The collection consists of photographs of North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) at Fort Macleod and other posts. Also includes photographs taken on the Blood and Peigan reserves, and of the town of Fort Macleod, Alberta Provincial Police, and miscellaneous agricultural and ranching views.

The fonds consists of orders-in-council of the government of Canada relating to the RCMP and its prececessors (1873-1955). The fonds also consists of miscellaneous diaries, accounts, wanted lists, and criminal records, etc. for these southern Alberta detachments: Calgary, Foremost, Fort Macleod, Lethbridge, Manyberries, Nanton, and Pincher Creek. Includes a microfilm of Dawson City detachment's register of travellers on the Yukon River (1901-1903).