The fonds consists of memorandum of association, minutes, correspondence with clients and other advertising bodies, financial records, and legal agreements of the Hook Signs companies. Also includes extensive photos of billboards and wall signs which were proof of performance of work carried out in Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge and many southern Alberta towns.

The fonds consists of scrapbooks containing photographs, stories, paper artifacts, and news clippings covering the history of Hythe from the time it was established as a townsite on the NAR railway in 1929 into the 21st Century. There are also albums of the Hythe Homecoming in 1978, the opening of the Hythe Golden Age Craft Centre in 1981, and Celebrate Hythe in 1989; one album of people and buildings in Hythe ca. 1970-2000. There are also two scrapbooks containing 198 memorial cards to tell us about the people who lived in Hythe, and a loose collection of photographs which cover the history of Hythe from 1916-2007.

The paper records consist of receipts from various Hythe businesses: Frederick Tite, H.W. Reich, Frontier Lumber Company, W.R. Salmers, A.L. MacRae, Harold S. Tveten, Robert Reid, McLeod & Inkster, Chartier Bros., J.P. Gerlinger, F.F. Perdue, G.B. Howlett, E. Hansen, Oakfords, Peasron Garage, Geo. A. Pollock, Light & Swanston Ltd. And F. Adams and Son.

The photographs are described in the order in which they appeared in the scrapbooks.

The fonds consists of a journal kept by William J. Noll from about 1914 to 1925. It records events in his life including homesteading in the Peace River Country, enlisting in the RNWMP and WWI, working in various industries including Oregon's lumber camps, and becoming an early commercial pilot in Oregon. The journal includes written entries, photographs, posters, some employment records, receipts, tickets, cards, and newspaper clippings. Several other loose records are inserted into the pages of the journal, including a WWI medal, Great War Veterans Association membership booklet, 1935 US naturalization papers, correspondence about his homestead and petroleum and natural gas leases, [ca. 1952] USAF course application, and 1917 Canadian naturalization papers. Two pages of genealogical notes presumed to have been written by Clem Kinderwater are also inserted.

The journal ends rather abruptly in January 1925 as William is on his way from El Paso to Portland. The final entry states "Contd in next book." Subsequent book(s) have unfortunately been lost.

The original order of the journal has been maintained, including the original position of inserted material.

The fonds consists of John's and Wahnita's certificates, scrapbooks, and biographies; and financial records, promotional literature and photographs of the dancing school. Also consists of Ken's pharmacy notebooks, prescription books, financial statements, advertisements, circulars to customers, lease agreements, and miscellaneous pharmacy records. Includes recorded interviews with Wahnita and Ken Penley.

The fonds consists of correspondence, financial records including account books, mail order catalogues, advertising and promotional material, newspaper clippings about the history and development of the company, and photographs of stores, displays, and saddles.

The fonds consists of 2 hand-written accounts books belonging to John Olson, who established Olson & Sons Meat Market in Sexsmith: a 1928 cash book for the meat market, and a notebook used by John Olson when attending the Lutheran College in 1912-1913. There is also one photograph of a 4-H Beef Steer purchased by Olsons ca. 1980.

The fonds consists of a 1969 interview about his experiences in Alberta and Manitoba, including stories about R.B. Bennett and Nellie McClung (one of the Famous Five [Famous 5]); a photograph of the Brooks general store (ca. 1911); and a copy of the 1932 Conservative Party Blue Book.

The fonds consists of correspondence about engineering projects (1910-1959); membership records, annual reports, and correspondence with engineering organizations in which he was active; and reports and photographs of coal in Kananaskis.
Record related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: Association of Professional Engineers of Alberta, Biggar (Sask.), E.W. Bowness, J. Edwin Brown, Buffalo Head Ranch, Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Ralph E. Chamberlain, George Coutts, John Clapham Dale, Edgar Davis, Devon, Drumheller, Earl Grey Golf Club, William Samuel Fetherstonhaugh, John Galt, Norman Macleod Hall, Hanna, Robert McDonald Hardy, High River, Clarence D. Howe, J. Walter Ings, Irma, Kindersley (Sask.), Andrew W. Percy Lowrie, George D. Mackie, Medicine Hat, Melville (Man.), Dudley Blair Menzies, C. LeB. Miles, George H.N. Monkman, William Newman, North West Commercial Travellers Association, Pekisko, Norma Piper Pocaterra, George Pocaterra, Porcupine Creek Coal Mine, P.M. Sauder, G.A. Sissons, J.J. Strutt, Anna Tamminga, Treyn Oil Pool, and James Robert Wood.

The fonds consists of business correspondence, financial records, legal agreements and contracts, mill workbooks, flour inventories, photographs of the mill, and architectural plans of warehouses, mills, grain elevators and railway sidings. Includes minute book and stock certificate book of F.A. Bean Farms Ltd. (1916-1956), and Calgary Milling Company cookbook (1910).

The fonds consists of annual reports and shareholders's list (1947-1960); histories of the company (1952-1960); grocery price lists and mail order catalogues (1913-1939); staff relations, events and newsletters (1929-1974); newspaper clippings (1920s-1960s); Ron Jenkins' miscellaneous personal papers (1944-1973); architectural plans for the office and warehouse (1950, 1959); and extensive photographs and slides of stores, employees, advertising and promotional events, and social activities (1909-1963).