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The Ottawa Valley Regiment Fonds contain material relating to the Ottawa Valley Regiment from the second half of the 18th century up until the late 20th century. The documents include copies of Militia General Orders from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s, officer lists, regimental returns, general correspondence and memorandum reports, maps, and newspaper and gazette excerpts.

The Manuscripts Fonds is a collection of works pertaining to the Great War, the inter-war years, and the Second World War. The collection consists of memoirs, unofficial regimental histories, and graduate dissertations. The documents themselves cover a wide range of topics, including, military monographs, the development of jet and rocket airplanes, interwar British foreign policy, primary documents relating to the Battle of Buron (1944), the Belgian Adegem Canadian War Cemetery registry, and diaries. The manuscripts range in length from 15 pages to 900 pages.

The Brown Fonds contain material relating to Veterans Affairs Canada from 1939 to the late 1990s. The documents include notes, chapters, drafts, minutes, articles, correspondence, and memoranda reports pertaining to the Department of Pensions and National Health, which would split after the Second World War and become Health Canada and Veterans Affairs Canada.

The Stewart Fonds contain army, small arms, gas, and map reading training pamphlets from the Second World War. Collection includes Educational Aid Booklets about the Principles of Radio and Service Jobs after the war published by the Canadian Legion Educational Services as well as handwritten training and education notes by M. D. Stewart.

The Whaley Fonds contain correspondence, photographs, certificates, and the personal effects of Flight Lieutenant Bruce Lewis Whaley.

The Mendes Fonds contain various printed and media material related to the research into the development and manufacture of Canadian Army Type Anti-Aircraft Radars from 1939-1946. The Fonds also contain correspondence, research notes, and articles relating to the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RCEME), the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the War Diary of No. 1 Canadian Radio Location Unit, various Anti-Aircraft and Radar histories, and various issues of "Radar Reflections," the newsletter of the Canadian Army Radar Association.

The Operational and Regimental Histories Fonds contains various regimental, operational, battalion, naval, and artillery histories, primarily from the First and Second World Wars.

The Personal Histories Fonds contain wartime diaries, documents, interviews, articles, postcards, photographs, and histories from various First and Second World War veterans. Included also is a paper by Sidney Allinson about Canada's First Victoria Cross recipient Lt. Alexander Dunn, who received the VC by being apart of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854.

The Air Photo Correspondence Fonds contains various correspondence, maps, indexes, lists, and photos pertaining to LCMSDS's Second World War Canadian Army Air Photo Collection (http://lmharchive.ca/second-world-war-air-photos/).

The Government Correspondence Fonds contains photocopied correspondence relating to the First World War, including " "precautions against raids in Western Canada" by Sir Robert Borden, J. G. Harvey, S. Brown, Edward Mayer, Karl Mayer, Major-General Gwatkin, John Hughes, A. Bowan Perry, A. R. Hamilton, A. Carnegie Ross, and Fred. Shibley, as well as correspondence by Maj. Gen E. L. M. Burns regarding POWs in Hong Kong during and after the Second World War.

The Medical Fonds contains various medical war diaries and appendixes, articles on Spinal Cord Injuries and Battle Exhaustion, as well as histories of the German Medical Unit (Sanitatsbericht) from both the First and Second World Wars.

The Balloon Barrage Reunion Club Fonds contains various photographs, books, club histories, membership lists, and newsletters regarding The Balloon Barrage Reunion Club, which was founded in 1945 following the Second World War.

The Nichols Fonds includes correspondence from soldiers to the Home Front in 1918 as well as the Christmas 1918 edition of The O.PIP, the magazine of the 57th Battery, CFA, published quarterly, “wind, weather, and war permitting.”