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Contents: fonds consists of two sketchbooks relating to A.G Shoosmith's studies at the Royal Academy Schools in London, England.

Material relating to the life, career, activities and interests of Alice Riggs Hunt. Includes correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, clippings, diaries and memorabilia. Correspondents include E. Sylvia Pankhurst, Carrie Chapman Catt, Jane Addams, and Romain Rolland.

Material created, published and collected by Annie Elizabeth May Hewlett. Includes a scrapbook and correspondence.

Materials relating to the personal and professional life of Marie Stopes as well as to the history of birth control. Includes biographical materials, articles and ephemera related to birth control, correspondence, and manuscript drafts of a biography of Stopes by Ruth Hall.

One volume of household accounts, 1911-1919, kept by an unidentified female, probably from the Port Elgin, Ont. area.

Contents: accrual consists of material documenting aspects of the administration and activities of the Muskoka Lakes Association and some of its committees, mainly during the period from 1978 to 2003. During this time, the primary political and environmental concerns of the association included land use and resort development, taxation, water quality, and relationships with municipal and provincial governments. Accrual contains records created and accumulated by chairs of political, environmental, and land use committees and by several presidents, as well as records relating to office administration and other committees and activities of the association. Includes correspondence and memoranda; reports; presentations; committee minutes and agendas; newspaper clippings; publications; ms. and ts. notes; notices and decisions of provincial judicial boards; official plans, by-laws and other municipal documents; maps and architectural drawings; ephemera; and other material.
The accrual is arranged in 11 series as follows: 1. President's Files : Phyllis Parker; 2. President's Files : Michael Vaughan; 3. President's Files : William F. Clark; 4. Political Portfolio Chairperson's Files : Robert Topp; 5. Environmental Portfolio Chairperson's Files : Peter W. Hand; 6. Committee Files; 7. Administration : Office Files; 8. Publications; 9. Newspaper Clippings; 10. Reports and Theses

11. Centennial Celebration

Correspondence to Lester Paige Breckenridge from Anson Stokes, William H. Taft, A.T. Hadley and Hiram Bingham, dating from 1912 to 1921. Three of the letters have a Yale University header and are addressed to Breckenridge in New Haven, Connecticut.

List of correspondence:

• Anson Stokes, New Haven, Conn. - November 1912
• William H. Taft, New Haven, Conn. - March 19, 1918
• A. T. Hadley, Yale University - May 16, 1918
• Hiram Bingham, New Haven Conn. - December 1, 1921

One scrapbook including photographs, newspaper clippings and other items related to the women's suffrage movement. Also includes several newsletters of the Women's Social and Political Union, which was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst.

Transcript of "The Blue Bird", written by Roy M. Mitchell. The typescript has been hand bound and a manuscript note, in Mitchell's hand reads:
This impression of the “Blue Bird” is limited to three copies on superfine linen record, typewritten and made into a book. The copies have been disposed of as follows:

1. To Georgina Helen Saunders of Toronto
2. Reserved
3. Offered to the Forum Magazine of New York for publication.
   This copy is number 1., and signed this sixteenth day of February 1913. Roy M. Mitchell."

The typescript is an essay reviewing Maurice Maeterlinck's play "Blue Bird".

Material relating to biology, zoology and conservation interests and activities of Dr. John D. Detwiler from to 1919-1965. Includes documentation of Ontario fish hatchery investigations and brook trout feeding experiments. Includes correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts by himself and others, offprints and reprints, teaching materials, newspaper clippings and glass slides.
Arranged in 16 series: 1. Correspondence to and from J.D. Detwiler; 2. Associate Correspondence; 3. Conservation and Scientific Organizations and Conferences; 4. Manuscripts; 5. Typescripts; 6. Published Papers by John Detwiler; 7. Typescripts : Speeches, Article Drafts and Notes 8. Teaching and Miscellaneous Notes 9. Fish Hatchery Investigations 10. Manuscripts, Typescripts : Works on Conservation by Others; 11. Class Work Prepared by Dr. Detwiler's Students12. Educational Materials; 13. Subject Files; 14. Offprints and Reprints; 15. Clippings; 16. Slides and Glass Plates

Contents: fonds consists of material accumulated and kept by Ross Dixon relating to his entrepreneurial interests, career, and personal life, and to the philanthropic activities of Ross and Doris Dixon. The material documents some aspects of his personal interests and childhood, his early career, and his career in industrial relations at Uniroyal Canada (formerly the Dominion Rubber Company). A significant portion of the fonds relates to the businesses he formed outside of his professional career, the Westmount Construction Company and Westmont Enterprises Limited, for the period from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. These records document trends in suburban home-building and design during that time and include a large number of architectural drawings. The fonds is not comprehensive, lacking documentation relating to the formation and administration of the Westmount Construction Company and Westmont Enterprises Limited and containing only a small amount of material relating the other area of his entrepreneurial activities, investment and financial services. Fonds includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, advertising material, architectural drawings, legal documents, photographs, accounting records, reports, ms. notes, certificates, speeches, company publications, minutes, financial statements, ephemera, and other material.
Fonds is organized into the following series:

1. Personal
2. Career
3. Career: Uniroyal
4. Westmount Construction Company
5. Architectural Drawings
6. Westmont Enterprises Limited
7. Ross Dixon Financial Services
8. Accounting Records
9. Philanthropy
10. Photographs
11. Visual Materials.

Fonds consists of unpublished typescripts and manuscripts by Robert Alden Sanborn. Influenced by the work of Carl Jung, the unpublished works are predominantly related to Sanborn's interest in the social development of children and several of the drafts consist of narratives about young girls referred to as "Little Anna" and "Bunty". Also included is collected ephemera and correspondence between Sanborn and his family, colleagues and publishing contacts, including his editor Olive Burchfiel (1888-1960), as well as writing by Sanborn's mother, Mary Farley Sanborn, including a published version of "The Valor Ranch" (1914); a typescript version of the poem "My Eighth of May"; and a clipping of the poem "The Barrel-Stave."

Contents: collection is comprised of materials created and accumulated by Eric Gill, as well as materials created and accumulated pothumously relating to Gill's life or by various presses in which he was involved. Includes a large collection of Gill prints and original drawings, as well as materials created by and relating to various presses with which Gill was involved or owned. Arranged in series as follows: Series 1. Gill, Eric and Family; Series 2. Prints; Series 3. Other Art; Series 4. Golden Cockerel Press; Series 5. Hague and Gill; Series 6. Nonesuch Press; Series 7. St Dominic's Press; Series 8. Ephemera; Series 9. Artifacts.

Ephemera relating to the Toronto Women's Press Club, [1915?]-1922, information about Jane Larrington's membership in same, 1982, 1986, as well as photographs and ephemera from the 1955 Canadian Women's Press Club "Overseas Tour".

Contents: Fonds consists of material related to the family of J.B. English of Plattsville, Ontario. Includes a store ledger dates 1916-1923; two 19th century photographs, and a folder of genealogical information including a family tree.

Fonds consists of material relating to the life and career of Luella Bruce Creighton and includes correspondence, diaries, manuscripts and photographs. There is some material documenting Luella Creighton's student days at Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1924-1926. Her personal life is documented through a series of diaries, 1952-1990. Most of the textual material in the fonds, however, relates to her career as a writer of both fiction and non- fiction, and consists of corrrespondence with her publishers and readers, reviews, manuscripts and typescripts of both published and unpublished works.

Material by and about Emily Murphy, particularly relating to the "persons" case, her work as a police magistrate, material relating to a biography of her by Byrne Hope Sanders, as well as biographical material assembled after her death. Includes correspondence, clippings, photographs, notebooks and petitions.

Contents: one holograph letter, written from the trenches in France. Ross Hamilton is sending Miss Henstridge a book he has found in a ruined house, and is asking for news of his old school, Kitchener Collegiate Institute.

Accural consists of textual and graphic materials created or accumulated by members of the Schantz families. Primarily includes photographs of members of the extended Schantz family and friends. Also contains ephemera, and school notebooks. Arranged in series as follows: Series 5. Schantz, Florence Annie Catherine, 1897-1938 ; Series 6. Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 ; Series 9. Tobias and Mary Schantz Family ; 12. Photographs ; Series 15.4. Russell, Dorothy, 1900-2006: Education ; Series 15.6. Russell, Dorothy, 1900-2006: Teaching ; Series 16. Schantz, Sophie, 1869-1958 ; Series 17. White, Etta Schtanz, 1866-1900 ; Series 18. Schantz, Orpheus, 1864-1951 ; Series 22. Schantz, Arthur, 1876-1958 ; Series 23. Schantz, Herbert, 1883-1912 ; Series 24. Schantz, Austin, 1871-1959.

One 141 page carbon typescript of "Among the beavers: Canadians and others" by Gladys Lillian King. The work is a personal narrative of the work done by the Military Women Police in and around the Beaver Hut in the Strand, London, England. Also includes two photographs of King with others.