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Fonds consists of records created and kept by the Macdonald family. The fonds includes ledgers, day books, receipts, catalogs, and shop licenses showcasing the day to day operations of the Macdonald family blacksmith shop. These records are particularly important because the transition of the Macdonald shop from Blacksmith to General Store to Garage can be shown through the ledgers and daybooks. Fonds also contains personal family material including postcards, photographs, newspaper clippings, autograph books, and inscriptions from the inside covers of family-owned books. The books themselves were not unique and therefore were given back to the donors.

Fonds consists largely of records created and collected by members of the Magrath family, including the Reverend James Magrath and his children, in the course of administering and occupying their farming estate (called Erindale) on the Credit River. Fonds includes correspondence, legal and financial records and ledgers, and plans of the estate and environs. There is also a small amount of material added to the fonds by later descendants of the family, including family histories and annotated transcriptions of the earliest Magrath correspondence.

The bulk of the correspondence consists of personal letters between family members, including James Magrath and his children, and most is written to Charles Magrath while on a trip to Ireland. Letters are largely concerned with family and personal affairs.

Note that the Magrath family correspondence includes occasional references to the activities of the First Nations (Mississauga Anishinaabe) people of the Credit area at that time referred to as the Credit Indians. The nature of these references is influenced by the perspective and prejudices of the Magraths.

The fonds comprises the following six series:

Series 1: Correspondence
Series 2: Legal records
Series 3: Financial records
Series 4: Family history records
Series 5: Erindale Estate maps and plans
Series 6: Transcriptions

Fonds consists of original and copy photographs, files, correspondence, research notes and other records generated in pursuit of Mary Manning's genealogical and local history research, as well as original records and correspondence created by the Switzer family and passed down to Mary. Fonds has been arranged by subject using the original file titles where known. Series titles include: Mary Manning records; Switzer family records; James and Mary Dandie records; M.D. Lundy, E. Hoople records; Switzer, Grundy, Smeltzer, Cowin, Colclough, Wilson families; Rutledge, Arnott, Mason, Thompson, Beaty, Cooke, Spence families; Street family research notes; Streetsville research files; Streetsville families research files.

Fonds consists of items collected by Maureen Adams created by organizations in Brampton and Toronto Township, largely centred around the themes of libraries and public schools, but also including items relating to local theatre troupes, municipal facilities, and the Peel Museum and Art Gallery, now the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives.

• File 1: Programs and brochures
• File 2: Official openings
• File 3: Travel and menus
• File 4: Festival of Flowers, 1963
• File 5: A History of the Brampton Public School Board, 1968
• File 6: Calendars
• File 7: National Library opening, Ottawa, 1967
• File 8: Centennial Senior Public School
• File 9: Centennial Secondary School, Brampton shooting, 1975 clippings
• File 10: News clippings

Fonds consists of records created and/or collected by members of the McMahon family (farmers and merchants situated in the Palgrave area of Albion Township). Records include journals, account ledgers, receipts, a family tree, and photographs.

Fonds consists of records created and or collected by the Ontario Council of Sikhs and includes of reports, legal exhibits, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other material. The majority of the files relate to a 1990 Ontario Human Rights Commission case wherein Harbhajan Singh Pandori claimed infringement of his religious rights as a Sikh under the Ontario Human Rights Code. A supply teacher with the Peel Board of Education, Pandori claimed that the Peel Board of Education’s disciplinary policy prohibiting the wearing of weapons, including the kirpan (a dagger-like article of religious faith worn by baptized Sikhs), was discriminatory. The dispute went before the Ontario Human Rights Commission tribunal, with a final ruling that the kirpan could be worn to school subject to restrictions. The Ontario Council of Sikhs served as a coordinator during this time, gathering research, arranging & giving presentations, and corresponding with various organizations and government officials.

Collection consists of records used in the writing of "Palgrave: The United Church and the Community", a local history book published by the Palgrave United Church in 1978 and revised in 2005. The first edition was written by Florence McLean with George A. Mundy. The collection includes research material photocopied or retyped from a variety of sources, drafts of the book sorted by chapter, as well as paste-ups and an unbound typeset copy, and correspondence.

Fonds consists of material created and/or collected by the Halton-Peel Holstein Club. Included are the club's constitution, annual meeting minutes, reports, financial records, receipts & bank statements, membership lists, correspondence, records and photographs pertaining to the Peel Holstein Show, records of a social night, and records created by related organizations including Peel Federation of Agriculture, The Holstein Association of Canada, Ontario Branch, and a publication called "Holstein Heritage: Peel".

As of 1989, the group had members whose postal delivery was for routes in Georgetown, Norval, Orangeville, and Terra Cotta.

Fonds consists of the surviving records for the Queen Elizabeth Library Association (QELA), an association library for both adults and children. It served residents of the area just north of the Town of Port Credit, in the suburban area of south-central Toronto Township. While it received municipal funding, it was never a branch of the Toronto Township Library system.

Files are a minute book, receipt book, minutes and reports, and correspondence. The library was started by the Queen Elizabeth Home and School Association during the Second World War, and the receipt book begins in 1944. It was spun off from the QEHSA in May 1948.

Records shed light on the difficulty the association library had in gaining consistent funding from various levels of government during the 1950s, as that type of organization gave way to fully public libraries. Their challenges were despite the fact that it was Ontario's tenth most used association library in 1952, its penultimate year.

Collection consists of maps and plans documenting the Peel area (Mississauga, Brampton, and/or Caledon).

Fonds consists of the remaining minutes of the organization. Volume one covers the period of 10 Jan. 1890 to 16 May 1891, and volume two covers the period of 22 May 1891 to 20 Apr. 1894.

Fonds consists of photographs taken by Steve Robson around Brampton (including Bramalea), Mississauga, and Toronto, as well as possibly other locations. They include public figures, and everyday people in both posed and spontaneous situations of every day life. The fonds highlights his interests, including cars, and scale models.

About 4% of the negatives are available in print format, and a selection of negatives are available as contact sheets.

Fonds consists of the corporate records of this organization for young men.

• File 1: Minutes, 1936-1937; correspondence, 1941; programme, 1938
• File 2: Minutes, 1938-1939
• File 3: Minutes, 1939
• File 4: Minutes, membership rolls, correspondence, 1940-1941

Fonds consists of records created or collected by the Walker family of Brampton, including Harry Walker who ran a shoe store at 17 Main Street South. Fonds includes an early photograph of Harry Walker inside the store which was in operation during from at least 1933 (possibly earlier) to at least 1987. (A second location of the store was on Queen Street West according to newspaper sources.)

Fonds also includes two photographs of the Ontario Bookbinder's Council 1953 -1954 on which William Walker served, a promotional leaflet from Charters Publishing Company, a copy of the Convervator from 1949 (the 75th Anniversary edition), a newsprint copy of Brampton bylaw 25-79, a photograph of McHugh Public School class (ca. 1930), a photo-mechanical reproduction of a photograph of a band, and newspaper clippings relating to printer's unions in Brampton, McHugh Public School, and other local places and events.