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Fonds consists largely of records created and collected by members of the Magrath family, including the Reverend James Magrath and his children, in the course of administering and occupying their farming estate (called Erindale) on the Credit River. Fonds includes correspondence, legal and financial records and ledgers, and plans of the estate and environs. There is also a small amount of material added to the fonds by later descendants of the family, including family histories and annotated transcriptions of the earliest Magrath correspondence.

The bulk of the correspondence consists of personal letters between family members, including James Magrath and his children, and most is written to Charles Magrath while on a trip to Ireland. Letters are largely concerned with family and personal affairs.

Note that the Magrath family correspondence includes occasional references to the activities of the First Nations (Mississauga Anishinaabe) people of the Credit area at that time referred to as the Credit Indians. The nature of these references is influenced by the perspective and prejudices of the Magraths.

The fonds comprises the following six series:

Series 1: Correspondence
Series 2: Legal records
Series 3: Financial records
Series 4: Family history records
Series 5: Erindale Estate maps and plans
Series 6: Transcriptions

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 original and copy photographs, files, correspondence, research notes and other records generated in pursuit of Mary Manning's genealogical and local history research, as well as original records and correspondence created by the Switzer family and passed down to Mary. Fonds has been arranged by subject using the original file titles where known. Series titles include: Mary Manning records; Switzer family records; James and Mary Dandie records; M.D. Lundy, E. Hoople records; Switzer, Grundy, Smeltzer, Cowin, Colclough, Wilson families; Rutledge, Arnott, Mason, Thompson, Beaty, Cooke, Spence families; Street family research notes; Streetsville research files; Streetsville families research files.

Fonds consists of material created and/or collected by members of the Cook, Wiggins, Ellis, Kilpatrick, Gowland, and Bird families of the Chinguacousy and Snelgrove areas. Photographs of various family members make up the majority of the fonds, with the balance consisting of wedding and funeral notices, printed shares from various gold mining companies, Chinguacousy Township property indentures, wills & estate correspondence, and Peel County Farmers Mutual fire insurance company policies.

Detailed genealogical information about the family can be found in the G31 Collections case file.

Fonds consists of records created and/or collected by Brampton resident Betty Odlum. The majority of the fonds consists of photographic slides and prints created and/or collected by Betty.

The photographs document a wide range of Brampton area properties, buildings, events, and people, with a particular focus on downtown Brampton, the Dale Estate, and Lorne Avenue.

The fonds also contains a small amount of non-photographic material collected or created by Betty, including scrapbooks, programs, and an Odlum family marriage certificate. An Odlum family history album found in the fonds will likely be of much use to those interested in the history of the Odlum family, an early settler family in the Toronto Gore area.

Fonds consists of records created and kept by the Macdonald family. The fonds includes ledgers, day books, receipts, catalogs, and shop licenses showcasing the day to day operations of the Macdonald family blacksmith shop. These records are particularly important because the transition of the Macdonald shop from Blacksmith to General Store to Garage can be shown through the ledgers and daybooks. Fonds also contains personal family material including postcards, photographs, newspaper clippings, autograph books, and inscriptions from the inside covers of family-owned books. The books themselves were not unique and therefore were given back to the donors.

Fonds consists of records created or collected by members of the prominent Gordon family of Port Credit during the course of their personal and professional lives.

While the records span three generations of the Gordon family, the fonds centres on the personal and professional records of George W. Gordon. His records, as well as smaller bodies of records created by four of his children, Lillian, Rhena, Francis (Frank), and Douglas Wilden, came into the care of his granddaughter, Sandra (Gordon) Moore who partially organized them and conducted related family research. Moore’s own records and those of her ancestors have therefore been treated as an organic whole and no attempt has been made to split the body of records into separate fonds; however, series are described in terms of the family member to whom records pertain (see below for series listing).

George W. Gordon’s records include a substantial number of letters dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century from members of the Wingfield, Beamish, and Gordon family members and acquaintances, relating to daily life in small Ontario settler and farming communities such as Utterson, Allensville, Port Credit, Springfield-on-the-Credit (now Erindale) as well as larger centres such as Hamilton and Toronto. Some letters came from further afield in the North West Territories, England, and the US. Domestic and personal records collected or created by Gordon also include administrative records related to fraternal organizations (Masonic and Orange Lodges), household receipts, farming expense accounts and diaries, land and financial records, and various ephemera.

The fonds also contains a significant body of records emanating from George W. Gordon’s role as justice of the peace and magistrate for Port Credit, including marriage licence applications, administrative records related to the Toronto Hamilton Highway Commission, and police court records. The latter include completed forms such as summons, warrants, and complaints, correspondence and signed statements made in court relating to criminal charges and civil infractions.

Records created by Gordon’s children, Lillian, Rhena, Frank, and Douglas Wilden include correspondence, photographs, ephemera, family research, and professional records related to teaching. Lillian Gordon’s records include a significant amount of mid-twentieth-century correspondence with suitors located in Ontario, the US and Germany.

Sandra Moore’s records contain a substantial amount of family research, including correspondence with relatives and records offices in North American and the United Kingdom. Her records include extensive documentation of the Beamish family of which one branch settled in Springfield-on-the-Credit.

Fonds comprises the following series:

Series 1: Wingfield correspondence
Series 2: Beamish correspondence
Series 3: Gordon family correspondence
Series 4: George W. Gordon domestic and personal records
Series 5: Lillian Gordon records
Series 6: Rhena, Frank, and Douglas Wilden Gordon records
Series 7: Sandra Moore (nee Gordon) records
Series 8: Gordon family photographs
Series 9: Gordon oversize records
Series 10: Gordon professional records

Fonds consists of records created and/or collected by members of the McMahon family (farmers and merchants situated in the Palgrave area of Albion Township). Records include journals, account ledgers, receipts, a family tree, and photographs.

Fonds consists of the remaining minutes of the organization. Volume one covers the period of 10 Jan. 1890 to 16 May 1891, and volume two covers the period of 22 May 1891 to 20 Apr. 1894.

Fonds consists of the records created by or maintained by the Brampton Board of Trade. It covers the period from 1909 to 1973, with a few items from the 1980s; there is a gap from 1919 to 1947, when the organization was inactive. Minute books contain director's meeting minutes, treasurer's statements, and annual reports. The fonds also includes scrapbooks, photographs, and certificates.

Fonds consists of records created or collected by the Walker family of Brampton, including Harry Walker who ran a shoe store at 17 Main Street South. Fonds includes an early photograph of Harry Walker inside the store which was in operation during from at least 1933 (possibly earlier) to at least 1987. (A second location of the store was on Queen Street West according to newspaper sources.)

Fonds also includes two photographs of the Ontario Bookbinder's Council 1953 -1954 on which William Walker served, a promotional leaflet from Charters Publishing Company, a copy of the Convervator from 1949 (the 75th Anniversary edition), a newsprint copy of Brampton bylaw 25-79, a photograph of McHugh Public School class (ca. 1930), a photo-mechanical reproduction of a photograph of a band, and newspaper clippings relating to printer's unions in Brampton, McHugh Public School, and other local places and events.

Collection consists of personal and professional records collected by Dr. Kathleen Armitage. The collection includes 2 editions of the Griffen (Central Peel yearbook) for 1963 and 1964, Peel Memorial Hospital material, including bylaws (1980s), staff annual reports (1981-1990), staff photo directory (1980s), and information/donor package (1988), Armitage family genealogy research (1827-1977), a photograph of students in a classroom in the Helen Wilson Public School (1960s), a photograph of Dr. George Clifford Armitage from the First World War (ca. 1915), and photographs of the Region of Peel's 40th Anniversary Levee held at PAMA on June 7th, 2014.

2017.020 is a copy loan photograph of Radcliffe Infirmary Oxford, Resident Medical Staff 1933 (includes J.A. Bull, G.B. Palmer, A. Lees Low, G.C. Armitage, and G.B. Stewart.

Fonds consists of the corporate records of this organization for young men.

• File 1: Minutes, 1936-1937; correspondence, 1941; programme, 1938
• File 2: Minutes, 1938-1939
• File 3: Minutes, 1939
• File 4: Minutes, membership rolls, correspondence, 1940-1941

Fonds consists of the surviving records for the Queen Elizabeth Library Association (QELA), an association library for both adults and children. It served residents of the area just north of the Town of Port Credit, in the suburban area of south-central Toronto Township. While it received municipal funding, it was never a branch of the Toronto Township Library system.

Files are a minute book, receipt book, minutes and reports, and correspondence. The library was started by the Queen Elizabeth Home and School Association during the Second World War, and the receipt book begins in 1944. It was spun off from the QEHSA in May 1948.

Records shed light on the difficulty the association library had in gaining consistent funding from various levels of government during the 1950s, as that type of organization gave way to fully public libraries. Their challenges were despite the fact that it was Ontario's tenth most used association library in 1952, its penultimate year.

Fonds consists of material created, collected, and used by the Cloverleaf Garden Club of Mississauga. Included are yearbooks, newsletters, meeting minutes, correspondence, club constitution and bylaws, membership and executive lists, newspaper clippings, Garden Tour brochures/programs and flyers, photographs, drawings, membership questionnaires, fertilizer sales financials, Flower Show material (award classes and entry rules), and award and prize ribbons.