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Fonds consists of scrapbooks, archaeological photographs, and research papers generated primarily by Gilbert Bagnani. The fonds also includes earlier World War I military photographs generated by Ugo Bagnani. Some of the photographs show Mrs. Bagnani in court dress. Also included are Stewart Bagnani bridal photographs.

The fonds consists of the correspondence and manuscripts of the Peterborough author and teacher, Francis J.A. Morris, primarily relating to his interests in botany, entomology, and classical and modern literature. The papers include both prose and poetry selections, some of which are unpublished. Morris wrote for diverse journals, among them the Canadian Forum, and the Canadian Entomologist. Also among the papers are published copies of some of his works, and copies of the works of other authors, mainly in the field of natural science and botany or entomology. There are photographs included, some of which are reproduced here.

Fonds consists of travel brochures, postcards, correspondence, publications, photographs, and journals that document the Marnie McCulloch’s travel throughout Canada and Greenland. She visited Australia, British Columbia, Northern Manitoba, Hudson’s Bay, Greenland, the Northwest Territories, and Yellowknife . Fonds includes brochures, travel journals, newspaper clippings, postcards, and pamphlets about Inuit, Aboriginal Australian, and Haida art, which she collected in her travels.

Fonds also include essays written by Marnie McCulloch on the topics of her travels, Northern Canada, Northwest Coast First Nations, and other topics.

This addition to the fonds consists of articles and booklets written by Frank Morris; manuscripts and published articles by Douglas Sadler; correspondence, minutes of meetings relating to Sadler's involvement in environmental and naturalist issues and activities; correspondence relating to Teacher's College and several issues of the Young Naturalist. Fonds is arranged into 6 series:

• Frank Morris: published and unpublished articles, reviews, etc.
• Douglas Sadler: published and unpublished articles, manuscripts, reviews, research material, etc.
• Naturalist/environmental involvements with business organizations, government, etc.
• The Young Naturalist
• Correspondence
• Personal materials

Series consists of records documenting Sadler's involvement in various naturalist and environmental initiatives with businesses, government bodies, and other organizations. Records document The Outdoorsman Magazine, Campbell Productions documentary films, the Design Canada Education Seminar and Workshop Program, the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, the Provincial Wayside (Roadside) Conference (sponsored by the Otonabee Region Conservation Authority (ORCA) and The Federation of Ontario Naturalists) in Peterborough in 1965. Series also includes significant documentation on the Peterborough City/County Waste Management Study. Sadler was the chairman of the Public Liaison Committee that assisted with communication between the public and the Waste Management Steering Committee.

File consists of records documenting the Buckhorn Wilderness Centre (BWC) which was established in 1965, with Sadler as the founding president. The Otonabee Region Conservation Authority (ORCA) eventually became involved in operating, and later, in selling the Centre.

Series includes Early Days in Haliburton publication material and copied research material.

This collection consists of 278 slides taken by Rosemary McConkey during her work as a nutritionist in Malaya (1962) and in Nigeria (1965). McConkey was part of a team of medical personnel and scientists from the University of Ohio who undertook surveys of nutritional needs in these two areas. McConkey has supplied a detailed listing of the slides (below) and has also included a 45 r.p.m. recording of the national anthem of Malaya "Negara Ku,", six books relating to the two areas and a map of Malaya. A complete listing of all slides prepared by Rosemary McConkey is available in the Reading Room

Collection consists of an inventory of land locations for early settlers and inhabitants of Ops Township from the initial survey of the township in 1825 to 1872. It includes census information and assessments of households, various voter's lists, many Ops Township documents and one map for the 1839 Assessment Roll. The collection also includes a variety of cookbooks, recipes, food preparation manuals for specific cooking devices, and research notes.

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 includes a colour photo card of Christ Church, Devonshire, an envelope with stamps, and a map of York University.

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

File includes the following maps:

• North Shore, Georgian Bay (1930s)
• Shawanaga Bay (1930s)
• Muskoka (1940s)
• Muskoka (1940s)
• Muskoka (1940s)
• Sudbury – Cobalt – Porcupine region (1945)
• Muskoka Lakes (1949)
• Penny Sound (1950s)
• Aston, district of Nipissing (1956)
• Camp Wanapitei (two copies, 1980)
• Camp Wanapitei, Sandy Inlet (four copies)
• Dump closures, Temagami Lake
• Map showing public roads, private roads, and proposed Temagami planning area (3 copies)

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.

Fonds consists of call-up notification postcards (1874-1880) sent by Lieut.-Col. Alex. McKenzie of Barrie, Ontario, to Lieut. John Sutherland of Bond Head, Ontario regarding the Battalion being raised at Barrie for the Northwest Rebellion. Also included are genealogical records related to the Cummings and MacCallum families, a photocopy of a book written by Harley Cummings entitled Cummings-MacCallum: A Tale of Two Families; notes and other materials related to the teaching career of Cummings; three photographs: Hon. Thos. Mackay's Mills, Distillery etc. and part of New Edinburgh, Rideau Falls, New Edinburgh, from Railway Bridge, and an unidentified photo similar to the previous two; and three maps: 1. Ontario Department of Highways Road Map of the Provisional County of Haliburton, 1952 (original); 2. Plan of Part of York River and its Southern Tributaries, Egan's River, Hudson's Creek & Allen's Creek together with the Head Waters of the E. & W. Branches of Crow River & Buckhorn Branch of Ottanabe [Otonabee] River, Tributaries to the St. Lawrence, surveyed by John A. Snow, Hull, 1855 (in four sheets, copied from microfilm); 3. Plan of Part of York River, commencing at the Floodwood Jam, surveyed by John A. Snow, Hull, 1854 (in three sheets, copied from microfilm).