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Fonds consists of correspondence; manuscripts, ranging from fragments and rough drafts to printers' copies and page proofs, of novels, short stories, short story collections, stage plays, poetry and lyrics; screenplays by G. Vanderhaeghe and others based on G. Vanderhaeghe's works; articles, book reviews, essays, lectures and speeches; promotional material; articles, essays and thesis about G. Vanderhaeghe and his works; interviews with the author; miscellaneous material; works by other authors; and published work.

File consists of copy of review of Rude Songster: Stories and Poems titled "Dandelion Consonants" featured in Alive : an anti-imperialist newspaper.

Consists of personal letters and other material. Also includes typescript of poem titled The Ghosts of Battle.

File consists of various reviews of Ken Rivard's work, Frankie's Desires.

Consists of handwritten and typescript poetry and poetry fragments. Some poems are titled: "Derelict," "To a Sarcee [Tsuu T'ina] Brave," "Prairie Seasons," "Old-timer," "Petition," "To the Good Companion," "Nevertheless," "The Lioness at Dawn," Quand Même," "La Lionne au Crépuscle (1897)."

Certificate for poem "The floods came" by William Laidlaw's which was published in the anthology "Frist flowering: a selection of prose and poetry by the youth of Canada" when he attended Wingham District High School.

File consists of business documents (submission form) and correspondence exchanged between Ken Rivard and agent or publisher for Alberta Anthology 2004/05 (Calgary, AB). Three entries from Missionary Positions: About This Intimacy; Something Missing; Husbands and Conveyor Belts.

• File consists of scrapbook containing newspaper clippings of articles, book reviews, poems and short stories. Identified in Christie Harris's enclosure: "My very early bits mainly for Vancouver Daily Province, about 1928-1938."
• Bylines are Christie Irwin, Christie L. Irwin and Christie Irwin Harris.
• Includes 5 issues of The Buzzer, May 29, 1936 - August 14, 1936, with Jubilee Jingles by Christie Harris.
• Also includes a review of L.M. Nesbitt's Desolation Marches by Thomas A. Harris.
• Includes references to the following: Scrapbook of early newspaper work;
• Why the Elephant Swings His Trunk When Asleep; Why The Giraffe Has a Long Neck; The Robin's May Day; What The Twins Gave Mummy; Jimpo's April Fool Fay; So That's Why We are Hanging Out the Flag; Make Daddy Happy, Too; Why the Holly Leaves Have Sharp Points; The Elves' Picnic; The Perky Young Turkey; Pirate Gold; The Old Tillicum's Tale; Potato Hits Back; Labor Day; Our Jolly Old Santa; The Treasure Box; Nursery Rhymes; Thunderbird; Nursery Rhymes for Tillicums; Redskin Rhymes for Tillicums; The Candy Valentine Man; Why Ducks Paddle on One Foot When Asleep; New Year Leaves; Jack-in-the-Pulpit Eats a Fly; The May Queen's Dream; A Christmas Story;
• The Easter Parade; Legend of St. George; Sleepy Time; A Mother's Prayer; My Baby's Eyes; The Raid; North's First May Queen; Empire Day; Pitch In; Alabama George; How Snails Got Shells; So What's the Use of Fighting?; In Summertime; Dominion Day; What Faith You Have in Me; Indian Summer; Honk! Honk!; Baby Goes to the Beach; The Legend of St. Befana; The Legend of St. Valentine; That "Woman's Place" Question is Here Again; Short Rations; Easter; The Arrival of Spring; Jubilee Hingles; Mother Witch Plays a Trick; The First Christmas Tree.
• Review of Anna Braune's Honey Chile; Review of Sam Mims' Us-all; Review of Lorna Lewis's Nansen; Review of Maud Morrison Stone's This Canada of Ours; Review of Muriel Denison's Susannah of the Yukon; Review of Jane Quigg's Jean and Jon Are Still Six; Review of Catherine Beebe's Do You Like To Open Packages; Review of Helen Shackleton's Saucy Again; Review of Marie Emilie Gilchrist's and Lucille Ogle's Rolling Along Through the Centuries; Review of Mary Elizabeth Thornhill's Between Friends;
• Review of Jean de Brunhoff's The Story of Babar; Review of Jean de Brunhoff's The Travels of Babar; Review of Jean de Brunhoff's Babar the King; Review of Jean de Brunhoff's ABC of Babar; Review of Alison Uttley's and Margaret Tempest's The Knot Squirrel Tied; Review of Doreen Wallace's Going to the Sea; Review of Grace Moon's White Indian; Review of Ruth and Richard Holberg's Hester and Timothy, pioneers; Review of Constance Savery's Moonshine in Candle Street; Review of Ann Hark's Sugar mill house; Review of Geoffrey Holme's The Children's Art Book;
• The Seven Ages of Dan Cupid's Victims; It's School Picnic Time in the Fraser Valley; May Day Fantasy.

Consists of published poems in an issue of "The Canadian Bookman" (March, 1935) and a loose clipping from "Chatelaine" (Nov 1936)

File consists of various reviews of Ken Rivard's work, Kiss Me Down To Size.