The fonds consists of corporate records including minutes, annual reports, financial records, newsletters, program files, handbooks, seminar brochures and material and membership records.

Subseries contains Alberta Liberal Youth Commission materials. Includes correspondence, newsletters/news releases, reports, speeches, resolutions, etc. Includes Young Liberals of Canada correspondence, organization info, clippings, etc.

Subseries contains Alberta Women's Liberal Commission materials. Includes correspondence, newsletters/news releases, reports, speeches, resolution, organization info, clippings, etc.

Subseries consists of photographs of events and attendees at Alcalá de Henares - Crossing Boundaries - 8th International Conference on the Short Story in English, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain [photographs]. 2004-2006.

• Series consists of records pertaining to the organization, implementation and outcomes of the Reform Party’s assemblies. These events were the shared responsibility of the Communications and Policy departments.
• Includes planning manuals, official records of assemblies, French and English delegate packages, media clippings, organizational timelines, executive council nomination forms and ballots, resolutions and exposure drafts, minutes for the Assembly Resolutions Committee and the Nomination Committee and related material.

• Consists of correspondence between Thomas R. Cleary, President, Association of Canadian University Teachers of English, Victoria, B.C., and John Metcalf, Ottawa, Ontario
• Letters arranging John Metcalf's reading at the ACUTE conference in Hamilton, Ontario, May 24, 1987.
• Typescript, signed; handwritten, signed (some photocopy).
• Includes references to the following: Adult Entertainment.

• File consists of draft fragments, good copy draft and three clean copy drafts. Items 1-3 paginated consecutively 1 through 37 by John Metcalf. Items contain John Metcalf's handwritten annotations "Draft of rewrite (First)" on item 2 and "Draft 1" on item 3. Item 2 title, Banquet Speaker, stroked out; item 3 titled Banquo's Ghost; items 4 and 5 titled Banquet Speaker. File folder in which item 4 received contained handwritten annotation "Yellow School Bus. Typing Copy."
• Handwritten; typescript.
• Includes references to the following: The Yellow School Bus; Banquet Speaker; Banquo's Ghost; Address, Ontario Council of Teachers of English Conference; Kicking Against the Pricks : Essays.

Consists of correspondence on editing, agents, invitation to speak at the 11th International conference on the Short Story (Metcalf declined), and Blaise's induction into the Order of Canada. Noted in file: Alice Munro, Tim Struthers. Noted in file: Alice Munro, Tim Struthers Rebecca Rosenblum, Alan Weiss, Cyril Dabydeen, Order of Canada, Margaret Atwood.

The series consists of fixture books (schedule of games to be played), newspaper clippings programs some minutes, and two photographs of early Calgary rugby teams. Includes proceedings of the 7th Asian Pacific Rugby Congress, held in Calgary.

• File consists of letters discussing current literary projects, Canadian and English literature and authors, John Metcalf's short stories published in the Fiddlehead and other periodicals, B. Cameron's editing the Fiddlehead and Studies in Canadian Literature, B. Cameron's essay on John Metcalf published in Dictionary of literary biography, and Anthology Making It New and the Literary Review special issue, both edited by John Metcalf with introductions by B. Cameron; recommending works of fiction; and relating personal news. Enclosures include manuscript of B. Cameron's essay on John Metcalf for Dictionary of literary biography, photocopy of review of the John Metcalf issue of the Literary Review and Letter to The Editor by B. Cameron criticizing the review.
• Typescript, signed; typescript (carbon copy); handwritten, signed (some photocopy); typescript (photocopy);
• Includes references to the following: 76 : New Canadian Stories; Girl In Gingham; Private Parts : A Memoir; Notes On Writing a Story; Here and Now; The Lady Who Sold Furniture : novella; The Teeth of My Father : Short Stories; General Ludd; The Strange Aberration of Mr. Ken Smythe; Gentle As Flowers Make the Stones; Going Down Slow; 77 : Best Canadian Stories; Captain Ludd; The Creative Imagination; The Eastmill Reception Centre; Single Gents Only; Address, Ontario Council of Teachers of English Conference; First Impressions; Second Impressions; Telling Tales; The Engagement is Announced; Kicking Against the Pricks : Essays; Making It New; Selected Stories; Streaking Through The Ivory Tower; Streaking Through The Ivory Tower : part two; Polly Ongle; The Curate's Egg; Travelling Northward; Writers in Aspic; Literary Review [1985 Canadian issue].
• Correspondence between B. Cameron and John Metcalf.

• File consists of letters, telexes and grant agreements relating to John Metcalf's participation in reading tours in Europe and the United States and conferences or lectures in Grainau, Federal Republic of Germany (1984), University of Bologna, Italy (1985), Lake Bled, Yugoslavia (1987) and University of Catania, Sicily (1988). Partial funding provided by Department of External Affairs. Includes John Metcalf's reports on the Italian Association for Canadian Studies VII International Symposium (Sicily) and Symposium on Contemporary Literatures and Cultures of the United States of America and Canada (Yugoslavia).
• Handwritten, signed (photocopy); typescript, signed; typescript (photocopy);
• Includes references to the following: Selected Stories; Kicking Against the Pricks : Essays; Making It New.
• Correspondence between various officials of the Canadian Department of External Affairs and John Metcalf.

• File consists of telex and letters arranging itinerary for John Metcalf's reading tour in the Federal Republic of Germany and participation in the Association for Canadian Studies in the German Speaking Countries (Gesellschaft fr Kanada-Studien) conference in Grainau, FRG, February 1984; and inquiring about articles sent to J. Jurkovic following the conference.
• Typescript (photocopy); typescript, signed; handwritten, signed (photocopy).
• Correspondence between officials of the Canadian Embassy, Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany, chiefly Josef Jurkovic, Second Secretary, Culture & Information, and John Metcalf, Ottawa, Ontario.

• File consists of letters relating to submission of short stories for broadcast or telecast consideration on various CBC programs, including Anthology and State of the Arts; discussing radio programming, John Metcalf's participation on writer-in-residence radio panel and discussion forum on CBC literary programming, 1975 short story conference in Ottawa dedicated to Robert Weaver, and various other topics; requesting short story submissions for possible publication in Tamarack Review (from Robert Weaver); and forwarding newspaper clippings of book reviews and letters expressing appreciation for John Metcalf's radio script for series A Sense of Place on State of the Arts. Includes contracts for broadcast of various short stories and talks on CBC radio as well as for commission of short stories for radio broadcast.
• Typescript, signed; typescript (carbon copy), some signed; handwritten, signed (photocopy); typescript (photocopy), signed.
• Includes references to the following: Men in bowler hats; General Ludd; Gentle As Flowers Make the Stones; Girl In Gingham; Kicking Against the Pricks : Essays; Private Parts : A Memoir; Selected Stories; The Strange Aberration of Mr. Ken Smythe; The Teeth of My Father : Short Story; Travelling Northward; Notes on CBC literary programming for Geraldine Sherman; The Narrative Voice; Playground; Making It New; A Sense of Place; A Sense of Place : Memoir of a Farm; A Sense of Place : an old farmhouse and the Rideau Lakes; Talk by John Metcalf (CBC Anthology); Montreal Story Tellers #1; My favorite teacher; Lieutenant Lukas' cat; John Metcalf's magnificent obsession; Single Gents Only.
• Correspondence and contracts between various officials of CBC, Toronto, Ontario, and John Metcalf.

• File consists of letters relating to John Metcalf's reading at the Springboards 83 conference sponsored by CCTE, and discussing the delay in receiving expenses and honorarium for the reading.
• Typescript, signed; handwritten, signed (some photocopy); typescript.
• Correspondence between representatives of Canadian Council of Teachers of English, Montreal, Quebec, and John Metcalf and Myrna Teitelbaum.

• File consists of letters relating to submission and publication of short stories and novellas in Canadian Fiction Magazine; discussing current literary projects, editing Canadian Fiction Magazine, various issues of the periodical, including the Kingston Conference issue (no. 65, 1989) and issues containing works by John Metcalf and G. Hancock's interview of John Metcalf; discussing Canadian publishing, literature and authors, jazz recordings, Harbourfront reading and reception celebrating Canadian Fiction Magazine's tenth anniversary, John Metcalf's receiving Canadian Fiction Magazine's Annual Contributor's Prize for Private Parts : A Memoir (no. 24/25, 1977) and various other topics; and relating personal news. Letter (1978 January 3) encloses typescript (carbon copy) manuscript of G. Hancock's essay Here and Now : innovation and change in the Canadian Short Story, published in Canadian Fiction Magazine, No. 27, 1977.
• Typescript, signed; typescript (carbon copy); handwritten, signed (some photocopy);
• Includes references to the following: Beryl; Going Down Slow; Private Parts : A Memoir; Here and Now; General Ludd; 77 : Best Canadian Stories; 78 : Best Canadian Stories; 80 : Best Canadian Stories; The Eastmill Reception Centre; Punctuation As Score; Writers in Aspic; The Bumper Book; First Impressions; Second Impressions; Kicking Against the Pricks : Essays; Single Gents Only; Adult Entertainment; Travelling Northward; The New Press Anthology #1; The New Press Anthology #2; The Video World.
• Correspondence between editors of Canadian Fiction Magazine, chiefly Geoff Hancock, and John Metcalf.

• Consists of correspondence between G. Capone, Bologna, Italy, and John Metcalf.
• Letters relating to John Metcalf's reading/lecture tour in Italy (1985) and to G. Capone's interview of John Metcalf; discussing current literary projects, the 1988 Italian Association for Canadian Studies conference and various other topics. Includes program for a seminar on English Canadian Literature at the Universitá di Bologna, May 2, 1985, at which John Metcalf lectured. Item 4 enclosed manuscript of G. Capone's interview of John Metcalf, removed to Works on John Metcalf Series.
• Handwritten, signed (some photocopy); typescript, signed;
• Includes references to the following: The New Press Anthology #2; Adult Entertainment; The Nipples of Venus; The Bumper Book; Carry On Bumping; Writers in Aspic; The Curate's Egg; What is a Canadian Literature? : Essay.

Consists of panel discussion: “Developmental Tasks of the Adolescent Girl.”

Consists of “Friday Night Dialogue” with Carol James and Jean Smith.

Series contains records regarding various Liberal clubs, associations and commissions. Includes materials for the Alberta Liberal Youth Commission, the Alberta Women's Liberal Commission, and the National Women's Liberal Commission.

Sub-subseries consists of album containing photographs taken at the conference held at the University of Guelph “Coming of Age: John Metcalf and The Canadian Short Story." The conference was to celebrate my 50th birthday and was held in November 1988; It was attended by among others the following writers and critics: Clark Blaise, Hugh Hood, Keath Fraser, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Dayv James-French, Ray Smith, Doug Glover, Kim McKendrick, Constance "Connie" Rooke, Tim Struthers, Sam Tata, Geoff Hancock, W.J. Keith, Kent Thompson, Michael Darling. Most of the photographs are by Sam Tata and all are unpublished.

Consists of records regarding the Canadian Home Economics Association conference held in Calgary.

Consists of the package of delegate Myra Harshman to a conference sponsored by the Alberta Association for Children with Learning Disabilities.

Consists of national, provincial, and regional conferences for girls, senior girls, and leaders.