Fonds consists of records created or accumulated by Armour Adamson Miller and his son, Alexander John Miller.
Included is correspondence, predominantly from Armour Miller to his wife, Helen B. Miller and their children while Miller was stationed at Witley Training Camp in Surrey, England during World War I. These letters contain details of military training and combat. Also included is a regimental history of the military group of which Armour Miller was commanding officer: the 134th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (C.E.F.) (48th Cameron Highlanders). Other correspondence includes letters exchanged between Alexander J. Miller (known as Bill) and his mother while he served in World War II.
Other military-related textual records include a certificate issued to Armour Miller on February 3, 1903 by England's Minister of Militia Defence on behalf of King Edward VII, appointing Miller to the rank of Officer in the 48th Cameron Highlanders; programmes for the unveiling of monuments honouring those who died in World War I at Harbord Collegiate Institute, and at Bonar Presbyterian Church in Toronto, Ontario; a request to the Director of Graves Registration and Enquiries for a photograph of Armour Miller's grave; and a discharge certificate for Alexander Miller.
In addition, the fonds contains etchings with watercolour, created by Georges Plasse, showing the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France.
Other records include photographs of the Miller family and unidentified Ontario lakes and landscapes. The fonds contains an album with photographs of unidentified landscapes and unidentified people engaged in various activities, such as skiing. Also included is a (dismantled) album of photographs showing people and scenes from trips to Temiscamingue Lake (1901), Sand Lake (1907), and Peninsular Lake (1907). Other photographs show an outdoor painting excursion.
Also included is a certificate issued in 1942 to Alexander John Miller by the Brighton School of Art for completion of a course in camouflage and field sketching, and a log book created by Armour Miller, documenting trips to Temiscamingue (August 1901), Algonquin Park (1904 and 1908), and Sand Lake (1907).
The fonds also contains postcards with images of the following individuals or scenes: the family of Olive (Foster) Robinson outside a home at 48 Dufferin Street, Toronto; a school group in May 1926, including Alexander Miller; a postcard showing the 134th Battalion of the C.E.F.; postcards depicting scenes of Taormina in Sicily, Italy; and a postcard with a fabric image of a burning Saint Roch Church in Armenti鳥s, France in 1916.