Collection comprises material generated or collected by the Shingwauk Project staff and participants. Collection includes photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports, student newspapers, interview transcriptions, audio recordings, project outlines, meeting minutes, photo albums, and other material.

Collection comprises records created by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development pertaining to residential schools and the administration of First Nation affairs. Collection comprises eight series, including : Access to information requests series, Annual reports series, Central registry files series, Control number data files series, Headquarters files series, Information sheet series, List number data files series, School files series, Treaty series. These series contain a variety of material including: correspondence, letters, transcripts, annual reports, data files, access to information requests, central registry files and other material.

Collection comprises pencil sketches by Stacy-Lee Sauve-Clark of the residential schools that existed in Spanish, Ontario.  Collection also includes a single copy of Katonik Anishinabe Enakmigak (1948) and four window frames from St. Charles Garnier Indian Residential School (Spanish, Ontario).

Fonds comprises letters, estate documentation, and publications about the Ingle family, Sault Ste Marie, and the Shingwauk Indian Residential School.