Fonds consists of textual and other materials generated by the Conference, the Conference Executive, Conference Staff Associates and Conference Committee members in the fulfillment of their mandate, as outlined in The Manual of the United Church of Canada, from 1925 to 1994. Throughout the life of the fonds, several Conference staff have simultaneously served in more than one church or community administration while keeping unified files resulting in materials from other administrative jurisdictions being interspersed among the fonds.

The items described here were for the most part the correspondence and related documents kept by the Superintendents in the course of their activities supervising the Home Missions allocations within the Conference of Manitoba and North-western Ontario. The records of the Superintendent's of Home Missions described here include items that date from 1926 to 1981 with the majority dating predominantly from after 1940 to 1972. Those records that date from after 1972 largely pertain to loans and other agreements that were entered into prior to the dissolution of the Board of Home Missions. Often correspondence does not appear to be complete. Reference is made to items that are not now in the files and in many cases there are gaps of several years that are not explicitly explained. Documents found here suggest that at least two major culling of records took place; one in 1935, when the Conference offices were moved, and again in 1963. In other cases, items were removed to the Archives Vertical File after accession. Also, it is known that succeeding Superintendents of Home Missions removed items from the files of previous Superintendents for purposes of follow-up and research and these items likely were not returned to their original location. Some documents pertaining to Home Missions fields in First Nations communities were transferred to the custody of the All Native Circle Conference at the time of its creation in 1989. These records were not transferred to the Conference Archives until 1999 and will be described as part of the records of All Native Circle Conference. A division of topics according to the headings of Property, Maintenance, and General Letters within which records are arranged according to Mission Field has been roughly adhered to although it is possible to find records dealing with all three topics in one folder. Also, the taxonomy was modified somewhat as the method of allocating funds evolved.

Records include correspondence, reports, meeting notes, financial records, diaries, log books and other miscellaneous documents pertaining to the administration of Norway House residential school between 1954 and 1967. The majority of records described here were created by Bernard Lee, the last principal of the school, as part of his administrative duties between 1957 and 1967. Also included are miscellaneous documents created by previous school administrators.