The fonds consists of 35 audio cassettes of oral history interviews with Victoria area artists, recorded ca. 1983-1988. These include Interviews with Jack Kidder, Carole Sabiston, Myfanwy Pavelic, Helga and Jan Grove, Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher, Colin Graham, Phyllis Serota, Jack Wise, Harold Siebner, R. Ciccimarra, Sybil Andrews, etc.
The fonds consists of the tss "The Liberation of Kamp Westerbork by the South Saskatchewan regiment of Canada", plus covering tls. Includes essays on the Camp by Theodore Pikkowitz, Robert Morrow, and Gordon Walker (remainder by Goodman?)
The fonds consists of WWII military oral history interviews on clandestine operations i.e. spying. Nine interviews of both men and women. The fonds also consists of research materials and correspondence used in the writing of "Camp X: Canada's School for Secret Agents, 1941-1945" by David Stafford (Toronto: Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1986).
The fonds consists of six interviews of uneven quality offering interesting details of battle experiences particularly of the difficult in the trenches. The fonds also consists of 30 colour photographs of World War One veterans interviewed by Elizabeth Hazlitte between 1983-1984. The interviews are included in the Military Oral History collection. Photo credits listed as Jill Schwartz.
The collection consists of Downton's handwritten (photocopied) reminiscences of the Great War, 1914-1918. Also included is "A short account of a pilgrimage made by my wife and myself" in 1928. There are two copies of each. The second copy has a handwritten note to Downton from Reg (Roy) in 1968. The first copy has the stamp of G. Smedley Andrews.