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The collection consists of newspapers from the 18th century, primarily from England.

This collection of newsletters was written in London by John Farr and his son John Farr Junior between 25 June 1719 and 10 September 1720. They were sent periodically to Francis Thistlethwayte in Winterslow, Wiltshire. The number sent varies from five to fourteen per month. The content includes: military and naval affairs, especially the war with Spain; foreign news from Europe, Jamaica, Newfoundland, and the Americas; news from Scotland and Ireland; commerce and shipping movements; natural disasters such as earthquakes; criminal affairs, spies, murders and arrests; deaths and the funeral of Joseph Addison; legal reports, stock reports and quotations, South Sea Bubble, politics and Parliamentary affairs.

The most likely Francis Thistlethwayte to be a recipient of the newsletters was born in 1658 and attended New College Oxford. The date of his death is uncertain but his father, Alexander (1636-1715) was long-lived. John Farr signed one newsletter dated 12 December 1719. There is a note on the verso of the 17 December 1719 newsletter by John Farr Junior.

The collection consists of: an original photograph, the Simcoe family estate in Wolford, England, with a woman, possibly Mrs. Simcoe, on the front lawn; a handwritten copy of a letter from her daughter, Sophia Simcoe, originally written in June 1835, mentioning her mother and Mrs. Scadding; a typewritten extract from an article by Henry Crawford Scadding commenting on an event in Mrs. Simcoe's diary. The dates of creation of the latter two items are not known.

The collection consists of 3 poems written by Corrigan, a photograph of Mitchinson, Mitchison's letter to Corrigan, and Corrigan's thesis.

This collection consists of manuscripts of reviews written by Murphy. Each review is written on the blank back pages of review copies of books that Murphy received. There are nine reviews in all. Two of the books (Margaret Baillie Saunders's Litany Lane and Florence Edythe Balk-Hedges's The Story of the Catacombs) are only signed by Murphy, without a review inside them.

There are letters from the following (with two noted exceptions) in this collection:

William Arthur Aikin, born in 1857, an English surgeon, scientist and amateur musician who died in 1939.

Michael William Balfe, born in Dublin on 15 May 1808 and died in Rowney, Abbey Herts., 20 October 1870, a singer and the most successful composer of English operas in the nineteenth century.
John Francis Barnett (1837-1916).
Sir Arnold Bax, born in Streatham on 8 November 1883 and died in Cork, Ireland, 3 October 1953, a composer of orchestral and choral works.
Sir Julius Bendict, born in Stuggart on 27 November 1804 and died in London, 5 June 1885, a composer of operas and choral music and a conductor who lived in London beginning in 1835.
Sir William Sterndale Bennett, born in Sheffield on 13 April 1816 and died in London, February 1875, the most distinguished English composer of the Romantic school, composing orchestral, chamber, keyboard and choral music.
Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt Wilson, Baron Berners, born at Arley Park, Bridgnorth on 18 September 1883 and died at Farringdon House, Berks., on 19 April 1950, a composer of ballet, orchestral music and songs, and a writer and painter.
Sir Arthur Bliss, born in London on 2 August 1891 and died there on 27 March 1975, a composer of music for the stage as well as orchestral, choral and vocal works.
Edwin York Bowen, born in London on 22 February 1884 and died there on 23 November 1961, a composer and pianist.
Sir Frederick Bridge, born in Oldbury, 5 December 1884 and died in London, 18 March 1924, an organist, composer, and writer.
Sir Benjamin Britten, born in Lowestoft on 22 November 1913 and died in Aldeburgh, 4 December 1975, a composer, conductor and pianist. He is considered to be the outstanding composer of his generation. His Peter Grimes laid the foundation for a revival of English opera.
Alan Bush, born in London on 22 December 1900 and died in November 1955, a composer of music for the stage as well as orchestral and vocal works, pianist and teacher.

William Crotch, born in Norwich on 5 July 1775 and died in Taunton on 29 December 1847, a composer of vocal, orchestral and chamber music, theorist and painter. A child prodigy, he was one of the most distinguished musicians of his day.
W. Crouch was the uncle of Frederick William Crouch (c1783-1844), author of A Complete Treatise on Violoncello (1826) and his note is addressed to Frederick Crouch.

Sir Walford Davies, born in Oswestry, Shropshire on 6 September 1869 and died in Warington, Somerset on 11 March 1941, an organist, composer and educationist.

Edwin Evans, born in London on 1 September 1871 and died there on 3 March 1945, a music critic for the Pall Mall Gazette (1921-23) and Daily Mail, from 1933 onwards. There are no letters from Evans; only letters addressed to him from three people, including Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969).

Herman Fink, born in London on 4 November 1872 and died there on 21 April 1939, a composer of music for the stage and a conductor.
Gerald Finzi, born in London on 14 July 1901 and died in Oxford, 27 September 1956, a composer of orchestral, choral and vocal works.

Henry Balfour Gardiner, born in London on 7 November 1877 and died in Salisbury on 28 June 1950, a composer of music for the stage as well as choral music and songs.
Sir Edward German was born as German Edward Jones in Whitchurch, Shropshire on 17 February 1862 and died in London on 11 November 1936. He changed his name to avoid confusion with another Edward Jones. He was a composer of comic operas, incidental and orchestral music and songs.
Sir Eugene Goossens, born in London on 26 May 1893 and died at Hillingdon, Middlesex on 13 June 1962, a conductor and composer of stage, orchestral, chamber and vocal music.

Thomas Harper, born in London in 1816 and died on 27 August 1898, possibly also in London, a trumpeter and professor at the Royal Academy of Music. There are no letters from Harper; only letters addressed to him from several people.
Joseph Holbrooke, born in Croydon on 5 July 1878 and died in London on 5 August 1958, a composer of stage, choral, and orchestral music.
Charles Edward Horsley, born in London on 16 December 1822 and died in New York on 28 February 1876, a composer of oratorios.
Herbert Howells, born in Lydney, Gloucs. on 17 October 1892 and died in 1983, a composer of choral and instrumental works, teacher and writer.

John Ireland, born 13 August 1879 in Bowdon, Cheshire and died in Rock Mill, Washington, Sussex, 12 June 1962, a composer of orchestral, vocal, chamber and instrumental music, pianist, and teacher.

Constant Lambert, born in London on 23 August 1905 and died there 21 August 1951, a composer of ballets as well as choral and orchestral works, a conductor and writer.

Sir Alexander Mackenzie, born in Edinburgh on 22 August 1847 and died in London on 28 April 1935, a composer of stage, choral, orchestral, and instrumental music, and a conductor.
Sir August Manns, born in Stolzenberg on 12 March 1825 and died in Norwood, London, 1 March 1907, a conductor at the Crystal Palace, London from 14 October 1855 onwards. He became a naturalized British citizen in 1894.
Thomas Moore, born in Dublin, Ireland on 28 May 1779 and died at Sloperton Cottage, near Devizes on 26 February 1852, a poet, musician and composer of songs.

Alfred Novello, born in London on 12 August 1810 and died in Genoa on 16 July 1896, where he was living in retirement, an English music publisher, founder of Novello & Co.

Sir Hubert Hastings Parry, born in Bournemouth on 27 February 1848 and died in Rustington, Sussex on 7 October 1918, a composer of stage, sacred, orchestral and chamber music, oratorios and songs, a scholar and teacher.
Henry Hugo Pierson, born in Oxford on 12 April 1815 and died in Leipzig on 28 January 1873, a composer of choral and stage music and songs who lived most of his adult life in Germany.

Edmund Rubbra, born in Northampton on 23 May 1901 and died in Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire on 14 February 1986, a composer, pianist, teacher and writer. He is considered to be the leading English exponent of the symphony in the mid-twentieth century.

Cyril Scott, born in Oxton, Cheshire on 27 September 1879 and died in Eastbourne on 31 December 1970, a composer of stage, orchestral, choral and vocal music, a writer and pianist.
J. S. (John South) Shedlock, born in Reading on 29 September 1843 and died in London on 9 January 1919, a pianist and writer on music.
Sir John Stainer was born in London on 6 June 1840 and died in Verona on 31 March 1901, while on vacation, a musicologist and composer of oratorios and sacred music.

Ralph Vaughan Williams, born in Down Ampney, Gloucs., on 12 October 1872 and died in London on 26 August 1958 a composer, teacher, writer and conductor. He was the key figure in the revival of twentieth-century English music.

Vincent Wallace, born in Waterford, Ireland on 11 March 1812 and died at the Château de Huget, Vieuzos, Hautes-Pyrénées on 12 October 1865, where he was living in retirement, a composer of operas and piano pieces.
Richard Walthew (1872-1951)
Samuel Webbe, born in London c1770 and died there on 25 November 1843, an organist and composer of glees, catches and songs as well as sacred music.
Samuel Sebastian Wesley, born in London on 14 August 1810 and died in Gloucester on 19 April 1876, a composer and organist. He is considered to be the greatest composer in the English cathedral tradition of the eighteenth century.

There have been three accruals. The entertainment collection contains materials related to entertainment, predominantly Canadian and American. Genres include ballet, theatre, concerts, musicals and exhibitions (except those that feature sports). They are located in the Sports and Recreation collection. The collection consists of concert and movie posters, programmes, sheet music, sound recordings, cards and other items.

The collections consists of Prayer Meeting Topic cards and an Active Member Pledge Card.

The collection (18-2001) consists of correspondence mainly from Aldwinckle to Somers, poetry, pen and ink sketches and drawings, and one water-colour.

This collection includes publications, archival documents and stamps relating to Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Judaica.

The collection consists of an incomplete set of the transcripts of the trial held in the District Court of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, beginning on 7 January 1985. The collection is supplemented by Did Six Million Really Die?, report of the Evidence in the Canadian "False News" Trial of Ernst Zundel, ed. Barbar Kulszka (Toronto, 1992).

The collection contains letters from Pablo Casals, Albert Einstein, Gustav Holst, William James, Clara Schuman, Peter Tchaikovsky, Cosima Wagner, and others. Smyth drew on these letters in her autobiographical writings.

There is one letter from Smyth to Kenneth Wright, 19 November 1929. For additional letters written by Smyth, researchers are directed to the Eric Walter White fonds.

The collection consists mainly of correspondence between family members and close friends during the First World War, as well as some military documents and photographs.

The collection consists of a score, libretto, rehearsal schedule, programme, poster, and tear-sheet of a review for his opera Le Testament de Villon, performed at the University of California at Berkeley on 13 November 1971.

The collection consists of 110 photographs taken by Arndoli, a number letters received by him, including one from Sir Edmund Ironside, and other items related to the First World War. From the Second World War, there are five photographs.

The collection consists of b&w photographs of fire trucks. There are trucks from the Burlington, Grimbsy, Kamsack, Kelowna, Kentville, Niagara, Niagara Falls, Pickering, Point Claire, Revelstoke, and the Canadian National Parks Fire Departments. Many of the trucks are identified as Bickle trucks. Founded in Winnipeg in 1906, the company had been moved to Woodstock, Ont. becoming Bickle Fire Engines Ltd. in 1922. Four of the photographs are taken by Charles W. Hayrall of Woodstock, Ont. One of the photographs was taken by W.J. Oliver. Most of the photographs are stationary portraits of trucks. Only three of the photographs show any action: two men are atop the Canadian National Parks truck operating the fire hose at a lake; one photograph is of a truck moving down a street; one photograph is of men climbing a fire truck ladder.

The first accrual relates to the land claims of the Potawatomi. The second accrual is a photograph of the Six Nations chiefs c. 1887. The third accrual relates to the sale of lands on Manitoulin Island.

The collection consists of broadsides issued to the Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.

Realia and ephemera related to the First World War.

Nouveau sistème de fortification. [17-?] -- 192 p.

Proposal of a new system of fortification containing several new advantages that may be made of sluices in the fortifying and defending places that are situated on rivers or near the sea as likewise a solution to the first question proposed to the learned in 1708 viz how to make mines or furnaces (fourneaux) each of which you may fire as often as you please without bursting them, & these to be made in such a manner as not to be liable to be flooded ... as likewise a new method of attacking ... more expedite and less bloody than those practised in the last wars. [17-?-]. -- 10 p. -- Partial translation of preceding manuscript. -- Drawing : pen and ink.

Notes extraites d'un memoire sur Maestricht. -- [17-?]. -- 2 p.

Nouvelle construction d'ecluses pur le menagement des eaux, ou maniere d'etablir la navigation dans les plaines des pays ou les eaux sonts rares. -- [17-?]. -- 6 p. -- Methode generale pour tracer sure le papier, ou sur le terrain le trait magistral ... -- 2 p. Nouvelle construction d'ecluses pour empecher l'entree de l'eau sallee d'un havre, dans celle d'un canal, ou riviere navigable ... 7 p. -- These three manuscripts are all written on the same gathering of paper. Premier exemple de l'usage d'un seul reservoir. -- 2 p. This manuscript is loose in the gathering. Drawing : pencil sketch. -- Drawing: pen and ink.

Description par letres de renvoy des principales parties ... des bastions. [17-?] -- 21 p. -- Drawing : pencil sketch.

Discours sur quelques sujets d'architecture. -- [17-?]. -- 14 p.

Untitled fragments. -- [17-?]. -- 34 p. -- Drawing : pen and ink.