treasurers' Records 1862-2016;
Awards, Newspaper Clippings

Fonds consists of business records of the Mowat Manufacturing Company, including the letters patent, bylaws, and minutes of the Board of Directors. Most of the records form a single volume, but a few pieces of loose paper are interfiled in the pages of the volume.

The records include the following series:
3500 negatives of images taken to be used in the book now digitized.
Chapters of the book including the rough research and the submitted chapters to the book.
Copies of photographs .
Administrative records relating to the book's publication.