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The City of St. Thomas Engineering Department fonds consists primarily of photographs, both black and white and in colour, documenting structural defects in sidewalks and sewers, repairs, road widenings and other projects, alongside general documentation of roads, sewers, and buildings in St. Thomas, primarily from the 1940s through the 1970s.

This fonds consists of three series:

1. Events: Documentation, including reports, clippings, and photographs, surrounding large or notable events in which the City Engineer or Engineering Department was involved.
2. Photographs: Photographs documenting paving issues, sewer or maintenance work, or other projects done by City Engineering crew, arranged alphabetically by street name. Also includes a handful of miscellaneous images, filed in original order, documenting places, events, or items, such as dog pounds or storm damage.
3. Projects: Photographs, slides, and textual documents relating to more recent projects, from the 1970s up until 1998, often documenting the different stages of a large-scale project.

Fonds contains letters, notes and other documents collected by William Murch in his personal life and career as a bookseller and is arranged into the following series:
-Personal Records series
-Business Records series
-Publications series

Records created, collected and/or maintained by the Backus family of Dunwich Township. The fonds is comprised of the following series:
-Land records series, 1825-1906.
-Historical records series, 1877-1909.

The fonds contains records created by the Kettle Valley Pioneers, largely reflecting the planning process of the annual Elgin Historical Show. Includes meeting minutes and attendance records from the Kettle Valley Pioneers. The fonds also contains correspondence, bulletins published by the Kettle Valley Pioneers, publicity and advertising materials, and scrapbooks. The fonds is arranged into the following series:
-Scrapbooks series, 1970-2005.
-Elgin Historical Show Materials series, 1979-1988.
-Administrative Records series, 1979-1989.
-Correspondence series, 1979-1991.
-Newsletters series, 1982-1996.
-Minutes series, 1979-2010.
-Attendance records series, 1984-2001.
-1985 IPM series, 1985.
-Publicity and Advertising series, 1991-1998.

This fonds consists of member registers (1874-1960), meeting registers (1918-1960), minute books (1908-1981), correspondence (1940-2003), financial information (1886-1992), leases (1889-1899), and assorted ephemera relating to Masons in general, and events or persons belonging to Cameron Lodge. These records were created, maintained, and preserved by the Lodge, and remain of particular importance due to losing many records in their earlier years.

There are four series within the fonds:

1. Administration (membership ledgers, minute books, and meeting information, and any other information concerning Lodge meetings)
2. Correspondence
3. Financial (cash books, account books, auditors’ reports, invoices, and receipts)
4. Miscellaneous (blueprints for the 1957 Lodge building, copies of two original leases, information about an early member of the Lodge, and assorted materials relating to Lodge charity work and meetings)

Collection contains material collected, created or maintained by Shirley Ewanick, mostly regarding the history of cemeteries in Elgin County. Also contains research material relating to the history of street names in St. Thomas.

Fonds consists of records created by the Boxall Women's Institute. Fonds is arranged into the following series:
-Meeting Minutes series
-Meeting Programs series
-Tweedsmuir History series

Fonds consists of 36 photographs collected by Bruce Marshall. Many of the photographs are of minor hockey teams, many of which were connected to St. Thomas, Ontario.

The collection consists of photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings and memorabilia documenting the personal history of Stan Speers, as well as the history of Port Stanley, Ontario and the surrounding areas. Main areas of interest include the Stork Club, Guy Lombardo, and the London Port Stanley Railway Line.

This collection contains the following series:
-Correspondence series, 1937-1960
-Documents series, 1896-1984
-Historical Records series, 1978
-Photographs series, 1925-1981
-Postcards series, 1912-1977

Fonds consists primarily of photographs of the Vernon Smith family and their friends in Port Stanley and vicinity. Fonds has been divided into the following series:
-Photographs, 1937-ca. 1957
-Newspaper clippings, 1956
-Essays, ca. 1957
-Correspondence, 1957-1960

Fonds contains miscellaneous material collected by Robert and Patricia Moore, with relevance to St. Thomas and Elgin County's history. Includes photographs, newspapers and newspaper clippings, magazines, publications, documents, maps, miscellaneous ephemera and a philatelic collection containing envelopes, postcards and stamps. Collection is arranged into the following series:

1. Philatelic Collection series
2. Ephemera series
3. Scrapbook series
4. Elgin County history series
5. St. Thomas history series
6. Maps series
7. Newspaper series
8. Photographs series
9. Publications series
10. Railway records series
11. County records series

Fonds consists of an accounts ledger of the Springfield Horticultural Society.

Fonds consists of ten scrapbooks created and maintained by the Wallacetown Optimist Club between 1983 and 2005.

This collection is comprised of research notes, award and society information, letters and stamps which comprise early postal markings and history of Elgin County and the surrounding region, 1833-2017

Fonds consists of records created and maintained by the River Road Women's Institute. Fonds is arranged into the following series:
-Minutes series, 1930-1998
-S.S. #4 (River Road) School series, 1882-1944
-Tweedsmuir Histories series, 1946-2005

Fonds consists of photographs, newspaper clippings and other records documenting the history of the St. Thomas plant of Canadian Timken Limited. Fonds is arranged into the following series:
-Newsletters series, 1989-1992
-Newspaper Clippings series, 1963-2016
-Photographs series, 1946-2004
-Special Events series, 1946-[ca. 2000]

Fonds consists of records created by the Municipality of Central Elgin and is arranged into the following series:
-Clerk's series, 1997
-Council series, 1998-2016

Fonds consists of records created, collected or maintained by Catherine Neff. Fonds is arranged into the following series:
-Central United Church, St. Thomas series, 1897-2010
-Alma College Valleyview Satellite Home series, 1980-1990
-Elgin Historical Society series, 1983-1991

Collection consists of photographs, newspapers and other documents collected by Maggie Moore, predominantly relating to Shedden, Ontario.

Fonds contains ledgers and account books maintained by George B. O'Malley for his threshing business in Wallacetown, Ontario, for the years 1870-1930.