Robert Shipley's personal journals for various years. Includes Shipley's daily journaling and personal notes; several of his pencil, pen, and watercolour drawings; photographs and ephemera related to his life and events he attended; and newspaper clippings collected and pasted on the journals. Each file also contains a document created by Shipley identifying the people and places mentioned in the journal.

An audio journal of a trip to China with accompanying images is also present.

Robert Shipley's journal for March 17, 2020-January 19, 2022. Includes Shipley’s daily journaling, personal notes, drawings, and remarks, as well as related photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings collected and pasted on the journal. In this journal Shipley also details a trip taken to Europe 1966, and one to Europe and Isreal in 1968-1969.
Also contains a document created by Shipley identifying the people and places mentioned in the journal.

Robert Shipley's journal for March 20, 2018-March 15, 2020. Includes Shipley’s daily journaling, personal notes, drawings, and remarks, as well as related photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings collected and pasted on the journal.
Also contains a document created by Shipley identifying the people and places mentioned in the journal.

Robert Shipley's journal for June 22, 2106-March 12, 2018. Includes Shipley’s daily journaling, personal notes, drawings, and remarks, as well as related photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings collected and pasted on the journal.
Also contains a document created by Shipley identifying the people and places mentioned in the journal.

Robert Shipley's journal for April 13, 2014-June 18, 2016. Includes Shipley’s daily journaling, personal notes, drawings, and remarks, as well as related photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings collected and pasted on the journal.
Also contains a document created by Shipley identifying the people and places mentioned in the journal.

Robert Shipley's journal for June 22, 2011-April 3, 2014. Includes Shipley’s daily journaling, personal notes, drawings, and remarks, as well as related photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings collected and pasted on the journal.
Also contains a document created by Shipley identifying the people and places mentioned in the journal.

Robert Shipley's journal for October 21, 2008-June 17, 2011. Includes Shipley’s daily journaling, personal notes, drawings, and remarks, as well as related photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings collected and pasted on the journal.
Also contains a document created by Shipley identifying the people and places mentioned in the journal.

Robert Shipley's journal for August 22, 2007-October 12, 2008. Includes Shipley’s daily journaling, personal notes, drawings, and remarks, as well as related photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings collected and pasted on the journal.
Also contains a document created by Shipley identifying the people and places mentioned in the journal.

Robert Shipley's journal for May 18, 2066-August 20, 2007. Includes Shipley’s daily journaling, personal notes, drawings, and remarks, as well as related photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings collected and pasted on the journal.
Also contains a document created by Shipley identifying the people and places mentioned in the journal.

Group portraits which include members of the Kaufman, Augustine, Breithaupt, and Greb families. Also contains a diary by Mary Caroline Augustine Ham.

Fonds consists of twelve daily diaries, intermittently spanning between 1907 and 1948, that contain entries pertaining to daily farm operations. Included, though unrelated, are two ledgers from a Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario general store for the years 1893 and 1907. Accounts listed include purchases by John King, father of William Lyon Mackenzie King, that help document the lifestyle of the King family while living at Woodside, now a National Historic Site.

Fonds consists of one daybook from The Standard Life Assurance Company, believed to have been kept by Samuel Daniel Buckberrough. Also includes a clipping about the January 21, 1904 snow storm in Kitchener.