Fonds consists of business correspondence, notes, legal documents, plans, maps and surveys, financial records as well as other records relating to the operations, timber rights and properties of the Peterborough Lumber Company and its predecessor, the Samuel Dickson Company (1885-1965). Items of note include: specifications for the construction of a tugboat; specifications for wood materials to be used to construct a steamboat; inventory of the contents of the Oriental Hotel and details of renovations to the hotel, owned by Dickson Company (1901); list of operating specifications for the Peterborough Radial Railway; will of Samuel Dickson; material relating to Aladdin Homes, includinge Catalogue #52 [ca. 1950]; some written histories of the lumber companies

Fonds consists of correspondence, notes and documents relating to the Peterborough Memorial Centre Building Committee and the construction of the hockey facility (1954-1958). Specific items include: architects report describing the proposal for a memorial auditorium (Blackwell, Craig and Zeidler); list of sub-contracting firms involved in the construction; invitation to the official opening of the Memorial Centre (1956); posters encouraging public support for the Centre in a municipal referendum (1954).

Fonds consists of administrative records documenting activities of the Peterborough Ministerial Association. Specific items include minute books (1904-1971), correspondence and assorted notes (1963-1972). Of special interest is the minute book for the years 1904-1912, which contains several references to Rev. Edwin A. Pearson, Minister of the George Street Methodist Church and father of future Prime Minister, Lester B. Pearson.

The fonds consists of a minute book containing the minutes, financial statements, newspaper clippings, notices, prize lists, reports and other material of the Peterborough Rifle Association.

The fonds consists of the first minute book of the Peterborough Typographical Union (1902, January 2 to 1907, April 13); also a "Souvenir Presentation Banquet Menu" for a union banquet held at the Empress Hotel in 1929 and a souvenir program of the 50th anniversary of the Granting of Charter held at the Empress Hotel in 1952.

Fonds consists of minute books (1923-1976), reports (1963-1976) and Progressive Conservative party literature (1965-1972) generated by the Peterborough Women's Progressive Conservative Association.

Fonds consists of the records accumulated by the 57th Regiment, 57th Regiment: Peterborough Rangers and Prince of Wales Rangers (Peterborough Regiment). Fonds is comprised of orders and minute books; registers; rolls; service records; financial records and historical records. Specific items include: 57th Regiment, register and service roll for enlisted men, non-commissioned and commissioned officers (1886-1917); 57th Regiment register of non-commissioned officers (1864-1915); 57th Regiment officer's nominal roll (1865-1900); 57th Regiment despatched letters (1890-1896); 57th Regiment shooting register (1911-1925); 57th Regiment register of correspondence (1919-1938); 57th Regiment Band minute book (1897-1915); pay lists; scrapbooks; Prince of Wales register of men on active service (1939-1945); a lengthy history of the 57th Regiment, with original photographs by F.H. Dobbin; assorted photographs.

Fonds consists of business records (1840-1967); correspondence; estate records including the wills of Stafford Kirkpatrick, Samuel Dickson, Thomas A. Stewart, Patrick O'Neal, Henry Ruttan, William Hall and others (1840-1913); extensive civil court records pertaining to a 1904 law suit filed against the American Cereal Company by building contractor James Bogue over construction of Quaker Oats mills and grain elevators - includes depositions from architect G.M. Miller, Samuel Belcher and others; a series of photographs of 1916 Quaker Oats fire and an album photo-documenting the construction of Hunter Street Bridge (1919-1921); deeds, quit claims, plans, mortgages and other property records relating to the Quaker Oats factory site and real estate holdings; some company tax assessment documents; staff payroll registers, personnel records and some accounting records (1916-1945 circa); newspaper clippings; some copies of the company newspaper "The Earth Quaker"; a history of Quaker Oats packing marks; a history of the Quaker Oats fire (1916); specifications documents for construction of the Hunter Street Bridge (1919)

Fonds consists of the personal papers of Ralph Sharpe Staples and his wife Belva Woodsworth Staples (1907-1983), daughter of CCF founder, J.S. Woodsworth and Lucy Woodsworth. The fonds consists of personal correspondence between Ralph Staples, his wife Belva and other family members including Grace Woodsworth MacInnis, MP and her husband Angus MacInnis, MP (1920-1960 circa); R.S. Staples personal diaries (1929-1991 inclusive); 8 volumes of family account ledgers (1948-1972); assorted files relating to R.S. Staples work in the farm co-operative movement; publications relating to the cooperative movements, articles by Staples under the psueodym "Ernest Page"; assorted genealogical material; some photographs, certificates.

Fonds consisting of Leading Stoker Reginald Leggett's "War Time Log" which documents his experiences as a prisoner of war (POW) during World War Two. The log contains: original correspondence; striking watercolours, along with pen and ink sketches rendered by Leggett and fellow prisoners, that depict naval ships and life in the POW camp; Department of National Defense telegrams and documents; photographs; an account by Leggett of his life in the camp; some postcards and clippings.