Collection consists of submissions made by various companies in the oil industry to the Alberta Petroleum and Natural Gas Conservation Board and the National Energy Board relating to the exportation of natural gas and crude oil from Alberta to Eastern Canada and the United States via proposed pipelines. Includes geological and engineering data, projections of Canadian market requirements, reserve estimates, financial projections, facility descriptions, etc. Companies making submissions include among others Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd., Alberta and Southern Gas Co. Ltd. and Canadian-Montana Pipe Line Co. Collection also includes several submissions to the Royal Commission on Energy in 1958.

The collection consists of photographs that depict various sites, people, and community events in a quadrant of Alberta to the southeast of Red Deer that is bordered by the communities of Three Hills, Drumheller, and Youngstown. Most of the photos focus on Youngstown and surrounding villages. The photos depict baseball games, picnics, the interior of a Drumheller coal mine, a group portrait of recent army recruits from Youngstown in 1916, unidentified people and farm sites, and various businesses/buildings in the area.

The fonds consists of photographs taken at various architectural sites around Alberta. These include a survey of housing in the abandoned coal town of Nordegg that was created by the Woolfenden Group, a photographic survey by McIntosh, Workun & Chernenko Architects of a federal building, and architectural surveys of St. Joseph's College, St. Stephen's College, the Ukrainian Village, and Beaver House.

The collection consists of mining agreements between coal mining unions and coal mines in Alberta dating from 1915 to 1961. Coal mines represented in the collection include the Canadian Collieries Limited, Cadomin Coal Co. Ltd., Canmore Coal Company Limited, Mine Workers Central Union of Estevan and District, Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company, Bighorn and Saunders Creek Collieries, Drumheller and Wayne District Coal Companies, Hillcrest Collieries Ltd., Hinton Collieries Limited, International Coal and Coke Company Limited, McGillivary Creek and Coal Company Limited, Lethbridge Collieries Limited, Luscar Collieries Limited, McLeod River Hard Coal Co. Limited.

The collection consists of two maps printed by the Department of Mines and Resources, Mines and Geology Branch, Government of Canada, in 1941. The maps provide geological information on the Brazeau and Bighorn River areas of Alberta.

The collection consists of 80 images of the inhabitants, settlements, and lands of the Fort McMurray region dating from ca. 1930 to 1950.

Collection consists of coal mining union agreements, an Alberta government Department of Public Welfare information booklet, a report entitled <em>Who's Who in Alberta Agriculture</em>, a Lethbridge School souvenir programme, notes, correspondence, and reports of C. A. (Charles Alexander) Magrath, Manager of the Canadian Northwest Irrigation Company, concerning St. Mary water rights and the St. Mary and Milk Rivers diversions, undated photographs depicting farming in the Peace River area, and a view of the Clearwater River and Dr. Frank Hamilton Mewburn of Lethbridge, Alberta. Collection includes microfilm copies of correspondence written to William Stafford dated 1883-1894, various records concerning farming, irrigation, homesteading, and Lethbridge, Alberta dated 1887-1921, a map of Alberta electoral districts dated 1924, and correspondence, reports and memorandum from the Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company dating 1885-1906. Collection also includes copied photographs from a number of photograph albums, some with annotations, dating 1830-1935, which depict various forts, trading posts, canals, people, buildings, farms, livestock, and views in Alberta and western Canada.

The fonds consists of two promotional pamphlets, one about Resources and Industries in Alberta and the other about Elk Island National Park.

The collection consists of a brochure about the Howey Syndicate of Calgary, Alberta and "Maps, Reports & Pictures of the Pouce Coupe Oil Field Alberta" compiled by E.R. Lovewell for Canada Empire Crude Oil Syndicate of Calgary, which includes photographs of gas fires and oil seepages.

The fonds consists of images from Seba Beach, originally dating circa (ca.) 1910, of the beachfront, the lake, picnics, store exteriors and interiors, a baseball team and canoes and canoeing, and images from Lesser Slave Lake and Waterways, originally dating from 1930s and 1940s, possibly once belonging to Knute Booth, of commercial fishing operations.