The fonds consists of the business records of the Union from its founding to 1979. This includes the labour agreements that precipitated the 1906 Strike.

The fonds contains consists of manuscripts, correspondence and research files including notes, plans, maps, sketches, pamphlets, articles, photographs and slides as collected or created by MacRae and Adamson; plans for Dundurn Castle; typescripts, drawings and floor-plans; and letters.

The fonds consists of correspondence, photographs, printed and audio-visual materials which document Brott’s life and career. There is also some material related to his parents and his brother, Denis, a cellist.
The materials are mainly in English although there is some French, Italian and Spanish.

The fonds consists of the business records of the union.

The fonds consists of the records of the area office and its relationship with the locals under its jurisdiction. A list of the locals can be found in the finding aid for the first accrual.

Fonds consists of minute books (general membership, executive board, and grievance committees), agreements, proposals for negotiations, reports, and correspondence. The fonds also contains materials relating to traffic signal repairmen, Parking Authority, Dundurn Castle, Flamborough, Dundas, Heritage Village, and other locals (1797, 2177, and 3042).

There have been two accruals. The first (00-1994) measures 40 cm, and is arranged into the following series: minutes; labour negotiations; grievances; financial; correspondence, bylaws, senority and officer lists; employer relations. The second (13-1999) has not yet been arranged or described.

Fonds consists of a minute book, bank statements, and monthly membership and dues reports.

The fonds consists of the business records of the union.

There have been two accruals. The first accrual contains material from before the merger of the two locals and after the merger. The second accrual consists of correspondence, reports, and printed materials.

The fonds (15-1988) is arranged into the following series: minute books, financial, labour negotiations, and publications. Financial includes budget ledgers, cash book pages, estimates and reports, expenses and receipts, annual reports, income taxes, and union dues. Labour relations includes negotiations, agreements, regulations and guidelines, employee benefits, correspondence, and grievances. Publications include convention reports and photographs.

The fonds contains: correspondences of the Cradock, Atkins, Wood and Crombie families; poems, diaries, legal and genealogical material, essays, stories, legal documents; and various other material. See 'System of Arrangement' below for more detailed description.

The fonds consists of files on the many organizations he was involved with. In addition to those listed above, they include B'nai B'rith, Burlington Beach Citizens' Committee, City of Hamilton Committee of Adjustment, Estate Planners Council, Hamilton Lawyers' Club, Hamilton-Wentworth Progressive Conservative Association, Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society, MacDonald Club of Hamilton, United Nations Association. The fonds also contains manuscripts of his lectures and speeches.

The fonds consists of reports, correspondence, photographs, publications, sound recordings and other materials amassed by Ed Seymour throughout his career as a union activist, labour leader and educator with such organizations as the International Association of Machinists, the Textile Workers Union of America, the Communication Workers of Canada, and Solidarity Consulting.. Some of the materials, mostly photographs, are copies from various institutions in Canada and the United States. The fonds documents certification drives and strikes (such as Bell Canada, Eaton’s, Gainers and CIBC) throughout the 1970s and 1980s.There are documents relating to the unions Seymour worked for as well as the United Farm Workers of America.There is also material relating to the founding of the New Democratic Party as well as photographs unrelated to labour, mainly aboriginals (First Nations).

The fonds consists of materials related to Lautens' work, as well as personal documents.

There have been several accruals. The first accrual consists of annual reports, ledgers, catalogues, minutes of meetings, bulletins, circulars, correspondence, photographs, news clippings and other items. The second accrual consists of annual reports, speeches, news clippings, and other printed materials. The third accrual consists of company records, media records, records pertaining to the publication of a company history, and photographs.

The fonds consists mainly of the records of the Hamilton and District Labour Council from its formation in 1956 until 1994. There are also some records from the two bodies which preceded it as well as from the Canadian Congress of Labour Area Council. There have been two accruals.

The collection consists of programmes from the first concert, held 19 January 1952, until the 1976-1977 season.

The Hamilton history collection consists of essays written about Hamilton by McMaster students for Professor John Weaver of the McMaster University History Department and numbered file folders containing news clippings about Hamilton.

Additionally, it lists some material available in the Marjorie Freeman Campbell and Mabel Burkholder collections, which are related to the material here.