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This fonds represents the records of a family long-established in Ontario, as collected and preserved by the genealogist Marshall Macdougall Dean.

As a genealogist, Marshall Macdougall Dean collected and wrote about the Dean family and others in his lineage, and was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Mayflower Descendants. He was born in Fort William, lost his siblings, father, and mother at a fairly young age, and spent much of his later life in and near Toronto.

His father, Marshall Blanchard Dean, trained as a physician at the University of Toronto before moving to Fort William. In addition to his medical practice, he was a close colleague of long-serving MP Dr. R.J. Manion.

Earlier Dean family members lived in Hamilton County and in and near Brighton, Ontario. Records of their lives, especially including financial and land documents, correspondence, and photographs, are also included in this fonds, having been collected and passed down within the family.

The first series of this fonds consists of genealogical research material, including publications and correspondence. The rest of the fonds is organized roughly by generation within the Dean family; however, files were not split, so many generations may be reflected within a single file.

Records relate to the work of business and industrial development and policy throughout Northwestern Ontario.

The role of the Northwestern Ontario Development Association / Northwestern Ontario Development Council was to support and promote business and industrial development across the Northwestern Ontario region. This involved supporting individual businesses and entrepreneurs; organizing and carrying out research on existing and potential industries and availability of services in the region; facilitating the flow of information between governments, researchers, existing businesses and prospective businesses; and advocating for the needs of Northwestern Ontario to multiple levels of government. Transportation, utilities, and financial incentives are recurring themes; mining, forestry, manufacturing, agriculture, tourism, and more are also heavily reflected in the records.

These records reflect the work of Alexander Phillips as General Manager of NODA/NODC, and include correspondence with municipalities, government, business leaders, entrepreneurs, colleagues in other regions, and others, and cover a wide variety of subjects. The division of records into series reflects how they were initially kept and filed by NODA; searching within the collection will be valuable to researchers as files related to a particular subject may be found in multiple locations.

Phillips' own files are also integrated into this collection, and so records reflecting his work with the Quetico Provincial Park Advisory Committee, the Mississippi River Parkway Commission, and various other organizations can also be found within the collection. There is additionally a small amount of personal material.