Series consists of administrative records of the Reform Party of Canada from the beginnings of the Party until it's reformation into the Canadian Alliance.

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 early administrative records of the Reform Party primarily created prior to a reorganization of the Party’s main functions along departmental lines in 1991. During the early years of the Party there was no formal administrative structure and hence these records relating to constituency development, fundraising, financial tracking, communications and policy appear to have been created and maintained by the Chief Administrative Officer, Donna Larson, who also acted in the capacity of manager of fundraising and membership development.
• Includes area council minutes, head office bulletins, fundraising letters, Reform Fund Canada minutes, press releases, speeches, auditor’s reports, constituency development files, candidate recruitment records, budgets, cash flow/audit files, financial statements, speeches, Senate campaign records, the Party constitution, and related materials.

The fonds consists of administrative files including minutes, financial records and records for the Petroleum History Oral History Project, as well as sound and video recordings of monthly and annual general meetings which featured presentations from various guest speakers on the topic of Canadian petroleum resources. The fonds also includes interview files for the Oral History Project.

• 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’.