The fonds consists of administrative records of the Committee as well as subject and genealogical files containing articles, clippings, and research notes collected for the writing of By the old mill stream.

From the 1830s to the early part of the 20th century, small steam vessels were the mode of transportation during open navigation, between Prince Edward Island and the mainland. These vessels plied the strait between Charlottetown and Pictou, carrying mails, passengers, and freight, and receiving a subsidy for their services from the provincial government of the time. Around 1864, the Charlottetown Steam Navigation Company was organized and the wooden paddle- steamers "Princess of Wales" and the "St. Lawrence" were placed by this company on the daily routes between Charlottetown and Pictou, and Summerside and Point du Chene. These steamers were eventually replaced with larger ships to accommodate the growing trade and travel. The Company's vessels brought to the province nearly the whole of its imports, and carried away daily full cargoes of its products.

The fonds consists of an account book containing detailed monthly accounts covering the years 1885 to 1888 and classifications of exports and imports carried as part of a steamship service. Types of goods are categorized with exports including sundries, fresh meats, cheese, dry fish, pelts and so on. Categories of imports include nails, sugar, oils, liquors, leather, iron, tin, pianos, sewing machines, and canned goods. The accounts are also broken down by the various steamer routes; Charlottetown to Pictou, Summerside to Point du Chene, Charlottetown to Point du Chene, Georgetown to Pictou, Murray Harbour to Pictou and Charlottetown, Souris to Pictou Landing, etc. The volume also contains several pages of "Comparative Statement Imports" and "Comparative Statement Exports" for the years 1882 to 1904. "First and Last Trips of Steamers" are listed for the years 1864 to 1915. Another section in the volume lists accounts for the passenger and freight services for the various routes covering the years 1874 to 1905.

The fonds consists of a minute book containing a daily log of the plant's operation between July 1911 and July 1913. Entries relate to the functioning and reading of the systems, including the engines, pumps, gauges, water, room temperatures, coal, and brine densities. Daily entries also include "weather notes" with a weather key inserted into the front of the volume. The twenty-two weather categories represented by a letter of the alphabet in the key include: Fine & Clear, Fine & partly cloudy, Fair but cloudy, Light rain, Medium rain, Heavy rain, Heavy Showers, Blizzard, Gale, Light Thunder squall, Heavy wind squall, and so on.

The fonds consists of correspondence between J. E. B. McCready and the Premiers of the time, other provincial and federal government officials, and people in England and the United States, on a variety of topics concerning gathering information on the emigration of ex-service men, settlement of farm lands, the promotion of the fox and oyster industries, advertising in The Monetary Times and other newspapers, and so on. A letter of November 23, 1912, includes a copy of a Nova Scotia Act for the Encouragement of Settlement on Farm Lands and related forms from the Departmemt of Industries and Immigration. Copies of publicity reports summarizing Prince Edward Island's industries, climate, and social conditions are also included.

The fonds consists of a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings about the activities of the club as well as letters and notes from servicemen who were the beneficiaries of the Club's services. The fonds also contains several images of planes which crashed on the Island during training at the RCAF bases during WWII, the log room at the Summerside airport, a mechanics crew, and a float plane.

The [2005] atlas consists of 43 maps of individual sections of Prince Edward Island. Each map includes roads, rivers and streams, contours, buildings, communities, lighthouses and range lights, golf courses, airports/airfields, parks, demonstration wood lots, wetlands, dunes, forest areas, fire truck refill stations and cemetery locations. There are indexes by names of roads, comunities, golf courses, parks, and cemeteries.

An earlier atlas, 1996, created by Forestry Canada and annotated for cemeteries by the PEI Genealogical Society is composed of 64 loose maps which contain many of the above features.

The fonds consists of minute books of the proceedings of St. John's Lodge from 7 April 1852 to 17 December 2002. There are several gaps in the collection due to the loss of early records and a fire in the Masonic Hall in 1955.

The fonds consists of one volume of minutes of the annual and executive meetings of the Women's Progressive Conservative Association of 5th Queens, Prince Edward Island, from June 1953 to June 1954. It also contains the President's and Secretary's reports along with newspaper clippings re. the activities of the Association.

This image is of the interior of the grade 5 classroom of Jessie Fullerton at Prince Street School in the academic year 1927/28. Students are seated at their desks. Some are identified. The creator of this collected item is unknown.

The fonds consists of a studio portrait of Captain Finlayson in uniform and a tintype of as unidentified woman who may be Annie (Forbes) Finlayson as well as 5 diplomas earned by Alma Jessie Finlayson from Prince of Wales College and from Columbia Teacher's College from 1902-1912.