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.

• 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.

Series consists of records relating to the process of developing Party policy through investigation of a variety of issues and the establishment of “task forces”, communicating policy resolutions to the Party membership for consideration at Assemblies, and publicizing policy positions to a wider audience via a variety of media.

Subseries consists of records relating to policy and the development of policy by the Reform Party. Includes the Party’s Blue Books (the principles and policies of the Party that were passed at Assemblies by Party members), briefing handbooks on Party policy for candidates (Quick Facts and others), Reform caucus policy development manuals, correspondence and memos relating to a variety of policy issues and to task forces, draft resolutions, minutes of some task force meetings, policy publications produced by the Party, reports, speeches, and files relating to the review and amendment of the Party constitution.

Consist of certificates, testimonials, petitions and business cards, including his certificate of marriage to Priscilla Miller (1861), addresses to government officials, a resolution to establish a sanitarium in Calgary, a petition about a road to the cemetery, and a petition signed by 201 electors asking Orr to stand for Mayor (1893).

Report re railway from Peace river to the Pacific prepared by Page Rideout; also includes letter re available routes to a coast outlet, instructions to canvassers for petition.

• 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’.