The collection consists of 38 letters written by a small group of French Canadian Protestant friends living in the villages of St. Philippe, Grande Ligne, and Ste. Philomène in southern Quebec, as well as in the city of Montreal. Among the letters are those by Samuel Perrier, a Quebec farmer and dedicated letter writer, primarily addressed to his future wife, Eugenie Molleur (1862–1948), and to one of his daughters, Aline, who attended L'Institut Méthodiste Français.

These letters provide a vivid depiction of the challenging rural life faced by Quebec farmers, highlighting issues such as fatigue, poor crop yields, a shortage of farm labour, harsh winters, health struggles, and local news. They also reflect the parents' determination to improve their children's futures by sending them to school to learn English, accounting, music, and teaching. The collection additionally includes a small selection of poems and songs.

The collection consists of Prevost’s school certificate from Le Conseil d'État de la République et Canton de Neuchatel en Suisse, dated June 17, 1870, along with a collection of handwritten essays and poems. It contains newspaper clippings featuring published poems, an article titled “The French Congregational Church,” and the original handwritten essay “Our Educational Work” by J. A. Derome, accompanied by a note from Prevost. The collection also features the booklets “Le Canada français à la lumière de l'histoire” (1913) and "Le vrai contre-poison pour faire disparaître la confession auriculaire" by Chiniquy (1878), as well as a booklet “Annuaire de l'Église evangélique française de Torrington, Connecticut, 1902-3” and a 50-leaf handwritten notes of the speeches given at the conferences on Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857), held in Montreal (1878), Springfield (1887), Torrington (1903) and Norfork (1909). A biography of Joseph Provost is pasted on the front pastedown of the book covers (content missing), alongside a black-and-white photograph of students on the cover, titled “École des garçons et école des filles à Chapelle, 1846-1904.”

The collection consists of a journal kept sporadically from 3 August 1835 to 4 July 1839 as well as a notebook titled "Mathematics, 1835;" a handwritten synopsis of the lives of Sir Herbert Taylor and Sir Charles Forbes; and a letter from Sir Charles Forbes to Lord John Russell, 1848, concerning Charles J. Briscoe and his family. It includes two black-and-white photographs of Charles J. Briscoe, a typewritten list of the "Loan collection of Mr. John Kerr", and a list of the lectures of the Philosophical and Geological Society by S. Frye, President, dated November 7, 1841.

Collection contains two financial documents related to McGill College. The first is a memorandum between the College and its creditors in which the College agrees to pay out dividends and pay in installments towards the balance of the College's debt. It is signed by the individual creditors as well as by the principal of McGill College, Edmund A. Meredith. The memorandum contains a list of creditors of McGill College with their names and occupations listed, including William Lyman, druggist, Robert Abraham, printer, John Keller, merchant, and many others. A note dated 24 March 1847 with a response from representatives of the creditors is pasted on. The second document is a ledger sheet dated from 1844 to 1847 with the caption: "The Directors of McGill College to Joseph Hitchens."

These papers consist of Sheppard's letters to his sister, Margaret, in England, 1841-1861, and a few incoming letters from family and friends including one from his son William about the Prince of Wales' visit in 1860.

This collection consists chiefly of 1,634 aerial photographs, 162 of which are stereograms, dated from 1930 to 1976. The first six containers consist of Landsat 1:1 000 000 Prints & Negatives. The photographs depict various geographic and geological features including mountains, deserts, volcanoes, farmland, lakes, and rivers. Some photographs depict roads, settlements, and dams. Canada and the United States features prominently in this collection however there are also photographs of the Caribbean, South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. There are 52 pages of documents most of which are indexes to the photographs. There are also shipping transmittals, survey cards, letters, a purchase order, and diagrams with flight lines and photo set numbers. The 15 maps in this collection are of flight lines (some with film roll numbers added), hand-drawn maps of locations in the photographs, geographic maps, and physiographic maps.

The collection consists of an inventory list; a volume labelled "Equipment. Steamer Relief / Pontoons & Wrecking Plant / Lower St. Lawrence / 19 May 1882 - 22 February 1883," containing 22 used pages.; a volume labeled " Wrecks & Disasters," a scrapbook of clippings and printed documents, 1882-1884, with 39 used pages; a blank "Share Subscribers Register" consisting of 6 pages; and a "Winter Navigation of River St. Lawrence / Copy of Log of Steamer 'Folger,' of the Dominion Salvage and Wrecking Co., Montreal, 1883, containing 12 pages.

The collection consists of an illustrated and annotated edition of a monograph titled "The English Cathedral of Quebec, read before the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, 10th March, 1891," an ordinary copy of the monograph, various documents, black and white photographs of both the cathedral's exterior and interior, as well as portraits of its bishops and canons. The collection also features newspaper clippings related to the history of the cathedral and church discussions, published by the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec and various local newspapers, along with handwritten memos concerning church disputes. It includes an original watercolour drawing of the diocese's coat of arms, ordered by the first Lord Bishop, Dr. Jacob Mountain.

The collection consists of seven leaves of typewritten poems, with a few handwritten annotations, possibly made by the author, as well as a typewritten copy of the poem collection "Svendborger G[r]dichte."

Correspondence, accounts, journals maps, etc., documenting Bissett’s career with the Hudson’s Bay Company. The Photostats (in C.1 and C.2) include Bissett’s journal and accounts at the Red River, 1854-1855, and a journal “Lachine to the Sandwich Islands” 1858-1859. There are also journals for 1859 and 1867. The original documents (in C.3) include correspondence with the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1858-1875, and accounts, 1860-1873. There are Bissett’s commissions as Chief Trader (1858) and as Chief Factor (1872), and a list of Chief Traders and Factors, 1855-1879. There are also some plans / maps, sketches, and photographs including a sketch of the Hudson’s Bay Post at Honolulu, ca. 1860.