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The collection consists of the documents listed in inventory.

The fonds contains documents relating to Brigitte Labelle Lacroix’s school years at a catholic elementary school named Saint-Pascal-Baylon in the Côtes-Des-Neiges neighborhood in Montreal. Among the documents are notebooks containing daily homework exercises in composition, grammar, music, drawing and so on. In addition to these documents, some textbooks published in the 1920s are also found in the fonds. Also part of the fonds are notebooks belonging to Bernadette Labelle, Brigitte’s mother, when she was a student at the elementary school in Saint-Janvier, Quebec at the end of the 19th century.

The collection contains textual records relating to Fryatt's school, including daily and general registers and a document presenting the equipment used in the school's operation, in 1929. The village of Fryatt was located between Mattice and Val Côté in the vicinity of what is today known as Fryatt Road. Since 1975, the former Fryatt site is part of the municipality of Mattice-Val Côté.

The fonds contains textual documents related to the postal service during the Second World War and afterwards. More specifically, the documents are linked to the postal office in Mead, Ontario, a village located approximately 35 km from Hearst. In addition to some correspondence letters, the fonds contains guidelines on regulating the mail sent to or by the prisoners of war, who worked in labour camps in the region.

This collection includes 15 microfilms. Except for the numbers published in 1914, it contains all the issues from founding of the newspaper in March 1912 until 1938. The numbers published in 1950 are also available.

The collection includes six digital photos of the Canada Fowarding Company’s installations in Carey Lake and four digital classroom photos from École Sainte-Thérèse in Hearst, in 1951-1952.

The collection contains digital photos dating from 1898 to 1954. Most of them show members of the Coulombe family when they were living in Hearst, including Eveline's parents as well as her siblings: André, Cécile, Georgette, Léo, Robert and Yvonne. In addition, there are some pictures of their neighbors and friends from Hearst, such as Claude Larose's family. Others illustrate students at école Sainte-Thérèse and a few buildings in Hearst, at that time. There are also textual documents that the donor has kept, as souvenirs from her childhood in Hearst. It includes an autograph album where we find the signature of several people living in Hearst in the early 1940s, as well as religious images and correspondence.

The collection includes hundreds of slides relating to lumber work and to the hunting, fishing and trapping activities practiced by the Clamouse de la Touche family. Beautiful pictures of Northern Ontario landscapes are also part of the collection. Some of the slides can be found in Jacqueline de la Touche’s posthumously published book entitled Pris sur le vif. A few textual records are also part of the fonds.

The fonds contains a register of a regional hairdressing salon in the 1940’s. In addition to names of clients and their hometowns, prices for the services received have been noted. Photos of nurses, assistant nurses and nuns working at Notre-Dame Hospital in Hearst, in 1958, are also found in the fonds.

The collection contains photos illustrating the life of the Collin family from their arrival in the region until the 1960s. There are also photos of the Poliquin family and of l’école Sainte-Thérèse. Photographic documents highlighting the life and work of the nursing assistants and of the other members of the Notre-Dame Hospital’s staff, during the 1950s, are also part of the collection.

The collection contains nine digital photos acquired from Briand Plourde and 19 digital photos obtained from Claude and Louise Auclair, dating from 1943 to 1960. Most of the photos show the logging village’s installations, including the school and the cookery. Members of the Plourde and Auclair families also appear on several of them.

This collection contains documents related to Léonard Larochelle’s work as a teacher at Le Séminaire de Hearst.

The collection contains photos dating from 1960 and 1961. The photos show nurses, assistant nurses and nuns working at Notre-Dame Hospital in Hearst.

The collection contains nine photos, showing the logging village’s installations and members of the Morneau family, from 1953 to 1961.

The fonds contains textual records relating to the Franco-Ontarian community between 1925 and 1962. In addition to a few documents relating to the Immacculée-Conception parish, information on different francophone organizations to which the parish was affiliated can be found. Much of the documents focus on the Association canadienne-française d’éducation d’Ontario (ACFÉO). Among the documents are letters, pamphlets, reports, studies, newspaper clippings, press releases as well as some publications.

The fonds consists of moving images related to the donor’s family and acquaintances as well as the town of Hearst and Henry Selin Forest Products. These moving images are about weddings, christenings, hunting and fishing, Christmas celebrations with family, trips, and events such as a fire in Hearst, the strike at Henry Selin Forest Products in 1962, a parade in Hearst and others.

The collection contains a 1963 issue of the students’ journal Aurore and a photographic document autographed by Bishop Louis Levesque on October 22, 1959. The collection includes one box of textual and photographic documents.

This collection contains issues of the weekly Le Canadien de l’Ontario-Nord from 1961 and 1963. These publications provide us with information about several aspects of Northern Ontario’s realities at the time. The francophone situation as well as the economic, educational, political, religious, social and labor activities of the Kapuskasing-Hearst area are discussed.

The fonds contains photographic documents relating to the trial of the lumbermen accused of unlawful assembly following the shooting that took place at Reesor Siding, during the night of February 11, 1963. Located 55 kilometers west of Kapuskasing, Reesor Siding was a railroad siding, where pulpwood had been stalked. The wood had been cut and pilled by non-unionized woodsmen, settlers’ cutting permits licensees and members of the Coopérative forestière de Val Rita, a forestry cooperative. The lumbermen on strike were employees of the Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company in Kapuskasing and the Kimberly Clark Pulp and Paper in Longlac and were members of locals 2995 and 2693 of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union. They were going to Reesor Siding to bring down the pilled wood so that it wouldn’t get to the Spruce Falls paper mill in Kapuskasing. Upon the arrival of the strikers, members of the cooperative opened fire. Three strikers were killed, eight were wounded.

The fonds consists of photographic and audiovisual records related to Newaygo Timber Co. in Mead in the 1940’s and 1950’s, the Finnish community in Hearst and the development of the town of Hearst.