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The United Co-operatives of Ontario collection contains minute books, correspondence, publications, reports, speeches, research notes, administrative files, by-laws, clippings, promotional material, financial records, scrapbooks, and photographs related to the United Co-operatives of Ontario. Book and reports from the UCO library are also included. Much of the material in this collection, which documents the heritage of early Ontario farm movements, was gathered and organized by Leonard Harman (1910-1993), a leading figure in the United Farmers of Ontario and the United Co-operatives of Ontario.

The University of Guelph fonds includes materials on the history of the academic, administrative, and social life of the university. Administrative records and publications of the University of Guelph, including annual reports and course calendars, are included, as well as material related to the history of academic colleges, departments, staff and faculty, campus life, and student groups. Yearbooks, club and association materials, campus newspapers and magazines, campus buildings, campus maps and photographs, and student-generated material are also included.

The Urquhart-Campbell-Sutherland fonds contains personal, family, and business correspondence and other materials related to the families of three Scottish Presbyterian ministers: Rev. Alexander Urquhart (c.1750-1812) of Rograt, Urquhart’s son-in-law Rev. James Campbell (1782-1859) of Kildonan and Inverness, and Campbell’s son-in-law Rev. Murdoch Sutherland (d.1858), who was appointed to the Free Church in Pictou, Nova Scotia. The fonds contains materials that provide important insights into the conditions in Sutherlandshire during a period of major social and economic upheaval, including the Highland clearances.

The correspondence related to Rev. Alexander Urquhart, which covers the period from about 1780 to 1823, discusses education, parish management, and church politics in northern Scotland. Letters related to education include discussion on the quality of teaching in Caithness as well as adequate tuition for his five children. Family letters from the Polson family of Navidale are also prominent.

The bulk of the fonds contains materials related to Rev. James Campbell from 1810 to 1859. These include business, family, and personal correspondence, as well as a collection of death notices. The letters provide a commentary on the role of a rural parish minister in the management of the Sutherland estate and discuss the ramifications of the Highland clearances. Financial invoices and bills are also included.

Correspondence from 1846 to 1884 relating to Rev. Murdoch Sutherland (c.1826-1858) and his family is also inluded. Many of the letters are between Sutherland and his wife, Isabella, and include a commentary of religious life in the Nova Scotia, including descriptions of the Halifax College as well as congregations he served.

Title taken from contents of the fonds. Most work files also contain drawings, blueprints or sketches.;Some negatives, including 12 unidentified sheets, located in negative file in Rare Book Room. Others are in with project work files. The fonds consists of landscape architectural drawings, blueprints, sketches, plans, proposals, plant lists, estimates and costs, working files, photographs, slides, notebooks, and correspondence for various commercial and residential projects, both local and regional

Collection of chiefly hand coloured engravings of Victorian women's fashion, 1837-1843. The engravings appear to have been bound in a single volume and most include a cutline beginning "The Last & Newest Fashion". There are also a few contemporary engravings of some British scenes and pictures of royalty.

The fonds includes records that document the financial and administrative activities of the organization, predominantly between 1913 and 1960. A small amount of published material gives an overview of the co-operative's history and development to 1988. The records consist of ledgers for accounts, sales, membership and inventories; legal and administrative documents; personnel records; and a small amount of correspondence and publications.

Fonds is comprised of the following series
Finance
Administration
Personnel
Publications

Includes diary of S.R. Breckon and passport of W. E. Breckon; Bronte Dairy counter sales books for oats and wheat, letterhead stationery, business card; W. E. Breckon awards for World Wheat King and Canadian Seed Growers Association long service; opening and dedication of W. E. Breckon Public School, newspaper articles, 1929 voter's list of Nelson Township, Appleby School reunion invitation, Fourth Appleby Church laying of date stones; b&w photograph of Appleby Methodist Church at Appleby Line and Q.E. Way (n.d.), sepia toned photograph of 3 unidentified men standing in front of log at sawmill (n.d.)

2 oversized files. Oversized File 1 contains Appleby School Section No. 3 old boys and girls reunion, July 4, 1931. Oversized File 2 contains an aerial view of the W.E. Breckon farmstead next to the Queen Elizabeth Way, Burlington, taken by K. James, 1961.

The Waddell Apiculture photograph collection contains photographs of the Kalman Apiary, Firholm Apiary (owned by Muriel Riddell Sweet on Lot 25, Con 1), and the W.S. Riddell Apiary in West Nissouri/Thorndale, Ontario. A photograph of an unidentified man is also included.