The fonds consists of reports, government commissions and studies made for the Department of Trade and Commerce when Skelton was Assistant Deputy Minister.
Fonds consists of correspondence, diaries, general remark book, H.M.S. Algerine, China Station, 1899; minute and letter book of Commander in Chief, East Indies, 1909 Mar. 3, lectures at Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and papers written by Slade for Submission to the First Lord.
Report by Sir James Carmicheal-Smyth for the Duke of Wellington on the military defences and requirements, engineering establishments and defence of the Canadian frontier in 1826.
The fonds consists of correspondence and writings and includes his unpublished biography of W.L. Mackenzie King. Correspondents include John Diefenbaker, Arthur Meighen, Senator Paul Martin and Dr. Wilder Penfield.
The fonds consists of a ledger of outgoing military correspondence (1899-1901) and personal correspondence from the First World War, as well as newsclippings of poems and pamphlets on the topics of war savings, insurance and food. The personal correspondence provides insight into life during the war from the perspective of a nurse and the father of a soldier.
