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The collection contains a Dunbar family genealogy compiled by Patricia Yvonne Grey.

The collection contains family histories compiled by Floyd E. Roadhouse relating to the Duncan family of Forfarshire, Scotland, including Alexander Duncan and Charlotte Malcolm of East Garafraxa Township, Wellington County and John Duncan and Elizabeth Strachan of Derby Township, Grey County.

The collection contains clippings, sketches, and manuscripts of literary works, including materials concerning textbook "History of Canada”, created by and relating to Edith Louise Marsh (1870-1960), author and local historian from Clarksburg, Grey County, Ontario. Stories written for children’s journals by Marsh, including East West a Paper for Young Canadians (1903-1920), The Way (1913-1917), Playmate (1921-1922), and The King's Own (1903-1907), are also included.

Fonds includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, recordings, news clippings, speeches, awards and personal items relating to the personal life and career of Edward Johnson. Collection also includes postcards and photographs of Guelph, as well as performance memorabilia and photographs from celebrities such as Anatole France, Arturo Toscanini and Giacomo Puccini. Recordings of Johnson's most popular songs, including renditions of "O Canada!" and "The Maple Leaf Forever", are also included.

The collection contains an Elmslie family history written by James J. Elmslie, covering the period from 1803 to 1990. The history discusses James Elmslie of Lower Nichol Township, District of Wellington, Canada West and his descendants.

The collection contains newspapers, publications, land records, correspondence, church records, financial statements, cemetery listings, electors’ lists, diaries, yearbooks, and pamphlets related to Grey County, Ontario. The materials were collected by Emerson Walton Quinton of Walter Falls, Ontario. Newspapers and clippings are from Durham, Elora, Fergus, Elmira, Palmerston, Mount Forest, Guelph, Harriston, Meaford, Owen Sound, North Wellington, and Toronto. The collection contains a number of disparate materials on the early settlement of Grey County, including a list of land transfers in St. Vincent township, 1921-1942; a record of registered letters at Clarksburg, 1892, 1893; church records and financial statements (Presbyterian, Anglican and Methodist), including baptismal, marriage and burial records, for Walter's Falls and other areas; a notebook of various cemetery listings; a poll book for Thornbury, 1925; as well as municipal records and electors' lists, ledgers, diaries, school yearbooks, correspondence, and pamphlets.

The collection includes a family history compiled by Floyd E. Roadhouse relating to the Eskritt family, including William Eskritt (1749-1831) and Hannah Jennison, Robert Eskritt and Hanna Jackson, and Joseph Eskritt and Mary Jane Highland.

The Farquharson-Fletcher family collection contains photocopies of letters written by the Fletcher family of Tilbury, Ontario from 1856 to 1895. Also included is a Stewart-Maitland-Farquharson-Fletcher family tree compiled by Elizabeth Jean Sharpe 1937 as well as photocopies concerning James MacGregor, the Father of Presbyterianism in the Maritimes.

The Fasken family collection contains correspondence, diaries, legal documents, business and financial records, and genealogical information pertaining to the family of William Fasken (1782-1849) and Margaret Mitchell (1788-1866).

The Federation Women’s Institute of Ontario (FWIO) collection contains the administrative and historical records of the organization, founded in 1919. Federation and branch meeting minutes, annual reports, photographs and other graphic material, convention reports, financial records, newsletters, conference and research material, voter lists, and FWIO publications, including the Home and Country magazine and Tweedsmuir histories, are included.