Fonds consist of correspondence relating to MacDonald's private, business, and civic life including probate papers, will, deeds, and other legal documents, land papers, genealogical information, clippings relating to Inverness history, Gaelic documents, and other miscellaneous family papers.

Fonds consists of photographs, textual records and objects collected or accumulated by Dorothy Huck. Included are photographs of Dorothy Huck, and certificates from the Guelph Kiwanis Music Festival and the Stratford Music Festival, and a notebook marked Loretto Academy.

Fonds consists of a wide variety of materials collected or created by Dr. Greg MacLeod, mostly written documents, but also videos and cassette tapes, many of which have been digitized. The written documents cover a wide range of genres such as correspondence, memos, financial reports, updates, feasibility studies, newspaper clippings, and minutes of meetings. These records have a date range beginning in the 1950's when Dr. MacLeod was in school in Sydney Mines (though there is one family document from 1899) and ending around 2004. The range of materials found here derives from his association with a number of organizations starting in the early 1970's, many of which he played a founding influence, such as Metropolitan Alliance For Development, Cape Breton School of Crafts, Island Housing Association, and the Cape Breton Association for Co Op Development, which itself would morph into New Dawn Enterprises. His social-economic interests continued with his involvement in the Tompkins Institute from its founding in 1974 and his close association with the university's Centre for Community Economic Development from its founding in 1986. Another large set of documents involves the founding of BCA Group in 1989 and its progress, and the various projects that were supported by it. Based on these associations, the fonds is arranged with the following series: Tompkins Institute; BCA Group; Centre for Community Economic Development, Audio Files, Video Files, New Dawn Enterprises, Economic Reports and Studies, and Autobiographical Materials. Each of these series (and some contain sub-series) will be composed of multiple files (some files with multiple folios) with each file containing many individual items.

The fonds consists of historical documents, publications, correspondence, church records, minutes, sermons and addresses, reports, photographs, and other material produced and accumulated by the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and its predecessors.

Fonds consists of papers that reflect Elizabeth Beaton's work at the Beaton Institute and personal academic research. The materials included cover a wide variety of topics concerning Cape Breton history, especially ethnicity. Beaton's work contains extensive research on Whitney Pier's West Indian population.

Fond consists of photographs of the donors experiences with the regular force regiment.

The fonds consists of material related to Maureen Forrester, including photographs and programs.

The fonds consist of records from the Faculty of Music, Office of the Dean. It includes program records, reports, minutes, publicity material and photographs.

The fonds contains administrative and curriculum records from the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Science. Included are the records of the Promoting Women in Science (PROWIS) conference for secondary school girls.

Fonds consists of records from the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Social Work.