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The fonds consist of one scrapbook outlining the history of the Zorra Tug-of-War Team and returning their trophies to Oxford County in the 1970s.

The fonds consist of the following Series:
Series 1: Minute Books (1924-1996)
Series 2: Programmes (1919-1920, 1931-1995 – not inclusive)
Series 3: Scrapbooks (1955-2005)
Series 4: Tweedsmuirs ([199- ])
Series 5: Miscellaneous ([after 1939?], 1955, 2014)

The fonds consists of records related to the history and activities of the Brownsville Optimist Club formerly located in Brownsville, Ontario. They are arranged into the following series and subseries:

Series 1: Charter Banquet, 1 June 1974

Series 2: Executive Officers’ Photographs
File 1: 1974 - 1980
File 2: 1980 - 1990
File 3: 1990 - 1995

The fonds consist of records related to the history of the Crawford family. They are arranged into the following series and subseries:
Series 1: Diaries
Subseries A: Benjamin Benedict Crawford (1800, 1810-1859)

• This Series consists primarily of diaries of Benjamin B. Crawford. These include a diary of a trip to Upper Canada in 1800, as well as yearly diaries from 1810 to 1859. Diary entries relate to; the weather; farm activities; social events in the community; births, marriages and deaths of his family and his neighbours; experiments with crops and prices of supplies and produce; Kings County court sessions; the Rebellion of 1837; elections; and services in the Anglican church in the Ingersoll area. Daniel Nathan Crawford, the eleventh child of Benjamin Benedict Crawford, continued his father’s diary during the latter’s final illness, and after his death for the remainder of 1859.
• This subseries also includes transcripts of a majority of the diaries, made by Blanche Crawford, in 1938.

Subseries B: James Augustus Crawford (1865-1882)

• The diaries of James Augustus Crawford, a son of Benjamin Benedict Crawford, note farm duties, and family and community activities.

Subseries C: Leeman Wallace Crawford (1877)

• The diary of Leeman Wallace Crawford (son of James Augustus Crawford, and a carriage- maker at London), contain entries describing his work, with some references to politics, and family and community affairs.

Subseries D: Charles W.A. Crawford (1848-1875)

• The diaries of Charles W.A. Crawford contain description of his daily work, including purchases, sales, and debts related to his farming businesses. These diaries have been transcribed by a member of the Crawford family.

Subseries E: Eliza Georgina Crawford Nichols (1930-1945)

• The diaries of Eliza Georgina Crawford continue daily musings of people and events.

Series 2: Correspondence [18-- ] – [1995] (not inclusive)

• Includes correspondence of various members of the Crawford family concerning personal and family matters. Letters also include correspondence to/from Ruth (nee Crawford) Ellis regarding family genealogy.

Series 3: Writings of Christopher Colin Crawford (ca. 1880s)

• Includes unpublished manuscript writings (poetry and prose). Tiles are as follows:
  Poems:
  Battle of Queenston Heights
  India’s Golden Gate
  The Lamb
  Lines Written on the death of late Mrs. H. Guppy
  The Metis
  The Rockies
  The Shanly Boy
  Prose:
  Along the Bow
  Camp Life on the Bow River
  Chinook Winds
  A Frontier Town
  Infidelity
  Latest Mining News from British Columbia
  On Leaving Silver City
  Montana
  The Serpent
  A Visit to Morley
  Winter, 1885-1886
  A Word about the Provincial Agricultural Exhibition of Asaboia

Series 4: Genealogy ([18-- ] – 2007)

• A very complete and detailed genealogy of the generations of the Crawford family in North America beginning with John and Jane Henderson Crawford, whom arrived in Connecticut, United States from Ireland. It contains dates and places of birth, marriages and deaths; details on families into which Crawfords married; and often a description of the individuals the early genealogy was prepared in 1927 by Mrs. Olive Arnold Crawford of Ingersoll, Ontario, with the assistance of certain relatives, while the later and more complete family history was completed by Ruth Ellis.
• Includes research papers and notes, newspaper clippings, and photographs, as well as a copy of “The Crawford Family” by Ruth Ellis.

Series 5: Almanacs (1761, 1814-1853)

• Contains New Brunswick, New England, Maine, Canada West Farmer’s Almanacs, and several Medical Almanacs. These are arranged alphabetically according to the locality for which they were calculated. Occasionally, a diary was bound into an Almanac, and these volumes have been stored with the diaries.

The fonds consists of photographic negatives featuring members of the Patteson family. Most of the photographs on the glass plate negatives were taken by Rose MacInnes (nee Patteson) and feature the Pattesons on their estate in Eastwood, Ontario (the former Admiral Henry Vansittart property). The film negatives feature Daisy (Christine Millicent) Moss (nee Patteson) and her son Pat (Thomas) Moss.

It is arranged into the following series and subseries:

Series 1: Glass Negatives - Eastwood
Series 2: Film Negatives - Pat & Daisy Moss

The fonds consists of records related to local businesses, schools, churches, and built heritage in Woodstock, Ontario, as well as materials related to other communities within Oxford County. It is arranged into the following series and subseries:

Series 1: Photographs & Postcards
Sub-series A: Postcards
Sub-series B: Souvenir Postcard Booklet
Series 2: Businesses
Sub-series A: Woodstock
Sub-series B: Ingersoll
Series 3: Ephemera
Series 4: Stamp Collection
Series 5: Scrapbooks

The fonds consists of property records and family history relating to the Hossack and Blakie families of Oxford
County and subsists of the following series and subseries:

Series 1: Property Records

• Subseries A: Land Grants
• Subseries B: Land Deeds
• Subseries C: Mortgages
• Subseries D: Property Abstracts

Series 2: Family History

• Subseries A: Obituaries

The fonds consists of records related to the Grace Patterson Women's Institute and include minutes and scrapbooks. The fonds consists of the following series:

Series 1: Minutes
Series 2: Finance
Series 3: Tweedsmuirs and Scrapbooks
Series 4: Programmes
Series 5: Miscellaneous

The fonds consists of records related to the Plattsville Women’s Institute. They are arranged into the following Series:

Series 1: Minute Books
Series 2: Tweedsmuir History Books
Series 3: Programmes
Series 4: Miscellaneous

The fonds consists of records related to the Auxiliary of the Woodstock General Hospital. It is arranged into the following series and subseries:

Series 1: Scrapbooks (1895-2011)
Series 2: Newsletters
Series 3: Clippings
Series 4: Photographs
Series 5: Certificates
Series 6: Correspondence
    Series 7: Miscellaneous (including a History of the Auxiliary)

The fonds consists of records related to the medical career of Dr. Ralph A. Williams. They are arranged into the following series:

Series 1: Patient Prescription Payment Ledgers
Series 2: Cash Books and receipts
Series 3: Patient Call Book
Series 4: Correspondence

The collection consists of records related to the Ingersoll P.U.C. and includes contracts, quotes, and photographs related to electrical pumps and the water pump located at Pump House #2, located on Merritt Street, Ingersoll. The collection also includes an early map of Ingersoll showing water mains, fire hydrants, pump houses, fire limits etc., which was first drawn in 1915 and then revised in 1917, 1918 and 1920.

The fonds consists of two ledgers compiled by James A. Fowler, Woodstock Shoemaker between the years 1866 and 1892.

The fonds consists of 14 score books belonging to the Woodstock Beaver Cricket Club compiled between 1955 and 1983. They list scores of each game played, as well as player statistics.

The fonds consists of 1 land deed belonging to John Dunlop, East Zorra Township dated 1859 and five photographs related to the Craigowan Estate and Oxford Golf and Country Club.

The fonds consists of records related to events held by the Women’s Institute and local news in Lakeside. It is arranged into the following series:

Series 1: Lakeside Women’s Institute Tweedsmuirs
Series 2: Lakeside Lark newsletters

The fonds are a compilation of various records regarding hunting/firearms laws and permits of the time, as well as some assorted items from the Ingersoll Rifle and Revolver Club. It is arranged into the following series: Licenses and Permits, which consists of the hunting and fishing licenses and permits of Jack Racher. Ingersoll Rifle and Revolver Club, consisting of items relating to the club and its members, and some memorabilia. Correspondence, consisting of letters regarding new gun laws, as well as permits and licenses of Rifle and Revolver Club members, with a few items regarding gun registration.

The fonds is arranged into the following series;
Series 1: Licenses and Permits
Series 2: Ingersoll Rifle and Revolver Club
Series 3: Correspondence

The fonds consists of records/artefacts related to Pioneer Telephone Company Ltd. of East Oxford Township and consists of the following Series:

        Series 1: Administration
        Series 2: Miscellaneous

The fonds consists of records related to created and compiled by members of the Kerr family. They are arranged into the following series and subseries:

    Series 1: Diaries (Annie Kerr)
    Series 2: Collegiate Institute Spectators (Annie Kerr)
    Series 3: Artwork (Nora Stuart Kerr)

The fonds consists of records related to history and operation of the Embro Congregational Church. It is arranged into the following series:

    Series 1: Minutes
    Series 2: Financial