- The fonds consists of correspondence (1854-1905) relating to his newspaper businesses, the Temperance Colonization Society, the crofters' immigration scheme, the Alaskan boundary, and the Dunbow Ranche; legal records; diaries (1842-1904); correspondence, minutes and incorporation documents for the railway company; and certificates, appointments and commissions. Includes Emily's correspondence (1853-1914) and photographs of the Begg family.
- 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 D.W.'s diaries (1896, 1898), evidence regarding fire investigation in Dawson City (1899), Macleod Improvement Company prospectus and minutes (1885-1907), and miscellaneous correspondence, programs and invitations; Rider and Chester's military photographs of Strathcona's (1909, 1913), Canadian School of Musketry (1909), military exercises and camps, and First World War views; Chester's commission; Rider's invitations and dance cards (1917-1929); and First World War postcards. Also consists of Lillie's postcards (1915-1916, 1929) and her letters with, and newsclippings about, the Samuel B. Steele family; photographs of the family, Fort Macleod, Dawson City and NWMP; and Eloise's scrapbook. Includes First World War photographs and letters of Lt. W.J. Adams, Fort Macleod.
Davis familyThe fonds consists of correspondence, reports, appointments, newspaper clippings, etc., pertaining to the Dewdney Trail and his early career in British Columbia; correspondence, speeches, diaries (1879, 1882-1883, 1885-1886, 1888), reports and newspaper clippings related to his duties as Lieutenant-Governor and Indian Commissioner of the North-West Territories; appointments and correspondence as Minister of the Interior; some correspondence as Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia; and a series of personal correspondence of Blanche Dewdney (1914-1926).
Dewdney, Edgar