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Collection consists of material documenting Joe Boyle's lifetime activities and the repatriation of his remains to Canada from England. Includes a brief biography, newspaper and magazine clippings re his various exploits, and a narrative by Queen Marie of Romania about Boyle's help to her country. Also contains correspondence, notes, and reports of the "Joe Boyle Repatriation Committee", as well as programs detailing Woodstock's Joe Boyle Day, held 28 June, 1983, and the military funeral accorded to Boyle when he was re-interred in Woodstock, Ontario in 1983. Also includes photographs of Boyle in the Klondike and during the First World War, portraits of Boyle and his son, Boyle's original grave site in England and his new grave site and headstone in Woodstock.