The fonds consists of administrative and operational records generated by Congregation Emanu-El including: textual records; photographs; moving images; sound recordings; ledgers; and scrapbooks.

The fonds is arranged into 22 series: Preschool and Hebrew School; Correspondence; Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia/Allan Klenman; Membership; Committees; Photographs and audio-visual; Publications; Restoration; Ben Levinson historical/archival files; Renovation (Matanah G’Dolah Project); Congregation Rabbi’s; Bar/Bat Mitzvah and conversion certificates; Jewish cemetery; Vancouver Island Jewish Community Directory (VIJCD); Financials; Holocaust Symposium; Board; Administration and operational records; Ephemera; Marriages and divorces; Scrapbooks; and Sylvester family.

Fonds pertains to the operations, programs, and congregational, heritage and community activities of the Church of Our Lord from its founding in 1874 until the present. The fonds consists of six series:
I. Administration series, 1874-2009, 2.5 m of textual records (Vestry and Board minutes and other records, Annual Meetings, administrative files and financial records).

II. Ministry and programs series, 1874-2008, ca.2.5 m of textual records and photographs (worship services, marriages, baptisms, confirmations, burials, Sunday School, missions and outreach, publications, fellowship, gatherings and events)

III. Committees and groups series, 1920-2008, 65 cm of textual records (youth groups, women’s groups, the Missionary Guild, other committees and groups).

IV. Buildings and grounds series, 1974-2003, 1.5 m of textual records, architectural drawings and photographs (restoration and renovation planning and research, Restoration 125 Millennium Project and other projects).

V. Topical series, [ca.1880-ca.2000], ca.75 cm of textual records, photographs and print material (biography and subject files, collected Bibles, publications).

The collection consists of images of the construction of the building, the building itself (exterior and interior), chapel, grounds, social activities, Craft Club gatherings, funerals, and jubilees.

The fonds consists of historical reviews, Louisbook 1963,, 1964 ; monograph, souvenir booklets.

The fonds consists of house chronicles, local council minutes, local accounts and visitations, and reference files.

Fonds consists of records relating to Hughes' academic and pastoral work, as well as to her interest in the changing place of women within the broader church. Fonds contains three record series: Lecture notes [ca. 1960]; Preaching and speaking notes (1940-1978); and Reference materials (1927-1947).

The fonds consists of textual records of the St. Ann's Academy local house, including four sous-fonds. The first two belong to the Superior and the Bursar; the third was generated by the Commercial Department of the school; and the fourth belongs to the Treasurer who kept the accounts of the St. Ann's Secondary School next door to the Academy in the 1960s and 1970s. Each of these officers maintained records in the course of their respective duties until the Academy and secondary school were finally closed and all activities ceased by 1975. Given that the primary function of this local house was education, the fonds consists mainly of school records as well as some house accounts, and other records. The school records and even general house records tend to follow the pattern of the school year from August/September to June/July. Records divide into series and sometimes subseries of files. They include account books known by their French name comptes-rendus, student registers, receipts and expenses, boarders' accounts, commercial accounts, day scholar accounts, payroll ledgers, council minutes, names and addresses of students, alumni records, and other miscellaneous material.

Fonds contains the records of Garden City United Church, Wilkinson Road-Garden City Pastoral Charge, Wilkinson Road Methodist Circuit and Garden City Methodist Church. Records include Marriage registers (1944-1984); Membership records (1964-1971); Session minutes (1967-1972) and reports (1938-1968), Finance Board minutes (1915-1937), Finance Board/Stewards minutes (1938-1967), Stewards minutes (1962-1976), Stewards correspondence and reports (1937-1997), Finance Committee minutes (1976-1982), Official Board minutes (1915-1994) and correspondence (1939-1994), Council minutes (2006-2009), Trustees minutes (1915-1967) and correspondence, Trustees reports and deeds (1958-1974), Building Fund and Development correspondence (1945-1974) and Insurance Policies (1962-1982), Congregational Meetings minutes (1915-1967), Building Committee correspondence and reports (1955-1962), and Ways and Means Committee minutes (1973-1974); Property Deeds (1958-1963); Woman's Association minutes (1926-1959) and Financial records (1936-1959), Woman's Associations/ United Church Women correspondence and reports (1938-1970), Woman's Association/ United Church Women minutes (1959-1969), and Membership records (1954-1981), United Church Women Centaurea Unit minutes (1964-1991), United Church Women Centaurea Unit correspondence (1972-1974) and financial records (1959-1980), United Church Women Marigold Unit minutes (1969-1997) and Account book (1960-1979); Sunday School registers (1924) and minutes (1955-1961), Sunday School/ Youth Groups reports (1939-1974); Epworth League minutes (1915-1919), Young People's Society minutes (1920-1921); Choir reports (1939-1969) and Cash book (1931-1942); Report to congregation on 50th Annual B.C. Conference by George Inglis (1974); Congregational financial records (1933-1983); Annual reports (1943-1997); and "Grape Vining" (Newsletters) (1991-1996).

Fonds consists of records from Belmont Avenue United Church, and its predecessors, Belmont Avenue Methodist Church, and Spring Ridge Methodist Sunday School. The records include Baptism registers (1914-2000), Marriage (civil) registers (1928-1995), Marriage (church) registers (1995-1999), and Burial registers (1914-1999); Membership records (1914-2000); Session records (1948-1997), Stewards minutes (1926-1996), Stewardship and Finance Committee minutes (1998-2000), Official Board minutes (1912-1997), Church Council records (1997-2000), Trustees minutes (1893-1915), Congregational meetings minutes (1912-2000), Christian Development Committee minutes (1997-1998), Ministry and Personnel Committee minutes (1997-1999), Outreach Committee minutes (1997), Pastoral Care and Membership Committee minutes (1997), Building Committee Correspondence (1969-1971), Worship and Music Committee minutes (1997-2000), and Restructuring/Governance Committee minutes (1996); Woman's Association Fidelis Circle minutes (1951-1962), Woman's Association Jubilee Circle minutes (1949-1962), Women's Missionary Society Evening Auxiliary minutes (1948-1951), Women's Missionary Society Sherwood Auxiliary minutes (1908-1950) and Treasurer's Book (1944-1959), United Church Women minutes (1962-1989), United Church Women Fidelis Unit minutes (1962-2000), United Church Women Jubilee Unit minutes (1976-1982), and United Church Women Shelbourne Unit minutes (1969-1996); Men's Association minutes (1945-1960); Sunday School minutes (1904-1930); Epworth League minutes (1899-1918); Choir minutes (1952-1997) and financial records (1956-1997), and Couples Club minutes (1952-1997); Revitalization Program file (1987), Church History records and memorabilia (1895-1995); Annual reports (1951-1999); "Belmont Newsletter" and "Belmont News and Views" (Newsletters) (1982-1999); Photographs; Architectural Drawings (1971); and Guest Registers (1952-2000).

The collection documents a century of progress in the nursing field. Some overlap with St. Josephs School of Nursing collection exists. The videotapes are of the chapel services arranged by the pastoral care team (Fairfield Health Centrea section of St. Josephs Hospital that has had a variety of uses).