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The series consists of records kept by the General Superior office for use in the administration of the community in London, Ontario. Material is primarily from the period during which Sister Margo Ritchie held the office, but it also contains material from when Sister Mary Diesboug and Sister Valerie Van Cauwenburghe held the position. This series contains twelve subseries relating to the operations, missions, and activities of the congregation. This includes the Medaille Retreat House, Josephs’ House, the Detox Centre, My Sister’s Place, St. Joseph’s Hospitality Centre, Elizabeth Place, St. Stephen’s House, the Southdown Project, Holy Rosary House in Windsor, the Goderich convent, and the Sisters of St. Joseph in Alberta. There is also material related to the hospitals in London, Sarnia, and Chatham administered by the Sisters and the transfer of operation of said hospitals to the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance and St. Joseph’s Health Care Society. There is material related to the construction of a new residence, especially concerning the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards of the new building, and relocation of the Sisters from Mount St. Joseph to this new residence.

There is also material related to the various meetings of the congregation, from the more informal Community Days to the more formal Assemblies and Chapters. Chapters are formal congregational meetings where major decisions, such as amalgamation and leadership positions were voted on. There are voting records from the 2011 Special Chapter and the 2009 Oneness Project in this series. There are also reports from the Leadership Circle, Chapters, and committees within the congregation. There is also material from the Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Canada, an organization made up of all the Congregations of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada. There is material from the Federation and the London congregation’s systemic justice efforts and the Sisters’ efforts towards concerning the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. There are various newsletters from the Federation and the London congregation. The series also includes administrative correspondence and speeches presented by the General Superior to the congregation.

In summary, the series contains letters, reports, speeches, minutes, voting records, newsletters, pamphlets, prayer books, agendas, meeting minutes, memorandums, postcards, photographs, correspondence, timelines and schedules, inventory lists, legal documents, meeting minutes, executive summaries, budget reports, reports, newspaper and magazine clippings, bursary reports, histories, bulletins, designs for stained glass windows, and property appraisals.

The series contains records documenting the various activities of the London Donations Committee. These include charitable donations in Canada and abroad, educational bursaries given predominantly to community members in London and southwestern Ontario, as well as donor awards and recognitions received by the Sisters of St. Joseph. Records include administrative correspondence, annual reports, newsletters, press clippings, a magazine, photographs, certificates, and a plaque.

Sous-fonds consists of textual records, three albums and loose photographs depicting various events of Sister Eveline's life. The photographs are of her 50th Jubilee celebration at St. Andrew the Apostle Church in London, Ontario. There are also photographs and postcards from her personal and family life in Ontario, her time at Lumen Vitae, Belgium, and her time in the Exodus program, in Dittmar, Missouri. The sous-fonds also includes handwritten correspondence, certificates, and newspaper clippings and obituaries. The majority of materials are in English, with some correspondence and the Lumen Vitae booklets written in French.

The Burwell Family fonds is primarily comprised of the peronal and buisness papers of Hannibal Burwell (1825-1886), his son, Alfred E. Burwell (1871-1943) and his daughter Hannah Alberta Eliza Burwell (1864-1929), later Mrs. David Williams.
•There are 20 related artifacts including two family bibles, a portable writing desk belonging to Hannibal's father, Mahlon Burwell (1783-1846), a prominent surveyor, Justice of the Peace and MLA, Albert Burwell's South Africa War medals and volunteer service medals and a portrait of Mahlon's daughter Louisa Burwell (1818-1834).
•The fonds is divided into the following series:
•-Associated Artifacts series, ca. 1800-1914
•-Books series, 1808-1931
•-Personal Documents and Ephemera series, 1810-1932
•-Financial and Real Estate series, 1861-1886
•-Correspondence series, 1863-1887

Collection includes photographs of the Haight and Zavitz families from Elgin County and Lobo Township in Middlesex County. The photographs primarily show close relatives of Eva Marguerite Haight, who went by Marguerite, and later married Russell Zavitz. Includes photographs of her children and grandchildren, mainly taken at Sunnyside in Lobo Township, and Cedar Villa or Locust Grove in Elgin County. Item-level description is available.

Fonds consists of records, including marriages, 1896-1916, of Colborne Street Methodist Church (includes Pall Mall Methodist Church, London), 1877-1920; and records, including baptisms, 1916-1980, marriages, 1916-2000, and burials, 1915-2002, of Colborne Street United Church, London (including Colborne Street Methodist Church), 1916-2009.

This fonds contains the administrative and historical records of the Baconian Club of London, Ontario. Records of meetings and banquets, financial records, historical documents, and other records and objects are included. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Constitution, bylaws, and incorporation documents Minutes of meetings Attendance registers Financial records Annual banquet programmes Papers by individual members Correspondence Membership documents Souvenirs Historical narratives and clippings Meeting and banquet procedural documents Miscellaneous documents Graphic material Miscellaneous objects Moving images Sound recordings

Fonds consists of records illustrating Kemp’s career as a poet, playwright, performer and educator as well as the activities of Pendas Productions. It also contains personal materials. It includes personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts and drafts, proofs of publications and CDs/DVDs, recordings of performances in various audiovisual formats, photographs, posters, drawings, clippings, ephemera, publicity materials, and published material.

This fonds contains case files, reports, doctrines, treaties, charters, bills, papers, certificates, journals, lectures, addresses and speeches, personal papers, correspondence and scrapbooks from the personal and professional life of David Mills: teacher, office holder, farmer, lawyer, politician, journalist, author and judge.

Collection consists of captioned photographs contributed by Alan Noon to the Western News in a weekly photofeature entitled "The Way We Were". This feature ran from 2001 to 2012. Photographs were originally taken by London Free Press , Western News photographers, Al Noon or photos within Western Archives holdings and other privately held photographs. Noon researched and wrote each caption; these are found in the scope and content notes for each photograph.

Fonds consist of records and photographs used by Spramotor Co. mostly for advertising and business operations. This includes advertising materials, catalogues, price lists, blueprints and photographs of equipment, people, swimming pools, and Spramotor as a munitions plant.

This fonds consists of letters, manuscripts, articles, poems, addresses, lectures, journals, reports, notes, reviews, invitations, photographs, posters, negatives, drawings, maps, receipts, crafts, electroplates, and other materials relating to Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke and his family. In addition there is substantial material related to his work as Superintendent of the London Asylum for the Insane and to his friends (especially Walt Whitman) and other studies.

This artificial collection contains more than 6,000 images, mainly of London Ontario and southwestern Ontario region. Subjects include: buildings and streetscapes, civic events, exhibitions and royal visits, farm scenes, industrial scenes and railways, natural and other disasters, individuals (officials, academics etc.), groups (workers, school children, etc.), recreational scenes and sporting events. The images were largely removed from their original context in family or other fonds for ease of item level description.

This collection consists of extensive personal correspondence, concert documents, scores, manuscripts, recognition, primary publications, secondary publications, university papers, photographs, recordings, memorabilia and artifacts mainly relating to the private and professional lives of Gustav Mahler, Alfred Rosé, Arnold Rosé, Alma Rosé, Bruno Walter, Justine Rosé, and Maria Rosé. Other material relating to Alma Mahler-Werfel, Marie Mahler, Otto Mahler, Maria Rosé, Albine Adler, Dorothy Beswick Hetherington, Lorraine Busby, Jacob Dont, Martha Freud, R.A. Loederer, Nora Nathan, Richard Newman, Richard Strauss, and Arturo Toscanini are included. Also included are materials in the collection whose connection is unclear

Fonds consists of minutes, financial records and church registers pertaining to Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, London, Ont.

The fonds consists of three series: Delaware Women`s Institute Minute books and Tweedsmuir histories. The third series is a miscellaneous series of information.

The fonds includes Minute Books, Tweedsmuir Histories and scrapbooks.

Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, 1871-1905, of Calvin Presbyterian Church, Adelaide Township, 1863-1923; Official Board minutes of Cairngorm Pastoral Charge (includes Cairngorm Methodist Circuit, Cairngorm, Glen Oak, Bethel Church in Adelaide Township, East Adelaide Church), 1910-1956; records, including baptisms, 1917-1926, of East Adelaide United Church, Adelaide Township (includes Calvin Presbyterian Church, Adelaide Township); marriage register of Cairngorm United Church (includes Cairngorm Methodist Circuit, Adelaide), 1896-1928; records of Bethel United Church, Adelaide Township (includes Bethel Methodist Church), 1922-1959.

Fonds consists youth group records of Brinsley Methodist Church, 1922-1924; records, including baptisms, 1867, McGillvray Presbyterian Church, Carlisle (now North Middlesex), 1859-1915; register of church union vote taken to join the United Church, Ailsa Craig Presbyterian Church, 1925; Congregational Meeting minutes of Carlisle United Church (includes McGillvray Presbyterian Church), North Middlesex, 1896-1926; records of Brinsley United Church (includes Brinsley Methodist Church), North Middlesex, 1924-1960

Fonds consists of records, including marriages, 1896-1918, of Avon Methodist Circuit (includes Avon, Crampton, Harrietsville), 1884-1922; Woman's Missionary Society minutes of Putnam Methodist Church, 1898-1901; records of Avon Methodist Church, 1899-1924; records, including baptisms, 1917-1955, marriages, 1918-1960, burials, 1917-1960, of Avon Pastoral Charge (includes Avon Methodist Circuit, Avon, Crampton, Harrietsville), 1884-1960; records, including baptisms, 1904-1913, 1923-1956, marriages, 1904-1944, 1947-1956, burials, 1904-1913, 1921-1956, of Putnam Pastoral Charge (includes Putnam Methodist Circuit (includes Putnam, Banner, Mossley), Putnam, Banner, Mossley), 1904-1957; records of Avon United Church (includes Avon Methodist Church), 1884-1961; and records of Putnam United Church (includes Putnam Methodist Church), 1922-1964