The fonds consists of documents concerning labour relations of the time, including letters requesting employment, employee expense accounts, letters from the penitentiary regarding fees and the nature of quality labour, and an early wage dispute/settlement from an employee against J.P. Milliner and Company.
The fonds predominantly consists of records of the Afro-Caribe Community Foundation as well as some records from a variety of other community groups, such as Queen's University student groups, in which Brown has participated, or had interest. There is also a small amount of material that is representational of Brown's teaching career.
Fonds consists of digital photographs of the interior and exterior of S&R Department Store, Kingston, Ontario, following the announcement of its impending closure.
Fonds consists of a series scrapbooks containing press clippings describing the sexual abuse scandal involving the choirmaster and organist at St. George`s Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario, John Gallienne, and the subsequent legal proceedings.
The fonds consists of photocopies and transcripts of correspondence, news clippings and notes used by Professor D.M. Shurman in the preparation of a biography on Corbett. Correspondence with Earl Jellicoe, Admiral Slade and Sir Walter Raleigh relating to naval affairs and naval history.
Fonds consists of correspondence, research notes, manuscripts, and clippings related to Bill Fitsell's news columns that ran in the Kingston Whig-Standard, and interests in hockey history; the Cliff Bowering sous-fonds (1953-1980); subject files (1900-2000); scrapbooks (1951-1966); Whig-Standard (1838-2011); Kingston Sports (1898-[2013]); photographs ([ca. 1884]-2003); International Hockey Hall of Fame (1943-2012); hockey ([1871]-2014); writings (1969-2012); sound recordings (1973-2006); photographs of the historical plaque unveiling associated with Meagher House, Kingston, Ontario (1984).