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critics,' as well as earlier drafts, typescripts, some with corrections, of a book on Winston Churchill, and drafts of unpublished dramatic productions by Pyper.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 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.

File consists of two (2) copies of "A Community Service of Thanksgiving to Almighty God V-J Day" at the Cenotaph Central Park, Port Hope. Both feature "1945" written on front.

The photographs are arranged by subject matter and cover activities in and around the town of Deseronto, Ontario. The majority date from the late nineteenth century and many depict the lumber-related industries of the Rathbun Company in Deseronto. There are also photographs of school groups, churches, railways, First World War airfields and portraits of Deseronto citizens.

The fonds consists of records related to the personal life and political career of Donald Sutherland. It is arranged into the following series and subseries:

Series 1 – Personal

Series 2 – Political
a) Elections/Government Proceedings
b) Regulating speed and operation of motor vehicles
c) Agriculture
d) Colonization and Immigration
e) Indian Affairs
f) Welland Canal
g) Military

1. Rebellion 1837/Boer War
2. Fenian Raid Comp.
3. Armoury Ingersoll
4. WWI
5. WWII
6. Misc.
   h) Prohibition
   i) Women’s Franchise Act
   j) Combine Investigation Act (Tobacco)
   k) Senate
   l) Requests, favours, appointments
   m) Invitations and Events
   n) Miscellaneous Correspondence

Series 3 – County of Oxford
a) Woodstock Jail
b) Post Offices/Mail Routes
c) Noxon Co. / John Morrow Screw and Nut Company of Ingersoll
d) Zorra Log Church and Tug of War Team
e) Miscellaneous

Series 4 – Government
a) Federal/Provincial issues
b) Newspaper clippings
c) Liberal-Conservative Association
d) Photographs

The fonds consists of records relating to Edwin Seaborn's medical and military careers, research, and personal records. Included are ledgers, research notes, correspondence, programmes, invitations, scrapbooks, postcard collection, photographs, books, newspaper clippings; and copies of diaries, letters and reminiscences of various Middlesex County residents dating. The fonds consists of records created between 1883 - 1951.

The Dr. F. W. Luney fonds consists of 14 series (and 2 subseries) of records chronicling his scholarly beginnings as a medical student at the University of Western Ontario, his appointment as Senior Pathologist at Victoria Hospital, and the extent of his professional career as Clinical Laboratory Chief at St. Joseph’s Hospital until his retirement in 1961. During his career, Dr. Luney would enlist in the Canadian Army Medical Services Division during WWI, establish a Clinical Pathology Laboratory at St. Joseph’s Hospital in 1928, conduct extensive research in blood transfusion techniques, direct the opening of the Blood Bank Department and St. Joseph’s Hospital in 1945, establish private consulting services for smaller hospitals in southern Ontario, and create the Dr. F. W. Luney Fund to raise funds for the Medical Library at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Records of note include: well-maintained, original photographs of Dr. Luney and fellow classmates posing with a cadaver; records created to document body parts and organs donated to Luney’s private “Museum”; personal notebooks outlining his medical training and professional experiences; a selection of diplomas and certificates; records of his $5,000 donation to the Medical Library at St. Joseph’s Hospital; photographs depicting the two-person multiple syringe apparatus he invented; notes from lectures and seminars that he gave on pathology and blood transfusion-related subjects; and a 60th anniversary portrait of Dr. F. W. Luney with his fellow 1914 graduates.

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 the military records and artifacts of Edwin Albert Osborn of the Canadian Army. Materials are related to E.A. Osborn's military service during World War II, 1939-1945. It has been arranged into three series: Military Documents; Artifacts / Objects; Photographs.

Fonds consists of material that documents his career as a writer and broadcaster and, as such, includes correspondence with publishers, fan mail, research material, newspaper clippings, reviews of his work, notes, drafts and galleys related to his novels and works of non-fiction. The writing files include photocopies of his own letters written to his mother when he was an internee in England and manuscript and photocopies of letters written to Koch from Daria Hambourg and used as research material for his novel, "The Brothers Hambourg". Fonds also includes transcripts of interviews as well as written reminiscences in the form of letters from many former German internees; these letters were subsequently used as resource material for his book "Deemed Suspect: A Wartime Blunder". Fonds includes a complete set of published copies of his books. The broadcasting files contain correspondence, memos, notes and drafts of scripts, scrapbooks and other material that documents his long career with the CBC.

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

Fonds consists of handwritten and typescript manuscripts for Falek Zolf's memoirs, handwritten notes for his memoirs, newspaper articles about Zolf and the Jewish literary community in Winnipeg, a report that quotes from his work in a review of the historical context associated with the Canada Post Corporation's Rural Conversion Program in Saskatchewan, a review of the Yiddish edition of Zolf's autobiography, "On foreign soil," and information regarding its publication in English.

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.

Composé d’un certificat de baptême, de documents de l’armée canadienne, de photographies et cartes postales ainsi que de l’uniforme de l’armée canadienne, le fonds d’archives Élorie Trottier documente le temps qu’il a été aux services de l’armée canadienne, en Europe durant la Première Guerre Mondiale. En effet, les documents tels que ‘Canadian Pay Book’, ‘Dispersal Certificate’ et l’uniforme de l’Armée canadienne témoignent du temps qu’il a été aux services de l’Armée canadienne. Les photographies et cartes postales de soldats canadiens et de sites et scènes de la Première Guerre illustrent certains sites et évènements importants de cette guerre. Des articles parus dans les journaux locaux rapportent les souvenirs de guerre tel que racontés par Elorie Trottier. Des articles, photographies et graphiques documentent aussi le White Star Liner ‘Olympic’, navire jumeau du Titanic, qui a transporté les soldats durant la Première Guerre.

Item is one Memorial Medallion embossed with the name of Frank Arkless, c1919. It includes the inscription "He Died for Freedom and Honour" and is also referred to as a "Dead Man's Penny."

Item is an Honour Roll Certificate for Frank Arkless from World War I, 1917. It reads "Pte. Frank Arkless died from wounds received at the Battle of Vimy Ridge" and contains an image of Frank Arkless and King George V.