This collection consists of material gathered by Elizabeth Cran and Gary Webster while working on the history of the co-operative movement on PEI. There is also one notebook belonging to Elizabeth Cran containing research notes. The collection consists of four series arranged by type of record.

The fonds consists of an taped interview with Doris (Muncey) Haslam and Albert James Haslam on 27-28 September 1992 at Hazeldean, family home of George Haslam, father of Albert and Reginald. The interviewer is not identified. The cassette includes genealogical information relating to the Haslam, Muttart, Muncey, and other families as well as descriptions of farm and family life in Springfield. There is also some description of the family's fox farming operation. Biographical information about Doris (Muncey) Haslam includes some description of her activities in the United Empire Loyalist Association and the Women's Institute. Included also are several commissions appointing Albert James Haslam Notary Public, Stipendiary Magistrate, Juvenile Court Judge, Queen's Counsel and Lay reader at St. Paul's in Charlottetown.

This fonds consists of the records of members of the Palmer, Haslam, Inman and Muncey families. The records span the years ca.1860-1993 and include diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and other materials. The fonds has been divided into the following series:

Series 1: James B. Palmer
Series 2: Sarah Palmer
Series 3: Ida Palmer
Series 4: Edith E. Palmer
Series 5: Amelia Palmer
Series 6: Hedley V. Palmer
Series 7: Lilly (Palmer) and Henry Inman
Series 8: Mary Inman
Series 9: Lucy (Palmer) and George L. Haslam
Series 10: Gladys Muriel Haslam
Series 11: Robert J. Haslam
Series 12: Reginald and Doris (Muncey) Haslam
Series 13: Sue (Muncey) Lowther
Series 14: Lloyd Haslam
Series 15: Albert James Haslam
Series 16: Miscellaneous personal papers
Series 17: Photographs and scrapbooks

This collection consists of 6 ledgers from Alex Campbell's blacksmith shop which are arranged by the customers' names and include such information as date, service or materials involved in the transaction, debits, and credits. Also included in the collection are correspondence and receipts concerning the younger Alex Campbell's involvement in fox farming and a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. James Acorn.

The fonds consists of one item which is an account book titled "Day Book" He began making entries on Tuesday 1 May 1923 and continued until 26 December 1926. Presumably he became ill and someone else then recorded his personal and business transactions until 4 March 1927. There was a gap from that date until 6 April 1927 during which time Mr. Mills passed away. From April 1927 to the last entry in March 1944 there are financial recordings for his widow. Prior to that, Holden used the book for tracking personal expenditures for his home and automobile, donations to St. Mary's Church, purchases from local companies, wages for a domestic helper and an endowment to the building fund at King's College in Halifax, N.S. Other entries noted the results of local elections, planting of vegetable gardens, birthday dinners and the marriage in 1923 of his wife's niece Katherine Green and her untimely death in 1924 after baby Holden Taylor was born. In the autumns of 1923-26, H.C. Mills recorded his purchases of oysters and clams and the subsequent sale to numerous customers. His most important suppliers were Wallace Noye of Ellerslie and Russell Clark of Mount Stewart. He shipped most of the oysters to the Rideau Club in Ottawa, the York Club and the M. Doyle Fish Co. in Toronto, the Montreal Club in Montreal and J.H. Gingras in Quebec City. There are numerous entries for the Pavilion Silver Fox Co. regarding payments to rancher Joseph Arsenault, purchase of supplies and the sale of pelts and live animals.

This fonds consists of correspondence received or written by J. Walter Jones during the period 1913 to 1915. Topics of the letters include: the publication and distribution of Jones' book, "Fur Farming in Canada"; requests to the Commission of Conservation for lists of fur farmers in Canada; queries from fur farmers regarding the purchase of foxes for breeding and good breeding practices; and requests for Jones to speak at the meetings of the Commission of Conservation or to write articles for fur trading magazines.

This daybook is believed to have belonged to Robert Jenkins of Belfast, Prince Edward Island and contains details of monies owed and collected for farm-related supplies and services, including buying and selling foxes, and some muskrat and beaver. The daybook mentions the names and reasons for any business dealings (1913-1918). The daybook includes two letters from the Attorney General (1902, 1903) appointing, and then extending the appointment of, Robert Jenkins as prosecutor for the enforcement of the Prohibition Act of 1900. A handwritten copy of the letter (1902) written by Mr. Jenkins, accepting the appointment, is also included. Newspaper clippings (1903, 1906) are pasted inside the front cover and back pages. Many of the newspaper clipping discuss prohibition, temperance, and Mr. Jenkins's appointment as prosecutor.

This fonds consists of records created or obtained by Margaret Forsythe throughout her life and which document her career, interests and hobbies. This fonds is divided into 14 series: publications; Arts & Entertainment; Farming; Fox Industry; Bills; Taxes; Correspondence; Receipts; Alberton-West Point Presbyterian Church; Union School; World War II; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce/Bank of Nova Scotia; Simpson's; and Miscellaneous.

The fonds consists of the the minute books of the Canada Fox Breeders Association and reports of proceedings at the annual general meetings of the Canadian National Fox Breeders Association. Most minute books and reports contain tables of contents.

The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, and papers relating to the formation and operation of the Summerside and Area Historical Society. Included are materials generated by the group in its planning of several historic house tours and the publication of two walking tour brochures in 1985 and 1992. A project using a summer student in 1985 resulted in a sizable collection of photographs being amassed, principally from R. Allan Rankin who had acquired them for his book "Down at the Shore". The photos were arranged into 12 categories and the original order has been maintained with most images falling under the headings of commercial, and individuals and groups. Textual materials were also gathered at that time and later on, mainly on the subjects of fox farming, ship building, Canadian Forces Base Summerside and Holman's Island. There are various handwritten papers on the general history of Summerside and a few specific ones on the history of baseball, the Post Office, the Rotary club, and the Y.M.C.A. There are handwritten notes and photos from the 1994 inventory of heritage homes and the typed bylaw proposal for heritage preservation prepared in 1995. Other items of note include a 1928 booklet "The Island Bred Fox" by B.I. Rayner, the 1909 Holman's catalogue, an original 1878 Panoramic View of Summerside, an undated paper "Record of Ships Built and Registered in PEI 1790-1830" by Preston Ellis, a scrapbook of Barbara McGougan dated 1928-1930, a scrapbook of Lucas R. Allen dated1942-1964, and transcribed newspaper articles about the Summerside Board of Trade from 1910 -1934.