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Fonds consist of papers dealing primarily with Operation "Jubilee," the allied raid on Dieppe. The collection was photocopied from the larger collection at the Imperial War Museum, London, but maintains the essential organization. This set of papers is particularly useful for the Naval operations at Dieppe. However, the after-action reports made by officers commanding landing craft and support ships provide a graphic account of conditions in the assault and on the landing beaches. Of particular interest for the general history of "Jubilee" are the Naval Force Commander's "Narrative" and his "Conclusions and Recommendations."

Fonds consists of policy-records for the development of Newfoundland's aviation potential during the 1930s. The documents dealt with the attempts to resolve an Imperial policy that gave the British Government the right to establish an Imperial airway system in co-operation with the self-governing Dominion and the Colonies in order to allow Pan American Airways and Imperial Airways to build ground facilities in Newfoundland. It is also a record of how the three major airports in the territory - Botwood, Gander and Goose Ray - were developed from 1936 through to the end of the Second World War. The last three folders contain material on the Canadian influence on Newfoundland during the war and the strategic importance of Botwood, Gander and Goose Bay. These sites were of strategic importance because they would serve as convenient bases for Empire Transatlantic Mail Service. The pages have been arranged in chronological order until 1940, and after that date the block-file organization of the 55-5 Series has been used.

Fonds consists of files dealing only with the period when No. 442 Squadron was overseas during the Second World War. It includes a list of flying accidents along with a list of officers and/or aircrafts that went missing or died during the Squadron's overseas operations. Also included in are daily operational reports "Opreps", combat reports, weekly changes in strength of operational aircrafts, monthly flying times and monthly returns of officer and airmen pilots.

Fonds consists of materials regarding military intelligence during the second World War, and includes daily war telegraphs (DWs), weekly war summaries, Malaya combined intelligence summaries and newspaper clippings and narratives on Canadians in British Intelligence Operations. Fonds is comprised of the following series:
Series I: Weekly War Reviews and Daily War Telegraphs
Series II: Other Materials

The fonds consists of the working files for the Air Force Historical Section, including material from the Raymond Collishaw Papers. Many of the files contain articles or short histories as well as nominal rolls and photographs for the respective squadrons. Extracts from the official Royal Flying Corps / Royal Air Force communiqués highlight the activities of Canadian airmen. As a general rule, there is more information on those squadrons that had large numbers of Canadians.

Fonds consist primarily of press releases from Air Force Headquarters, Directorate of Public Relations, from 1939 to 1964 and Air Force Overseas Headquarters, Directorate of Public Relations, from 1941 to 1946. Some files include newspaper clippings along with the press releases.
The majority of volumes pertain to press releases during the Second World War. There are separate collections of press releases from Second World War Operations in South East Asia, Iceland, and the Middle East. The press releases after the Second World War deal primarily with events in Canada.
Fonds is divided into two series:
Series 1: Air Force Headquarter releases (79/453)
Series 2: Air Force Overseas Headquarter releases (79/454)

Fonds consists of minutes, memoranda, research materials, reports, ministerial and cabinet submissions, and working papers compiled mainly while Colonel W.B.S Sutherland was Director of Operational Readiness Land and Director of Sovereignty Planning, 1968-1973. Covers a wide variety of military subjects, including: military planning, emergency management, northern Canada and the Arctic, combat development, defence planning, equipmwnt, peacekeeping, security and reorganization of the Canadian Armed Forces

Fonds consists of transcripts of interviews with approximately 125 veterans of the Dieppe Raid, collected in 1978-1979 as research for the documentary "Dieppe 1942." The veterans are primarily Canadian, although there are interviews with German veterans and veterans of the Royal Navy, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and various British forces. It is organized alphabetically, and in most cases the rank and unit affiliation of the individual is noted.

Fonds consists of documents dealing almost wholly with Anthony Fenwick Pickard's service in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), but concentrate particularly on his seagoing service and his time as Canadian Naval Commander in Newfoundland after the Second World War. Other material of importance includes: standing orders for heads of ships; notes and transcriptions of various lectures; press clippings from the start and the end of the war, as well as newsworthy naval events during the war; messages, orders and correspondence from the HMS Repulse, HMCS Chambly, HMCS St. Catherines, HMCS Haida, HMCS Quebec and the HMCS Algonquin; nominal lists from the HMCS Quebec; personal documents, cards and invitations; First Canadian Escort Squad material; photographs and information on the HMCS Algonquin's visit to Sierra Leone; and photographs of miscellaneous material.

Fonds consists of studies, essays, manuals, speeches, articles, White Papers, statistics and reports relating to the unification of the Canadian Armed Forces. Various points of view on the matter are present, including some American opinions and facts. These papers formed part of the Task Force reference holdings.

Fonds consists of minutes to meetings for the Canada-United States Military Cooperation Committee. The periods covered include: 1946-1983, 1990-1992, and 1996-2001. Arranged in chronological order.

Fonds consists of course material from the Canadian Army Staff College (CASC) / Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College (CLFCSC) course for officers of the regular army during 1946-1986. Also includes course material for: the Militia Staff Course / Reserve Officers Staff Course for command of militia battalions and regiments during 1956-1972; the Canadian Senior Officers School in tactics and command during 1956-1964; the CASC War Staff Course for staff-trained officers in 1963; and the Junior Command and Staff Course (Land) of sixteen weeks for senior captains and junior majors during 1974-1977. Course material includes exercises, outlines, precis for students, maps, and Directing Staff notes. There are also student college yearbooks, staff officers handbooks, and photographs of guest speakers during 1968-1972.

Fonds consists of official annual reports documenting Eric Sydney Brand's service as Director of Naval Intelligence and Director of Trade Division, and official files from his post-war government service. Also includes notes, lectures, correspondence and miscellanea on naval history and merchant shipping. There are also photocopies and original copies of daily diaries kept by Brand from 1913 to 1968.

Le fonds est composé des instructions du Vice-chef d'état-major de la Défense. Elles proviennent du Quartier général de la Défense nationale et couvrent une variété de sujets. Le fonds comprend aussi un rapport d'avancement trimestriel intitulé "Projet de la Frégate canadienne de patrouille” qui date de septembre 1990. Le fonds comprend également un sommaire de NORAD sur le contrôle des armes nucléaires, une présentation des changements dans les programmes américains de 1966-1970; et des études canadiennes sur la défense aérienne.

Fonds consists of reference files compiled by the Naval Historical Section during the 1950s and kept up-to-date until 1965-1966. Documents added after 1966 were added by staff at the Directorate of History, or later by the Directorate of History and Heritage, and, therefore, were not part of the original collection. Most of the documents cover the period of E.C. Russell's tenure as Naval Historian during 1952-1966, and also includes material collected by the first Naval Historian, Dr. Gilbert Norman Tucker, during the Second World War. The material documents the history of the Royal Canadian Navy from the First World War up to the 1960s, with the Second World War being the most covered.
In addition to individual files, there are also 38 series of files with finding aids. These include:

1. 1000 General Information - Subject Files
2. 1000-5 History and Activities of the Canadian Naval Service
3. 1000-100/2 Naval Board
4. 1000-100/3 Naval Staff
5. 1000-973 Torpedo Anti-Submarines
6. 1250 Combined Operations
7. 1320 Communications - Signals, Telegrams and Cables
8. 1440-5 Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) History (General)
9. 1440-6 Halifax, Nova Scotia
10. 1440-7 Esquimalt, British Columbia
11. 1440-166/25 Newfoundland
12. 1440-186 University Naval Training Division
13. 1480 Naval Intelligence - Soviet Union
14. 1480-157/100 Great Britain. Admiralty Naval Intelligence Division
15. 1612 Hydrography - Oceanography
16. 1650 Operations and Plans (Royal Canadian Navy)
17. 1650 U-boats (General)
18. 1650 U-boats (German)
19. 1650 U-boats (German) - Personnel (Prisoners of War)
20. 1650-DS U-boats - Daily States: HMC, HM and Allied Ships
21. 1650-1 U-boats - Naval lans and Policies
22. 1650-1 U-boats - Operations ans Plans (NATO)
23. 1650-239/187 Korean Operations
24. 1700-100/78-78A Naval Historical Section Administrative Files
25. 1700-100/219 Air Sqaudrons and Groups
26. 1700-905 Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
27. 1886 Current History Books
28. 4000-100/14 Service Personnel
29. 4531 Personnel Selection
30. 8000 Ships and Shipping
31. 8000-160 Canadian Minesweeping Squadrons
32. 8000-260 Canadian Escort Squadrons
33. 8280 Sydney Files
34. 8280 Convoys and Convoy Organization
35. 8280 Convoys Naval Messages
36. 8440 Escort Groups and Forces
37. 8700 Movements and Programmes - Warships
38. 8885 Staff Requirements

Fonds consists of documents concerning the meetings of the Dept. of National Defence's Defence Council. Includes minutes, agendas and background papers (including memoranda, policy, meeting minutes from other bodies, organizational charts, budgets, etc.) from 1944, 1947-1959 and 1963.

Fonds consists of a report entitled "Canadian Defence Policy in the 1970s" and comments on the report made by personnel from National Defence College in Kingston. The aim of the report was to consider the strategic trends that would affect Canada's defence policy during the 1970s and to assess their implications. It first tried to predict the changes of the world order during the decade and the adjustments Canada should make. It then went on with the requirements and needs that Canadian defence would be likely to have in order to fulfill its obligations. It finished with a description of probable Canadian defence activities in the 1970s. The comments sought to find the purpose of the report and to analyze its argumentation. After some general concerns, the writers discuss the report paragraph by paragraph.

Fonds consists of four reports on measures taken to regulate the Canadian workforce during the Second World War. The first report, entitled "The Canadian Labour Priority System During World War II", gives a history of the National Selective Service's (NSS) Labour Priority Schedule, from an administrative perspective. The emphasis is on the progression of laws which enforced the Schedule. The second report, entitled "Key Developments Concerning Manpower, 1939-46", includes timelines of civilian mobilization, military mobilization, and wage control and labour relations, as laws in each of these areas progressed during the war. The third report, "Canadian Government Training Program During World War II", is a history of the War Emergency Training Program, which equipped military and civilian personnel with essential work skills during the war. The final report is entitled "Allocation of Manpower in Canada During World War Two" and is a history of the War's effects on the Canadian labour force, both before and after the creation of the NSS in 1942. It makes a case for the importance and the humanity of wartime mobilization programs.

Fonds consists of a report entitled "Study on Conditions of Service in the Canadian Armed Forces" made in 1971. It resulted from the growing concern of servicemen about their conditions and inequity with public servants. A commission chaired by Major General W. A. Milroy, Commander of the Canadian Defence Education Establishment, was created to perform the study. The report deals mainly with service conditions, the possibility of unionism in the Canadian Forces and means of negotiation and grievance. It concludes that servicemen did effectively lose their faith in the administration, identified six main causes of dissatisfaction and proposed changes in order to prevent the emergence of unionism.

Fonds consists of selections from the German Naval Archives, chiefly U-Boat War diaries from the Second World War, that document U-Boat operations of particular Canadian interest. The Canadian focus forms only a fraction of the entire fonds. The diaries includes such information as the submarine's operational areas, crew casualties, special missions, claimed sinkings of Allied warships, the recovery of sunken ships or downed planes, and the U-boat's date. Also includes diaries from a few surface vessels and commands, and some miscellaneous documents on German naval operations and planning.