Fonds consists of letters to A. C. A. Doane regarding Doane family genealogy. Also includes a letter from the Trustees of the Barrington Grammar School to the Barrington School Board asking for pay for the teacher, A. C. A. Doane. There is also a watercolour of A. C. A. Doane.

Fonds consists of three watercolours of flowers painted by Abigail Homer Doane.

Fonds consists of correspondence between Almira Bell and her sisters Lucretia, Sarah and Clarissa, and their mother Catherine, regarding family and events in the communities of Shelburne and Barrington, Nova Scotia

Fonds consists of two series: personal correspondence and notebooks containing Barrington history

Fonds consists of letters written to Benjamin H. Doane, the bulk of them being from Arthur Doane, containing information on ships.

Fonds consists of minutes from both regular and executive meetings, membership lists, financial records, receipts, accession books, donation records and correspondence.

Fonds consists of one journal kept by Smith while commanding the steamship Beta, used to record his expenses incurred and some of his activities. Also included is a short autobiography.

a photocopy of a transcription made in 1939 of minutes of meetings of the congregation and membership lists. Also includes the names and dates of members baptized into the Centreville Free Baptist Church.

a book containing instructions to school commissioners, correspondence, and finances. Fonds also consists of a register of the Attendance, Studies and General Standing of the Pupils, and Statistics of the School kept by the teacher from Section No. 8 (Port la Tour), District of Barrington School Board, County of Shelburne, grades 1 to 11.

Fonds consists of a photocopy of a records book for the Baptist Church located at Doctor's Cove, which records minutes of meetings of the congregation and lists members baptized into the church.