The collection consists of typescripts and proofs of stories, essays and reviews.

The Union of Canadian Municipalities (UCM) fonds consists of the UCM’s administrative records and correspondence between 1901 and 1931. This collection presents the UCM’s organizational activities in Montreal and Canada in the early 20th century.
This fonds includes 64 files of administrative and financial records, 8 photographs and 1 technical drawing. Administrative records consist of Constitution 1901, meeting minutes 1903-1919, correspondences 1901-1919, Act or Bill or argument copies 1903, 1905, 1914, memorandum 1903, 1913, 1918, convention materials 1908-1919, official circulars 1905, 1914,1915,1919, survey 1905 and convention attendance registration book 1901-1914. Financial activities are documented by cash book 1904-1905, account book 1902-1915, cheques and invoices 1904-1919, ledgers 1901-1919 and financial reports 1913. Newspaper clippings covering 1905 to 1913. The publications include UCM journals from 1901-1919, annual reports 1905-1911 and convention reports 1902-1904. A scrap book, containing newspaper clippings, stock profile report, petition to House of Commons 1906, correspondence 1931, bulletins and circulars covering the period between 1902 to 1931. The collection also includes 8 photographs taken between 1902-1913. Besides, a technical drawing titled "Plan showing proposed system of telephone installation C.P.R. premises" is dated in 1904.
The majority of the UCM records are arranged as chronological files. A small portion of administrative documents includes a few UCM annual books, convention books and a scrap book of newspaper clippings. Then there are publications of their journals. Thus, the fonds consists of 3 series: 1) chronological files and 2) publications, and 3) administrative files.

Fonds consists of manuscript of "The City of Business and How it was Built"

Collection consists of three albums containing photographs taken at Grenfell Mission and one framed photograph. Albums feature many photographs of St. Anthony and the region, its inhabitants, the medical staff at the Grenfell Mission, and activities such as dogsledding.

William Badgley's papers form the bulk of the family's papers and consist of a book of legal notes and judgments, 1801-1826; legal commissions, 1823-1866; as well as circulars, petitions and correspondence for the Constitutional Association, 1834-1839. Other papers include family correspondence, 1823-1829, and deeds of sale, 1831-1852, of James Thompson Badgley.

The fonds reflects the scientific and literary outreach activities of the Montreal Natural History Society over the course of its existence and contains correspondence, minutes, financial records, council and committee reports, membership lists, donation lists, catalogues of holdings, newspaper clippings, lecture advertisements and weather maps. In addition, the fonds includes reference material to other societies and information regarding the publication and creation of the Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science, Canadian Naturalist and Geologist and the Canadian Record of Science.

The fonds is composed of the following series: 1) Accounting Records (1860-1917); 2) Administrative Records (1833-1887); 3) Catalogues (ca.1829-ca.1925); 4) Correspondence (1871-1896 with gaps); 5) Essays and Lectures (1829-1852); 6) Minutes (1827-1832,1844-1923); 7) Montreal Microscopical Society (1884-1906); 8) Reports (1828-1881 with gaps); 9) Weather Maps (1895-1897).

Collection includes a scrapbook created by Maude Lilian Bremner during her time in South Africa as a teacher to Boer children in refugee camps, as well as other related loose clippings and ephemera. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, postcards, and other ephemera tipped in. Many of the clippings are articles reprinting letters written home by Bremner and other volunteer teachers in her contingent. Collection also includes a published Memorandum respecting the engagement of teachers for the refugee camps in South Africa.

Fonds consists of a typescript of "An archaeological expedition to the ruins of Southern Tunisia and the Sahara," 1924. This work includes articles by Louise de Forest Shelton, Arnold M. Duff, and Byron de Prorok.

Nash's papers comprise original illustrations for Nouveau Poor by Belinda Blinders, edited by Desmond Cooke (1921), together with drawings for and letters concerning L.de G. Sieveking's Dressing Gowns and Glue (1921).