The fonds consists of fire records, roll call reports, attendance records, financial records, correspondence, and ephemera of the Alberni Volunteer Fire Department.

The fonds consists of minutes, ledger (including membership list) and a copy of deed to property of the Alexander Robinson Community Club.

The fonds consists of records documenting the full scope of the activities of the Alma Mater Society arranged in the following series: constitution and by-laws and codes of procedure (1916-1990), governance (1921-1992), subject files / central files (1931-1994), early records (1916-1933), correspondence (1986-1992), and records relating to student housing (1952-1992). Also included is the Arts Collection sous-fonds (1955-1998) and the Programs Office sous-fonds (1975-2001).

The fonds consists of minutes (1924-1934), cashbook (1924-1937), roll book (1924-1936), and receipt book of the community club.

The fonds consists of correspondence, revenue and expenditure statements, inspection reports and annual reports, bills, and insurance records of the Alta Lake School Board.

The fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, membership lists, safety records, reference material, and records relating to the sponsorship of the B.C. Junior Ski Jumping Championship.

The fonds spans the time period from 1969 to 1989 and appears to cover the administrative organization of AICS (ES) at both the local and international levels until ca. 1980/81 when Group 4 became virtually dormant and Ferguson's involvement at the national level lessened. Although Group 4 reactivated in March 1983, Ferguson did not run for an executive position and thus there are fewer files, especially after 1985, when Group 4 relinquished the operation of the greeting card campaign.

Apparently it was AICS (ES) policy to request the return of prisoner files to the National Office "for shredding" after the release of the prisoner. Therefore there are only a few complete prisoner files, making it difficult to obtain a clear understanding of the way in which Group 4 acted on behalf of prisoners of conscience.

The fonds has been arranged into three subgroups. Subgroup I consists of secretarial files deposited by Janet Adams which date from 1979/80 and contains minutes, information concerning annual general meetings, etc. Some duplication with Ferguson's files exists; however, much of Ferguson's papers were annotated and thus Adams' "clean" copies were retained. The early secretarial records of 1969/70 to 1978/79 and the treasurer's records of 1974/75 to 1986/87 were found interfiled with Ferguson's records. However, the processor decided to place them in Subgroup I as it appears that they had been given to him for safekeeping purposes and were not integrated with his other records.

Examination of Ferguson's records indicate that he created new subject files annually and, for any given year, national and local records were filed together. Although it was tempting to separate the records into a national subgroup and a local subgroup, it was determined this would not only destroy original order, but also fail to adequately illustrate the breadth of activities in which Ferguson participated in any given year. Therefore, in Subgroup II Laing Ferguson's records are arranged into six series which represent the various offices he held over time, and one series which holds various Amnesty International publications which were found loose in the cartons. Publications of bodies other then Amnesty International were discarded. Records of a housekeeping nature were found among "Finances" and the "Fund Raising Greeting Card Campaign" subseries and were discarded unless they contained other relevant information. In most cases, financial summaries and distribution charts exist that summarize the housekeeping records. Duplicates existed in many files and, if not annotated, were discarded.

Subgroup III consists of records created by Janet Adams in her capacity as member of the Nominating Committee for the years 1974/75 and 1976/77. These files were well organized and arranged chronologically.

Collection consists of five membership certificates to the Ancient Order of Foresters Friendy Society, No. 9203 in Nanaimo, issued to: Elizabeth Sutton, Mary Buckle, Rose Parkin, Louise Mullet and Ethel Reynolds.

Collection consists of the bylaws of Ancient Order of Foresters, Court 9621 (Nanaimo) and certificates of membership for E.G. Wilson, Elizabeth Sutton and M. McMillan. This court appears to have been a women's organization.

The fonds consists of minutes and attendance records of the ACWA - ACW meetings 1969-2004; accounts 1968-2004; listings of goods given out for sales 1968-2003; receipt books 1965-2003; roll call 1973-2003; correspondence; certificates; annual reports; miscellaneous; the ACW flag.