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The H. Sydney Hancock Jr. fonds consists of his application for the position of City Engineer of Vancouver, B.C., March 1920. Includes a resume and a letter of reference. Also includes a letter to F.W. Peters, General Superintendent, C.P.R., Vancouver, regarding the application.

Fonds consists of the papers of David Smith. The papers, arranged by record type into four series, primarily include files and correspondence from the 1930s to the 1950s relating to his general interest in local history and railways.

The John Allison fonds contains two school notebooks penned by John Allison as a boy of thirteen showing a superb example of penmanship. They also stand as an example of what was taught in schools at the time. Both were bound at a later date. Together, the two books form one series.

Fonds consists of the papers of Helmer Borg. The fonds, arranged into four series, concerns union and labor activities in the forest industries of Northwestern Ontario. The bulk of the material is composed of his reports and correspondence relating to his union organizing activities. The material also pertains peripherally to an internal dispute within the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, Local 2693, Port Arthur, which had, just prior to these records being created, been purged of "radical" elements.

The Reverend S.C. Murray fonds consists of memoirs written by S.C. Murray concerning life in Port Arthur and church affairs.

Fonds consists of the papers of J.T. Horne. The papers are arranged into four series, the principal being a letter book (1907-1910) and a note and sketch book (1905-1909). The papers relate primarily to Horne's business activities as a lumber merchant though the sketch book concerns the construction of the Canadian Iron and Foundry Co.'s plant in Fort William in which Horne may have held an interest. This is an excellent source for determining the technical details of iron foundries in this period.

The Lake Superior Voyage Diary fonds consists of a diary written by an unknown author detailing a trip to Fort William on Lake Superior.

These papers consist of personal letters recounting family matters and official letters regarding immigration from the British Isles to Ontario, specifically among William C. Noxon, Alf Cooper and V.B. Wadsworth regarding a proposal to settle Hebridean farmers in Northwestern Ontario in 1924.

This item consists of 66 pages of hand-drawn images by Mary V.R. Hand of items in what was known at the time as the Sir Henry Pellatt Collection of Arms and Armour.

Most pages have multiple drawings of different items in the collection. Generally, each drawing is labeled with information about item depicted, including origins and dates where they were known. The title page of this volume indicates that this is volume 1, but there is no mention of how many volumes in total there may be.

Items depicted include swords, rapiers and sabres, pikes, spears, daggers and stilettos, helmets and war hats, lobster-tails and morions, morningstars, halberds, axes, voulges, bills, scythes, spontoons, a war fork, partisans, suits of armour, various early guns (blunderbuss, wheel-lock, pistol), a flint-lock machine gun, various rifles (match-lock, flint- lock, wheel-lock), and hand cannons. These items cover a large time span, from the 15th century to the 19th century, and come from various countries; England, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, China, Egypt, Poland, Bavaria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Syria, Scotland, Turkey, and Albania.

This fonds consists of minutes, newsletters, historical summaries, photographs, videos, financial records, grant application reports and administrative materials. The textual records consist of educational, training and workshop materials related to the goals of Transition Guelph.

Fonds consists of the research interests of Henry Law who was an avid genealogist. His research interests included various families such as Law, Davis, Dennis, Dryden and more. Other families of interest included Marvin, Howelett, Hutchinson and Hungerford. There is also a file of letters or correspondence relating to his research requests and some handwritten notes on various families and or names he researched. A partial listing is available for some of the families he researched. A listing is also available for several books and magazines he collected that related to his research interests.

The fonds consists of records related to the Bodwell family of Dereham Township, Oxford County. It is arranged into the following series and subseries:

Series 1: Land Records
Series 2: Correspondence
Series 3: Photographs
Series 4: Newsletters
Series 5: Military
Series 6: Family histories
Series 7: Dereham Township
Series 8: Receipts