This fonds consists of 8 diaries of Andrew MacLeod copied onto two 35 mm microfilm reels. The first reel was filmed in December 1984 and contains 7 volumes spanning the time period 1902-1924, 1928-1936, and 1939-1942. The second reel, filmed in April 1985, contains 1 volume spanning the period 1936-1939.

In his diary entries, Andrew describes the weather conditions, his daily farm activities as well as those of members of his family, the places and people they visited, and those individuals who visited the farm. He gives accounts of events which occurred in the Burlington/Irishtown area including Sunday School picnics, prayer meetings, funerals, and weddings.

This collection consists of a videotape containing film sequences of country and family life in Bay Fortune in 1933/34. Much of the film is shot on the farm with many scenes of a typical farmyard, often with family members, neighbours, farm animals and equipment. Sequences include those of the farmer at work with his binder in the fields as well as scenic shots river, fields and woods. Evocative pictures of a family day at the shore and scenes of teacher and children in the school yard and on a picnic add a further dimension to the film.

The fonds consists of a diary kept by Donald McDonald between 1866 and 1881 and some receipts from the Office of Public Lands recording payments made by Alan and John McDonald on 50 acres of land in Lot 44 from 1868-1895. As well as recording accounts, weather, and daily farming, fishing and lumbering chores, the diary also records marriages and events in the community.

The fonds consists of a series of diaries from 1939 to 1979. Each covers a period of approximately five or six years with entries for the same day of each year written on the same page. Entries contain information about the weather, farm chores, family and community events. At the end of each diary there is a section containing items of interest such as genealogical information, deaths, marriages, fires, and community happenings from the area of Freetown, Bedeque, Wiltshire, and Kensington.

The fonds consists of the diaries of George MacDonald dating 1909-1925 and 1928-1939. The diaries contain an account of farm life including comments on the weather, daily farm activities and the activities of family members, information about crops and livestock, recipes, and accounts.

The collection consists of two diaries of Gertrude MacMillan covering 1 January 1910 through 25 May 1910. The diaries are a daily account of rural family farm life. Outdoor chores include cutting and sawing wood, separating milk, thrashing, slaughtering pigs, and hauling manure. Helena "Wilhelmina" (Gertrude's younger sister) and Florence Coffin (her cousin who lived with the family) went to school, but Gertrude stayed at home and her diary records homemaking tasks such as baking and sewing. Gertrude also recounts visitors' names, passersby, pedlars, mail delivery, and purchasing household supplies and foodstuffs. Other than a sprained ankle, the only mention of Gertrude being ill is a sore eye on 25 May 1910, the last diary entry. The collection also includes a name key (to identify people mentioned in the diaries), two portrait photographs (one of Gertrude and one of her parents and sister) and two newspaper clippings regarding Gertrude's death in 1910.

This fonds consists of two diaries of Martha Jane Stewart which detail the daily life of a farm family in the West Cape area of Prince Edward Island. Mrs. Stewart mentions the daily weather, homemaking activities, visitors and visiting, and farm events. The February 1881 entries offer a description of her daughter Helen's illness and death due to diphtheria. On 7 December 1881, a baby baptized Francis Walter was born. Walter became very ill and died in April 1882. The second diary reveals that a son Roy started school on 12 October 1891. The young household servant Minnie Murray (1876-1959) also attended school. Martha Jane's husband Farrer seemed to regularly be away from home on business, and the second diary seems to expand the business dealings to include a store.

This fonds consists of the diary and account book of Emma Chadwick Stretch, 1850-1860 as well as three daily journals of Chadwick Stretch, 1884, 1886, and 1889. Emma's diary book appears to contain some letters, etc., by her children, perhaps written as practice of their penmanship. Also included are lose sheets found amongst the pages of the latter journals. These sheets include documents relating to the Sons of Temperance, correspondence, and poetry.

This fonds consists of a memoir by Doctor R. G. Lea who writes of country life on Prince Edward Island during the 1920s and 1930s, including anecdotes of farm work and workers, home life and social customs, school days, family gatherings and traditions, and individual family members. This memoir also includes genealogical information on the Lea families of Tryon and Victoria.