The fonds consists of official commissions as government agent and police magistrate (1909); marriage certificates and childrens' report card and certificates; business correspondence concerning real estate (1892-1899); and letters of administration and estate administration papers for miners who died intestate in an explosion at the Wellington Mine in 1884, including John Lowry, Martin Lowry, Henry Arnold, Barney McGinnes, John Winders, and Domenico Ricono.

Fonds consists of family papers and memorabilia of the Addison family. Includes letters and cards sent for Jane Addison's one-hundredth birthday in 1988, certificates from various fraternal societies and service organizations, materials related to the Queen's 1953 Coronation, photographs predominantly related to George Addison's aldermanic duties. Also includes class lists and other materials related to the John Shaw School reunion organized by Audrey Curtis (nee Addison) in 1991.

Fonds consists of speeches, newpaper clippings and correspondence about the statue project, sculptor Jack Harman, and the members of the committee.

Fonds consists of minutes of the School Trustees. Most of the volume is blank.

The fonds consists of accounts and minutes of the Departure Bay Board of School Trustees.

The fonds consists of accounts (1907-1934) and minutes (1933-1942). Fonds includes several letters of the Wellington Board of School Trustees.

The fonds consists of a minute book of the Northfield Board of School Trustees, which also records minutes of meetings of the Northfield School District Ratepayers Association.

The fonds consists of a journal, which notes weather and names and dates of ships entering the Nanaimo harbour.

Fonds consists of a record book (1912-1953) which lists each impounded animal, the claimant's name and address, and charges and a notice of impoundment (1915) signed by Pound Keeper, Jack Aitken (1915).

Fonds consists of scrapbooks of clippings and photographs related to various parks and recreational facilities in Nanaimo.