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Collection contains a variety of maps, plans, and drawings pertaining to the Town and Township of Whitby. Maps have been physically arranged according to map type, including Street and Tourism, Physical, Political, Transit, Historical, and Architectural Drawings.

Collection consists of memorabilia and material pertaining primarily to the activities of the Whitby Dunlops during the team's active years from 1957 to 1959. There is also material which relates to anniversaries and other events in the years following the team's dissolution in 1960. Collection is comprised of 8 series including: Programs, Publications, Ephemera and artifacts, Team information, Events, Diary of Kay Irwin, Postcards and photographs, and Video.

Collection consists of newspaper articles, photographs, graphic material, correspondence, and business records related to members of the Greenwood family. The collection consists of the following sous-fonds: General Greenwood Family, John Hamer Greenwood, Florence Amery (nee Greenwood), and Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood.

The collection consists of a variety of material relating to the professional and private lives of May Irwin and her sister Flora. As one of North America’s foremost “coon shouters,” May Irwin engaged in and benefited from the deeply racist traditions of minstrel music and blackface performance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Irwin’s musical records constitute hate speech.

Records are arranged in files. Record types include the following: personal letters, articles, newspaper clippings, sheet music, playbills (paper and satin), tourist publications, and magazines.

Series consists a DVD containing a documentary in Russian of the 1958 World Ice Hockey Championship in Oslo. Footage follows the Soviet Union team throughout the tournament and contains clips of the games. Series also consists of a CD containing digitized photographs from the archival collection of the Whitby Dunlops. There is also a slideshow, a short movie, and photos of the team from 2008.

The fonds consists of operational and commemorative records related to Cullen Gardens and Miniature Village. Many operational records were created as Leonard Cullen and other staff developed and advertised the organization's site in Whitby, Ontario. Commemorative records preserve views of the site's grounds, seasonal displays, building interiors, and events. Additionally, the fonds contains some personal records from Leonard Cullen, most of which pertain to his involvement in the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec and the Baptist Leadership Education Centre in Whitby. The fonds consists of four series: Site Maintenance and Expansion; Personal Writings and Baptist Community Involvement of Leonard Cullen; Promotions; and Photographs.

The series contains records related to Leonard Cullen's self-memorializing activities, including his writing of memoirs and involvement in two projects of the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec (BCOQ): a Baptist Leadership Education Centre (BLEC) and a Christian Heritage Park. In 1981, Leonard Cullen began fundraising for a BLEC in Whitby. Cullen also donated land for the project via Cullen Gardens Inc.; the BLEC was completed in 1984. In the same period, Cullen developed the concept of a Christian Heritage Park, sometimes called an Ontario Heritage Theme Park, which was to be located on Taunton Road West in Whitby. This park was not built.

Records in the series are arranged in subject files. Documentary forms include Cullen's self-published, softcover monographs and his autobiographical essay; BCOQ newsletters, correspondence, event invitations, agendas, pledge forms, and agreements with the Town of Whitby; and BLEC proposals, informative pamphlets, floor plans, technical drawings, project management agreements, and a Canada Works funding application.

The series contains records related to Cullen Gardens and Miniature Village's radio, television, and print advertising campaigns, particularly throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Records were also generated as a result of specific promotional activities for the opening of various site features or special events. Finally, some records were not primarily promotional in intent but were intended to communicate information to employees of Cullen companies and the general public regarding site alterations or corporate changes.

Records are arranged in subject files. Documentary forms include the following: Event invitations and agendas; press releases; restaurant menus; Cullen Gardens newspapers for visitors; Cullen Gardens support manuals for educators; souvenir booklets and calendars; brochures; tour mailings and rate cards; magazine articles; posters; employee newsletters; television advertisements recorded on videocassette; raw footage of the gardens for eventual use in television advertisements, also on videocassette; special promotional features for television on videocassette; and radio advertisements and specials on audiocassette.

Photographs, slides, and negatives in the series are predominantly the result of amateur photography conducted by a number of individuals while on the grounds of Cullen Gardens and Miniature Village. Photograph subjects include the following: the gardens and miniature village in various seasons; events; seasonal displays, some of which display Indigenous persons in problematic ways; employees; and construction projects.

Records are arranged in subject files.

The series contains records related to the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of the Cullen Gardens and Miniature Village site and the Weall & Cullen Nurseries farm on Taunton Road West in Whitby. The majority of records deal with Leonard Cullen's initial site planning process for Cullen Gardens and Miniature Village from the late 1970s to 1980s, including re-designation of land, construction and modification of buildings for tourists, water servicing and sewage treatment, and project mortgaging. Some records also pertain to the company's 1981 purchase of Hood Park on Taunton Road West. Finally, some records detail the incorporation of Cullen Gardens in December 1971.

Records in the series are arranged in subject files. Documentary forms include the following: correspondence; site plan agreements and re-designation applications submitted to the Town of Whitby; photocopies of articles of incorporation; agreements of purchase and sale; rough sketches of the gardens; technical drawings created during official land surveying processes; indentures; press releases; building permits; maps; building floor plans; photographs of the site; and copies of Town by-laws.

Series consists of newspapers, periodicals, and articles that followed and reported on the players and progress of the Whitby Dunlops. Series contains photocopies and newspapers and periodicals in original format.

The fonds consists of photographs of Whitby taken by Leonard Beckley in his late adulthood (1950-1999), as well as photographs of Beckley’s family of origin in the early years of their settlement in Whitby at 509 Beech Street East (1910-1930). Photographs taken by Leonard depict his garden, nature scenes, and events in the town. Photographs in the latter category provide evidence of racist public activities in Whitby, including the following: the existence of the Whitby Rotary Minstrels, whose members put on minstrel shows while in blackface (photographs date into the 1950s); various town parade participants in redface and blackface; and a parade participant who is likely dressed in a Ku Klux Klan outfit.

Photographs are arranged in files.

The fonds consists of the Brooklin WI's minute books, Tweedsmuir histories, and financial records. Records are arranged chronologically in subject files.

Sous-fonds consists of newspaper articles (original and transcribed), photographs, one oil painting created by Mrs. Margery Greenwood, several political cartoons, and other reference materials related to 1st Viscount Greenwood. Various photographs of the Viscount are also included. Finally, there is material and correspondence relating to the planning and celebration of various functions held in Greenwood's honour in Whitby, ON.

The fonds consists of the Whitby WI's minute books, one Tweedsmuir history, and event programmes. Records are arranged chronologically in subject files.

Sous-founds consists of correspondence, photographs, newspaper articles, transcriptions, and a book related to specific members and genealogy of the Greenwood family. Correspondence is between local historian, Brian Winter, and several members of the Greenwood family in an attempt to surmise biographical information on Viscount Greenwood and the Greenwood family in general. Where possible, series have been separated into specific family members to compartmentalize information collected on these individuals. Sous-fonds is divided into the following series: William Hamer Greenwod; Mary Harriet Greenwood; Gladys Greenwood (nee Rodney); Photographs; Books; and Miscellaneous Correspondence.

Series consists of photographs of members of the Bateman family in various locations, including the family farm on Hopkins Street in Whitby. The majority of the photographs show John Willis Bateman, Elizabeth Bateman, and John Gordon Bateman.

Fonds consists of personal material belonging to the Bateman family, including family photographs, some birth, death, and marriage information, and newspaper announcements. Fonds also consists of the land deeds for the family farm on lot 23 concession 1 (Hopkins Street).

The fonds consists of photographic glass slides depicting the businesses, town facilities, and recent residential expansions of the Town of Whitby in 1986.

Series consists photographs depicting the lives of the Smith and Pascoe families in Whitby. Early photographs portray the lives of the Smith family at their Bayside farm residence, while later photographs depicted Mildred Pascoe, her family, Whitby. Series also contains photographs of distant relatives and notable locations around Whitby, including Heydenshore at Lake Ontario, Whitby High School, and the now-defunct Whitby Jail.