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The collection consists of technical records of CPR's Mechanical Department created as they built and maintained the railway’s steam fleet. Before the drawing process began, the Chief Mechanical Engineer would determine the locomotive’s amount of power output and the size of cylinders. The driving wheels and boiler pressure had to be designed together with the wheel arrangement to meet the specified weight and clearance restrictions. Once this was determined the drawing was produced on paper, then traced on linen. All drawings were done by hand using a triangle and compass. When completed, the drawing would be signed off by the chief mechanical engineer.

Original drawings never left the CPR headquarters in Montreal, instead a negative of the drawing would be sent to the various shops throughout Canada. There they would print as many Vandyke copies of the drawing needed. When an original drawing was determined to be invalid due to its subject being cancelled or redesigned, due to new standards or because it was subject to damage, it was superseded by a new drawing. The original drawing would have an S placed on it with a reference to the new drawing number. It was also evident if a drawing was a replacement for a superseded original because of a letter at the end of a drawing’s number, for instance drawing E-58-L-0325-B.

In 1907, 350 drawings were required to create the engine and tender, by 1928 it took 1100 drawings. This fact, and the increased number of staff, indicates the growth and importance of the Mechanical Engineering Department.

The collection is comprised of three series. Series CPD-1 consists of 25,066 technical drawings of CP steam locomotives. Series CPD-2 is a card index with circa 15 metres of cards. The Department used index cards to organize and track the drawings, including, for example, indicating which drawings had been superseded. Series CPD-3 consists of 27 booklets, a partial set of drawing lists issued for specific locomotive classes. CPR engineering and car department drawings are not included in the collection.

This sous-fonds contains records pertaining to Sister Margaret Ferris’s education, professional career, artistic endeavors, personal life, and travels. Sister Margaret Ferris was an avid academic and eventually became an instructor. There are various records from her academic pursuits present here, including her many degrees and certificates, research notes, papers, theses, report cards, transcripts, photographs, a scrapbook, and regalia from her Doctorate commencement ceremony. Based on her areas of interest in her studies, she wrote and published a book in 1993 called Compassioning: Basic Counselling Skills for Christian Care-Givers which was translated into Chinese in 2010. Drafts, correspondence with publishers, English and Chinese editions of the book, and material from the book launching party are included. There are also records from when she was teaching. These records are primarily concerned with her career as an instructor at St. Peter’s Seminary and the adaptations of Compassioning: Basic Counselling Skills for Christian Care-Givers as course books for classes at the University of Western Ontario, but there is also a speech by Sister Margaret and her Stewards in Catholic Education Award.

Sister Margaret was an artist, and she created the design for the cards and pamphlets of the congregation’s 2004 Jubilee celebration, which was her Golden Jubilee. Original artworks, preliminary sketches, and replicas are included in this sous-fonds. She was also an avid traveler and photographs, travel diaries, a scrapbook, and ephemera from these trips are present. She made trips to Yellowknife, Quebec, Peru, Florida, California, Rome, and a pilgrimage to France. On the trip to Rome, she acted as a correspondent for the Catholic News Times. There are also personal memorabilia, such as photographs, scrapbooks, a papal blessing, a yearbook from St. Patrick’s High School where she was principal, and an invitation to the 1976 Opening of the Ontario Legislature reception.

The fonds consists of records related to the Minkler family, many who were born and/or lived in Oxford County, and is arranged into the following Series:

Series 1: Genealogical lineages

• Minkler
• Hyde-Sawyer
• McDonald
• Janes
• Erskine
  Series 2: Correspondence
  Series 3: Photographs (Photocopies)
  Series 4: Miscellaneous

The fonds consists of records related to John N. Chambers and family and is arranged into the following Series:

Series 1: Genealogy
Subseries A: Family histories and trees
Subseries B: Marriage
Subseries C: Wills
Subseries D: Deaths and Cemeteries
Subseries E: Insurance and Tax Assessments
Subseries F: Photographs
Subseries G: Miscellaneous
Series 2: Land Records
Series 3: Correspondence
Series 4: Letters to the Editor
Series 5: Journals
Series 6: Financial
Series 7: Agriculture
Series 8: Community
Subseries A: Education
Subseries B: Religion
Subseries C: Local Government
Subseries D: Organizations and businesses
Subseries E: Miscellaneous

The fonds consists of four scrapbooks of newspaper clippings concerning the tornados that struck Woodstock and surrounding area on August 7, 1979.

The fonds consists of photographs and corresponding records related to McCorquodale family picnics held in Oxford County between 1905 and 2000.

The fonds consists of the following Series and contains mostly school records:

Series 1: S.S. No. 13 East Zorra
Series 2: Tavistock Public School
Series 3: S.S. Facey’s Public School
Series 4: Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School
Series 5: Miscellaneous (Rotary Club)

The fonds consists of one Partnership Accounts ledger belonging to Thomas Wright & Sons. – 1871 – 1880.

The fonds consists of records related to the day-to-day activities of the Brooksdale Presbyterian Congregation and St. Andrews United Church, Brooksdale between the years 1872 and 1997 and are arranged into the following Series:
Series 1: Minutes
Series 2: financial
Series 3: Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
Subseries A: Minutes
Subseries B: Financial
Series 4: Ladies Aid
Series 5: Choir
Series 6: Sunday School
Series 7: Honour Rolls

The fonds consists of one diploma awarded to R.G. Marshall by the West Zorra and Embro Agricultural Society in 1939 for meritorious service to agriculture.

The fonds consists of one minute book for the Vandecar Cemetery with entries dated 1855, 1870, and 1877. The minute book also includes a handwritten contract for Simon Winchell Vandecar, who served as caretaker.

Fonds consists of records documenting the activities of Carroll Holland in her capacity as a member of the Ottawa Police Liaison Committee and the Equality Writes Ad Hoc Committee.

Fonds consists of records created and maintained by David Pepper. Records relate to his involvement with the AIDS Committee of Ottawa and the Ottawa Police Service Liaison Committee for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities, as well as his column “Q Period” that appeared in Capital Xtra!. The fonds also includes clipping files maintained by Pepper for research and reference purposes.

Fonds consists of scrapbook albums illustrating the history of the Girl Guiding movement in Burlington, Ontario between 1930 and 1953. The albums include reports from brownie and guide units and the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, lists of leaders and commissioners, photographs, correspondence, certificates, badges, postcards and copies of newspaper articles. Newspaper articles and photographs of the opening of the Trefoil Lodge and the Junior Band are included.

Fonds consists of photographs, newsletters and news clippings, published reports and plans, board correspondence, agenda minutes, marketing and promotional materials, library correspondence, and scrapbooks relating to the history and creation of Burlington Public Library’s spaces. Records contained in this fonds primary document the material culture of Burlington Public Library’s history predominantly from 1935 to 2009.

By the late 1990s to the early 2000s, Burlington Public Library’s governing and corporate records as well as marketing and promotional material gradually shift from physical format to born digital content. Current information such as library guidebooks, board minutes, annual reports and strategic plans from 2019 and onward are accessible online via the library’s website located under the about tab.

The fonds is arranged into ten series.

Fonds primarily consists of material on the history of the Dominion Observatory, and technical and graphic material covering its 15-inch telescope and lens. The fonds is arranged into two series: DOC-1) Textual records; and DOC-2) Photographs. Series DOC-1 consists of 12 files of textual records on the history of the Dominion Observatory, including original correspondence, programming, and research documents created by Observatory staff, as well as subject research files created by Museum staff. The files often contain a few photographs that relate directly to the textual material in their files. Series DOC-2 consists of photographs, slides and negatives illustrating the construction of the Dominion Observatory, the 15-inch telescope, staff, interior and exterior images of the building. The lantern slides in the series seem to have been used for public lectures and educational programs. There are also approximately 300 black and white 9.5 x 11.5 cm photographic prints that may be observational data.

Fonds consists of material relating to D.B. Emmons’ work as a dairy research scientist at the Canada Department of Agriculture from 1958 to 1996. Copies of Emmons’ articles, publications and reports, either written alone or with colleagues, on basic research regarding milk, butter and cheese and on improvements on the production of these dairy products. Emmons also worked on larger questions such as multi-component milk pricing and formulas for predicting cheese yields. Emmons’ professional correspondence 1953-1986 includes internal memos and correspondence with external researchers, with private and public research institutes and international bodies. The Workbook series contains 153 scientific lab books related to standardized analysis of milk and cheese as well as new research on these products. The Photograph and Slide series contains individual and group photos of Emmons’ colleagues at the Department of Agriculture. The slides relate to Emmons’ travels to conferences and tours of dairy facilities in North America, Europe and Asia. There are also slides for his presentations, as well as figures and tables that were used in his reports and publications.

Fonds consists of photographs, slides, textual records documenting the life of Valerie Jackson and family. This fonds is arranged into two series.