The fonds includes the Maki family's immigration, baptismal, and homestead documents. Includes Gust's First World War service records, and a wartime letter to Mary

The fonds includes photographs and correspondence of Mary T. Bowles concerning her volunteer service with the Red Cross in Red Deer; photographs of pupils in schools where Norman Bowles taught; class records of his students (ca. 1947-ca. 1949); news stories on Red Deer submitted to metropolitan newspapers by Norman as a freelance local correspondent (1942-1943); a scrapbook and collected pamphlets and posters on Social Credit and Alberta politics (1935-1943); and scrapbooks on the Red Deer Board of Trade and the Dieppe Raid. Includes historic documents collected by Norman Bowles: township survey map of Twp. 38, Ra. 28 W. of the 4th Meridian (Red Deer area, 1884); copy of the Calgary Tribune (1893); and oblique aerial photographs of Red Deer (1947). Includes an unrelated colour photocopy of a certificate presented to the Martin family of Red Deer whose four sons volunteered for wartime military service (ca. 1945, copied ca. 1996)

The fonds consists of a photograph album compiled by Patrick Snider with images of family and friends in the Clarendon district of central Alberta and at the Calgary Zoo.

The fonds consists of Ray Heard's prisoner of war diary, a transcript of it, and an autobiography focusing on his experiences as an immigrant in Alberta in the 1950s.

Fonds consists of scrapbook (1941-1945), lists of local soldiers on active service, a list of local soldiers held as prisoners of war, and a card index of the Red Deer and District Home Comforts Fund

Fonds consists of minutes (1944-1945) and correspondence (1942-1944) of the Red Deer R.C.A.F. and R.C.N. Auxiliary Fund.

The fonds includes Ron Dale's military service records and memorabilia, personal and political correspondence, news clippings about his political career, awards and memorabilia, and photographs.

The fonds consists mostly of correspondence from soldiers posted overseas during the First World War: Fred Ball, R. B. Bryden, George Dick, Del Hardy, Will Lavigne, Ralph Lightizer, Alvyn Shannon, Charles Shield, James Henry Walker. Also includes memorabilia from her grandparents, greeting cards, a school essay on the Wainwright buffalo, and sympathy cards received at the time of her death

The fonds consists of family and military photographs, published materials relating to Canada's involvement in World War I, and religious books.

The collection consists of Canadian Department of National Defence photographs of Canadian units in Europe during the First World War