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Fonds consists of correspondence between Captain James R. Allan and Vivien Beer of Strathroy, Ontario before Captain Allan, was killed; press clippings and photographs of Captain Allan and Private Walter Beer while serving in World War I, and scenes of various members of the Beer family.

Fonds consists of correspondence of Albert Edward Kemp with political colleagues, government and parliamentary business. There is also financial material relating to Kemp Manufacturing Co., 1909-1923, including financial statements.

The fonds consists of newspaper clippings of Charles Bothwell Pyper's articles in the Telegram together with telegraphic messages that served as 'hard copy' for his articles from foreign posts; correspondence, and notes; and newspaper clippings from several other newspapers. It includes a typescript of 'Chamberlain and his critics,' as well as earlier drafts, typescripts, some with corrections, of a book on Winston Churchill, and drafts of unpublished dramatic productions by Pyper. The vast majority of the fonds consists of newspaper clippings, notes and related material concerning Pyper's journalism, arranged alphabetically by subject. Some of the subjects included in the fonds are: Clement Attlee, Lord Beaverbrook, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Winston Churchill, Joseph E. Davies, Anthony Eden, the League of Nations, Palestine in the post-war years, the Spanish Civil War, the Suez Crisis, the United Nations, and World War II.

The fonds consists of a diary of E.C.A. Gordon and account book for work in the shipyards at Galatea, Constantinople, for the year 1856. The accounts are kept in piastres [Spanish currency] and British pounds.

The collection consists of war diaries of the 2nd Field Company of Canadian Engineers (including Intelligence summaries and progress reports) for the period, 1915-1919, 1940-1941 (latter dates confined to Fort York, Toronto). In addition, there are regimental documents including list of regimental numbers, officers and men discharged (1915-1918), nominal rolls, transfer rolls, daily register, register of recruits (1930-1943), and company orders (1921-1925).

Fonds consists of personal files containing correspondence, articles, photographs, certificates, etc. relating to Ernest Bartlett's family and career with the Toronto Telegram.

Series consists of images from WWI in which Addision Alexander and his brother Ross, both served. Many photos depict other men from Vaughan, Ontario who also joined the war. Includes some excellent scenes of camp life and the destruction wrought by the war in France.

File contains letters and postcards written to female members of the Hall family. Several are from men on active service in the First World War: Private W. J. Davis of 599 Company, Dar es Salaam (of 117 Follis Avenue, Toronto); Private J.H. Whaley, Royal Canadian Dragoons; Private Howard Witheridge, 208 Irish Canadians, Canadian Special Hospital; J Smith of the Imperial Royal Flying Corps in Camp Taliaferro, Texas; One is from Private Jim Anderson who was serving in the Seaforth Highlanders in the Second World War.

Photographs of men and aircraft at Camp Mohawk and Camp Rathbun, Deseronto, Ontario. Include several of crashes and three of Lieutenant Colin Goss Coleridge's funeral on July 26th, 1918. Men (air cadets) identified in the photographs are Paul Townsley and J. Smith. The photograph of J. Smith was taken at Camp Rathbun but sent from Fort Worth, Texas, in January 1918.

Most of the papers deal with Bell's activities as part of the Hastings Militia. Bell served under his friend, John Ferguson, and in 1825 succeeded him as colonel in command of the 1st Regiment, Hastings Militia. There is a small quantity of personal correspondence and 23 items relating to his role as Justice of the Peace and Coroner. Also included is a small file of correspondence from Robert Laing, who succeded Bell as schoolmaster on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Reserve. Fonds consists of of the following series: Correspondence, 1779-1836 Correspondence, Public Offices, 1799-1833 Robert Laing, 1795-1823 1st Regiment, Hastings Militia, 1798-1831

The fonds consists of various materials relating to the history of the Oxford Rifles and is organized into the following Series and Subseries:

Series 1: Administration
a) Constitution/By-laws
b) Minutes
c) Financial
d) History

Series 2: Military papers
a) Regimental/Service/Enlistment Rolls
b) Orders
c) Certificates/General Military documents
d) War Diaries
e) Correspondence

Series 3: Oxford Rifle Band
a) Financial
b) Concerts
c) Sheet Music

Series 4: The Oxford Rifle Association
a) Financial
b) Newsletters
c) Reunion

Series 5: Scrapbooks

Series 6: Miscellaneous

This fonds consists chiefly of records related to William Victor Tranter (1894-1915), known as “Victor”, and his time serving with the 1st Canadian Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, during World War I. Includes his diary written from December 27, 1914 to June 7, 1915 including his experiences at the Battle of Ypres, four letters written by Victor to family between April 1914 and May 1915, photograph of Victor ca. 1914, death certificate, correspondence from hospital chaplain, Sister Rose, and Town of Southampton to Victor’s parents, William and Annie Tranter, In Memoriam Card, transcript of cemetery registration and gravemarker, photograph of gravemarker at Wimereux Communal Cemetery Pas de Calais, France, and newspaper notice of Victor’s death.

Colonel Babcock always intended to write his memoirs, but a busy life intervened. The contents and arrangement of his papers reflect this intent but unfortunately much of the research is incomplete. The papers are grouped roughly by subject, usually a military unit and then chronologically. The holograph items are limited. Much of the fonds consists of clippings, ephemera, keepsakes and the like. Scouting and the James Taylor material were given special treatment in his filing system. There is also a limited file on the establishment of Adolphustown Provincial Park and a file about issues with local ferries. Many of the photographs in the fonds are snapshots, undated and identified only by nicknames. The books are stories from the First World War. Fonds is comprised of the following series: World War One Royal Air Force, 1918 Frontenac Regiment, 1920-1936 Militia, 1914-1945 Clippings about military history Personal interests, including Legion and P.C. Party Boy Scouts, 1922-1979 Personal letters and memorabilia, 1969-1980 House of Commons debates, 1980 Scrapbook about 146th Battalion, 1915-1917 Scrapbook of Frontenac Regiment, mostly 1923-1936 Photographs, 1916-1945

The fonds consists of various materials relating to the life of Joseph W. Boyle as well as the repatriation of his body to Woodstock in 1983 from Hampton Hills, England. Such materials include:

Miscellaneous information:

• Oxford Historical Society Newsletters re. Joe Boyle
• Correspondence
• Russian Decorations
• Outline for Military Funeral Procession for Joe Boyle in Woodstock – 1983.

Newspaper articles:

• life of Joe Boyle (Klondike days and military career during WWI)
• Joe Boyle Repatriation Committee / Repatriation of Joe Boyle’s body to Woodstock

Photographs and Negatives:

• Joe Boyle (throughout his lifetime including years in the Klondike, military career, etc)
• Yukon Trip – 1976. (Len Taylor, Ruth Taylor, Ed Bennett, Lee Bennett and Flora Boyle Frisch)
• Flora Boyle Frisch (daughter of Joe Boyle) – 1982.
• Hampton Hill, England gravesite – 1982.
• Joe Boyle Monument, Woodstock. – [198-].
• Joe Boyle Repatriation – 1983.
• Joe Boyle Day, Woodstock – 1983.

Beta Video:

• Joe Boyle Day 1983 and Flora Bole Frisch Interview Cassettes:
• Dawson City: Land of the Midnight Sun produced by Miriam Evans & Cathy Jones-Gates,
  manufactured by Finley-Holiday Film Corp. – nd.
• Flo Whyard on “Morning Side” on CBC. – nd. (name Martha Black is also written on the cassette)
• Interview with Len W. “Red” Taylor by Kathie Richards, recorded at Woodstock, ON. – 25 September 1985.
• Interview with Ed Bennett on Klondike Joe Boyle by Kathie Richards. – 10 May 1985.