The collection consists of material created by and belonging to the Shewan and Malcolm families. Materials include one photograph, one certificate, books, handwritten letters, and other handwritten notes. There are multiple cookbooks, a family Bible, a personal notebook, a book of poetry, and other religious texts. The majority of the handwritten letters belonged to Catherine Shewan (nee Malcolm), and discuss the genealogy of the Malcolm family. Other handwritten materials include testimonials to the teaching ability of James Malcolm. Each item is described in detail at the individual level on the Daly House Museum database.

This subseries contains information about activities of the City of Brandon including the 75th Anniversary, the Brandon Centennial Committee, Community Developments, the Meadows subdivision, Brandon West, Green Acres and East Industrial Site, Larkhill subdivision, 60th Anniversary of the Bank of Montreal and School Development.
It is divided up into the following folders. (see container list for details)

1. Celebrations
2. City
   2.1. Appraisal
   2.2. Charter
   2.4 Miscellaneous
3. Elections
   3.1. Civic
   3.2 Federal
4. Maps
5. Miscellaneous
6. Reports

This sub-series contains minutes, plans, briefs, correspondence, feasibility studies, press releases, By-Laws and Legislative Acts, and Legal Agreements related to the construction of the Keystone Centre Complex.

This sub-series contains information about the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium project. It is divided up into the following series.

1. Committee
2. Architects
3. Agreements
4. Construction
5. Correspondence
6. Finances
7. Miscellaneous

This sub-series contains correspondence, minutes, building sketches regarding the development of the Princess Avenue City Hall site and construction of the new City of Brandon Civic Administration Building at 604-9th Street, Brandon, Manitoba.

This sub-series contains correspondence, contract, reports and minutes regarding the Sewage Treatment Project for the City of Brandon between 1961 to 1969

This sub-series contains correspondence, minutes, legal briefs and agreements between the City of Brandon and the Brandon Professional Fire Fighters Association

This sub-series contains correspondence, minutes, reports, and plans related to the construction of the eighth street bridge, the Eighteenth Street Overpass (Daly Bridge) and the First Street Bridge C.N.R. Crossing in the City of Brandon, Manitoba.

This sub-series contains minutes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings related to the construction of the new airport terminal at the Brandon Airport.

This sub-series contains correspondence and documents related to recreation in the City of Brandon including the Brandon Soccer Association, swimming pools, City of Brandon Golf Course and Curran Park.