The fonds consists of Henry's NWMP discharge certificate (1889), and personal and business letterbook (1901-1903); Eric's First World War letters, papers and scrapbook (1914-1918); family scrapbooks (1913-1954); autograph books (1882-1895, 1925-1927); guest books (1908-1948); family Bible; recipe book; extensive photographs of the family, house, and vacation trips (1868-1950s); various family certificates, correspondence and postcards; and a genealogical compilation on the McCallum and Carpenter families.

The fonds consists of diary.

The fonds consists of Alan's First World War and Second World War military papers and photographs; photographs of construction of the Alberta Central Railway and views of Sylvan Lake, Seba Beach, Nordegg and Lesser Slave Lake areas; and Edith's teaching and nursing certificates. Includes correspondence of Edith's sister, Margaret O. Buchanan, regarding her war work.

The fonds consists of A. B. Chapin's Civil War discharge papers, documentation of his award of the Congressional Medal of Honor, a letter from a comrade, a letter from his widow to his son, newsclippings, and an envelope from his daughter-in-law to his granddaughter.

The collection consists of slides of Calgary, including the Royal Train (1939), Calgary Highlanders, Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, buildings, street scenes, Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, St. Andrew's district, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) station, Calgary Tower, and Chinatown; and views of the Banff Springs Hotel; slides for geology courses at SAIT, including "Color Slides of Canadian Geology" for Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists.

The fonds consists of transcripts of his diary (1914-1920); unpublished accounts of the 1st Canadian Division and the 10th Battalion at the 2nd Battle of Ypres, and the 1st Canadian Division at the battles of Festubert and Givenchy; and sketch maps of the 10th Battalion's movements in 1915. Includes photographs of the 10th Battalion Machine Gun Section.

The fonds consists of minutes, membership records, match records, correspondence and financial records.

The fonds consists of photographs of CWAC activities in Calgary, Alberta.

The fonds consists of memoirs about his first 21 years, entitled "This is the Way it was" (1971); photographs of the Slaney family (nd) and First World War recruits at Camp Hughes in Manitoba (1916-1917); and tickets for, and photograph of crowds at, drawing of lots for Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) land in Edmonton (1912).