Fonds consists of records documenting the personal and business activities of the Nichols family and related individuals, predominantly Rev. E.E.B. Nichols and his father George K. Nichols. Includes diaries kept by E.E.B. Nichols, 1875-1884, while rector of Trinity Anglican Church, Liverpool which mention daily weather, activities, services and ceremonies performed (fragmentary). An earlier diary, 1846-1868, contains the number of sermons, type and number of ceremonies, sick visits, missionary visits, and other activities peformed by Nichol each month. Correspondence includes letters written between E.E.B. Nichols and family members and acquaintances, 1830s-1890. Fonds also includes business correspondence, receipts, and accounts of George K. Nichols, 1827-1852, and some personal letters written and received by him, and his grandson George Everard Edgehill Nichols, 1896-1900; ledger, 1816-1821, and day book, 1826-1829, of George K. Nichols; correspondence, accounts and other items pertaining to Peleg and Mary Wiswall, 1807 onwards, and their son-in-law Charles Budd; a few Lynch family letters, 1941; wills of a few residents of Liverpool, Milton, and Western Head, Queens Co.; Trinity Anglican Church Sunday School and confirmation class rosters, 1876-1882; accounts for the Liverpool Marine Railway Company, 1862-1886; and other miscellaneous items. Records document social and political life in Digby and Halifax, business and property transactions, dental and medical health, education, travel, temperance, Anglican church issues including divisions in church and divorce, and also mention King's College and Digby Board of Health. Fonds also includes photographs of Anglican clergymen and Trinity Anglican Church and Liverpool Public School, taken by various local professional photographers including Notman and Parish and Co., 1860s-1870s.