The fonds consists of records related to the Sawtell family’s history, Oxford County, Brantford, and southern Ontario. It is arranged into the following series:

Series 1: Sawtell Papers
Series 2: Newspaper clippings
Series 3: Scrapbooks

Series consists of photographs of Trinity College School buildings and facilities from 1865 in Weston, Ontario to the present day in Port Hope, Ontario.

Collection consists of photographs documenting the organizational activities of Trinity College School. Included are annual photographs of athletic teams, extra-curricular clubs, and student leadership groups; candid photographs taken by staff and students of the School; photographs of students and alumni who served in WWI and WWII; photographs documenting the construction and history of the School’s buildings; and photographs of faculty and staff of Trinity College School.

Item consists of a postcard showing a flower bed in front of the Civic Centre municipal complex.

Sous-fonds contains architectural drawings of 62 projects created by George F. Durand, individually or in partnership with others, in London and surrounding areas. The drawings consist of plans, elevations, sections, details, a water colour painting, sketches and plans for various utilities such as heating, plumbing and ventilating.

The fonds consists of records related to Paul Edell's business and community activities. Included is business and synagogue correspondence, property documents, certificates and a ledger book.

Fonds consists of records related to the personal and military life of Jack Ryrie, TCS class of 1920. Included are one postcard, three photographs, a University of Toronto Architectual Design award, and WWII medals, badges, insignia, buttons, and identification objects.

The fonds consists of a large collection of printed material relating to the St. Lawrence Deep Waterway/ St. Lawrence Seaway, 1894-1969. It also contains Canadian and American federal, provincial/state, regional and municipal descriptions, reports, and submissions. There is also material from associations including American pro and anti-St. Lawrence Seaway lobby groups. There are articles from newspapers, magazines and other publications about the Seaway and its costs/benefits. There is also Wright’s manuscript, galleys and reviews of his book “The St. Lawrence Deep Waterway: A Canadian Appraisal” (1935) as well as chronologies and Wright’s talks and submission about the Seaway. There is a small amount of Wright’s correspondence, mostly asking for information about the Seaway. Lastly, there are special newspaper sections about the Seaway as well as maps and oversize documents. The fonds is arranged in five series.

Photographs are divided into seven subseries:
A - Architecture
B - Arts (Theatre, music, dance, arts, crafts)
C - Business & industry
D - Churches
E - Communities in Northwestern Ontario
F - People, families, & genealogy
G - Organizations

Frederick O. Robinson was born in Port Arthur, Ontario on Aug. 2, 1903. He attended public and high school in Port Arthur and then served his apprenticeship to the machinist trade in the C.N.R. shops. He worked for 25 years as a skilled machinist in the Port Arthur shops of the C.N.R. until his election to the Ontario legislature in 1943. He continued to work as a C.N.R. machinist between sessions of the legislature, and after his election to the office of mayor, he worked in the C.N.R. shops on weekends.

He entered public life in January 1943 when he was elected to the Port Arthur Board of Education. In August of the same year he was elected to the Ontario legislature as C.C.F. member for Port Arthur. He was M.L.A. for Port Arthur until his defeat in 1951. In civic affairs, he remained on the Board of Education until 1946 when he was elected as alderman. In 1949, he became Mayor of Port Arthur; he remained in this post except for 1952 when he was defeated until 1955 when he resigned to become personnel manager for the Public Utilities Commission. He left active political life at this time. He resigned from the Public Utilities Commission in 1966 because of ill health. In July, 1969, he died.

The Frederick O. Robinson fonds comprises 7 feet of correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, articles and other material and is contained in seventeen transfer cases. The folder titles in the main are those designated by Mr. Robinson. Some re-arrangement of the material has been effected in order to comply with the folder titles. Since the folders themselves were in no apparent order when .they were donated to the university, the following arrangement was thought to be most suitable for research purposes:
I. Pre-1943 Period
II. Political Affairs (relating to the C.C.F.)
III. The Ontario Legislature and Provincial Affairs, 1943-51
IV. Provincial and Local Affairs.
V. Local and Municipal Affairs.
VI. General
VII. Miscellaneous

Fonds contains research files compiled by local historian Paul Baldwin relating to architecture and architects in St. Thomas and Elgin County, principally related to the work of John T. Findlay and Neil R. Darrach with an emphasis on Darrach. Also includes information on David Kilpatrick, Elgin County's first architect, as well as research notes that informed Baldwin's "Legacy" column published in "Community News". Finally, fonds contains original architectural plans created in circa 1903 by Neil Darrach for the St. Thomas Public Library building, as well as a photocopy of a plan for the residence of R.A. Cook.

Contains mostly the Quinte Branch newsletter but also a number of walking tours of Belleville and Picton. Some of the minutes from meetings are also included as are some newspaper clippings associated with historic buildings of the region.