This fonds consists of records created in opening and operating the Grand Manan Museum. Included are construction files, opening and maintenance files, minutes of meetings, annual reports, architectural plans, and correspondence about displays and loans for early exhibits.

This collection contains technical books, papers, and manuscripts documenting the history of the electrification of Grand Manan. Also included is an NB Power Museum Kit, acquired in 1990, which contains a history of the electrification of the Province of New Brunswick. There is also an NB Power calendar for 1994.

This collection consists of records and information about education on Grand Manan Island collected from various sources. The administrative records include correspondence about the construction of the Grand Manan Regional High School, school board minutes, handbooks and financial statements.

Staff and student records include yearly reports on students and staff, retirement notices, prize lists and information about students who went on to post-secondary education. Copies of school publications--namely, School Post, Chatterbox, Mananooc News, and GMHS Review--are also included. Other printed materials include copies of the Education Act & Regulations, 1950-1963, press clippings and programmes from the official opening of the high school, the music festival and other events.

There are also records of the Grand Manan Teachers Association and the Home and School Association.

Included are:

• Reports of Committee Chairman of NBFHSAL presented at the AGM May 1961 and 1962 and the minutes of the same meetings.
• Grand Harbour Home and School Association first minute book, 2 November 1938 - May 1943.
• Board of School Trustees of Grand Manan Regional School District minute book, 24 June 1949 - 23 May 1960; and a second minute book for 13 June 1960 - 12 June 1967. (Note: 12 June 1967 was their final meeting.)

This fonds consists of minutes, notices, bank records, and correspondence created by the Grand Manan Board of Trade in the course of its business activities, 1927, 1944-1989. Many aspects of life on Grand Manan Island are covered.

This fonds consists of two medical journals--one containing records kept during his medical practice (14 April 1884 - 29 May 1892), the other recording daily transactions (1 October 1887 - 1 April 1892)--a scrapbook containing photographs, loose photographs, and glass negatives. It also contains a biography file containing photocopies of newspaper stories and photos of Dr. George Noyes, and a handmade scrapbook by his son Benjamin L. Noyes entitled "Historical & Scenic Volume, Grand Manan Island, Charlotte County, N.B."

This fonds contains a diary about Jean Dalzell's trip to the Grenfell Mission and her experiences at work, finishing on September 4, telling of a wedding she attended - nothing of her sickness. There is also private correspondence regarding her job application and personal correspondence between family and friends and between her family and the hospital during her illness - including telegrams, a photograph of her in nurses uniform upon completion of her training, and her high school certificate dated 1916.

This collection contains the record books kept in operating the businesses and correspondence related to the business of smoking herring and marine repairs. There is a sectional Aeronautical chart of Boston (V-10), n.d.; blueprints of the barge "Minca" built for the Ministry of War, 1944; a Lee Wilcox poem; newspaper clipping about the replica of the schooner "Bluenose"; work orders for the annual refit of the patrol boat "Gull Light," 1970.

This collection contains the attendance registers from 1968 onward. Series of registers for the smaller community schools cease as the schools were closed. In 1968 the Department of Education changed the format of the registers. They record student names, attendance, and occasional comments by teachers.

There are registers from the following villages although not all series are complete: District #1 North Head, beginning 1907; District #2 Castalia, beginning 1919; District #3 Woodward’s Cove, beginning 1923; District # Grand Harbour, beginning 1892; District #5 Seal Cove, beginning 1934; District #6 White Head, beginning 1923; District #7 Wood Island, beginning 1929; and District #9 Deep Cove, beginning 1926."

This collection consists of reports created by researchers at the Research Station. The early reports are photocopies, because the originals were out of print at the time of the deposit. More recent reports are originals.

This collection contains tintypes, dating from 1875 to 1920. It also contains many studio photographs mounted on cardboard and prints on photographic paper. There are also photo albums that have tintypes and mounted photos. Many of the images are scenes of Grand Manan Island.