Collection is comprised of research material accumulated or created by Murray VanZanten during the course of his research into early financial institutions in St. Thomas and Elgin County. The records were collected and compiled ca. 2008-2010, and organized according to either general information about all the financial institutions in St. Thomas and Elgin County, or divided into subject files about each individual bank. The individual banks are:
-The Bank of the County of Elgin
-The Star Loan Company
-The Southwestern Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings and Loan Society
-The Southern Loan & Savings Company

Le fonds contient des documents reliés à la Credit Union de Kapuskasing de 1939 à 2005. Parmi les documents, on retrouve des registres financiers, de la documentation administrative, de la correspondance, des publications officielles, des annonces et des communiqués de presse, des règlements et des manuels, ainsi que des photographies imprimées et des négatifs.