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The Thornbury municipal records collection contains committee reports, meeting minutes, and correspondence of the clerk in Thornbury, Grey County, Ontario (1906-1917), as well as Kent County court mortgages (1878-1885), Thornbury wage earners (1888), Thornbury treasurer statements (1906), statements of Thornbury deputy returning officer (1906), returns of births, deaths, and marriages in Thornbury (1886-1905), materials related to the Thornbury dam (1912) and Thornbury bridge (1909), and a plan of siding for the Thornbury Transportation and Reduction Company (1909).

The Thorning collection contains approximately one hundred photocopied business and personal letters sent to various Wellington County individuals. The letters are arranged chronologically and are accompanied by one card index arranged chronologically, and a second index arranged alphabetically by addressor and addressee. Each record includes a copy of the addressed envelope, postage stamp and cancelled post office stamp. Individuals located in the correspondence include: Adam Fergusson, George J. Grange, William Hewat, Charles Julius Mickle, William Mickle, William Stevenson, Andrew Geddes, Charles Clarke, A. Dingwall Fordyce, George Smellie, Steve Thorning, A.D. Ferrier, Robert Torrance, and Charles Allan. Locations include Guelph, Fergus, Arthur, Drayton, Hamilton, London, Dundas, Toronto, Brant County, Arthur Township, Garafraxa Township, Minto Township, Erin Township, Peel Township, Eramosa Township, Pilkington Township, Nichol Township, Maryborough Township, Luther Township, Montreal, Buffalo (N.Y.), and Aberdeen, Scotland.

The collection also contains sixteen photographs showing various views, homes, businesses and families in Wellington County. Photographs include The Glasgow Warehouse Hardware Store of James Christie, Knox Church, Elora, a train wreck with overturned carriages, military regiments on parade, buildings destroyed by fire, a posed soldier with sabre, an unidentified family group, a river bank, and portraits of gentlemen.

Title taken from contents of the collection. Some items also include financial statements, receipts and expenditures, memberships, correspondence, and photographs

Fonds consists of published and unpublished plays, letters, correspondence, videos, memorabilia, and other materials relating to the career of actor, playwright and writer Timothy Findley. It also includes the make-up box used by Sir Alec Guinness in the 1957 movie "Bridge on the River Kwai", and given as a gift to Findley. It was used by Findley during his final eight years as an actor (1954-1962).

Contains scrapbooks, programs, posters, photos, correspondence and articles relating to the Canadian Workers' Theatre, the Theatre of Action, and the Play Actors, 1930s to 1950s. Arranged under the following series: House Programs, Scrapbooks, Production Photos, Company Portraits, Periodicals, Correspondence, Ephemera, Publications, Posters (XZ1 MS A009 - A016, A018, XZ3 MS A009). Ryan, author of Stage Left, was actively involved in popular theatre movements, chiefly in Toronto, through the 1930s, 40s and 50s.

Fonds contains newspaper clippings, scripts, programs, photographs, scrapbooks, notebooks, videotapes, reel to reel tapes, personal materials, artefacts, awards, and certificates.

The fonds contains extracts from a diary kept by Tom Luard at "Langford" near Goderich, Huron County, Ontario between 1836 and 1841. The extracts were copied by Henry Hyndman in 1894.

Collection contains various draft versions of play scripts by Tomson Highway, 1985-1994.

Collection of Toronto Academy of Veterinary Medicine newsletters, annual reports, fee schedules, newspaper articles, correspondence, and records.