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Fonds consists of a journal kept by Anthony Hadfield, secretary of the Ontario Motor League, and his wife Ruth during a cross-country trip by car from July to Sep. 1962 to mark the opening of the Trans-Canada Highway. The journal records the distances travelled each day, the amount of gasoline used, and a commentary on road conditions, scenery, and sites visited along the way. The fonds also includes photographs taken during the trip as well as during visits to the Middle East in 1943 and to England in the 1960s or 1970s, ephemera from the Hadfields' travels, and newspaper clippings regarding the life of Ruth Hadfield.

File consists of a journal of a trip by car from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador to Victoria, British Columbia, recording distances travelled each day, the amount of gasoline used, and a commentary on road conditions, scenery, and sites visited.

File consists of a journal of a trip by car from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador to Victoria, British Columbia, recording distances travelled each day, the amount of gasoline used, and a commentary on road conditions, scenery, and sites visited. The file also includes a list of motorcade staff from each of the provinces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Government of Canada (Department of Public Works and the Canadian government travel bureau).

File consists of obituaries and an interview with Ruth Hadfield, 27 Jan. 1997.

File consists of publicity photographs taken during the motorcade trip to mark the opening of the Trans-Canada Highway, including images of Anthony and Ruth Hadfield, Premier John Robarts, and Nathan Phillips, Mayor of Toronto. Also included are: photographs of an Eritrea Coptic priest, and indigenous chief, a road sign for the Iraqi State Railways, and a metre gauge for Baghdad to Basra taken in 1943; and photographs of London, a Sunday market, and Yorkshire taken during the 1960s or 1970s.

File consists of cruise menus, 1942; postcards from Eritrea, Durban, and Sudan, 1943, the crossing of SS "Atlantic" from Southampton to Quebec, 17 July 1954, Brighton Beach, Dover, and London, NASA's Langley Research Center, St. Louis, the Ozark Mountains, Kansas City, and Arizona (including the Grand Canyon); a brochure from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, 1967; and a brochure for Las Vegas.