The fonds consists of records related to the personal life and political career of Donald Sutherland. It is arranged into the following series and subseries:
Series 1 – Personal
Series 2 – Political
a) Elections/Government Proceedings
b) Regulating speed and operation of motor vehicles
c) Agriculture
d) Colonization and Immigration
e) Indian Affairs
f) Welland Canal
g) Military
- Rebellion 1837/Boer War
- Fenian Raid Comp.
- Armoury Ingersoll
- WWI
- WWII
- Misc.
h) Prohibition
i) Women’s Franchise Act
j) Combine Investigation Act (Tobacco)
k) Senate
l) Requests, favours, appointments
m) Invitations and Events
n) Miscellaneous Correspondence
Series 3 – County of Oxford
a) Woodstock Jail
b) Post Offices/Mail Routes
c) Noxon Co. / John Morrow Screw and Nut Company of Ingersoll
d) Zorra Log Church and Tug of War Team
e) Miscellaneous
Series 4 – Government
a) Federal/Provincial issues
b) Newspaper clippings
c) Liberal-Conservative Association
d) Photographs