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The Goldie family papers contain letters addressed to James Goldie (1824-1912) from his father, Scottish botanist John Goldie (1793-1886), and his brother, William Goldie (d. 1868), of Greenfield near Ayr, North Dumfries Township, Waterloo County, Ontario. James received the letters while he was working in New York as a florist and lumber/flour merchant. The collection also contains a manuscript account of John Goldie and his family, photographs of Greenfield House and Mill, and various articles.

The Goodall-Moyer-Comfort family collection contains the memoirs of the Moyer and Comfort families, Mennonite immigrants from Pennsylvania to the Niagara Peninsula, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and Puslinch Township, Wellington County. Photographs of the Ontario Agricultural College campus taken during the 1920s, legal documents, sermons, correspondence, and other records related to the Goodall-Moyer-Comfort families are also included.

Box 1. The old farm / by. C. Francis Moyer; memoirs of Lottie May Comfort, 1880-1972; memoirs of Ralph Comfort, 1908; A motor trip to western Canada and California 1937 / by Ralph Comfort; The story of Ellwood Nathan Comfort (1879-1950) and Lottie May Comfort (Moyer) (1880-1972) / by Ralph G. Comfort; estate of Cecil Francis Moyer, 1988; Goodall Family, Belwood, Wellington County / by Greta (Goodall) Simon and Goodall/Comfort Family by Helen Goodall written in answer to Professor J. Snell's questionnaire, 1992; will of Robert Comfort, Sr., Gainsborough Township, Lincoln County, 1847; documents related to career of C.F. Moyer, Beamsville, Ont.; O.A.C. photos, 1920; Photo of Ron Goodall, OAC Grand Champion Dairy Showman, OAC '60.

Box 2. Sermons of C.F. Moyer, 1961-1974

Box 2A. Sermons of C.F. Moyer, 1975-1982, n.d.

Box 3. Sermons of C.F. Moyer, n.d.; correspondence, Niagara Presbytery and United Church of Canada information, articles, church bulletins, etc., 1972-1986, n.d.

Box 4. C.F. Moyer war correspondence - chiefly letters to his wife Elva from Ontario, England and Holland, 1941-1946; tape, transcript and notes by his daughter Helen Moyer Goodall with a few photos and other memorabilia

Box 5. Receipts, mortgages, indentures, wills, and other miscellaneous papers belonging to the family

The Goodwin-Haines collection contains a diverse compilation of Canadiana, including correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets, books, crown land grants and purchases, military commissions, broadsides, newspapers, an autograph collection, maps, and photographs, among other materials. Most of the material relates to or was created or received by prominent members of Canadian and European political, social, economic, religious, military, and educational life, including William Lyon Mackenzie, Lord Melville, Sir Alexander Campbell, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, John Galt, John Baldwin, Jules Quesnell, Thomas Clark, Samuel Street, Dr. Henry Orton, Catherine Parr Traill, and many others. Materials related to early colonial and industrial life in Canada, the War of 1812, and United Empire Loyalists appear throughout.

Collection of charcoal, pastel, pencil, ink, oil, and watercolour paintings and sketches as well as correspondence, clippings, photographs, sketchbooks, resource files, slides, an inventory of Guelph houses and buildings, and other memorabilia relating to Guelph painter, stained glass artist and local art historian Gordon Couling (1913-1984). Biographical data on Couling and his family, photographs of A.Y. Jackson painting the Ontario Agricultural College campus in 1959, and Couling's unpublished manuscript of "Ontario Stone: A Vocabulary of Forms", which contains many b&w photographs and descriptions of Guelph and area houses, buildings, and architectural features, are also included.

The fonds contains publications, pamphlets, reports, and other materials related to the study of apiculture, collected by Gordon F. Townsend, a Professor in the Ontario Agricultural College’s Department of Apiculture.

The collection contains photocopied materials related to the history and genealogy of the Graham family from Brantford and Onondaga Township, Brant County, Ontario. A photograph of Lorne Bridge, Brantford, is also included.

The collection contains assessment rolls, auditor’s reports, voters lists, financial statements, and council by-laws, minutes, and proceedings related to Grey County, Ontario. Telephone books, church annual reports, high school yearbooks, photographs, syllabi for the Grey County Festival of Music, and a harbour master’s record book and related materials for Meaford, Ontario, are also included. Materials pertain to Holland Township, Sydenham Township, Euphrasia Township, St. Vincent Township, Collingwood Township, Derby Township, Sullivan Township, and the towns of Thornbury, Meaford, Flesherton, Shallow Lake, Chatsworth, Markdale, and Owen Sound.

The Gerald Taylor Bloomfield and Elizabeth Bloomfield fonds contains indexes from the Canadian Industry in 1871 Project (1991), published by the Department of Geography, University of Guelph.

The collection contains biographical information on various architects in Guelph and area compiled from newspaper clippings S. Kent Rawson, an architect from Toronto. Contents include information on Matthew Bell (1820-1883) with illustrations in "A Gallery of Guelph Sculpture" by Gordon Couling printed in the 1971 Guelph Spring Festival souvenir program; the Roman Catholic Church at Little Germany (Maryhill, later Freiburg), Ontario; the Bruce family; Victor Stewart; and Toronto newspaper references to various Guelph buildings.

The collection contains various postcards of Guelph and area including views of St. George's Square with streetcars, Speed River, Yeates and Thomas banquet room, Reformatory grounds, Riverside Park, the Bell Factory and Jubilee Park, the Armouries, Administration Building at the Jail Farm, the Court House, various views of Upper and Lower Wyndham Street, the Post Office, Quebec Street, and the racetrack on Speedvale Avenue.