Fonds consists of 17 day books and receipts (which have been pasted into the Clementsport Post Office record of register letters book).

Fonds consists of one captain's logbook for the Schooner Charles Tupper where the Captain recorded the ship's course, winds, weather and other remarks. Names listed in the log book include Commander Reuben Oxner and mate John E. Conrod.

Fonds consists of one album containing post cards and photographs of friends and family. Not all images are identified. Also contains the some accounts of his estate, his passport and a notebook kept by Gilpin while bird watching (contains pencil sketches). Also one photograph of William and his wife Mary.

Fonds consists of one deed conveying the Yarmouth and Annapolis Railway Co. to the Windsor and Annapolis Railway Co. Ltd. The deed also contains plans filed by the Company for the purchase of land to construct the railway. The plans include lot numbers, acreage, name of owner, type of land or buildings on land and is organized by community.