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The fonds consists business records including correspondence, contracts and financial statements for the Grand (Odeon) Theatre with film distributers about movie bookings; newspaper clippings about the Grand Theatre; photographs and negatives of the Palace and Grand Theatres; correspondence, agendas and reports regarding the relocation of Canadian Pacific Railway in downtown Calgary; and a recorded CBC interview with Jack Barron about his life and business activities.

The fonds consists of minutes, financial records, project reports, photographs, publicity & promotional material, fundraising files, programs, etc.

Fonds consists of correspondence; research material; articles about C. Faulknor and reviews of his books; manuscripts of articles, short stories, children's literature, play, poetry and prose works; published work; and miscellaneous material.

Fonds consists of correspondence; contracts; diaries; photographs; research material, outlines and preliminary work; manuscripts, ranging from various drafts to galley and production scripts, of short stories, articles, prose, film scripts, screenplays, and stage, television and radio plays; and published work.

Fonds consists of personal and business correspondence; manuscripts of novels, poems, poetry collections, short stories, screenplays, opera libretto, music scores, translations, speeches, essays and proposal for an unwritten biography; material relating to conferences, writers festivals and workshops; contracts; works about G. Gunn and published works.

An accrual received in 2016 (Acc 2016.016) with a date range of 1983-2014, includes the complete drafts of novel Solitaria and some drafts of other works including Tracing Iris, several short stories, Tracing Iris film script, reviews, correspondence with writers and editors, including Carolyn Swayze, correspondence with translators for Tracing Iris and Solitaria into other languages including Italian and Dutch, interviews given in magazines, records of workshops and conferences attended and papers given, records on awards adjudications, reading lists and reference materials.

The accrual 2024.35 consists of manuscripts for Escalation/The Alternate (an unpublished novel), Alla Ricerca Di Iris, Permanent Tourists, Accidents, Yours, Befana, The Ship for Kobe and The Cipher. Also includes email correspondence, published works, interviews and miscellaneous items including reading lists, reference materials and notes about novels.

Fonds consists of correspondence; research notebooks; manuscripts of articles, addresses, book reviews, forewords, lectures, mini-speeches and speeches and Ph.D. dissertation; published works; degrees, awards and honours; scrapbooks including digital copies on a CD; works about G.F.G. Stanley and his family including eulogies delivered at his funeral; 6 bankers boxes of periodicals; and miscellaneous material. Also includes a wooden ink blotter inscribed with Mayor Stanley (Acc 2019.54).

The fonds consists of manuscripts for books, newspaper columns and radio broadcasts (1974-1985); recorded interview about his life (1981); recording of "This is the House" lectures (1981); and photographs of the Peach family, RCAF, Calgary personalities and views, and southern Alberta (1914-1945). Includes a film and photographs of Second World War bomber training (1943), and some records of his parents and grandfather (1890-1940).

The fonds consists of board and committee minutes, financial records, project files, scrapbooks, audio-visual material, membership directories and issues of the Junior League of Calgary's newsletter "Lasso". Records describe the administrative processes, history and volunteerism of the Junior League of Calgary, documenting the groups outreach initiatives from the 1950's to 2016.

Fonds consists of correspondence with editors, publishers, educators, authors and others; royalty statements and financial records; diaries; notebooks; interviews; photographs; manuscripts, ranging from rough drafts to final proofs and production scripts, of stage plays, short stories and novels; articles about L. Rooke; reviews; published work; and sound recordings of radio broadcasts featuring L. Rooke or his work, chiefly produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Fonds consists of correspondence; research material; manuscripts, ranging from rough to final drafts, of poems, poetry collections, short stories and novels; scrapbook; promotional material for poetry readings; published works; audio-visual material; and, works by others about Gom's literary works.

Fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts of novels, short stories, prose, addresses to various organizations and conferences, and essays written by M. Jakober as a university student. Also includes scrapbooks of reviews, journals, promotional material for published works, research material about Central America and novels and miscellaneous items.

The fonds consists of a scrapbook of collected newspaper clippings related to Davies business ventures, career in oil wells, oil production in Alberta and worldwide. Clippings are from multiple newspapers including The Calgary Herald, Monetary Times and Western Oil Examiner. The fonds also includes a handwritten speech and company prospectuses for the New Ranchmen's Oil Company.

The fonds consists of CJOC related records; military papers; records pertaining to his Alberta Wheat Pool career; Friends of the Bar U records; and oral history interviews done with early ranchers. Includes photographs of military and broadcasting activities.

Fonds consists of personal and business correspondence; diaries, journals and writer's logs; research material; manuscripts and page and galley proofs of stage, radio and television plays, fiction and prose; playbills; reviews; photographs; and published work.

Fonds consists of research material relating to book The merchants of Venus: inside Harlequin and the empire of romance including Harlequin promotional material, photographs, interviews with various Harlequin executives and writers, articles on romance by other authors, notes and material relating to 1995 Romantic Times convention and issues of Pandora's Box, the newsletter of the Published Authors Network of Romance Writers of America (Acc 705/01.11). Also consists of 15 chapters of an unfinished manuscript "Heart Quake."

Acc 788/05.9 consists of correspondence, research material and manuscripts relating to other books by P. Grescoe and P. and A. Grescoe including Flesh wound, Blood vessel, Alaska: the cruise lover's guide, The book of letters, The book of war letters, Flight path, The mavericks and Secret riches. Includes copies of the published books.

Acc 835/07.25 consists of material, mainly correspondence, relating to P. and A. Grescoe's The book of love letters; Canadian kinship, friendship, and romance (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2005).

Acc 863/09.7 primarily consists of material relating to books P. Grescoe wrote with Richard F. Haskayne: Northern tigers: building ethical Canadian corporate champions: a memoir and a manifesto (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2007); Wayne Skene: Wheels: the legacy of Lloyd Cooper and his Calgary roller rink (Bowen Island: Tribute Books, 2007); Sean Rossiter: Safe and sound: the story of The Justice Institute of British Columbia (Bowen Island: Tribute Books, 2008); and Harley Hotchkiss: A life in the hockey rink, oil patch and community (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2009).