The fonds consists of textual materials generated by Big River - Canwood Pastoral Charge and its predecessors, including Big River, Eldred - Big River, Foxdale, Foxdale-Canwood, and Canwood Pastoral Charge, as well as their constituent congregations – church boards, committees and related bodies, local women’s units and other groups.

Contents include: minutes of official boards, Trustees, Stewards, congregational, and Joint Charge meetings; some financial records and reports; architectural drawings from Big River; Historic Rolls; Home Mission Record Books from the Canwood and Eldred areas; and registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials held at Canwood (Trinity United), Big River (First United), Debden, Marchant Grove, Silver Cliff, Eldred, Foxdale, and related locations.