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Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Joel Stone. Records cover Joel Stone's activities related to his business affairs and family matters. Records also relate to his settlement in Gananoque and to his various roles such as Justice of the Peace; Colonel in the 2nd Regiment of the Leeds Militia; Surveyor of Highways and Roads; and Commissioner. Records include correspondence; legal documents; reports; receipts; and militia returns and orders. Fonds also include records created and accumulated by Joel Stone's relatives. Records include genealogical information, printed materials, transcriptions and clippings. Subjects include the legal rights of Loyalists in the United States during and after the American Revolution; economic conditions in the late 18th century; politics; the War of 1812; and the Alien Act of 1814.

Fonds consists of correspondence among various Ford family members, mostly between Nathan Ford of Ogdensburgh and David Ford of Morris Town and Albany. Letters refer to local events and politics, family news, business activities, European events (especially the progress of the Napoleonic wars), the War of 1812, the Fenian Raids, and other subjects.

Fonds consists of personal, business, political, and military records of Major Edward Jessup and his descendants. Included are: personal, business, and legal correspondence; militia records, such as blank forms for reports, instructions, lists, and abstracts; genealogical records of the Jessup family; an account book for Edward and Ebenezer Jessup's company; a receipt book of Captain Edward Jessup's Corps of Kings's Loyal Americans; a Company book of Major Edward Jessup's Corps of Loyal Rangers; commissions, certificates, and claims for losses pertaining to Major Edward Jessup's services with the Loyalists during the American Revolution; mortgages, deeds, and land grants; medical licences; a proclamation concerning the Rebellion of 1837; pay lists; an astronomical chart; election materials, including addresses, broadsides, and notices; Rules and Regulations of the Council of Prescott; and a day book. Records are arranged chronologically.

Fonds consists of business records of Ebenezer and Simeon Washburn, filed in one large chronological sequence. Records include business correspondence, and other business records such as agreements, confessions of debt, bonds, bargains of sale, deeds, sale certificates, leases, wills, assessment notices, accounts, and ledgers dealing with land and commercial transactions in the Hallowell (Picton) area. Fonds also includes recipes for home remedies, and militia general orders.

Collection consists of original letters written by prominent Canadians. A few of the letters are related, but the majority are discrete items. Authors include Robert Baldwin, William Dickson, Thomas Gait, Thomas Mercer Jones, George A. Kirkpatrick, John J.E. Linton, Hugh Richardson, and James Edward Small.

Collection consists of materials accumulated by Charles Egerton Macdonald that were created by Judge James Mitchell (his grandfather) and Donald McDonald (his father). The collection contains original and typescript copies of correspondence, commissions, deeds, receipts and inquisitions of Judge James Mitchell. Also included is correspondence of James Mitchell, Donald McDonald and their relatives. Collection also includes a magazine article on Donald McDonald, two newspapers, two historical sketches of James Mitchell's life by Charles Egerton Macdonald, as well as photographs of Donald MacDonald's home and family, Judge James Mitchell and Charles Egerton Macdonald.

The Andrew Merrilees collection is the result of Merrilees' collecting activities in the areas of railways, shippings, and Toronto's social life over many years. Much of the collection consists of published material such as pamphlets and books. However, Mr. Merrilees acquired a considerable amount of original archival material as well. This includes: panoramic photographs taken by Mr. Rickard, owner of the Panoramic Camera Company in Toronto; photos of locomotives built by the Canadian Locomotive Company and taken by Mr. Henderson of Kingston; photos by Ira Bexted of rural scenes from the 1930's; photos of Toronto scenes by Frank W. Micklethwaite; photos of buildings and street scenes in and around Toronto in the 1890's; watercolours, drawings and prints of buildings and street scenes in Toronto, Fort Erie, and Hamilton by James Blomfield; and technical drawings of the Toronto Railway Company showing intersections and switches. Collection is arranged into the following series: Josiah Bruce Photographs (Series F 1125-1); Panoramic Camera Company Photographs (Series F 1125-2); Canadian Locomotive Company Limited Photographs (Series F 1125-3); Ira Bexted photographs, c.1930 (Series F 1125-4); Frank W. Micklethwaite Photographs (Series F 1125-5); Photographs collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-6); Art works collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-7); James Blomfield art works (Series F 1125-8); David Williams scrapbooks (Series F 1125-9); Arnol N. Smith scrapbook (Series F 1125-10); Scrapbook collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-11); Records collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-12); Andrew Merrilees personal records (Series F 1125-13); Rolph Clarke Stone binders and proof-sheets of print work (Series F 1125-14); Railway and ship tickets collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-15); Newspapers collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-16); Maps and plans collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-17); Toronto Railway Company technical drawings (Series F 1125-18); Shipping Registers, Lists, Periodicals, and Pamphlets, 1893- 1978 (Series C-1); Railway Catalogues, Specifications, Equipment Registers, Periodicals, Books, Pamphlets, Reports, Timetables, Guides, Picture Albums and Post Cards, 1849-1976 (Series C-2); Miscellaneous Printed Material, 1835-1948 (Series C-3); Toronto Railway Company Linen Tracings, 1895-1921 (Series D); Pamphlets, 1884-1961 (Series K); Books- Additional (Series O).

Collection consists of 76 pamphlets and other printed materials accumulated by Sarah Murray that cover a wide variety of topics. The majority of the collection consists of theatre and concert programmes, dating between ca. 1870 and 1955, for performances at a number of Toronto venues, including the Princess Theatre, the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Massey Music Hall, the Grand Opera House, Pavilion Music Hall, the Toronto Conservatory of Music, Guild Hall, the Horticultural Gardens Pavilion, Maple Leaf Gardens, Rolleston House, and the Northern Vocation School Auditorium. A number of these performances were organized or given by the following groups: Toronto Choral Society, Toronto Philharmonic Society, Toronto Festival Chorus, Clef Choral Club, Mendelssohn Choir, and the North Toronto Collegiate Institute Choral and Instrumental Groups. The collection also contains numerous pamphlets, brochures, and newspaper clippings dating from 1891 to 1936, containing information about the city of Toronto's sights and events, such as fairs, races, exhibitions, and sporting events. Other brochures and pamphlets pertain to health and leisure subjects. Also included are pro-Laurier political pamphlets from 1904-1908, as well as a few books, almanacs, calendars, invitations, cards, and advertisements.

Fonds consists mainly of records relating to land acquisition and title, as well as some personal records of members of the Williams family. Fonds contains Crown patents for land in 18 townships in the Newcastle District (Counties of Peterborough, Northumberland, and Durham), other land records (including deeds, mortgages, agreements, conveyances, Powers of Attorney, and other records for hundreds of lots of land in Port Hope, Fraserville, and 23 townships, mainly in the Newcastle District, and maps and plans relating to a house and property in western Canada, in Buckhorn, Ontario, and in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. Personal records of Williams family members include correspondence, financial records (bills, invoices, receipts, accounts), property records (mortgage, insurance, and rental records), estate records of various family members, death certificates of various family members, copy of marriage settlement, deed of separation of Charles and Emma Seymour, and other personal records. Fonds contains the following series: Business and Personal Papers, 1829- 1919, N.D. (Series A); Land Patents, 1799-1867 (Series B); Land Papers, 1807- 1910 (Series C); Maps and Plans, 1879- 1883, N.D. (Series D); a Scrapbook, 1885- 1886 (Series E)

Fonds consists of textual material created by the C.A. Dunham Company. Fonds includes published handbooks containing listings, illustrations and explanations of company- manufactured steam-heating equipment and company facilities.

Collection consists of newspaper clippings and manuscript articles about the Ballantyne family, and other records of the Ballantyne family, including a family register (listing birth and christening dates of the children of James Ballantyne and Elizabeth Whitson), and a will of Thomas Ballantyne. Manuscripts include "Reminiscences of the Ballantynes," written by Mr. Wm. Ballantyne of Washington, D.C., and "The Ballantyne Family in America," by W.S. Dingman, and published in the Stratford Beacon-Herald. Newspaper clippings contains obituaries and marriage notices of Ballantyne family members, articles relating to the opening of the Mary Ballantyne Nurses Residence at the Stratford General Hospital, and a notice of Mrs. James Metcalfe's 90th birthday celebration.

Collection consists of research notes, genealogies and correspondence on the du Planty family, the Godart family and their branches, as assembled by Max LeMarchant de Godart du Planty. Families mentioned include Dongan (Dungan), Van Buskirk and a large number of other French (continental) families.

Collection consists of catalogues, books, leaflets and pamphlets collected by Robert A. Miller. Subjects include: Aikenhead Hardware Ltd., fire equipment, wood working machinery, mill machinery, furniture manufacturers, plumbing tools, bicycles, Boy Scouts, and railways. Fonds also includes one reel of motion picture film, created 1935, entitled, Scenes and Doings at Brougham.

Fonds consist of records of the Birdsall family, predominantly brothers, Anthony and William. Fonds includes: Birdsall family correspondence, personal account books, pamphlets, insurance policies, newspaper clippings and a diary of Anthony Birdsall's 1819 Atlantic crossing.

Fonds consists of records created and received by Matthew Elliott and family. Fonds also includes material created and received by James McIntosh and members of the Duff family. Fonds includes correspondence, land deeds, wills of Matthew Elliott and Sarah Elliott, mortgages and a prayer diary.

Series consists of records created or acquired by Verschoyle Benson Blake reflecting his interest in Ontario history, particularly architectural, as well as family matters. Records include those related to his work with the Ontario government related to the preservation of historic landmarks as well those pertaining to his family. Photographs also include those of important persons and events in Canadian history that he collected throughout his life.

Fonds consists of agendas, applications, correspondence, financial statements, committee records, surveys, minutes, legal documents and training documents from the Board of Radiological Technicians of Ontario.

The album consists of 25 photographs of George P. Jones, members of his family, significant people in his life including the doctor who delivered him and the bishop that christened him, and photographs of the British Royal Family.

Collection consists of photographs and postcards collected by Edwin Guillet. The photographs and postcards document a variety of communities throughout Ontario including Woodstock, St. Catharines, Toronto, Unionville, Cobour, Campbellton, and Stratford. This collection has been arranged into two series.

Fonds consists of one photograph of the MacDonald family taken in 1905 and two drawings of a cottage and a church by Thoreau MacDonald. The drawing of the church also has a poem on the back.