The fonds consists of reports, government commissions and studies made for the Department of Trade and Commerce when Skelton was Assistant Deputy Minister.
The fonds consists of the professional writing projects that Douglas Bowie has created or been involved with over a fifty year period of his professional career. The fonds is primarily comprised of script material, from early ideas to final drafts, reflecting the scope of Bowie's work from radio plays and small episodic television dramas to the large scale feature films or mini-series and theatrical productions. The material reflects projects which were both produced and unproduced. There is a small amount of collected published materials such as articles and reviews. The material is organized into series based around major and minor projects: [Early CBC and NFB productions]; U-Turn [Girl in Blue]; Micro Blues; Smarties; American Twist; Autumn Practice (unproduced); Counterpoint; Miscellaneous; Empire, Inc.; Contest Eaters (Dream House); Labour of Love (unproduced); Banff Scene- "Perfect Murder"; Hanlan (The Boy In Blue); Love and Larceny; Born for Each Other; Bargain Basement; Obsessed (Hit and Run); Best Canadian Screenplays; Chasing Rainbows; Grand Larceny Love and Larceny III; Must Be Santa; Miscellaneous Scripts, Outlines, Ideas (unproduced); The Rebellion (unproduced); Thunder Bay; The Noble Pursuit; !!Sgodsdogs!!; Goodbye, Piccadilly; Love and Larceny The Musical; Rope's End; Till It Hurts; Somewhere Beyond the Sea; Press Clippings; and, Short Stories, Articles.
The fonds consists of records of the descendants of John Douglas. Letters, sermons, addresses and speeches of Rev. George Douglas, Methodist minister, founder of the Wesleyan Theological College in Montreal; correspondence, World War I records, mining and consulting reports, speeches and publications of geologist/professor, George Vibert Douglas. Correspondence of Nina E. Douglas; material related to the Old Brewery Mission in Montreal; correspondence and travel diaries of astrophycisist/professor, Dr. Allie V. Douglas.
The collection consists of correspondence and printed material from William Thompson and family, as well as material related to Freemasonry. Also includes a typescript of “The Storms Below” by Paul Stuewe.
