The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, general ledgers, shareholders registers, applications for shares, employee registers, payroll sheets, and liquidation records.

The fonds consists of Canadian Anthracite Coal Company records: incorporation documents, bylaws, minutes (1886-1954), correspondence (1886-1909, 1937-1938), director's reports (1923-1939, 1942-1944), annual statements (1938-1952), agreements, mortgages, transfers, engineering plans (1891-1946), stock subscription book (1886), financial records (1886-1893, 1924-1952), schedule of salaries (1942), and miscellany. Also consists of Canmore Mines Ltd. records: administrative and operational records (1910s-1980s), minutes (1961- 1969), president's correspondence (1926-1973), financial statements (1958-1967), letterbooks of mine manager James J. Morris (1911-1913, 1917), and photographs of office building construction (1962). Includes Canmore Coal Company records on microfilm: employee registers (1897-1918), letterbooks (1912-1919), tonnage book (1907-1935), deductions for offences book (1934-1940) and financial records (1911-1937).

The fonds consists of photographs of Bassano dam construction.

These land examination reports were prepared by CPR's Land Inspectors, and include the following elements (not necessarily all of them in any single report), which helped the railway determine the value of the land, and what price they should charge for it: average grade; nearest railway station; elevators; nationality of nearest settlers; type of farming in district; nearest creamery, post office, school, church; average rainfall; area of arable land; soil type; timber cover; surface water and well depth; grass and hay cover; stone and coal in district; improvements made; and general remarks.

The fonds consists of reference files regarding Coleman Collieries and its predecessors (1904-1976); bathhouse plans for International Coal and Coke Co. (1907); building plans of various Coleman buildings and Alberta Railway and Irrigation Co. tipple in Lethbridge (1909-1910); and McGillivray Creek Coal and Coke Co. circulars (1909); shareholder and accounting records (1952, 1964-1974).

The fonds consists of lease agreements, alphabetical correspondence files, and financial statements.

• The fonds consists of correspondence regarding timber permits and berths; forest conservation unit guides; press releases regarding board activities; and proposed development reports.

The fonds consists of diaries (1913-1936); and photographs of sidewalk construction in Calgary, Calgary buildings and street scenes, and the Dewis family.

• The fonds consists of immigration and homestead records; correspondence, certificates and newspaper clippings about his Olds School of Agriculture career; recorded reminiscences; photographs of the family and farm; and 1923 barn plans. Includes minute books, correspondence, scrapbook and formal complaints of the Citizens' Mineral Rights and Justice League.

The fonds consists of scrapbook (microfilm only) containing local history articles and ca. 300 photographs of Wainwright area and its pioneers. The photographs are primarily from 1900-1939.