Fonds contains the personal papers, photographs and sound recordings of Barbara Hinds. The personal papers primarily comprise research material, article drafts, and newspaper clippings related to Hinds' journalism career, but also correspondence, research notes, diaries, maps and manuscripts. Sound recordings were largely created during Hinds' travels in the Canadian Arctic and include several interviews. Photographs include prints, slides, negatives and proof sheets, and were mostly taken in the Canadian Arctic, but also include research and personal photographs.

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Jean Brain, Maxwell Cohen, Moira Dunbar, F.B. Fingland, John W. Holmes, Terence Armstrong, Neil C. Field, Diamond Jenness, Margaret Lantis, Trevor Lloyd, Michael Marsden, Raleigh Parkin, G.W. Rowley, Gordon W. Smith, Francess F.. Halpenny, R.J Sutherland, and others. File includes the Royal Bank of Canada monthly letter, vol. 46, no. 7, of July 1965, handwritten notes, and other materials related to the subject.