The fonds consist of various materials related to the activities of the Admiral Vansittart Chapter of the IODE and is arranged into the following series and subseries:

Series 1: Administration
        Subseries A: Minute Books
        Subseries B: Annual Reports
        Subseries C: Financial Records
        Subseries D: Membership
        Subseries E: Constitution and History
Series 2: Citizenship Ceremonies
Series 3: Captain Andrew Drew Junior Chapter
Series 4: Sponsorship Programs
        Subseries A: Old Crow, Yukon
        Subseries B: Westwood High School, Stewart Town, Jamaica
Series 5:   Opportunity Shop
        Subseries A: Operations
        Subseries B: Finances
        Subseries C: Opportunity Tea and Coffee + One Party
                    Subseries D: Shop Schedules
Series 6: Special Events
        Subseries A: Meetings
        Subseries B: Anniversaries
        Subseries C: IODE Week
        Subseries D: Chapter Teas
        Subseries E; Honor Student Dinners
        Subseries F: Centennial Fashion Show
        Subseries G: Founders Day / Old St. Paul’s
        Subseries H: Scrapbooks
        Subseries I: Miscellaneous

The fonds consist of various materials related to Bernadette Smith and including the following:

- Correspondence to Bernadette Smith and Michael Smith
- newspaper clippings and scrapbook on the political career of Bernadette Smith
- Gail Puddicombe’s research papers, notes, correspondence, etc
- Gail Puddicombe’s essay on Bernadette Smith

The fonds consist of various materials related to the career of Betty McArthur including reproductions of her pen and ink sketches of scenes of Woodstock and photographs taken by her of Woodstock homes as well as photos of herself painting. In addition, the fond includes several miscellaneous items including copyright for her book “Fine Lines Around Woodstock”, a programme of a 1996 Show at the Woodstock Art Gallery of her work, and newspaper articles.

The fonds consists of various materials relating to the history of Oxford County and is broken down into the following Series and Subseries:

Series 1: Photographs
a) Gordon Pittock Dam Project (+ contact prints and negatives)
b) John Meathrell Bridge Project
c) Water Pollution Control Plan Ext No. 3, Admiral Street, Woodstock (contact prints and negatives)
d) Aerial photographs

• Conservation Authorities/Dams
• Gordon Pittock Dam
• City of Woodstock and surrounding areas
• Road/Bridge Construction work

• e) General

• Bridges
• C.P.R. Main line relocation Pittock Dam
• Drainage Maps
• Kelsey-Hayes Canada
• Miscellanous
• Oxford County/City of Woodstock
• Woodstock Fairgrounds

Series 2: Plot plans / Building site plans

• for farms and properties in Oxford County and other Ontario Counties

Series 3: Maps and Plans
a) Drains
b) General (including a City of Woodstock map dated 1907)
c) Reference Plans
d) Roads

The fonds consist of various materials related to the activities of the Woodstock Branch of the Canadian Federation of University Women and is arranged into the following series and subseries:

Series 1 – Constitution, By-laws, Pamphlets, Historical Notes (1955-1999)

Series 2 - Membership

a) General Membership (1956-1999)
b) Executive (1965-1999)

Series 3 – Reports: Financial and Committee (30 April 1956 – 8 December 1999)

Series 4 – Correspondence
a) General Correspondence (7 March 1957 – 30 September 1987)
b) General Correspondence (4 October 1987 – 13 December 2000)
c) Scholarship Correspondence (24 October 1986 – 19 May 1999)
d) Scholarship Correspondence (7 June 1999 – 8 October 1999)

Series 5 – Report (September 1967 – September 1998)

Series 6 - Bingo/Lottery Licenses (31 December 1992 – 8 December 1999)

Series 7 – Bulletins (September 1966 – December 1984)

Series 8 – Disbandment (28 April 1999 – 4 June 1999)

The fonds consists of three notebooks containing engineering data recorded while C. F. Camber was working in the vicinity of Woodstock, N.B., in 1938. They include figures, notes, and sketches relating to excavations and embankment, railways, a roadway, ditches, canals, and other projects.

A roll of oversized plans, tracings, and graphs was transferred to the Map Section.

This series consists of the administrative and legislative records of the District of Brock which replaced the administrative powers of the magistrates of the Quarter Sessions. The series is divided into the following subseries:
A) Minutes
B) By-laws
C) Finance
C1 – Treasurer
C2 – Auditor
D) Warden
E) Clerk
F) Council

The first subseries consists of the Minutes of the District Council, which are divided into three volumes. A part of this series includes motions and rough minutes.

The second subseries contains the hand-written by-laws of the District Council, and loose drafts and copies of by-laws.

The third subseries includes letters, assessment lists and statements that provide an excellent picture of the raising and expenditure of monies as well as provides information on some of the County’s earliest settlers. This subseries is divided into two sub-subseries: Treasurer and Auditor. The Treasurer's (H.C. Barwick, 1842-1853) records consist of general correspondence, assessment lists, and a variety of financial statements and accounts. Correspondence includes requests from individuals for reassessment of their property taxes whereas Assessment records include lists of lands returned by the assessors of several townships in the District of Brock. These lists include the name of the Township and the description of the portion of each lot, concession and acreage. In addition, there are eleven bound volumes which give assessment information from all of the townships except Burford. Financial statements cover a number of areas such as receipts and disbursements of taxes arising out of Wild Land taxes, statements of the County House and Gaol Fund and statements related to Public Improvements and the School Fund. Accounts include general accounts for services provided as well as a School monies account ledger. The Auditors records consist of audited accounts, statements, reports, and applications for the office of the Auditor.

The fourth subseries contains the Warden’s files, 1842-1849. The first Warden of the new District Council appointed by the Governor was Peter Boyle de Blaquire, the standing local member of the Provincial legislative council.

The fifth subseries consists of the Clerk’s files. It contains miscellaneous correspondence and copies of proceedings of public meetings. The appointed clerk of the District of Brock was William Lapenotiere, a son of a post captain at the battle of Trafalgar.

The last subseries, Council files, presents a detailed account of the structure of the District Council; such topics include building of roads and bridges and the provision of education.

This fonds contains largely original material documenting E. Tappan Adney's long involvement in the affairs of native people in New Brunswick, particularly the Maliseet. It includes information about treaty rights, New Brunswick court cases involving native rights, the historical development of reserves, and the 1947 review of the Indian Act.

This fonds contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports, briefs, submissions, notes, and copies of published articles, treaties, speeches, proclamations, and "deeds". It also includes several photos, prints, sketches, and watercolours. Some materials are typescripts.

There is also a microfilmed copy of Adney's diary covering his first trip to New Brunswick (30 June 1887 to 28 February 1889) as well as his diary covering his second trip to New Brunswick and first trip to Nova Scotia (July to November 1890).

This fonds includes notebooks, scrapbooks and correspondence with Tappan Adney about fruit culture. There is a diary of F. P. Sharp, with a transcript, 1846-1850 and his correspondence, 1864-1898. There are also newspaper clippings about Sharp and fruit culture

The collection consists of various materials relating to the Vansittart family (specifically Vice Admiral Henry Vansittart) and to the early history of Woodstock. It includes newspaper clippings, land documents, wills and other legal style documents, photographs, booklets and essays as well as a framed miniature portrait and military cross. Subject Files are as follows:

• Admiral Henry Vansittart
• Vansittart Family
• John George Vansittart
• George Henry Vansittart
• Vansittart Legal Documents
• Land Documents (Lot 15, Concession 1, Township of Blandford)
• Vansittart Homes (Eastwood Park and Bysham Park)
• Old St. Paul’s Church
• Andrew Drew
• Vansittart Avenue
• Miscellaneous Local History (including the Old Stage Road)
• Correspondence of George A. Calder