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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 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 three farm account books belonging to Emery Cowing and Robert Cowing, of East Zorra Township.

Photographs document part of the life of King Township farmer Walter Archibald.

This fonds consists of materials reflecting the concerns, research and activities of Concerned Farm Women from 1981 to 1988.
It consists of administrative records including documents reflecting the group’s aims and objectives, meeting minutes (primarily 1983), membership lists (1983-1988), pamphlets, newsletters (1982-1988), project activity reports, and correspondence. Scrapbooks and folders of newspaper clippings reflect the group’s activities as well as the financial crisis facing farmers in the 1980s. Two videocassettes also review the history and accomplishments of the organization. Correspondence, conference materials and speech scripts reflect the group’s lobbying efforts. Books, reports, articles and promotional material from other agricultural organizations concerning the financial state of agriculture in Ontario and across North America informed the group’s research and activities. Finally, two books published by the group: (1) The Farmer Takes a Wife: a study by Concerned Farm Women, resulting from a 31-page survey of approximately 600 Bruce and Grey County farm women, and (2) To Have and To Hold: a guide to property and credit law for farm families in Ontario” are included in the fonds.

This fonds consists of John Peirson’s diaries with enclosures, for the years: 1888, 1892-1919, 1921-1925, and 1927. His brief daily journal entries include information related to his family, political life, rural life, personal financial information, social engagements, church meetings, weather and farm operations and activities, including ploughing, sowing and the sale of animals. Mr. Peirson also makes mention of world events, including the sinking of the Titanic and the end of the Great War.

Journals after 1919 each continue to have the name “John Peirson” written on the title page, sometimes with the name of the person who gave the diary to him as a gift; however, most entries in those journals appear to have been written either by John’s daughter-in-law, Catherine (Black) Peirson, and/or his daughter, Mary Ann (Peirson) Hilborn, both of whom were living in houses on the homestead with John. These journals include references to “father” and his health. Other topics include social activities, Women’s Institute meetings, social visits, family life, and some financial information.

Enclosures in the diaries, such as invoices, statements and newspaper clippings, reflect some of the businesses in the community, such as W.A. Gerolamy, grocer; J.W. Chittick Burgoyne General Store; and The Tara Creamery. John Peirson’s involvement with the Burgoyne Cheese Company, and family events reported in the newspaper up to 1937 are also reflected in the enclosures.

The fonds consists of legal records related to the pipeline used to convey water to the cheese company, as well as the sale of the factory in 1913.

The fonds consists of four diaries created by Joseph Peers, of East Oxford Township, between the years 1865 and 1878.

The fonds consists of records related to Dereham Centre Sabbath Sunday School, including annual meeting minutes, as well as list of officers elected, teachers, and students attending the school each year. Likewise, the fonds consists of two financial ledgers related to the operation of the Adamson farm located on Concession 6, Lot 14, Dereham Township.

The fonds consists of the following series:

    Series 1: Diaries (belonging to Leola Giles)
    Series 2: Photographs
    Series 3: Miscellaneous

The fonds consists of one account book (1900-1904) compiled by Daniel Giles, farmer on the 14th Line, East Zorra Township.

The fonds consists of records related to Frederick E. Burgess and family. It is arranged into the following series and subseries:
Series 1: Wills
Series 2: Land and Loan records
Series 3: Legal
Subseries A: Standard Tube Pollution
Subseries B: Tobacco Seizure
Series 4: Correspondence
Series 5: Military
Subseries A: WW2 Active service records
Subseries B: Post-War records
Subseries C: Pension
Series 6: Miscellaneous
Subseries A: Photopathological Inspection

The fonds consists of records related to the Tate and Innes families of West Zorra and East Nissouri Townships. They are arranged into the following Series:

Series 1: Genealogy
Series 2: Correspondence
Series 3: Photographs
Series 4: Schools
Series 5: Harrington Presbyterian Church
Series 6: Brooksdale Women’s Institute
Series 7: Zorra Caledonian Society
Series 8: Miscellaneous

The fonds consists of financial records related to the Cassel Cheese and Butter Manufacturing Association.

The fonds consists of three books created and compiled by Thomas Preston Hart between 1881 and 1890, related to financial matters concerning his farm/business.

This collection consists of hand-written notes; notebooks; programmes; plant lists; plant records; maps; drawings; measurements; tour scripts; photographs; slides; postcards; and photographs.

The records contain the following series; Secretaries' and Treasurers' Records 1862-2016;
Awards, Newspaper Clippings

Fonds consists of records created or collected by two families related by marriage, the Clarks and Curries of Chinguacousy Township. Fonds includes correspondence, legal and land records, accounting ledgers, petitions to township councils, ephemera, copying and penmanship exercises, and photographs. Records largely relate to domestic affairs (including farming and exchanging of goods) and legal matters (especially land transactions and the settling of estates).

Records from both the Curry and Clark branches of the family were inherited by an ancestor, Ida Curry Clark. An appreciable part of the records on both sides date from before the intermarriage of the two families (when John Clark married Jane Curry). Because the records can readily be associated with one or another of the two branches, the fonds has been arranged into two series as follows:

Series 1: Curry family records
Series 2: Clark family records

Fonds consists of records created, collected and maintained by Elgin Co-Operative Services, [191-?]-2007. Fonds is organized into the following series:
Photographs, [191-?]-1988
Miscellaneous Records, 1940-1984
Minutes, 1943-1998
Financial Statements, 1944-1995
Elgin Fruit Growers' Co-Operative Records, 1945-1961
Annual Reports, 1945-2007
Bond Issues, 1965-1975

The fonds consists of records related to the East Nissouri Jr. Institute and include minutes as well as miscellaneous items related to their activities.