The fonds consists of photographs of company mining activities and the town of Alexo, and a company history.

The fonds consists of law firm client files (1914-1947) and clients' accounts (1930-1938); personal papers and correspondence (1907-1940); correspondence, speeches, articles, and newspaper clippings pertaining to game birds and game conservation (1908-1959). Includes correspondence of the Alberta Fish and Game Association and its predecessors (1909-1946). Also includes photographs of the Winter family and Calgary.

The fonds consists of technical drawings of the coal seams and tunnels, machinery, coal storage bins, a miner’s cottage, the breaker, machine shop, lamp house, hose house, garage, wash house, and time office. Includes drawings of two CPR subways (underpasses) in Calgary, the CPR viaduct (high level bridge) at Lethbridge, and Imperial Oil well logs from wells near Lethbridge where coal seams were found.

The fonds consists of business agreements with the Blue Diamond Coal Company and employees, unions, and Canadian National Railways. Also included are business ledgers from the company. There is also a short history of the town of Brule.

The fonds consists of articles of association and bylaws (1882-1964); minutes (1882-1965); annual reports (1883-1968); legal documents and agreements (1882-1914); shareholders' records (1882-1966); records of townsite sales (1882-1910); records of farmland sales (1882-1968); applications and contracts with individual purchasers (1917-1934); registers of deeds transfers (1883-1977); some land examination records (1913-1927); correspondence of the Land Commissioner, especially Virginie Smith (1887-1977); financial records including cashbooks, journals and ledgers (1882-1968); and records related to mineral rights and oil and gas leases (1930-1969). Includes records of the company's affiliate, Western Provinces Land Company (1925-1969).

The fonds consists of Canadian Anthracite Coal Company records: incorporation documents, bylaws, minutes (1886-1954), correspondence (1886-1909, 1937-1938), director's reports (1923-1939, 1942-1944), annual statements (1938-1952), agreements, mortgages, transfers, engineering plans (1891-1946), stock subscription book (1886), financial records (1886-1893, 1924-1952), schedule of salaries (1942), and miscellany. Also consists of Canmore Mines Ltd. records: administrative and operational records (1910s-1980s), minutes (1961- 1969), president's correspondence (1926-1973), financial statements (1958-1967), letterbooks of mine manager James J. Morris (1911-1913, 1917), and photographs of office building construction (1962). Includes Canmore Coal Company records on microfilm: employee registers (1897-1918), letterbooks (1912-1919), tonnage book (1907-1935), deductions for offences book (1934-1940) and financial records (1911-1937).

The fonds consists of records about all aspects of operations at Century Coals, including purchase and maintenance of mining equipment, accidents in the mines, financial and statistical reports of operations, inventories of equipment, payroll and time sheets for employees, labour negotiations, complaints from customers re coal delivery shortages and other problems, houses for employees, and leases of land. Includes records of Drumheller Coal Operators Ltd.

The fonds consists of correspondence, contracts and wage agreements, minutes, reports, reference material and financial records; photographs of coal mining operations and conferences, and of individuals prominent in the industry; recorded interviews with L.C. Stevens and Mike Vitalli about the history of coal mining in the west; and an address by Lieutenant-Governor MacEwan to the 24th Canadian Conference on Coal.

The fonds consists of reference files regarding Coleman Collieries and its predecessors (1904-1976); bathhouse plans for International Coal and Coke Co. (1907); building plans of various Coleman buildings and Alberta Railway and Irrigation Co. tipple in Lethbridge (1909-1910); and McGillivray Creek Coal and Coke Co. circulars (1909); shareholder and accounting records (1952, 1964-1974).

• The fonds consists of family papers: invoices from Fort Macleod firms (1892-1901); property documents; and Augustus Cowdry's diary (1906), correspondence with his father (1920-1925), miscellaneous business records (1913-1934), and photographs. Also consists of Cowdry Brothers records: bank pass books, deposit slips and cheques (1886-1904).

The fonds consists of George's diaries (1935-1969), correspondence (1905-1971), ranching records, reminiscences, obituary, recorded speech and interview; Norma's diaries (1935-1940, 1970-1979), correspondence (1925-1978), musical career records (publicity, programs, recordings of her singing, etc.), reminiscences, her biography of George, and two recorded interviews; and the Pocaterra's financial records, tax returns, scrapbooks, and photographs and slides of Kananaskis, ranches, Italy, opera, and family members. Includes Dr. W.A. Piper's correspondence, speeches, oil company prospectuses and dentistry photographs.

The fonds consists of personal, political and family correspondence (1939-1964); teaching records and Sunday school lessons (1913-1935); and records from John's political career as MP (1935-1958) including office administration records, speeches, radio broadcasts, drafts of publications, letterbooks, and subject and constituency files. Includes other political material (1958-1964).

The fonds consists of correspondence and legal records of Knee Hill Coal Company (1903-1920s); annual reports and legal records of Knee Hill Energy Ltd. and Knee Hill Energy Canada Ltd. (1970s-1989); and records of Madison Oil and Gas Ltd. (1937-1987). Includes records of companies previously acquired by Madison: Karjan Resources Ltd., Nimus Resources Ltd., and Spartex Oil Resources Ltd. Principal officers of these companies whose names appeared in correspondence include George Ovans, Archibald Finlayson, H.B. Adshead, Gerald C. Stuart, P. Douglas McArthur, and Richard S. Westbury.

The fonds consists of photographs of the mine, and a meeting in honour of Jesse Gouge, prominent Drumheller personality.

The fonds consists of business records of the Monarch Coal Mining Company, including records of North American Collieries. Includes Eric A. Lovett's business records regarding Royalties Oil and Share Corporation Ltd., Southern Irrigated Farm Lands Ltd., Prairie Coal Lands Ltd. and other investments.

The fonds consists of minutes (1912-1916), correspondence (1915-1917) and cashbook (1913-1915).

The fonds consists of constitutions and bylaws, minutes of the District Executive Board, proceedings of conventions, general correspondence, records of Workmen’s Compensation and Unemployment Insurance appeals, correspondence of District officers, correspondence with mine operators and Local Unions, financial records, membership records, reports and briefs to commissions of inquiry and legislators, records of negotiations and labour disputes, collective agreements with employers, records of Local Unions, newspaper clippings, collected miscellany, photographs, and an oral history interview. Records of the Welfare and Retirement Fund include minutes, decisions, annual reports, financial records, correspondence, reports, agreements, mine operators’ employment records, and case files of Welfare and Retirement Fund beneficiaries.