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Fonds consists of a scrapbook compiled during the Second World War. It includes a great range of Canadian newspaper clippings concerning airmen in South East Asia, notably in Burma, India, Saudi Arabia, Ceylon, Japan, etc. Arranged in chronological order, the clippings include examples of victories, defeats and historical accounts of events concerning Canadian airmen in South East Asia. Also, it includes photographs of airmen regarding their stories, medals, uniforms, customs, etc.

Fonds consists of 11 volumes of Squadron records during 1944 to 1945. Volumes 1-2 include operational reports (opreps) consisting of daily reports from 441 Squadron to various headquarters, including the Royal Air Force (RAF), Allied Expeditionary Air Force, and 144 Airfield. Also includes volumes regarding flight logs, honours and awards, flying accidents, casualties, the Squadron unit badge and monthly training and flying returns. Volume 4 includes the returns of the pilots’ flying times and is classified.

Fonds consists of files dealing only with the period when No. 442 Squadron was overseas during the Second World War. It includes a list of flying accidents along with a list of officers and/or aircrafts that went missing or died during the Squadron's overseas operations. Also included in are daily operational reports "Opreps", combat reports, weekly changes in strength of operational aircrafts, monthly flying times and monthly returns of officer and airmen pilots.

Fonds consists of the weekly newspaper “The Mercury” published by the 4th Canadian Armoured Divisional Signals in 1945. 13 issues of the publication are included from Sept. to Dec. 1945. The newspaper was published by the unit while it was in Almelo and Hilversum, Netherlands. Articles concern topics in unit life such as entertainment, sports, recruitments and departures, unit personnel, opinions and upcoming events. The pages also include photographs and satirical cartoons.

Fonds consists of files regarding the organization and administration of 664 Squadron during the Second World War. Progress reports, squadron routine orders (parades, details of duties, guards, disciplines, recreation, etc.), monthly security reports, air ministry return serials, personnel occurrence reports [for officers and airmen], and strength return RCAF personnel reports are all included in the fonds. The fonds also includes Squadron routine orders and reports regarding monthly flying times and flying accidents.

Fonds consists of files regarding a court of inquiry, activities, progress reports, transport work tickets, delivery returns, photographs, injury reports, as well as both flying and road accidents of 666 Squadron during 1945. The fonds also contains a file on the final disbandment of the Squadron.

Fonds consists of records of the Board of Directors/Board of Management, 1985-2015; records of committees, 1979-2001; legal and property records, 1986-1988, 2011; financial records, 1991-2015; and grant files, 2012-2017.

Fonds consists of files concerning Canada’s participation in the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991. Includes a wide variety of communication signals and messages that were transmitted and received from late January to March 1991. Also includes Central Registry files covering a wide variety of military subjects, including air tasking orders, military intelligence and Operation Desert Shield. There are also some miscellaneous files, including incoming and outgoing messages from the Canadian Liaison Officer, U.S. Central Command. There are three series:
I. Communications Signals and Messages
II. Central Registry Files
III. General Files

Collection consists of a scrapbook of the 9th Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire in Toronto. Scrapbook contains: correspondence; delegates' passes; invitations and programmes for various entertainment events, including the official delegates' welcome, a theatre party, a banquet, a sailing party, an automobile tour of Toronto, and other events; menus from the dining cars of the Canadian National Railway; newspaper clippings regarding the Congress from the Globe, the Mail and Empire, and the Star; a programme of the Congress, containing rules, resolutions, and lists of delegates; and a copy of the official report of the Congress.

Collection consists of records acquired by A. Burke Doran. The collection contains four pages removed from the guest book of the Black Bay Duck Club, a hunting club located near Ottawa. The pages were used as exhibits in the 1946 hearings of the Royal Commission to Investigate the Facts Relating to and the Circumstances Surrounding the Communication, by Public Officials and Other Persons in Positions of Trust of Secret and Confidential Information to Agents of a Foreign Power. The Royal Commission resulted from the 1945 defection of Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk for the military attache, Colonel Nikolai Zabotin, of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa. The pages bear the signature of Colonel Nikolai Zabotin and several other Soviet officials. Also included are correspondence between the legal branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Department of Justice, as well as J.J. Heeney, an original owner of the Black Bay Duck Club. The collection also contains two dictaphone wartime relocation certificates, and three samples of law firm letterhead.

Fonds consists of correspondence, 1910-1932, notes, addresses and articles, 1922-1931, daily journals and diaries, 1910-1923, biographical material; and photographs.

This fonds consists mostly of letters and other material created and accumulated by Douglas Alkenbrack during his political career as a Progressive-Conservative back-bencher in the House of Commons from 1962 until 1979. There are a few items which pre-date 1962, mostly local history, his interest in Second Depot Dam, and his poetry. Mr. Alkenbrack's major federal concerns were the bilingualism and biculturalism issue (the "Bi and Bi Commission"); Canadian citizenship; capital punishment; gun control and pensions. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Bilingualism and biculturalism issues Newspaper clippings Personal papers, 1899-1979 (mostly 1962-1979) Office Desk Constituency office papers, 1978-1979 Constituency office papers, 1977-1978 Constituency office papers, 1976-1977 Constituency office papers, 1974-1976 Twenty ninth parliament Twenty eighth parliament

Fonds consists of minute books, correspondence, and related materials of Peterborough organizations and churches, including the Peterborough Humane Society, Grace United Church, St. James United Church Men's Club, the Kala-Chi-Hi-Y Club of the Peterborough Y.M.C.A., Trinity United Church, Trinity Young Peoples' Club, and Grace United Church Boat People Committee. Also included are minutes, notes, and correspondence of The House of Four Seasons, a men's retreat centre organized by the Peterborough Presbytery Men's Council.

The fonds consists of ephemera, news clippings, publications, scrapbooks and photographs which reflect upon the Battalion's activities and procedures. Fonds consists of the following series: Publications Scrapbooks Newspaper Clippings

The fonds consists of records generated, collected and maintained during the course of his work as a historian, a collector of historical records, and as a doctor. Also included are records related to his family.

The fonds is organized into five series.

Fonds consists of materials documenting A. Fortescue Duguid's activities in the preparation of the "Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War 1914-1919" and his interest in military history. Also includes documents regarding the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915, military history publications, and various other subjects of a military nature. Includes correspondence, reports, articles, and various other documents. There are 6 series:
I. Papers relating to official histories (1921-1947)
II. Papers relating to the parts of "Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War" (1915-1947)
III. Correspondence regarding military history publications (1922-1947)
IV. Publications, reprints, narratives, etc. (1921-1962)
V. The Second Battle of Ypres, 1915 (1921-1936)
VI. Miscellaneous (1919-1962)

Fonds consists of Royal Ontario Museum administrative records, professional correspondence, and some research files belonging to Gordon Edmund, Curator of Paleontology, who retired in 1990.

Contents: autobiography of Irene Brown. The first fifteen pages are computer output typescript, the remaining 459 pages are ms.

Fonds consists of a floor plan of Casa Loma, and a pamphlet entitled The Castle-on-the-hill, Casa Loma Hotel, Toronto, Canada, by Lillian S. Foster.