This material comprises a copy of a family book and of a genealogy of Andrew Drummond, ca 1900.

Record of births and deaths, 1812-1899; diaries, 1820-1821, 1824-1825, 1898-1899; copy book of family letters, 1790-1886; genealogical tree and register of Charlottenburgh municipality, Ontario, 1851 and 1876 to 1880.

Le fonds comprend dix lettres adressées à De Salaberry et à certains de ses proches sur divers sujets de 1785 à 1912, un manuel de manoeuvres militaires de Major Michel de Salaberry, 1796, des photographies, des cartes postales, un spicilège (ca 1834-1841) et quelques documents relatifs à Frederick George Heriot (ca 1818).

The fonds consists of records pertaining to the Montreal Diet Dispensary and its connection to other charitable associations and institutions that assisted in the general functions of the Dispensary; the records date from 1885-1965 with a single record from 1980. There are notebooks filled with notes from the Diet Dispensary meetings from the late 1880s up until the mid-1900s. There is correspondence to financial and legal bodies such as the Royal Bank of Canada and Armstrong & De Witt from the Dispensary, dating from 1907-1929. In addition to business correspondence, there are also some personal correspondence to and from Dr. Denstedt from 1957-1958. In addition, there are a number of annual reports and statements for the Dispensary as well as the Welfare Federation of Montreal and its member agencies (of which the Diet Dispensary was one); these date from 1921-1957. Furthermore there are some mounted colour slides, date unknown, and a series of photos depicting Dr. Denstedt and various women at Richmond Square from 1956. There are also administrative records such as the Montreal Diet Dispensary Address Book, date unknown, and some publications mainly in the form of nutritional pamphlets from 1936-1942.

Fonds consists of a printed copy of Babbage's autobiographical Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864) interleaved with his letters, 1804-1847, from contemporary scientists, including John Dalton, Michael Faraday, Hans Christian Oersted, Sir George Biddell Airy, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Sir Richard Owen, and H. F. Talbot.

The fonds reflects Agnes Honoria Wrong's career as a columnist and mainly consists of scrapbooks containing food columns published in different Canadian newspapers chiefly under the pen name Janet March. Janet March's real name was Agnes Honoria Armstrong Wrong, and she wrote under many pen names. The earliest columns (1931-1933) are signed "Suzette" and were published in the Saturday Night Magazine (Toronto) Some other food-related columns published in the Junior League Magazine (1933-1935) are signed "Epicure". Later columns in the Saturday Night Magazine (1939-1946) are ordered more or less by year in specific scrapbooks. Articles about history of food, as well as recipe columns, were published monthly in the Globe & Mail (1956-1962), some of them under her real name. Part of the material is loose in envelopes or within already filled scrapbooks, including pre-publication typed articles. Also are included a few letters addressed to the creator (reader's mail).

Fonds contains of a typescript of Return to Sea, an autobiography of a former naval man.

The Taylor White Collection is comprised of 938 watercolour paintings of mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles. White, a British jurist, commissioned various artists of the day (including Charles Collins, Peter Paillou, Jacob Van Huysum, George Edwards, and Eleazar Albin) to paint these animal portraits from live and dead specimens brought back to England from around the world. Many of the paintings are accompanied by loose-leaf manuscript notes, written mainly by White in Latin, providing further information about the animal; transcriptions and English translations of these notes have been provided within the record for each painting.

Collection consists of Joseph Crawhall's correspondence, notes, memoranda, and manuscripts related to his research on engraver Thomas Bewick (1753-1828).