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This fonds contains a variety of materials created or relating to IOOF Alexandra Lodge No. 337. Items include minute books, cash and receipt books, attendance and membership registers, copies of by-laws, certificates, photographs, medallions, and pins.

This fonds contains records pertaining to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) St. Thomas Lodge #32 (Elgin Lodge). Records include membership and financial records, historical documents, meeting minutes, bylaws, and facility records.

Records are organized into the following series:

1.Meeting Minutes, 1949-1993

2. By-Laws, 1922-1952
3. Membership Records, 1854-2000
4. Officers’ Roll Book 1926-2000
5. Financial Records, 1854-1997
6. Historical Documents, 1854-1878, 1978, 2000
7. Facility, 1951-1953
8. Cemetery, 1951-1979

Fonds consists of records of the Iona Station Women’s Institute.
Fonds includes the following series:
-Minutes, 1928-1990
-Programmes, 1929-1978
-Tweedsmuir History, 1929-1984
-Scrapbooks, 1958-1990

Fonds consists of administrative records of the Iona Women’s Institute, Iona, Ontario, including minute books and a newspaper article. The fonds has been arranged into the following series: 1. Minutes, 1915-1985 2. Historical information, 1959

Fonds consists of approximately 200 file cards with typescript summaries of notices originally published 1902-1918 in the St. Thomas Daily Times, the St. Thomas Evening Journal, London Free Press and other newspapers relating to the Southwestern Traction Company, the London and Lake Erie Railway and Transportation Company, and the London & Port Stanley Railway.

Collection contains several thousand items, including correspondence, photographs, personnel records, financial records, subscription books, lease agreements, maps, plans and drawings from a number of railway companies that operated in Elgin County. This includes the Michigan Central Railroad, the London & Port Stanley Railway, the Pere Marquette Railway Company, the Grand Trunk Railway, the Wabash Railroad Company, Canada Southern, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, the Canadian National Railways, the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Consolidated Rail Company (Conrail), as well as many of their subsidiary companies. There is a strong emphasis on the Michigan Central Railroad and the London and Port Stanley Railway.

The collection provides insight into the day-to-day interactions between local businesses, residents and the railway companies that were operating in Elgin County and increases our understanding of the county’s economic development over time. The collection documents changes in the county’s built environment as a result of the development of railway in the area, and illustrates the evolution of railway technology from early steam engines to electrified and high-speed rail.

The collection also includes personal records belonging to Ken Verrell, reflecting his role in various local organizations and his interest in railway history.

The collection is arranged into the following series:
-Photographs series
-Postcards series
-Michigan Central Railroad Records series
-Canada Southern Railway Records series
-Pere Marquette Railway Records series
-Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Records series
-London and Port Stanley Railway Records series
-Grand Trunk Railway Records series
-Wabash Railroad Records series
-Canadian Pacific Railway Records series
-Canadian National Railways Records series
-Conrail Records series
-Miscellaneous Railways Records series
-General Railway History series
-St. Thomas Railway History series
-Labour Unions Records series
-Elgin Photographic Heritage Society Records series
-Elgin County History series
-St. Thomas History series
-Personal Records and Memberships series
-Miscellaneous Records series
-Newspaper Clippings series
-Audio-Visual series

Fonds contains records created or collected by Kenneth McIver Williamson, who owned and operated local businesses and was also involved in municipal politics, serving as Reeve, Town of Aylmer from 1952-1956 and Warden, County of Elgin in 1954. Includes correspondence, prepared speeches, photographs, an architectural plan and letterhead.

Fonds consists of a Tweedsmuir History which gives a history of Lawrence Station and surrounding area.

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

Records created and/or maintained by the Kiwanis Club of St. Thomas. Records have been divided into the following series:

1. Special Events, 1931-2000
2. Historical records, 1940-1990
3. By-laws, 1941-2001
4. Financial records, 1941-2004
5. Reports, 1944-2003
6. General correspondence, 1947-2001
7. Newsletters, 1948-2004
8. Membership records, 1949-2009.
9. Minutes, 1952-2004
10. Clubs, 1962-1966
11. Service Projects, 1970-2001

This fonds is comprised of records relating to the Knox Presbyterian Church in Belmont. Fonds is comprised of the following series:
-Annual Reports, 1907-2003
-Cradle Roll, 1938-1980
-History, 1939-1997
-Sunday School, 1940-1976
-Photographs, ca. 1950
-Programmes, 1997-2004

Colour slides, ca. 1968-ca. 1986, showing Norfolk & Western, Canada Southern, Chesapeake & Ohio, and miscellaneous other railway cars, infrastructure and staff, most from St. Thomas and area, along with jpg/tiff format image files digitized from the original slides on a series of dvds.
Slides relate to the following subjects (from donor-supplied image folder labels):
Caso Canadian Assigned Locomotives
Caso Car Dept Employees
Caso CNCP Era
Caso Local Trains
Caso Loco Shop Detroit Switchers
Caso Loco Shop Employees
Caso Misc Employees
Caso Passenger [Trains]
Caso Run Though Trains
Caso St Thomas Loco Shop
Caso Train Trips
Caso Waycars and Misc
Caso Wrecks
Caso Trackage
[Chessie] Derailments
NW Wreck Simcoe [June 1975]
CO/CHESSIE: St. Thomas area; CASO: early years
CO/CHESSIE: St. Thomas area; CASO: later years
NORFOLK & WESTERN RR: St. Thomas area

Fonds consists primarily of photographs of the Lemon family and their friends in the West Lorne vicinity. There are also many photographs documenting the Lemon's Store in West Lorne. Fonds has been divided into the following series:
-Photographs, 1881-1979
-Historical Research records, 1904-1981
-Correspondence, 1917-1979

Fonds consists of three accounts ledgers created and maintained by the Lyons Cheese Manufacturing Company in Lyons, Ontario.

Fonds consists of records created, collected and maintained by the Lyons Women's Institute, Lyons, Ontario. Fonds is arranged into the following series: 1. Minutes, 1920-1979 2. Tweedsmuir History, 1908-1977 3. Miscellaneous, [195-?]-1990

Fonds consists of correspondence received by Robert MacKenzie, primarily in response to an ad for farm labourers/managers which was posted in the Sunday Post (Scotland) on his behalf by John McGregor on February 13th, 1949. The original ad read:

"Here's A Chance! I am an emigrant who has been in Canada only a few weeks. A new store for feeding stuffs opened here the other day. They gave a free dance and 80 prizes. While I was at the dance I was approached by a farmer. He asked if I knew a young couple experienced in farming. He has two farms and would like to find a fully experienced young couple to run an 83-acre one. The farmer's name is -Robert Mackenzie, Edgeware Road, St Thomas, Ont., Canada -John McGregor, Dutton, Ontario."

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

This fonds consists of the records created by the Trustees of the Malahide/ Yarmouth/ South Dorchester Township Union School Section No. 15/13/21 (Kingsmill School).
Includes the following series:
-Financial records, 1901-1954
-Minutes, 1901-1964

The McRae Family fonds contains records and photographs of the McRae, Cook, Matheson, Hodges, Gray and McKenzie families, which was maintained by Mary Belle Cook (nee McRae). These families were originally from Scotland and settled in the West Lorne, Aylmer and St. Thomas areas. The fonds is arranged into the following series:

Family Insurance Documnents series
Land Records series
Memorials and Obituaries series
Personal Records series
Photographs series

Fonds consists of various records created and maintained by the Michigan Central Railway. Fonds includes:
•Record of locomotives through St. Thomas shops for classified and unclassified repairs, with history of individual rail motor cars, 1936-1959 (R6 S1 Sh3 B7)
•Locomotives repair/ maintenance logbook, with index, 1902-1936 (also contains a colour depiction of a standard type Grant locomotive, 1873 and a certificate dated November 13, 1962 attesting that R.G. Ray is a life member of Charity Lodge No. 5, B. of L.F. and E. (Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen) (R6 S1 Sh3 B7)
•Index of railway engines acquired and disposed of, 1880-1907 (R6 S1 Sh3 B7)
•In volume with running head "Record of Traveling Auditor's Reports and Bond of Agent", records of the certification/ qualification, discipline and dismissal etc. for Michigan Central Railway engineers and firemen, 1872-1909. Not indexed. (R6 S1 Sh1 B3)
•Records of the certification/ qualification, discipline and dismissal etc. for Michigan Central Railway engineers and firemen, 1872-1931. Indexed. (R6 S1 Sh1 B3)
•Record of enginemen, 1903-1930. Not indexed. (R6 S1 Sh3 B3)