Collection comprises photographs of the two First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps at Deseronto, Ontario and notes for an unpublished book, <em>Wings Over Deseronto</em>, on the history of the camps. Camp Mohawk and Camp Rathbun were in operation between May 1917 and November 1918, training men to be pilots for the Western Front. The photographs in this collection are originals and reproductions depicting the aircraft, staff and cadets of the Royal Flying Corps, principally in the Deseronto camps, but also at Camps Borden and Leaside (Ontario) and Camp Taliaferro, in Fort Worth, Texas.

This collection consists of photographs of Jasper Park Lodge. Included are views of: Tent City [191-?]; construction of the buildings (1922-1923); CNR officials in town for the opening [1922]; various guests (1920-1930); Canadian Armed Forces (1939-1945); construction camp (1928); construction of the golf course and golfing [1929]; employees [192-]; the main lodge prior to the fire [1923-1952]and various out-buildings.

The collection consists of photographs of the Lovat Scouts while training in Jasper National Park. Areas include the Tonquin Valley, Mt Edith Cavell, the Columbia Icefields and Maligne lake.

Collection consists of views of the Town of Claresholm, local residents and activities, agriculture, schools, churches, the Flight Training School, and many other topics.

The fonds contains 1 booklet on the history of the Canadian Airborne Forces, 1 booklet on the history of the Canadian Medical Services and 1 booklet on "Rendezvous" 1981.

The collection consists of: educational papers (1967-1977); biographical materials (undated); books, pamphlets and programs (1902-1978); newspaper clippings (1951-1977); historical papers (1879-1967); military material (1972-1975); maps (1974, undated); a map of Medicine Hat ([195-]); blueprint of Medicine Hat (1907); "Our Heritage", a folder of historical sketches by John Fisher (undated); correspondence with Kipling, Fatt, Gilmour and Winship re: renaming of Medicine Hat (1910- 1936); MH College Yearbook and Menu Card (1970); Medicine Hat College luncheon invitation (1971); Alexandra High School Yearbooks (10) (1922, 1946-54); En Avant school newsletters (1951-54); Program and Commencement Exercises-Medicine Hat General Hospital School of Nursing (1971); booklets (2) re: the flora of Southeastern Alberta (1962); booklet entitled "The Development of a Cumulus Cloud Over a Prairie Grass Fire" by O. Johnson (1959); a precipitation graph (1884-1923); an anthology of Medicine Hat High School student writings (1974); booklet entitled "Vagabond Trails" (1946); Connaught School Guest book (1962-66); Golden Jubilee Senior Citizens Award Booklet (1955); menu and program for Harry Veiner night (undated); card commemorating the Official Opening of Maple Avenue Bridge (1974); programs (2) of the official opening of the new Fire Hall (1975); memorial card-Mary Bomford (1975); 50th Anniversary program-Murray Chapter of the Eastern Star (1975); calendars (2) Bank of Montreal (1957?, 1959?); postcards from World War I (20) (1916-1918); 164 photographs with various views of Medicine Hat and the Davison family (1885-1971); 1 audio cassette with an interview of Eva Davison and documentation of the opening of the Medicine Hat Library (1964).

The collection consists of copies of carte-de-visite and cabinet card portraits of members of the Doucet family and Canadian military, social, and political personalities. About two-thirds of the images were created by William Notman & Son. Subjects include Gen. Garnet Wolseley, Frederick H. Brydges, Charles John Brydges, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, General Sir Frederick Middleton, W. M. Muir, Hon. C. Crichton, Charles O'Connor, J. P. Brabazon, Lyman Mills, Sheldon Stephens, Ponsonby Bagot, Hugh Seymour de Grey, Hon. C. Elliott, Lady Sarah Lindsay, H. C. Pemberton, Alex de Lisle, E. H. Griffith, W. Walpole, Miss Starnes, Mrs. T. Hart, Maggie Brown, Mrs. George Desbarats, D. J. Bannatyne, C. H. R. Gossett, Mrs. J. McClimont, H. de Uriarte, John Watkins, H. Meredith, Marie Le Mesurier, Harvey Bawtree, Edward Desbarats, and others unidentified or identified only by surname.

Collection contains 29 audio cassette copies and 4 video cassette copies of interviews with Newfoundland members of the Royal Canadian Legion, along with 6 photographs and a photocopy of a diary. The interviews contain information about the personal background, war experience, career accomplishments and Legion activities of 21 individuals from 9 branches of the Legion in Newfoundland: Cluny Brenson, Irene Chaulk, George Babstock, Melvin Dawe, Earl Jewison, Alfred Warren, George Dyke, Howard Mckay, Berkley Evans, Richard Rideout, Albert Garnier, Fred Knight, Hubert Myles, Lillian Elliot, Wilhelmina Caines, George Chalker, Edward Rusted, Walter Williams, Cyril Pelley, Mary Pelley, Ronald O'Keefe. Copies of all these interviews, along with the forms, indexes, transcripts and memorabilia donated by the informants were made and delivered to MUNFLA in 1987.

This collection contains the record books kept in operating the businesses and correspondence related to the business of smoking herring and marine repairs. There is a sectional Aeronautical chart of Boston (V-10), n.d.; blueprints of the barge "Minca" built for the Ministry of War, 1944; a Lee Wilcox poem; newspaper clipping about the replica of the schooner "Bluenose"; work orders for the annual refit of the patrol boat "Gull Light," 1970.

This fonds consists of copies of archival records and printed works about Loyalists, assembled by Van Wart, probably sometime in the 1930s. There is information about Loyalists in both Ontario and New Brunswick. Some of Van Wart's correspondence is included.