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This fonds consists of correspondence, research notes and original documents which were collected by Professor David Macmillan during his research. Items such as voters' lists for Victoria County, Ontario and a series of broadsides advertising land in Victoria County; documents from the Hudson's Bay Company, East Indies; minutes from the Barbados Board of Legislative Council, a Sydney Australia Company, and the Sydney Australian Committee of the New Steam Company; and a number of reproduction engravings and prints are included in the fonds. Also included in the fonds is a copy of Macmillan's 1964 Ph.D. thesis: "The Scottish Australian Connection..." and assorted pamphlets relating to New South Wales.

This fonds consists of various original and copied records of the business activities of Thomas Hay, and related family data, such as birth-death records, correspondence, drawings (technical and sketches) and photographs. A small genealogical table compiled by the archivist is enclosed.

The fonds consists of the diaries of Harriet Pengelley (1835-1836), Robert Pengelley (1835), and A.E. Marguerite (Rita) Pengelley (1940-1941); correspondence; sketchbooks (1829-1830); drawings; and photographs. In 1994, an addition was made to the fonds which included a photocopy of a diary of Robert Pengelley (1837-1840) and textual records regarding the Pengelley family. In 2018, an addition of Pengelley family genealogical information was received. Some of the diaries have typewritten transcripts attached.

This fonds consists of records of Laura Belle Hodgins who was Chair of the Kitchener, Ontario, Branch of the Women's Voluntary Services from 1942 to 1946; papers and legal documents of Stanley and Laura Belle Hodgins who bought Camp Wanapitei (a wilderness canoe tripping camp) in the mid-1950s; and correspondence, legal records, financial records, and camper, staff and program records of Camp Wanapitei under the directorship of Bruce Hodgins from 1960 to 1985.

Series 3 consists of papers, correspondence and records relating to the operations, promotions, and activities of the canoe trip camp of Wanapitei at Lake Temagami, Ontario under the directorship of Bruce and Carol Hodgins.

File also includes a pencil sketch of two people canoeing, likely drawn by Carol, a newsletter with camp photographs (1980, 1981), and a photocopy of a newspaper story about Bruce and Carol Hodgins (1983).

File includes a diagram of a reflector oven by Carol Hodgins (February 1983).

Fonds consists of records documenting Robert Lightbody's experiences with Trent University, as a student, lawyer, fundraiser, and active alumnus. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, newspaper clippings, planning records, student records, pamphlets and other ephemera, course syllabi, and student governance records. Fonds also includes a speech and pamphlets from a talk given by Margaret Lightbody for the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW).

Fonds is organized into 11 series. Trent University student life; Student government and groups; Course materials; University development; Athletics building; Alumni Association and reunions; Trent properties, funds, and development; Bagnani Endowmnent; Photographs and alumni reunion; Newspaper clippings and images; Margie Lightbody CFUW speech.

Fonds consists of maps and plans of the Ottawa and Haliburton areas, time-books of Bronsons and Weston logging firm, and photographs of the building of a railway, and of the Haliburton area. Included also are research material and manuscripts relating to books which Harley R. Cummings wrote about schools in the Ottawa area, and on the history of Haliburton. Included are notes on John Strachan and a transcript of his diary. The fonds also includes several genealogical charts of the MacCallum family.

The fonds consists of the literary and personal correspondence; literary and poetic manuscripts; and typescripts of reviews of anthologies, lectures and essays by and about Arthur J.M. Smith. Also included in the fonds are photographs and prints.

File consists of drawings done of Trent University's campuses. There are drawings of Peter Robinson College, as well as drawings of different buildings on the Symons Campus. A drawing of Faryon Bridge with Champlain College in the background is also included. Some drawings are aerials of the whole Symons Campus.

File consists of a sketchbook, including glued in watercolour paintings, pencil drawings, and an engraving, and pieces of dried flowers and leaves.

File consists of a sketchbook that includes poems (some written in French), watercolour paintings, sketches and drawings, comments on the paintings and sketches (some written in French), letters, and glued-in engravings

File includes the following photographs and drawings:

• 1: Cabinet card of Major General Sir Isaac Brock
• 2: “Bonair", St. Peter's Port, Guernsey, C.I., ancestral home of the Brock family (original and photographic reproduction)
• 3: Photographic reproduction of sketch and layout of original "Brockland Cottage", Rice Lake
• 4: Harriet Catherine Brock (photographic reproduction of a framed photograph)
• 5: Harriet Catherine Brock, with biographical sketch by Miss Pengelley
• 6: Sketch (original) of Corville, France, by Miss Brock
• 7-10: Four items - floral picture: poem by Miss Brock; Miss Pengelley's comments on the poem (in original note and in photographic reproduction of note)
• 11: Photograph of pencil sketch of Catherine Mary Lamport, wife of Commodore John Pengelley (great grandmother of Miss Pengelley)
• 12: Commodore John Pengelley (xerox of miniature photograph - 2 copies) - (great grandfather of Miss Pengelley) [missing – envelope empty]
• 13: Copy of photo of Commander (Captain) Robert Lamport Pengelley, with biographical sketch (2 copies)
• 14: Certificate showing an engraving (1823) of Daniel De Lisle Brock

This fonds consists of approximately 843 original cartoons by A.G. Racey covering a wide range of subjects. Due to the universal nature of his cartoons, Racey gained international recognition and his works were reproduced in numerous newspapers and magazines around the world. A file list and descriptions of the cartoons, including dates where known, is available below.

Fonds consists of correspondence, journals, religious materials, and newspaper clippings related to the family of Thomas Alexander Stewart and Frances Stewart. Many papers originate from the family of their son, Henry Louis Stewart. Also included are a book about the Stewart family, Poole's history of Peterborough, a photograph of people at camp at "Indian Hill near Coldwater Ontario," a sketch of Auburn (the family homestead), and a map depicting townships with lots and concessions in the counties of Northumberland, Durham, Victoria, and Peterborough.

Also included is a postcard and card from Kady MacDonald Denton to James Felton.

File also included an image of a castle torn from a book.