The fonds consists of bird-watching journal (1936-1937) and game conservation stamps designed by Rowan (1942-1943).

This fonds consists of records and photographs of William Thomas Carlyle. The records include correspondence, financial statements, and reports relating to his participation as a director of the Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and its Northern Alberta branch, and a tribute to Hugh Alton MacGregor, written for the Edmonton Natural History Club and the Federation of Alberta Naturalists. Photographs consist of urban and rural scenes in and around Edmonton, including photographs taken under the New Horizons Project

Fonds consists of these series: I Art (1908-1957). Includes sketchbooks; Christmas cards; correspondence. II Biographical, personal (1902-1962). Includes or relates to awards; biographical articles; Unitarian Church; conferences and invitations; memberships; education; health; financial affairs; obituaries; tributes. III Career (1909-1957). Includes teaching appointments and duties at Bedales School and the Universities of Alberta and Manitoba. IV Conservation (1916-1957). Includes Delta Waterfowl Research Station; federal and provincial game laws; fish and game associations; reference materials. V Correspondence (1900-1965). Family; colleagues; students. VI Major manuscripts (1930-1957). As the Crow Flies, Beloved Wilderness, The Last Chapter, The Riddle of Migration. VII Model railway, Jasper, Alberta (1936-1950). A pet project of Dr. Rowan's; includes correspondence, notes, photographs and sketches. VIII Music (1927-1955). Includes support for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the University Mixed Chorus, and the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. IX Photographs [1896-1957]. Rowan family and colleagues; animals; birds; plants. X Projects (1917-1957). Museums; zoos; postage; game stamps. XI Public affairs (1911-1957). Relates to the peace movement, the United Nations, education and other issues; includes addresses, lectures, correspondence, letters to the editor, memorabilia, reference materials. XII Publications (1913-1963). Includes correspondence; book reviews. XIII Research (1908- 1957). Includes or relates to cycles, migration, ornithology; enquiries; field notes; funding sources. XIII Speeches, radio talks (1914-1957). Mainly on conservation; cycles; migration.

The fonds consists of photographs and slides of Calgary, Alpine Club activities, Calgary parks and cemeteries, mountains, Horticultural Society activities, and the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught. Includes chart of Calgary precipitation and temperatures (1915-1940); plans by Reader for gardens at the EP Ranch (1923); and postcard of the interior of Pro-Cathedral decorated for Christmas (1926).

Fonds consists of records created and collected by William O. Field during to glacier study, research and travels in the Canadian Rockies and area. I. CR files : [Canadian Rockies series], 1919-1989, 110 files and 13 volumes of textual records and ca.275 files of photographs. Textual records include diaries, notebooks and files for 1948, 1949 and 1953. Photographs include ca.5800 prints, ca.325 negatives and 4 photograph albums in annual files for years 1919 to 1927 and 1948, 1949 and 1953. II. Reports, before 1980. III. Resources, 1902-1985, consists of photographs, maps and textual volume collected by Field for research use. IV. Display photographs, 1885-1953.

Fonds consists of copies of correspondence mainly between William E. Peters and Alberta Culture officials concerning Peters' attempt to have the name Wind Mountain re-applied to the appropriate mountain. Includes supporting documentation on Wind Mountain (Mount Lougheed).

The fonds consists of hand-coloured lantern slides of flowers, the movement of floral parts, fertilization and seed production, fruits, flower gardening, ornamental planting, vegetable gardening, farm scenes, potatoes, the microscopic structure of plants, landscapes (Pacific Coast, mountains, park country, plains), farms, mammals, birds, the erosion of rocks, sunsets and clouds, clouds, deposits of sand and gravel, stratification of rocks and soil, plants as soil makers, erosion of rocks, logging and lumber, and trees; glass plate negatives of the Banff area including hotels, golf courses, mountains; farm machinery; negatives of the family's farm, family members, farming, harvesting, picnics, the Drumheller area including hoodoos; and a photograph of William Copeland McCalla. Fonds also includes three ledgers of farm notes, seed records, accounts of receipts and expenditures, manure records, etc. for William Copeland McCalla and Margaret McCalla's farms at St. Catherines, Ontario and Bremner, Alberta. Part of the third ledger is farm notes, accounts of receipts and expenditures, etc. for Frederick and Gladys McCalla, who took over the Bremner farm from parents William and Margaret. Includes some loose notes, correspondence, receipts, Alberta Wheat Pool grading slips, etc. Fonds also includes a CD made in 2008 by Alex McCalla that contains scans of all the pages in the ledgers. Fonds also includes McCalla's lantern slide projector and a wooden lantern slide case in a canvas carrying bag.

The collection consists of two handwritten letters by Grey Owl to Mr. Norquay, agent for Dominion Land Administration in Edmonton, newspaper clipping, exceprt from Grey Owl's book on beaver and typed correspondence of John Dewey Soper.