A number of indigenous men in traditional clothing sit astride horses in a line outside a wooden and stone structure that may be the Banff Springs Hotel.

Series consists of records relating to the communications function required by the Party to inform its officers, staff, members, candidates, Members of Parliament and the general public about the Party’s activities.

Series consists of records relating to constituency development and election readiness including such issues as creating, developing and organising constituency associations and choosing and preparing candidates for election campaigns.

• Subseries consists of subject files pertaining to constituency development and election readiness, likely maintained by departmental office staff.
• Includes election planning and strategy files, constituency administrative manuals, campaign manuals, survey reports, correspondence, presentation material, reports, clippings relating to candidates, candidate information packages, regional organizers’ meeting minutes, election reports, nomination meeting guidelines, reference manual on election law for candidates, advertising plans, petitions for registration of the Reform Party, writ timelines, and other related materials.

Subseries consists of records created and collected by the director of constituency development and election readiness, Virgil Anderson. Includes constituency rankings, expansion committee records, strategy and liaison committee records and relevant notes, election and planning retreat files, regional strategy reports and committee records, Quebec strategy files, nominated candidate lists, survey reports constituency rankings, regional office files, constituency polling records, campaign management committee files, candidate training seminar files and other related records.

Three indigenous men race on horseback past a crowd of bystanders.

Series consists of records relating to the process of developing Party policy through investigation of a variety of issues and the establishment of “task forces”, communicating policy resolutions to the Party membership for consideration at Assemblies, and publicizing policy positions to a wider audience via a variety of media.

Subseries consists of records relating to policy and the development of policy by the Reform Party. Includes the Party’s Blue Books (the principles and policies of the Party that were passed at Assemblies by Party members), briefing handbooks on Party policy for candidates (Quick Facts and others), Reform caucus policy development manuals, correspondence and memos relating to a variety of policy issues and to task forces, draft resolutions, minutes of some task force meetings, policy publications produced by the Party, reports, speeches, and files relating to the review and amendment of the Party constitution.

• Consists of pages 150 through 182 of Kells manuscript, based on interviews with pioneers about various topics.
• Pioneers: A.E. Cox, Pincher Creek; Alex Fleming, Fort Macleod; Hamlin Garland; Justice W.C. Ives, Pincher Creek; Mrs. J.PJ. Jephson, Pincher Creek and Calgary; Caroline Sanders, Fort Macleod; Abigail Sexsmith, High River; Mrs. Alex Thomson, High River; Mrs. R.A Wallace, Tongue Creek;
• Topics: Houses and furniture; Davisburg fair and community picnic; Cochrane Ranche; Early pioneers and homesteading; Weather and winds; Trip west; Sitting Bull and Indians; Schools

Series consists of speeches given by Preston Manning, Tom Flanagan, Deborah Grey, Stephen Harper, and others at various events, and by Reform Members of Parliament in the House of Commons. The majority of the speeches included in the series were given by Manning with several versions of the same speech that was given at different locations exist in some instances.

• Subseries consists of subject files created and used by communications staff during the course of their responsibilities. Records pertain to such issues as communications strategy, elections, by-elections, referendums, expansion eastward, regional conferences, fundraising, federal budgets, agriculture and the environment, and electronic resources.
• Includes correspondence, news articles, planning documents, schedules, surveys, news releases, planning documents for broadsheets and brochures, biographical information regarding Party MPs, speeches, and scripts for advertisements and ‘infomercials’.

• Subseries consists of records relating to the task forces established by the Party to investigate specific policy issues.
• Includes terms of reference, task force membership lists, preliminary and final reports, feedback to preliminary reports, research materials, correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, submissions, progress schedules, and Executive Council ballots on task force reports. Also includes Task Force Administrative Guidelines that provides information to Party officers on how to establish and administer a task force.

File consists of outline of working group, background and reference information