The fonds consists of records produced and collected by David Kilgour, MP for Edmonton Strathcona. Includes personal papers as well as records relating to his parliamentary responsibilities, records pertaining to Kilgour's activities vis a vis External Affairs (re US, Ukraine, Uganda, Turkey, Tibet, Sudan, Vietnam and USSR), Soviet Jewry, human Rights, Trips to Berne and the USSR); and personal records relating to the Liberal Party of Canada, fundraising, official opposition, and the national and northern/western caucus, daily journals which provide details of his daily activity, his reflections on events, and clippings related to his interests and current events, as well as a file on Col. John McCrae who wrote the poem In Flanders Fields, and who was a great uncle of Kilgour's.