The collection contains digital photos dating from 1898 to 1954. Most of them show members of the Coulombe family when they were living in Hearst, including Eveline's parents as well as her siblings: André, Cécile, Georgette, Léo, Robert and Yvonne. In addition, there are some pictures of their neighbors and friends from Hearst, such as Claude Larose's family. Others illustrate students at école Sainte-Thérèse and a few buildings in Hearst, at that time. There are also textual documents that the donor has kept, as souvenirs from her childhood in Hearst. It includes an autograph album where we find the signature of several people living in Hearst in the early 1940s, as well as religious images and correspondence.

The collection consists of the documents listed in inventory.

This collection includes 15 microfilms. Except for the numbers published in 1914, it contains all the issues from founding of the newspaper in March 1912 until 1938. The numbers published in 1950 are also available.

The fonds consists of photographic and audiovisual records related to Newaygo Timber Co. in Mead in the 1940’s and 1950’s, the Finnish community in Hearst and the development of the town of Hearst.

The collection consists of an incomplete series of the newspaper The Northern Miner, on microfilm.

The fonds contains records of the businesses founded by Ernest Gosselin in northern Ontario. Most of the documents relate to the various properties that belonged to him in the Geraldton area.

The fonds contains legal documents relating to the purchase by Joseph Bergevin, in 1922, of an agricultural lot in Glackmeyer Township and to the sale of the farm to his son Armand, in 1952. Documents listing the Bergevin family’s genealogy are also included.

The fonds contains textual documents related to the postal service during the Second World War and afterwards. More specifically, the documents are linked to the postal office in Mead, Ontario, a village located approximately 35 km from Hearst. In addition to some correspondence letters, the fonds contains guidelines on regulating the mail sent to or by the prisoners of war, who worked in labour camps in the region.

The fonds includes audiovisual documents and digital reproductions of photos related to the operations of the Gosselin Lumber Company, in Carey Lake and Calstock. Some of these photos belonged to the donor, others were reproduced with the permission of Roland Caron and Georges Gosselin. The fonds also contains textual and audiovisual records about the Double Rink Hockey Tournament of Hearst (Tournoi des Deux Glaces). Documents and photos of the area’s school buildings as well as miscellaneous records complete the fonds.

The fonds consists of records related to the company Benoît D'Amours Lumber founded by the donor, all of which were kept by the donator himself. The fonds consists of invoices, ledgers, mechanic manuals, legal documents, journals, and other.

The collection contains nine digital photos acquired from Briand Plourde and 19 digital photos obtained from Claude and Louise Auclair, dating from 1943 to 1960. Most of the photos show the logging village’s installations, including the school and the cookery. Members of the Plourde and Auclair families also appear on several of them.

The fonds contains textual, photographic and audio documents relating to Jean-Roch Pelletier’s personal life and religious career starting with his collegial studies in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. The fonds also retraces the fifty years he spent serving as a priest in Northern Ontario.

The collection includes hundreds of slides relating to lumber work and to the hunting, fishing and trapping activities practiced by the Clamouse de la Touche family. Beautiful pictures of Northern Ontario landscapes are also part of the collection. Some of the slides can be found in Jacqueline de la Touche’s posthumously published book entitled Pris sur le vif. A few textual records are also part of the fonds.

The collection includes digital photos of the town of Opasatika and the facilities at the Nassau Lake from 1950 to 1970. Much of the digital photos show activities related to forestry work and to the development of the two villages. Others depict family members and outdoor activities. Some pictures date from the later decades.

The fonds contains the minutes of the RCSS No.1 Lowther school board in Coppell from 1951 to 1956 and from 1958 to 1960. It also includes the records of Le Club des Loisirs de Coppell, from 1968 to 1970.

The collection contains nine photos, showing the logging village’s installations and members of the Morneau family, from 1953 to 1961.

The collection contains textual records related to Northern Ontario railway networks, including an incomplete serie of schedules of the Canadian National (CN) passenger train, which ran through Northern Ontario between 1953 and 1989 and of VIA Rail’s schedule from 1987 to 1997. An incomplete collection of the magazine Branchline, student yearbooks from Iroquois Falls High School, newspaper clippings, a map and flyers about the tourist attractions of Northern Ontario are also part of the collection.

The fonds consists of textual and photographic records related to the donor's family and the activities of the Mattice Lumber Company Limited created by Napoléon Gagnon.

The collection contains a 1963 issue of the students’ journal Aurore and a photographic document autographed by Bishop Louis Levesque on October 22, 1959. The collection includes one box of textual and photographic documents.

The collection contains 18 photos of some of the town’s landmarks and businesses, in the early 1960s and 1970s. It also includes three pictures of the Garnett family.