The collection consists of reminiscences and memorabilia from members who had enjoyed hostelling vacations in the Canadian Rockies and in Ontario in the 1940s and 1950s. Includes photographs from Peggy Love; written reminiscences from Violet and Joe Newell, Ken and Mary Jamieson, Tony Roberts, and Bill Tutte; recorded interviews with Willie Dougall, Kathleen McAdam, Vi Newell, Jack Poste, Muriel Poste, Peggy Love, Al Shaw, and Doug Stewart; a series of slides of hostelling in the Canadian Rockies by Ken Purvis accompanied by a recorded commentary; a few newsletters from affiliated hostelling associations; watercolours by Rod Sykes depicting the Dagmar Youth Hostel in the Toronto Region and the Happy Valley Hostel at Collingwood, Ontario; and the guest register of The Coach House Hostel in Woodstock, Ontario (1952-1954).

The collection consists of photographs of personalities, buildings, schools, social and sports events, and coal mining.

The collection consists of magazine illustrations documenting the 1870 and 1885 Riel Rebellions, Manitoba, the Red River Expedition, Lake Neepigon (Nipigon), First Nations, the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), The North-West Territories (later Alberta and Saskatchewan), British Columbia, the Marquis of Lorne's and Princess Louise's visit to the West, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), and the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).

The collection consists of Charles R. Bunn's genealogical correspondence, research notes and newsclippings (1921-1964); John R. Bunn's diaries (1930-1931); and miscellaneous Red River letters, accounts, and fur lists (1866-1879). Includes credit record book (1866-1894) kept by A.G.B. Bannatyne, in which he recorded the credit ratings of his various customers. In this volume Bannatyne also copied the journal of Alexander Begg. His son, A.R. James Bannatyne, later annotated the volume with biographical sketches of individuals named in Begg's journal, and of his father's customers.

The collection consists of recorded interviews, and photographs of Wing Chong Laundry, High River.

The collection consists of copies of articles, pamphlets, maps, correspondence, a report from an oral history project including extracts of interviews, and photographs documenting life in the mining communities, working conditions in the mines, and the violent 1931 strike.

The collection consists of scrapbooks of births, engagements, marriages, wedding anniversaries, deaths and Mormon events and appointments in Lethbridge and surrounding southern Alberta towns.

The collection consists of biographies, genealogical notes and family photographs related to these individuals and families (see inventory for details): Boucher family, Joseph Edward Brazeau, Bruneau family, Diefenbaker family, William Drever, Peter Fidler, Colin Fraser, Cuthbert Grant, Charles Arthur Hall, Hardisty family, Horace Holloway, Martin Van Buren Holloway, Henry Howse, Kipling family, William Samuel Lee, John L'Hirondelle, Melanie McGillis (Mrs. Addison McPherson), Murdoch McPherson, Hugh Munroe, Norquay family, Peter Ogden, John Pritchard, Setter family, Scott family, William Sinclair, James Spence, Magnus Spence, and Wood family. Includes some photographs of Calgary.

The collection consists of 28 recorded interviews with residents and former residents of Cliff Bungalow and Mission. The interviewees were: Sister Margaret Pilling, Dolores Woolrich, Berthe Miquelon, Antonia Comeault, Evelyn Bohannon, Loise Lefebvre, Carmel Despins Klassen, Theodora Holbrook, William Crawford, Jean Brews, Isobel Stevenson, James Campbell, Edmona Ryan, Hyman Belzberg, Jenny Belzberg, John Shipley, Barbara Schmeekle, John McComb, William Doherty, Jack Gallivan, Robert E. Lucy, Margaret Patterson, John A. Irvine, David Sinclair, Valerie Tait, Larry Purdy, F. John Sherlock, V. L. Doug Hawkes, Maud Hendrick, and Ethel Tarves.

The collection consists of photographs of Coronation and area personalities, farming views, street scenes and events.