Collection consists of records created or maintained by Ivan Robison as a member of the Alberta provincial government’s Royal Commission on the Metropolitan Development of Calgary and Edmonton, also known as the McNally Commission. The commission met in Calgary from late 1954 to 1955 and produced a final report in 1956. Other members of the commission were George Fred McNally (Chairman), G.M. Blackstock, Charles P. Hayes, Percy G. Davies, H.B. Mayo (Consulting Economist), and William McGruther (Secretary). The collection consists of all 47 volumes of proceedings, the exhibits, briefs to the commission, and the final report. Also included are Robison’s notes and numerous related reports, including:

• Report of the Committee on Valuation of Power Line Easements for Saskatchewan Power Corporation (Ivan D. Robinson, Chairman, 1960)
• A Brief to the Royal Commission on Taxation by the Canadian School Trustees’ Association (1962?)
• Report of the Committee on Administrative Tribunals & Enquiries (1957)
• Report of the Royal Commission on the Municipal Finances and Administration of the City of Winnipeg (1939)
• Report of the Royal Commission on Finance and Municipal Taxation in New Brunswick (2 copies, 1963)
• Report of the Royal Commission on Dominion - Provincial Relations (Books I-III, 1940)
• City of Calgary - C.P. Railway Downtown Redevelopment Proposals (1963-1964)
• Special Submission by the Government of the Province of Alberta to the Gordon Royal Economic Commission (Co-ordinated by W.E. Simpson, 1955)
• Local Government Financing in Alberta Including an Appraisal of Provincial-Municipal Financial Relationships (1954)
• Report of the Royal Commission appointed under The Public Inquiries Act Chapter 139, Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1942 (H.J. Macdonald, Chairman, 1956)
• Canadian Bar Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1 (NS) (Jan. 1973)
• Alberta Bureau of Statistics. Business Trends. (Jan. & Feb. 1973)