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Fonds consists of records documenting the Stinson family, primarily the legal and political career of T.H. Stinson. Family records include Christmas cards, wedding invitations, family portraits, travel records (postcards, booklets, photographs), and Ella Stinson's (nee Robson) correspondence.

Treasurer's book listing receipts, expenditures, statements of exchange, ticket sales, concert statements, recapitulation statements, and annual statements for the Peterborough Male Voice Choir between 1920 and 1939. Most statements are written directly into the book, while some are typed and glued in or inserted. Statements for concerts indicate performances at Port Hope, Coburg, Peterborough, Lakefield, and Fenelon Falls, as well as a broadcasted concert that was held on May 19, 1926. Also included are statements relating to the Ontario Music Festival Fund. Some additional items are inserted inside the front cover of the book, such as a copy of a paid loan from the Canadian Bank of Commerce from 1929 and the on-board menu for a May 26, 1929 dinner on the return trip of the choir from New York via the Lehigh Valley Railroad.

Series consists of records relating to T.H. Stinson's political career between [192-?] and [ca. 1944]. Included are campaign files; notes regarding Leslie Frost's 1934 provincial campaign; correspondence; 1937 election posters; federal (1935) and provincial (1937) voter tally boards; polling information for the Electoral District of Victoria ([192-?]); and maps for the District of Victoria, Haliburton and surrounding districts ([193-?]), and Bobcaygeon ([ca. 1944]).

This fond consists of three scrapbooks of assorted clippings covering topics such as: handicrafts, holidays, recipes, entertainment, poetry and songs. It also includes attendance records, trustee meetings, teachers’ contacts, religious instruction, authorized textbooks and other education related records for School Section No. 10, Brock Township, Ontario. Lastly, there are three atlases in this collection. Two of them are of the county of Ontario and the third one is a geographical, astronomical, historical home atlas.

File contains a 1895-1912
ledger that was used as a scrapbook in the 1910s and 1920s. Some of original entries not covered over by clippings include minutes of trustees’ meetings (1906-1907) and accounts (1895-1900, 1906-1910). The newspaper clippings relate to bridal showers, weddings, Halloween, Christmas, New Years, Valentines Day, St. Patrick's Day, recipes, entertainment, readings and songs.

File contains a 1901 register that was used as a scrapbook in the 1930s with newspaper clippings of children's stories and animal pictures. Register includes a list of textbooks authorized for use in public schools and a programme of studies for public schools.

File contains a register that includes a section on religious instruction and selected scripture readings for 1916, an outline of instruction to be given in elementary agriculture and horticulture, and rules regarding structure of school and sessions.

File contains a ledger that includes an itemized list of expenses, including teachers’ salaries, annual report of school board meetings (1871-1881), and copies of contracts between the school board and teacher ([187-]-1874).

This fonds consists of photocopies of manuscripts, 2 pages per frame; 2 articles. 1. Uber die Eigenart Kultursoziologischer Erkenntuis (on the nature of cultural - sociological knowledge - pp. 174, begun September 1922. 2. Eine Soziologische Theorie der Kultur und ihrer Erkennbarkeit (Konjuktives und Kommunikatives Denken) - A Sociological Theory and its Knowability - Conjunctive and Communicative Thought) written in approximately 1924.

The fonds consists of a minute book of the directors of Wallace Point Bridge and Road Company, dated 31 October 1886 to 15 June 1879 and a stock book. The fonds also includes a subscription list of the company's stock holders, dated 31 October 1866 and a plan of a bridge under construction, dated 15 February 1867.

This item is a scrapbook containing Victorian magazine clippings, newspaper clippings, receipts from a trip to Europe in 1885, clippings regarding John Miller's student days at Queen's University from 1882 to 1886, concert and theatre programs from Lindsay, Kingston, Peterborough (including ventriloquist and mind reading events), London, England theatre programs and newspaper clippings regarding a murder trial heard in Woodstock, Ontario, 1890.

This fonds consists of letters from a servant girl, Isabella Brownlie in Otonabee to her brother Claud in Scotland. After 1845, the letters are from Isabella and her husband James Miller. The fonds also contains two photographs, one of Isabella's brother, Claud Brownlie, with his wife, Elizabeth [Kendrick], and the second of Claud Brownlie alone, as well as a diploma for Thomas Menzies Miller, 1891.