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The fonds consists of the business records of the firm of Grieve and Bremner, for the period of its operation at Trinity, 1863-1902. It includes financial records, correspondence, diaries (photocopies), shipping records and accounts.

The financial records consist of complete sets of ledgers, journals, day books and store books, produce books, account books, stock books etc. from 1863-1902, which provide an account of the firm's business transactions, as well as information on the individual fishermen and planters throughout Trinity and Bonavista Bay, with whom the firm carried on their business. The correspondence includes letters mainly between the firm of Walter Grieve and Co. in St. John's and Grieve and Bremner at Trinity, and invoices of goods shipped by Walter Grieve from Scotland to Trinity. Shipping records include charter parties, sealing agreements, vessel accounts, and other papers relating to sealing and to individual vessels. A small series of accounts includes advances of pay to vessel crews and sealing crews. The fonds provides extensive information on the operation of the business, the sealing operation and the makeup of the crews of the sealing vessels, as well as the individuals who produced fish and produce for the firm.

The records are arranged in six series: Series 1: Diaries, 1875-1886; Series 2: Correspondence, 1848-1890; Series 3: Shipping Records, 1863-1881; Series 4: Accounts, 1865-1899; Series 5: Miscellaneous, 1832-1875; Series 6: Financial records, 1863-1902.

The fonds consists of a price book that lists the prices of a huge inventory of goods, supplies, fish and timber products and produce. The page heading on page 2 reads "Trinity current prices for cash and barter agreed on between Messrs. Robinson Brooking & Co. and R. Slade & Co." Entries are made for summer and winter prices from 1850-1858.

The fonds consists mainly of the financial records for the firm of Ryan Brothers of Trinity from the time the firm was established in 1906 to the end of the 1940s. Records include ledgers, which give individual accounts; day books, which record daily purchases and prices; store books, which provide details of the Ryan wholesale trade; inventory books; fish collections relating to the Labrador trade at Hawke Harbour; a statement of the firm's liabilities and assets, 1948. For much of the period of the firm's operation at Trinity, business was carried out through the barter or truck system. The exchange of goods for services, fish or produce is recorded in the ledgers. Also included are two volumes from an earlier period: Shareman's wages, 1904-1905, and a debt ledger for 1892-1893. It is possible that these volumes originated with James Ryan & Company King's Cove or Bonavista.

The fonds is arranged in four series: Series 1: Financial records, 1906-1947; Series 2: Correspondence, 1921-1948; Series 3: Labrador trade, 1908-1909; Series 4: Predecessor records, 1892-1905.

The fonds consists of the Articles of Association, Rules and Regulations of the Company from 1890-1918; statements of claims and vessel losses, 1907-1908; invoices and correspondence, 1897-1916; statements of protest, 1894-1918, which provide the evidence for individual claims, giving details of the event surrounding the loss of each vessel, as well as naming all those involved in the event; papers relating to the loss of the Lucille B. Creaser of Trinity; and published lists of vessels insured with the company from 1899-1923.

Collection consists of minutes of the Reaction Committee, 2003 - 2006; treasurers records 2003 - 2005; Notices and correspondence and miscellaneous materials concerning the history of the community.

The records have been organized in four series: Series 1, minutes 2003 - 2005; Series 2, Treasurer’s records, 2003 - 2005; Series 3, Correspondence, 2000 - 2006; Series 4, Miscellaneous, 1825 - 2004.

The records have been organized into four series according to form and function: Series 1: Record of Sales, 1896-1903, 1925-1996; Series 2: All Saints Guild, 1929-1985; Series 3: C.E.W.A, 1985-1996; and Series 4: Miscellaneous, 1955-1956, 1984-1986, 1991-1993.

A record of the amount of material that would be given out to the women of the group and the work that they would return for the annual Easter or Fall Sales.

This series contains minutes for the Altar Guild and for the Women’s Guild. Minutes give a detailed account of the annual general meetings, election of officers, Treasurer’s Reports and the events that the women would hold as fundraisers for themselves and for the church.

The minutes of the C.E.W.A. records the business of their meetings, entries for each time they met to do sewing (work), reports of the success of the annual sale, attendance records and records of departed sisters.

Records include correspondence and annual reports.