This fonds consists of financial records, ships logs and Crown land patents created by and/or belonging to Captain John Spence and his sons, reflecting some of their personal and business dealings.

Fonds consists of women's groups' records, 1938-1989, and youth group records, 1956-1959, of Settlement United Church, Tobermory, 1938-1991; women's groups' records of Harbour United Church, Tobermory, 1979-1991; records of Tobermory United Church (includes Tobermory Pastoral Charge, Harbour United Church and Settlement United Church), 1927-2012.

This book includes a stock book that lists the Tobermory General Store's inventory of dry goods, drugs, groceries, hardware and book accounts in January 1895. It also includes a daybook listing the customers and their purchases by day from April 1897 to July 1897. The back half of the book consists of the daybook for the Pike Bay and Dyer's Bay General Stores from July 1898 to January 1902.