Fonds consists of newsletters and bulletins of the British Columbia Women’s Institute. Newsletters and bulletins include messages from the Provincial board; announcements of new local institutes; events and activities; meetings; reports; fundraising; and other business.

Fonds consists primarily of photographs relating to the Underwood family, 1920-1970. In addition to images documenting family activities and homes, fonds includes photographs taken both locally and overseas relating to the WWII service of brothers Leslie, Ernest, and Ghazi Underwood; letters written by Ernest Underwood from a POW camp; ephemera dating from the end of the war and relating to returning soldiers; and WWII news clippings. Fonds includes school year books, 1955-1985, from Royal Oak High School, Royal Oak Middle School, Claremont High School, and Mount Newton Junior High. Fonds includes scrapbook of items collected by Emily Underwood during WW2 while her husband Leslie, Sr. was overseas, newspapers and periodical issues.

Fonds consists of records relating to Kenneth Reginald Genns' political and community activities in Saanich, including community planning meeting minutes and correspondence, records of the Community Chest campaign, and copies of petition for secession of Ward 6 (now Central Saanich). Fonds includes photographs of public works projects and staff in Saanich. Fonds also includes correspondence and account books for the Cordova Bay Community Club, along with an uninterrupted run (1948-1956) of its newsletter, Spindrift.