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

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 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 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).