Les documents textuels de ce fonds concernent la généalogie de la famille Beauregard; des notes sur les seigneuries Massue, de Varennes, de Contrecoeur, de Sainte-Anne, de la Trinité et de Montréal; des documents sur les Patriotes; des notes personnelles et de la correspondance sur les origines françaises d'André Jarret, sieur de Beauregard; des notes sur la Conquête anglaise; des coupures de presse sur les Hurons; des cahiers de voyages en Europe. Parmi les personnalités dont il est question, mentionnons, entre autres, Philippe Beauregard, Michel Bégon, Jean-Rodolphe Borduas, Boucher de la Broquerie, monseigneur Gérard-Marie Coderre, la famille Dufrost de Lajemmerais, Aegidius Fauteux, le comte de Frontenac, Marc-Amable Girard, Jean Hayet dit Saint-Malo, Louis Généreux Labadie, Robert de Lamorandière, La Vérendrye, monseigneur François de Montmorency Laval, Jacques Lemoyne de Martigny, Paul Lussier, Marie de l'Incarnation, le père Marquette, E.-Z. Massicotte, Michel Messier, Antoine Raudot, Antoine Roy, monseigneur de Saint-Vallier, Jean Talon et Madeleine de Verchères. Le document cartographique concerne les terres de la fabrique de Varennes

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critics,' as well as earlier drafts, typescripts, some with corrections, of a book on Winston Churchill, and drafts of unpublished dramatic productions by Pyper.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 correspondence, financial records, notebooks, galleys, and typescripts of Dame Edith Sitwell.

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.

The fonds documents Edgar Tilden Albert's activities as a member of the Organizing Committee of York University and his travelling to Soviet Union for the period 1955-1971.

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 fonds mainly documents Ernesto Vinci's career as a singer. It also partially documents his activities as a teacher at the University of Toronto.