The fonds is divided into one series and contains diaries dating from 1912, 1913, 1915-1926 and ephemera.

Fonds consists of ten diaries kept by James Layton, covering the years 1948-1981, and a Time Book. Layton made daily entries in the diaries, noting the weather, activities, social interactions and, occasionally, notable external events. Typical activities included logging, fishing, working on an oyster lease, digging clams, gardening, visiting, reading and writing letters. Times of planting and harvesting the garden, sightings of wildlife, and names of people living nearby or visiting on boats are recorded.

Item 1: Diary of Sam Cliffe. July 11, 1862 to October 20, 1862. Records part of his time at sea aboard the Silistria.
Item 2: Consists of three sections of song books/poems, late 1800s.
Item 3: Hand-drawn map from Nanaimo River to Nanoose Harbour, late 1800s.

Title based on the contents. The fonds consists of one series of eleven diaries. The diaries cover the years 2005 – 2013. The Enderby and District Museum and Archives holds June Griswold’s diaries from 1990-2004.

Ranging from 1928 to 1969, Collection includes:

1. constitution and bylaws
2. history
3. diary
4. minutes
5. correspondence
6. financial records
7. personnel records
8. reports
9. lists
10. publicity
11. press releases
12. clippings
13. ephemera
14. plans

The William K. Esling collection contains documents from 1919-1946, with the collection arranged in the following order:

1. Biography
2. Correspondence
3. Poetry
4. Personal Writing
5. Research Materials

Fonds consists of records created or received by Maureen Trotter through her work for the Quesnel Women’s Resource Centre, the Amata Transition House Society, the National Action Committee for the Status of Women, and other local advocacy campaigns and community projects. Records include organizational correspondence, lobbying correspondence, meeting minutes, financial statements, operational notes and manuals, internal policies, photocopied journal articles, literature reviews, research notes, grant proposals, government reports, strategic plans, campaign brochures, talking notes, petitions, newsletters, programming schedules, and contact information lists. Interspersed within the records are copies of newspaper and magazine articles documenting each of these organization's achievements.

The fonds has been arranged by the archivist into 6 series.
• Quesnel Women’s Resource Centre records (series 1)
• Amata Transition House Society records (series 2)
• National Action Committee on the Status of Women records (series 3)
• Quesnel child apprehension issue records (series 4)
• Records of other local organizations (series 5)
• Personal records (series 6)