The fonds consists of family memorabilia, including poems (some written by "T.R"), recipes (ginger bread, lemonade, etc.), a portrait of Harriet Rankin (1905), a letter from "father" (1883), morse code, and a lock of hair.

The fonds consists of her manuscripts: "Background and Ancestry of Alice Elizabeth (Matheson) Doyle", and her "Memoirs to date, Calgary, 1978".

The fonds consists of her interviews and transcripts from a Blackfoot Oral History Project on traditions of the whiskey trade in southern Alberta.

The fonds consists of correspondence with political figures, and other articles.

The fonds consists of his military documents including authorization to drive a car, rail passes and Legion card.

The fonds consists of financial statements and tax returns (1931-1971); radio-related correspondence, schedules, scripts, advertising files, and audio recordings of broadcasts, advertisements and jingles (1930s-1984); television-related correspondence, licence applications, annual reports and director's files (1962-1978); extensive news footage films (1976-1984); photographs and slides of facilities, events and personalities; and film footage of the XV Olympic Winter Gamers (1988). Includes early sound recordings of Premier William Aberhart.

The fonds consists of board minutes, financial and statistical reports, Kerby News records, committee records, development files including reports to funding agencies, program information including extensive housing projects, staff meeting records, extensive support information on seniors' organizations and programs elsewhere and related to gerontology.

The collection consists of copies of letters from William Van Horne to Henry J. Cambie (1884-1886); notebook of CPR Pacific Superintendent re operations in British Columbia (1886-1889); photographs of construction of Shuswap and Okanagan branch near Armstrong (1892-1910) and views of locomotives in Lethbridge and Kamloops (1885-1903).

The fonds consists of seniority lists for Division 7 (Alberta and British Columbia), including Canadian Pacific Railway employees and Esquimault and Nanaimo employees. Includes an Order of Railroad Telegraphers Constitution (1956).

The fonds consists of his instructional materials for square dancing.