The fonds consists of textual records, 1770-1979, which concern Creighton's publications, research, university career, and his involvement in a number of organizations, as well as, in the Monckton Advisory Commission on the Review of the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1957-1963. There are letters, memoranda, minutes of meetings, manuscripts, notes, speeches, research papers, clippings, diaries, reports, course outlines, roll books for the students in his classes, correspondence with Eugene Forsey, 1939-1975, and publications.
The fonds also contains photographs: eighteen photographs, 1940-1965, depict the Monckton Commission on Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1960; Monckton Advisory Commission members and activities, Government House, N. Rhodesia; a plaque at Sir John A. Macdonald's birthplace, Glasgow, Scotland, ca. 1965; a studio portrait of Harold Innis, ca. 1940, by Ashley & Crippen. Forty-two photographs, 1949-1977, depict Creighton at universities across Canada, receiving honourary degrees; meetings of National Historic Sites Board, 1962; old fortifications in Canada; some photos by Creighton. Six photographs, ca. 1960, depict Donald Creighton and wife, Luella in Venice, Italy and Muskoka, Ont.
The fonds also contains 13 medals and four lapel pins, 1894-1977, awarded to or acquired by Donald Creighton during his career. Of the 17 items, one Victoria University medal was given to his father, W. B. Creighton. The medals include the Companion of the Order of Canada, the Governor-General's Award for Academic Non-Fiction, the J. B. Tyrell Historical Medal of the Royal Society of Canada and several other university medals. Three of the lapel pins are Order of Canada. The material was received with three manuscript items relating, as well, to honorary awards. There are also eight maps, 1957-1960, pertaining to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collected by Creighton while he was on the Advisory Commission on the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.