Finding aids are descriptive tools, e.g., registers, guides, inventories, indexes, containing information about records in archival custody, that establish administrative, physical or intellectual control over the holdings of an archives, and make it possible to retrieve particular records or information from these archives.
A fonds, or fond d'archives, is the whole of the records, regardless of form or medium, automatically and organically created and/or accumulated by a particular individual, family, or corporate body in the course of that creator's activities.
The following is a list of fonds filed alphabetically by the name of the creator of the fonds. Each fonds is assigned a unique reference number which users should cite if they wish to examine the inventory prepared for the fonds. Paper copies of our finding aids are available in the archives reading room.
Fonds level descriptions for many of our fonds are available in York University Libraries online catalogue or can be searched using ARCHEION: Ontario's Archival Information Network. Individual finding aids are linked to this web site as they become available.
Digitizing these finding aids was made possible - in part or entirely - through the Canadian Culture Online Program of Canadian Heritage, the National Archives of Canada and the Canadian Council of Archives.
