Fonds consists of correspondence, financial, legal and miscellaneous records, photographs, and printed material relating to the activities of the Rev. John Brooks Crowe, an early settler in the Trenton, Ont. area, and his descendants; correspondence and genealogical files relating to the Birch, Crowe, Garnt, Hagerman, Mills, Philps, and Stevenson families; diplomas and certificates relating to Margrethe (Crowe) Birch's time as a registered nurse. The bulk of the fonds contains material relating to the public and personal lives of the families of Dr. Walter Brooks Crowe and Dr. John Alexander Stevenson, and documents, in a fairly rich fashion, the social, economic, and medical history of the Trenton, Frankford, and Peterborough, Ontario areas, from the mid 19th to the mid 20th centuries.