The collection consists of interviews with these individuals who lived in Calgary during the 1920s and 1930s: Roy Allen, Hazel Austin, Roy Austin, Mabel Baker, Gladys Bates, Murray Bowman, Juanita Brooks, Anne Bryant, Kathleen Bullas, Vera Burns, Maureen Cumming, Spencer Cumming, Bunny Dixon, Marjorie Ellis, Ron Florendine, Don Foster, Dorothy Fox, Doris Fraser, Herb Goodwin, Alice Hamilton, Irene Harper, Doug Hawkes, Frances Helmer, May Henderson, Flora Holden, Helen Holmes, Norman Holmes, Charlie Hutchinson, Harold Hutchinson, Olive Iverach, Anele Jenkins, D. Johnson, Kathleen Lane, Al Leinweber, Eva Mackintosh, Lorraine McNiece, Ruth McVeigh, Laura Muir, Reginald Parkyn, Catherine Philip, C.K. Quon, Ted Riback, Joe Ross, Ruth Scott, Helen Spurway, Keel Spurway, Tony Stanford, Jack Thorne, Janet Valentine, Lilian Valentine, and Gordon Webster.