The fonds consists of correspondence, press clippings, speeches, articles, diaries, scrapbooks, reports photographs, sound recordings and a large collection of political cartoons. The material covers the period from his earliest American accountancy training in 1923 through his professional career and public career as Auditor General of Canada 1960 to 1973 to his present interests. It is in his role as watch dog and critic of government spending that Mr. Henderson is best known and the major part of the fonds is concerned with this role. Mr. Henderson's frank and articulate comments and criticisms of government expenditures and procedures aroused public interest and conflict with the government, especially that of Prime Minister Trudeau. These aspects are well represented in the fonds, along with Mr. Henderson's significant, but less visible, international accounting work.

Fonds consists of course material and lecture notes for the courses Dr. Daub taught at Queen's; research files and drafts of "Gael Force" and "Getting Down to Business"; other writings both scholastic and personal including his diaries from 1964-1990; and the forecasting data sets Daub used for his research.

The fonds consists of detailed and descriptive diaries or research journals created and maintained by Partington from 1939 fairly consistently until 2007. There is a large decade gap in this set in the 1950's. Also included is a memoir and collected correspondence with various individuals, as well as a collection of Partington's publications from 1952 to 2005.

The fonds consists of correspondence, subject files, newspaper articles, pamphlets, speeches, press clippings, and personal diaries 1912-1959. A large portion of these papers consists of material concerning western agriculture and politics. Of particular interest in this connection are those files dealing with the Canadian Council of Agriculture, which includes the minutes of the Council from December 29, 1911 to March 31, 1922.

The fonds consists of survey notebooks; photocopies of originals; field notes and diaries by Ontario Land Surveyers for Townships 'G'-'L'. (#422-507).

Fonds consists of diaries and journals; published and unpublished poetry, short stories, and columns in The Kingston Whig-Standard; records relating to income from writing; portfolios of published work; and copies of publications containing her poetry, articles, and photographs.

The fonds consists of holograph diaries of Peregrine Maitland Clark.

Fonds consists of two sous-fonds, that of Margaret Elizabeth Phipps-Walker and that of Edward Phipps-Walker. The Edward Phipps-Walker sous-fonds consists of textual material, including a "Guest Register" for a motel in Gananoque, Ontario; photographs; audio tapes. They detail the man's life from his school days in England to his death at the age of 71 in Kingston. A very important part of these records document his business activities. Most of these activities were closely related to his role as Habour Master for the Port of Kingston. The Margaret Elizabeth sous-fonds consists of textual material and photographs detailing a good deal of her public career in Kingston, with a strong focus on her work with the Association of Women Electors. There is also a good deal of personal material such as letters and diaries.

Fonds consists of diaries, the entries of which represents his activities on an almost daily basis from 1942 to 1990; correspondence; newspaper clippings; photographs and assorted ephemera covering some of the ten years preceding and the almost five years following the span accounted for by the diaries; research and lecture notes; offprints; professional correspondence; and a scrapbook.

The South Carolina collection consists of two parts: Part 1: the Papers of James Henry Hammond, and Part 2, Miscellaneous Collections of Personal and Family Papers. James Henry Hammond (1807-1864) was a statesman and plantation owner in South Carolina. He served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, and was Governor of South Carolina from from 1840 to 1842. The papers reflect his role as both statesman and planter, including records pertaining to agriculture, education, family life, the practice of law, politics and slave management.The Miscellaneous collections of Personal and Family papers includes: Samuel Porcher Gaillard Plantation journals; John Forsythe Talbert Plantation journals; a Caleb Coker Plantation book; James Trezevant Plantation diary and records; Glover family papers;a James Talbert Ouzts Plantation book; a David Milling Plantation book; John Ogilvie Medical Account books; a diary from Natalie DeLage Sumter; the papers of Mary Hart Means; Thomas family diaries; the papers of James Ritchie Sparkman; the John Stapleton papers; Thomas Cassells Law papers; John McPherson DeSaussure papers; Lewis Malone Ayer papers; the Read-Lance family papers; the Heyward family papers; John Ewing Colhoun papers; the Miller-Furman-Dabbs family papers; and the Hammond-Bryan-Cumming family papers.