The collection consists of scrapbooks, research papers, and plays written by school children documenting the community histories of Crapaud, Grand Tracadie, O'Leary, Norway, Cardigan, Charlottetown, Tignish, Millcove, Fort Augustus, Hebron, Georgetown, York, Malpeque, Bideford, the Brackley Point Road, Kensington, Margate, North Rustico, Tryon, Miscouche, Tracadie and Scotchfort. In these documents are pictures, family genealogies, and memories of residents.

This fonds consists of one photograph of the St. Eleanor's jail and courthouse, ca. 1864.

In 1833, George Tanton was given the contract for the construction of a 3 story wooden structure to serve as the St. Eleanor's jail and courthouse. Twice annually (the first Tuesdays in June and October) a judge would travel from Charlottetown to St. Eleanor's to hold court sessions. These sessions lasted seven days. Open oral elections also took place here and often became very rough affairs. After the construction of a new jail and courthouse in Summerside in 1876, the St. Eleanor's structure was torn down, despite a petition that the establishment be appropriated to the community.

The fonds consists of eighteen photographs of the Margate Old Carriage Factory and Museum. One image documents the exterior of the building in 1977. The other photographs document the interior of the building. Visible in these photos are carriages, and other antiques such as spinning wheels, lanterns, an anvil, kiln, and antique furniture and paintings.

This collection consists of seventy-five photographs relating to St. Dunstan's University. Included are photographs of the graduating classes from 1902 to 1969, and various football, hockey, basketball, and debating teams. The photographs were taken by various Charlottetown photography studios including "Gauvin Gentzel & Co.," Cook's," "Craswell," and "Barter's Film Lab."

This collection consists of one photograph of a painting of the barque "Railway King", ca. 1872. The artist is unknown. The barque "Railway King" was built in Summerside on 12 December 1871 by James Colledge Pope. The sailing ship had 3 masts and 2 decks. She measured 166 feet long, 34 feet wide, 17 feet deep and weighed 789 tons. Her master was Captain Allan Finlayson of Vernon River. On 14 June 1872, she was turned over to merchant James Malcolm of Liverpool. She went down off Cape Canso, Nova Scotia on 9 December 1872.

This collection consists of 305 photographs relating to the fax farming industry on Prince Edward Island. Begun in the late nineteenth century by Charles Dalton and Robert Oulton, the fox farming industry grew steadily on the Island and spread to the other provinces, the United States, Europe and the world. The industry on P.E.I. reached its peak in the two decades between 1910 and 1930 and remained steady enough to see many farmers through the depression of the thirties. By the end of the decade however, a downward trend had become evident and the end of the Second World War spelled the beginning to the end of fox farming although there was a brief upsurge in the late sixties and seventies. The majority of images are of foxes (both live and pelts). Also captured are fox farms, fox shows and some individuals related to the business.

This collection consists of over sixty hours of tape recorded interviews with fifty-six school teachers most of whom taught in one room school houses in Prince Edward Island for at least one year and many of whom taught for several or most of their teaching years in these small schools. The information recorded is that of the experience of teaching and living in the small communities of PEI, primarily during the 1920's and early 1930's. Only a very little information pertaining to the extreme east and west parts of the Island was collected as the majority of the teachers readily available for interviews had taught most of their lives in the Queens County area.

A tape outline denoting subjects discussed and location of same on the tape accompanies each tape. A subject index indicating number, names and locations of discussions on the several topics is also provided. A second index lists under the name of the teacher the principal subjects appearing in the interview. Among the tape outline folders are three or four interview outlines for which there is no tape as none was made at the request of the interviewee usually. In addition to the tape outline folders there are six verbatim transcripts. This course was not pursued because of time limitations.

There is one tape, that of Mrs. Marion Lea (Judson) MacCallum, which is not interfiled with the mainstream of the collection as it was made at a later date; rather, it is located as an addition to the collection.

This collection consists of 2 photographs. The first is of the League of the Cross Band, a group organized by the Catholic Church in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island,ca. 1905, captured with their instruments and full uniform. The second is a group photo of the Charlottetown Lawn Tennis Club members, ca. 1911. All individuals are identified in both photos, but the identity of two of the members of the League of the Cross Band is questionable.

This fonds consists of the correspondence of brothers David (1769-1852) and Robert Bruce Stewart, (?-1846) originally of Perthshire, Scotland, who worked as surveyors and land agents in London, England, to William Buchanan (1800-?). Correspondence between 24 March 1834 and 18 February 1835, deal with the transfer of one-hundred acres of land in Prince Edward Island from the Stewarts to Buchanan. Further correspondence pertaining to this transfer was written between 20 October 1875 and 13 December 1875, by various land agents. The fonds also contains genealogical notes on Isabella Purdie Stewart, wife of Robert and David's brother James, notes taken from tourist information written in 1967 concerning David and Robert Stewart, and extracts from a letter from the Public Archives of Canada written to Catherine St. John in April 1970, regarding the Stewart brothers.

The collection consists of a newsletter on the Lennox Island Indian Act revision submitted to the Lennox Island Band members by John Joe Sark and several photographs of Lennox Island Micmacs including Chief John Thomas, baseball and hockey teams and St. Ann's Church.