This fonds consists of publications, photographs, news clippings, bulletins and reports pertaining to Reverend Elgie E.M. Joblin's interest in Indigenous affairs and in particular, the education of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Included in the fonds are references to the Canadian Association in Support of Native Peoples, the Indian-Eskimo Association, copies of Indian News and a Cree hymn book. Also included in the fonds are 14 scrapbooks of clippings on native issues.

This fonds consists a diary (1863-1864) of M.A. Farrar and 12 drawings, etchings, watercolours and sketches by M.A. Farrar, genealogical information re the Farrar family, and photographs of Farrar and family members.

This fonds consists of two watercolours with one identified as Hastings, Ontario, and and the other identified as Forest City. Also included in the fonds are two pencil sketches and a photograph of another sketch. One sketch of two farms and a river with a steamboat on it, but otherwise unidentified. The other sketch is of the Anderson house, the Ashfield house, Mr. Harry Fowld's house and the Wanamaker's house, all in Hastings, Ontario. The photographic reproduction is of a sketch entitled Hastings on the Trent, Ontario. The watercolours and sketches were created by Rev. Michael A. Farrar.

Fonds consists of correspondence and research notes created by Rev. Lloyd Delaney for his historical sketches of Gore's Landing & St. George's Church. Also included are typescripts of the diary of Reginald Drayton, artist.

This fonds consists of newspaper clippings, notes, etc. regarding a canoeing accident at Balsam Lake Camp in 1926, as well as correspondence, articles, etc. on Balsam Lake. This fonds also contains two photos, one of Rev. Delaney, and one of the northwest shore of Balsam Lake.

This black and white photograph is of a man in clerical dress and is by the Roy Studio of Peterborough. On the reverse, the name "E.H.D. Hall" (a Peterborough lawyer associated with the firm of Hall, Gillespie) is written in pencil. The subject of the photograph is identified in pencil on the reverse as "Rev. Herbert Simonds [sic] ". Symonds married Emma Boyd, daughter of Mossom Boyd. They had several children including one son, Herbert Boyd Symonds (Boydie). He was killed in W.W.1.

File consists of photographs of Jim Retallack one of the 1978 recipients of the Symons Medal.

File consists of photographs of students in their residence rooms.

Series consists of material pertaining to Standen’s work in research and publishing, including manuscripts, essays, articles and book reviews for the Canadian Banker, the Canadian Historical Review, the French Colonial Historical Society, the Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, the British Journal of Canadian Studies, Richard Mannings, and Peter McLeod, as well as documents related to various workshops and conferences, and correspondence.

Also included are 5 illustrated maps, including of the Lower Great Lakes [ca. 1740], Great Lakes Heartland, French posts, Amerindian nations, and Kanawake and Lake Champlain routes [ca.1726-1748], and of birch bark country [unknown date].

Series consists of other resources used by Dawn Logan while researching Thomas Need. Files include correspondence, research notes, newspaper articles, genealogical resources, and biographical information on contemporaries of Thomas Need and his family members, including a family tree. Files on Need cover both his time in Canada and England. Files also include references to other settler families living in Bobcaygeon, Ontario (Verulam Township), and the surrounding area, including Cobourg, Colbourne, and the Bobcaygeon locks. Other families or contemporaries mentioned include the Boyds, Langtons, Nicol Hugh Baird and Thomas Stewart. Series also consists of biographical information for Thomas Need, Reverand William Welfitt, and the Robertson and Junkin families, including wills, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. Series also consists of excerpts of manuscripts and books used to research Thomas Need. The manuscripts are on the topics of Bobcaygeon, Ontario and on the Bick family.

File consists of David S. Macmillan's correspondence with archives, libraries, and researchers, as well as some copies of original materials. Some correspondence pertains to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick history. Other correspondence is with archives and researchers in England, Scotland, the United States, and Australia, including the University of Liverpool, University of Sydney, National Library of Scotland, India Office Library (London), City Library (York), Northwestern University (Illinois)

File also includes an envelope with a stamp from K.W. Y.M.C.A, Kitchener, Ontario, to Mr. Larry Hodgins.

File consists of photographs of Gary Reker Professor of Psychology at Trent University, and Senior Tutor of Otonabee College (1977).

File includes correspondence for requests denied in the final days of the Neathern Trust and the dispersal of remaining funds of the Neathern Trust to the North York General Hospital Foundation.

This accession consists of copy photographs, several of which are of originals in the Reid family photograph album and date from the 1840's to 1900's. One is of the Robert Henry "Harry" Devinish Reid family accompanied by an identification sheet with vital statistics for each member. Included also is a set of ten copy photographs of three generations of the Reid family. This set is accompanied by a family chart providing statistics for those listed.

File consists of photographs of Stephen Regoczei, Professor of Computing and Information Systems.