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Series consists of transcripts of selected court proceedings retained by the Court Administration office in Yarmouth. Originally the files were probably created to manage the transcription process and often reflect situations were appeals were considered or proceedings adjourned. The files reflect a diversity of cases, mostly criminal, from various levels of courts for cases heard at Bridgewater, Liverpool and Yarmouth. They do not reflect every case heard in these courts.

Series forms part of the Nova Scotia Registry of Deeds fonds and consists of 153 land transaction registers, 1774-1949, recording the sale or transfer of land between grantor (seller) and grantee (buyer), mortgage assignments and releases, (including Canadian Farm Loan Board mortgages, 1937-1949 and Supplementary Agreements, 1966), quit claim deeds, and numerous other types of documents relating to land transactions. The documents recorded in the land transaction registers are transcriptions (the Registry's copy) of the original documents held by grantor and grantee.

Series also includes four Books of Indexes, 1834-1859, which provide the registration date and time, the book and page reference to the land transactions register, and the names of the parties. These index books were replaced by a newer index system. Series also includes Crown Land Grant books 1 and 2, 1854-1969, which provided a local copy of land grants also recorded at the Crown Lands Office.

Collection consists of records of the Foster Settlement School, the Farmers Agricultural Society, and the Independent Order of Good Templars - Lily in the Forest Lodge all in the same community. Foster Settlement changed its name to Parkdale, Lunenburg County in 1902.

Fonds consists of correspondence and other records created and accumulated by Fielding as minister of finance and MP for Shelburne-Queens. Subjects represented include railways and public works in Nova Scotia, and national and international issues including elections, budget, tariffs, trade, reciprocity, transportation, civil service, Confederation, conscription, and imperial policy. Fonds includes speeches, speech notes, statistics, pamphlets and other published material, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings and ephemera. A small portion of the correspondence concerns Fielding's personal investments and his appointments as editor. Fonds also contains newspaper clippings, genealogical notes, probate records and other material relating to Fielding's family, including his son-in-law K.N. Macfee (first husband of Janet); photographs of Fielding on board a ship during a trip to England ca. 1910; and a portrait of Fielding painted by Margaret Frame in 1928.

Series forms part of Nova Scotia Working Committee on the Constitution fonds and consists of written submissions to the committee from individuals and organizations in the province. Series includes correspondence between the committee and the presenters, as well as the data analysis forms used in the indexing and tabulation of opinion. Series is arranged chronologically by date and then by place of hearing.