The Fred and Ida Brown fonds consists of photographs, postcards and textual records created and collected by Frederick Erland Brown (1877-1968). The fonds documents members of the Brown and Bush families and showcases the vibrant lives of the Brown family living in Wilton, Ontario. Included are photographs and textual records of the Hested (Histed or Histes) family, Bell family and over four hundred postcards collected by the Brown family. Fred took great care with the arrangement and description of the photographs in this collection to represent the history of Ernestown, Napanee, Yarker, Wilton and other communities in Lennox and Addington County. The majority of the photographs in the collection were taken and developed by Fred Brown.

Fonds consists of records of Odessa Methodist Circuit (includes Odessa (formerly Mill Creek), Fourth Concession Church in Ernestown Township, Union Church, and Wilton), 1856-1922; records, including baptisms, 1898-1903, of Elginburg Methodist Circuit (includes Elginburg, Storrington (later Inverary), Glenvale, and Head of Lake (later Kepler)), 1881-1921; records of Odessa Methodist Church (includes Odessa Wesleyan Methodist Church), 1870-1911; baptisms, 1900-1913, marriages, 1858-1871 and 1900-1911, burials, 1900, 1907-1912, and 1917-1919, and circuit registers, 1859-1919, of Wilton Methodist Circuit (includes Wilton Wesleyan Methodist Circuit (Wilton, Clark's Mills (now Camden East), Moscow, Yarker, Harrowsmith, Sydenham, Denison's, Murvale, Switzer's, Lapum's, and Violet), Wilton, Violet, Lapum's, Florida, Victoria, and Camden East); records, including baptisms, 1901-1957, marriages, 1896-1974, and burials, 1901-1964, of Odessa Pastoral Charge (includes Odessa Methodist Circuit and Odessa Methodist Episcopal Circuit (Odessa, Westbrook, Beulah, Violet, and Victoria), Odessa, Wilton (to 1968), and Elginburg (since ca. 1968)), 1879-1974; records, including baptisms, 1905-1968, marriages, 1897-1975, and burials, 1905-1968, of Elginburg Pastoral Charge (includes Elginburg Methodist Circuit, Elginburg, Murvale, Kepler, and Glenvale), 1897-1975; records of Odessa United Church (includes Odessa Methodist Church), 1911-1967; records of women's groups of Wilton United Church (includes Wilton Methodist), 1921-1961; records of Elginburg United Church, 1928-1953; records of Murvale United Church, 1939-1968; and records of Glenvale United Church, 1947-1968.