The fonds consists of Calgary Naturalists' Club minutes, correspondence, membership lists (1949-1956) and photographs of natural science display; and Calgary Bird Club / Calgary Field Naturalists' Society constitution (1955-1963), minutes (1955-2013), correspondence (1956-1978), attendance and membership lists (1965-1975, 1995-2010), reports, bird species checklists, newsletters (1978-2013), newspaper clippings and pamphlets, posters and miscellany.

The fonds consists of W.N. Smith's First World War diary (1917), correspondence (1915-1967), including extensive correspondence with prominent UFA and Social Credit leaders; articles, reports, etc. re the monetary system (1915-1933); election and other papers of UFA, Social Credit and CCF, including platforms, radio broadcasts, etc. (1917-1935); reports and circulars of many agricultural associations (1920-1960); and Amelia Turner Smith's diary (1913-1917), tax returns, speeches, correspondence and campaign literature. Includes interviews with Amelia Smith (1978).