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

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 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 fonds contains textual and photographic records of Roland Cloutier’s involvement in Northern Ontario’s lumber industry. It provides information on some of the Hearst area lumber companies and on organizations such as the Hearst Lumbermen’s Association and the Ontario Lumber Manufacturers’ Association. The fonds also includes documents pertaining to the Hearst Forest Management company, the Northern Ontario Development Corporation, and to René Fontaine in his role as a member of the Ontario legislature and minister in the Ontario government. This is complemented by government reports, studies analyzing the situation and needs of the lumber industry and of Northern Ontario’s economy, handbooks relating to the working practices of the industry and maps mostly illustrating cutting rights in the forest of the region.

Fonds consists of records relating to the general store and sawmill owned by the Richards family at Balaclava Ontario 1896-1947. The general store records include: detailed supplier invoices 1896-1910, 1914-1933; incoming and outgoing correspondence 1897-1942 and orders and order receipts 1899-1928; general ledgers and day books 1868-1896; profit and loss accounts 1901-1905; store inventories 1903-1904, 1911 and cash books 1901-1911, 1937-1938. There are also general lumber orders 1931-1946 in box 12.

For the sawmill there are time books 1905-1926; log books of logs cut for the sawmill 1895-1927; log book accounts 1908-1910, 1934-1939; lumber and timber contracts 1898-1910; and railway tie contracts 1914-1927.

There are also miscellaneous files relating to the Richards family including insurance certificates 1899-1913; Harry Richards’ income taxes 1916-1923 and 1933-1940; and William Richards’ notebooks for money owed 1892-1898 as well as his estate accounts 1908-1912. There are also records relating to the public school board of Grattan and Brougham Townships 1891-1931 and the Brougham and Grattan Telephone Co. 1907-1921.

The documents are arranged into three series: 1) General Store Records and Orders; 2) Financial Records; and, 3) Subject Files.

The Marsh Store was a community hub for Coldstream and Lobo Township. There are eight series. These include store records, sawmill and gristmill records, and woollen mill records. Other businesses that operated out of there were: the Coldstream Telephone Company ; Lobo Mutual Fire Insurance; and the Great Western Railway and Telegraph Company. Of special interest are the magazines and books located in the Public Library collection which also operated out of the Marsh Store. Jacob Marsh was also involved with the local council which also operated from his store.