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Fonds consists of 272 files that document both Allard's professional and personal life. Textual documents include correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, and reports. There are various personal records relating to Allard, including genealogical information, autobiographical memoirs, scrapbooks and agendas and daybooks used by Allard. There are newspaper and journal articles collected by Allard on various topics of interest to him, as well as numerous articles about him. There are also several transcripts of speeches, addresses and lectures given by Allard, as well as transcripts of interviews about him or with him.

In addition to textual records, there are approximately 450 pictures, most of which are in black and white. Many of these are of Allard at various stages of his life. Other photograph subjects include Allard's family and his ancestors, and various military ceremonies. Many of the pictures lack captions or other explanations. There are also approximately ten maps, mainly of European locations where Allard fought during the Second World War, a few drawings, blueprints, travel albums, flags, badges, greeting cards, and certificates.

Each of the stages of Allard's life is documented. From his childhood, to his personal participation in the Second World War, the Korean War, as well as Canada's more general involvement, to his years in the USSR and West Germany, to his role in the unification of the armed forces and his time as CDS, Allard's rich and varied experiences can be largely reconstructed from the diverse materials found in this fonds.

Fonds consists of material covering the creation and development of the 1971 White Paper on Defence and the Defence Policy Review of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Throughout these papers, considerable attention is paid to the role of the Dept. of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces in Canada and in Europe, as well as their responsibilities within NATO and NORAD.
Documents include: typewritten correspondence, memoranda, reports, and studies. Also includes a volume of "NORAD: A Index to Hansard References by Subject", United Nations Emergency Force Information Book, and papers and correspondence on Defence Research and Development. There are also copies of speeches delivered to academic institutions (Civilian and Military), conferences, and clubs. Finally, there are various photographs of Canadian Forces planes, ships and helicopters.
There are three series:
I. Defence Policy in the 1960s
II. Papers
III. Speeches
IV. Photographs [92/235]

Fonds consists of material on naval control of shipping during 1943-1960 and on shipping control from what appears to be the office of the Director of Naval Plans and Operations during 1950-1961. Also includes documents pertaining to naval control of shipping exercises during 1965-1970, and minutes of meetings of the Planning Board for Ocean Shipping and related documents for 1962-1968. There are also miscellaneous files on shipping and related topics, and various subject files. There are seven series:
I. Processed Files (1943-1960)
II. Chronological Files (1950-1961)
III. Planning Board for Ocean Shipping (1962-1968)
IV. Naval Control of Shipping Exercises Files (1965-1970)
V. Subject Files (1939-1966)
VI. Miscellaneous Files (1939-1970)
VII. Oversized Document

Fonds consists of 57 files pertaining to training in general, but also to programs put in place mostly by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). Some documents are concerned with the recruiting and training of francophones (Project Francotrain), Indians and Inuits, as well as the question of training facilities, equipment, and systems.

Fonds consists of booklets and intelligence reports from the War Office of Great Britain. These booklets provide Royal Artillery Notes from 1947 to 1949, reports of military activities overseas from 1943-1945, War Establishments for various units and military training pamphlets, There are four series:
I. Royal Artillery Notes
II. Current Reports from Overseas
III. British and Canadian War Establishments
IV. Military Training Pamphlets (85/604, 85/625, 91/263, 2012/26)

Fonds consists of 3 files containing briefing note on Cast Brigade Group, a battalion sized force capable of rapid deployment. Also includes mobilization planning, force structure and war establishment guidance, background papers relating to organizing and reorganizing of the Special Service Force (SSF) and the Canadian Air-Sea Transportable (CAST) Brigade Group during the 1980's. Major documents were pertaining to development and implementation of Required War Structure (RWS) in 1980's. Also includes a fourth file containing a document entitled "System Study 1996-2005 / The Corps Model Part 2 - Combat Function Study The Echelon above Corps."

Fonds consists primarily of signals, correspondence, reports and forms from the time of each convoy's organization, sailing and arrival as well as any subsequent proceedings where applicable during 1941-1945. A "Voyage Report", reports from the Commodore and from individual ships, and a "Report of Attack on U-Boat" are examples of the type of material frequently found in the selection. In some cases detailed routeing instructions, sailing orders, narratives and log entries have been included. The amount of material for each convoy varies but in general adds up to a fairly extensive record of its lifetime. Some of the convoy series are nearly complete, with only a few omissions.

Fonds consists of photocopied material dealing with the activities of the U.S. Navy Dept. during the Second World War, particularly the Secretary of the Navy (Record Group 80), the Chief of Naval Operations, (Record Group 80) and the Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet (COMINCH) (Record Group 38). The papers deal with such American naval matters prior to and during the Second World War as convoy escorts, anti-submarine warfare, diplomatic relations, shipping, ship-building, etc. Includes reports, correspondence, communications, memoranda, and other documents. There are three series:
I. RG 80: Office of the Secretary Correspondence (1927-1939)
II. RG 80: Secretary of the Navy / Chief of Naval Operations records (1940-1944)
III. RG 38: Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet records (1942-1944).

Fonds consists of Defence Research Establishment Ottawa files (1978) pertaining to Operation Morning Light, the operation to recover debris from the crashed Soviet surveillance satellite Kosmos 954. The fonds consists of the following three files:
1) Operations, Exercises and Manoeuvres - Operation Morning Light Vol. 1; 8 February 1978 to 3 April 1978; Unclassified.
2) Operations, Exercises and Manoeuvres - Operation Morning Light Vol. 2; 2 February 1978 to 11 March 1978; Secret.
3) Operations, Exercises and Manoeuvres - Operation Morning Light Vol. 3; 12 March 1978 to 12 July 1978; Secret.

Fonds consists of documents relating to the Kinmel Park mutiny of 1919 including correspondence, memoranda and court documents such as transcribed testimonies, summaries and findings.|There are five subjects referenced in these "Disturbances by Troops at Kinmel Park Camp" files. However, the documents were received in seven unnumbered bundles. The division into seven folders has been maintained, and certain sub-divisions have been added to clarify subjects, as follows: Fonds is comprised of the following series:
I. 1. Preliminary Reports; 2. Court of Inquiry; 3. Custody, Defence and Inquiries regarding Prisoners
II. 3. Custody, Defence and Inquiries regarding Prisoners [Protected B]
III. 4. Prosecution and Trial
IV. 4. Prosecution and Trial [Protected B]; 5. Composition of Trial
V. 5. Composition of Trial
VI. 3. Custody, Defence and Inquiries regarding Prisoners (Overseas Combined File); Divided into 14 parts, each containing a separate case
VII. [Unknown title]; contains Court of Inquiry documents with an Index of witnesses

Fonds consists of transcripts of interviews compiled by Tony German during 1984 and 1985 for a CBC Radio documentary on the 75th Anniversary of the Canadian Navy. The interviews were with 49 identified male and female naval veterans, people who served in Maritime Command, and one shipbuilder. Includes an alphabetical list of contributors, brief notes on each individual's involvement with the navy and, where applicable, their ship. Also includes a transcript of the CBC one hour radio history of the navy entitled "Sounds from the Sea".

Fonds consists of material documenting the activities of the Office of the Director of Women Personnel (DWP) and its predecessor, the Office of the Advisor of Women Personnel from 1958 to 1990. Subjects covered and which concerned the DWP included issues of uniforms, maternity leave, equal opportunity and training. Includes correspondence, study reports, briefings, speeches, news releases, photographs and other documents.

Fonds consists of British and Canadian Naval Intelligence records (1946-1964). Includes the records printed, maintained and used from 1946 to 1966 by the Director of Publications and Printing: the British "Monthly Intelligence Reports" (1946-1954) and "Quarterly Intelligence Reports" (1954-1964); and the Canadian "Naval Intelligence Bulletin" (1951-1955) and "Canadian Naval Intelligence Bulletin" (1955-1957). Also includes documents pertaining to German Navy Electronic Equipment (1945) and Coast and Landing Beach Reports (1951-1953). Fonds is comprised of the following series:
I. Intelligence Reports and Bulletins
II. Miscellaneous Documents

Fonds consists of 2 issues of "MIRAD" (Monthly Intelligence Review and Digest) for April and May, 1965. The periodical provided intelligence to the Canadian Forces officers in the execution of their duty. Each issue consisted of two parts. Part I included brief topical intelligence items while Part II included collated articles on specific subjects. Includes intelligence on the Soviet Bloc, Communist China, North Korea, North Vietnam, India and Pakistan, Cyprus, Congo, Middle East, East Germany, West Germany and Israel.

Fonds consists of correspondence between Bern Anderson and Samuel E. Morison regarding their work on "The History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II". Also includes a register of the Bern Anderson Papers at the Naval War College.

Fonds consists of microfilmed records, mostly from the 1940s, dealing with topics such as the development of Allied grand strategy, interservice rivalries, wartime operations planning, the battle for the Atlantic, and the Pacific War. Fonds contains a large amount of correspondence and memoranda; Admiral King's speeches; his personal copies of the minutes of the Combined Chief of Staff meetings, 1941-1945; agenda, minutes and working papers for conferences between King and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz; studies of the office of the Chief of Naval Operations and the Navy Department; postwar studies of logistics and supply systems; and material on the postwar armed services unification controversy. There are 10 series:
Series I: Correspondence and memoranda, 1918-1955
Series II: [Minutes of military conferences], 1941-1945
Series IV: [Conference notes], 1942-1945
Series V: [Organization of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations], 1941-1947
Series VI: [Organization of the Department of the Navy], 1940-1947
Series VII: [Naval logistics], 1946-1947
Series VIII: [Documents on the unification of the armed forces], 1940-1948
Series IX: [Documents on the B-36 investigation], 1949-1950
Series X: Speeches of Admiral King, 1945-1949
Series XI: Miscellaneous material, 1943-1948

Fonds consists of Chief Air Doctrine and Operations files (1952-1984) on the Distant Early Warning Line. This includes financial files from the offices of Elgin B. Armstrong, Assistant Deputy Minister (Finance) and later Deputy Minister of National Defence, and G.Y. Loughead, Superintendent of Finance and Chairman of the Distant Early Warning Co-ordinating Committee. Fonds also includes administrative files from the Directorate of Air Operations and Training and the Advisory Committee on Northern Development.

Fonds consists of 3 copies of a work by Daniel G. Harris and Philip Chaplin entitled "Attaché in Stockholm: Memoirs of the Second World War." These memoirs were written at the beginning of the 1980's with the purpose of recording the experiences of a British naval attaché in Sweden during the Second World War. This fonds sheds light on the duties of an attaché at this time, as well as diplomacy, espionage and propaganda in a neutral capital in the Second World War. Also includes 2 files re an interview between Daniel G. Harris and Philip Chaplin in 1982, and copies of various chapters on naval subjects, as well as a letter written to Harris from Patrick Beesly and Beesly's foreword to Harris and Chaplin's work.

Fonds consists of the sketch histories of the infantry, armoured and artillery units of the Canadian Army. Also includes administrative directives on diverse subjects of interest to the army. There are also various lists of files and documents either retained or destroyed in the Historical Section, and the preliminary narratives of official histories of the Canadian Army. Fonds is comprised of the following series:
I. The Regiments and Corps of the Canadian Army
II. Subject files
III. Kardex files
IV. General documents
V. Administrative files
VI. Preliminary narratives
VII. Biographies of military personnel
VIII. Canadian Army Orders (2010/8)

Fonds consists of material dealing mainly with Imperial defence and self-governing dominions. Includes an article about Canadian naval contribution in 1910, notes on the Colonial Defence Committee declaration of 1910, and correspondence about the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Navy Bill in 1910.