The fonds consists of legal papers belonging to George Baxter and family, Misses Baxter and Mrs. Isabel Innes, and John Bell and his heirs. Also included are medical documents belonging to John Maitland. Most of the material relates to the family farm in Pittsburgh Township and the family home at Cataraqui Grange. There is also correspondence to Lt. Col. L.D.M. Baxter, dominion president of the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League, from several leading world figures, as well as articles relating to John R. Day.
Fonds consists of business ledgers from the Barker Grist and Saw Mill, General Store, and Funeral Home located in Arden, Kennebec Township, Ontario; land records relating to Joseph Barker; clippings of the Barker family including John B., W.O. Clark, and Frank Barker; photographs.
The collection consists of correspondence of explorers who surveyed the boundary zones between Canada and the United States, and of several other diplomats, officers and aids who became involved in the arbitration of the border. There are also several bound and unbound manuscripts, including various treaties, arguments, awards, memorials and commissioners' proceedings relating to settlements of the Canadian-American border.
