The fonds consists of photographs of police activities in southern Alberta and British Columbia; and his reminiscent articles regarding his career in the RNWMP, APP and RCMP.

The fonds consists of individual and corporate client files concerning estates, civil litigation, real estate, collections, and company matters. Also included in the fonds are files concerning the administration of the law practice. Files are arranged in a single series including client files and practice administrative files. They are arranged alphabetically; the m and n sections are missing. Also included is a settlement of marriage and accompanying files of Denis C. Burke. Burke owned a ranch outside of High River and was a member of the NWMP. In 1905 he contracted to marry Meriel K. Griffin of Limerick, Ireland, where he was stationed with the Third Royal Irish Fusilliers. Fonds is a single series in two sections, each arranged alphabetically, by client name or subject of file.

The fonds consists of photographs of RCMP activities in the Yukon Territory.

The papers of Arthur D. Bessemer consist of three series. Series one, client files, cover the period of 1950 to 1968, and include files created at his different partnerships as well as a solo practicioner, and a copy of his file register. There are also a small number of other files relating to his community work in this series, as Bessemer kept them with client files. Series two, Law Society of Alberta, contains records relating to his activities as a Bencher and committee member of the Law Society of Alberta between 1959 and 1969, and includes correspondence, committee reports, discussion papers and reports, and reference material. Series three, miscellaneous, covers a period of 1968 to 1976 and consists of a small number of records including correspondence generated during Bessemer's tenure as Master in Chambers in Calgary, some personal correspondence, and a blank work book from his student days with an inscription by Helen Ford. There is one photograph of the Law Society benchers from 1963. The majority of the fond is made up of client files. Bessemer's practice was largely in corporate law, especially oil and gas. Many files involved routine incorporation and maintenance of corporate registration. Oil and gas files mostly concerned lease matters and farmin or farmout agreements. A substantial number of Bessemer's clients were small and medium sized American companies active in Alberta, and many clients were independent oil promoters and individuals with interests in the industry. In the sixties, Bessemer began to undertake a small amount of estate, real estate, and injury law. After leaving Howard Bessemer et al, the number of new files opened by Bessemer dropped significantly. Litigation played only a very minor role in Bessemer's practice, generally undertaken for established clients as part of managing their legal afairs. As a rule, when dealing with litiginous matters, he strove for negotiated settlement. As many of the files undertaken at Macleod Dixon et and Howard Bessemer remained with the firm, the collection does not fully represent Bessemer's legal practice.

Fonds consists of 8 judge's notebooks of Arthur L. Sifton created during his tenure as chief justice of the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories 1903-1906. Fonds is arranged in a single series of notebooks.

Fonds illustrates the legal, political, and personal interests of Justice Asa Milton Harradence of the Alberta Court of Appeal. Records begin with the firm of Harradence and Company and continues through to his time at the Court of Appeal, as well as personal interests in politics, flying and the Canadian air force. The fonds has been arranged into five series: Harradence and company; Legal records; Reasons for judgment; Speeches; and Personal papers. The Harradence and company series consist predominately of textual records in the form of financial records depicting an Alberta criminal law practice from 1954 to 1979. The legal records series consists of bar admission transcripts, students memoranda from the Court of Appeal, legal research files, and items related to Harradence's 1996 retirement celebration. The third series, reasons for judgment, provides a comprehensive collection of judgments on cases sat on by Harradence, and from 1990 to 1996 the Court of Appeal as a whole. Personal material contains textual records, photographs and cultural artifacts from Harradence's personal interests in flying and politics, as well as honours given to him.

The fonds consists of photographs and administrative records of the Association of Women Lawyers. Records include bylaws, minutes of meetings, correspondence, membership files, financial statements, newsletters, special event information and photographs.

The fonds consists of a brief history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Alberta; the origins of the Athabasca Detachment; 1901 report of Superintendent Constantine; 1915 report of Superintendent Albert Edward Crosby McDonell; biographies of Deputy Commissioner George Leslie Jennings, ex-Inspector Kristjan Fjeldsted Anderson, and ex-Superintendent Arthur Howard Llewellyn Mellor; 1961 booklet "A National Police Service" and 1962 copy of "The Police Act". Other officers mentioned include: Sgt. S. Hetherington and Sup't Gilbert E. Sanders.

The collection consists of photographs of the RCMP boat "Athabasca" based in Ganges, B.C. Six Mile Stopping Place on the Athabasca River; SS Northland Echo; loading scows; aerial view of Athabasca [1970s]; newspaper photographs of James Harris Wood, William Rennison, Isaie Gagnon, Louis Fosseneuve, and Hon. Justice R. Boyle; men at a tie camp (Paul Berkey, Mr. Koster, Mr. Jameson, Eugene Sale, Ole Strome, Joe Laflamme); 1937-38 Athabasca Boy Scout troop (Ralph Noddings, Bill Calder, Ken Cocke, John Birks, Allen Fell, Fred Meadows, Bob Garton, Frank Falconer, Dale Nelson, Jim Service, Budge Jones, Frank Bergeron, Verne Lewis, -- Webb, Alec Bergeron, Donald King, Reg Bayliss); Half Moon Lake School, 1936 (Josie Kunbah, Josie Kordyban, Alexandra Smerychinski, Marian Kowalski, Katie Kordyban, Maria Kordyban, Rosy Dowhaniuk, Stephanie Kushak, Olga Komarniski, Antonnette Komarniski, Maggie Shapka, Annie Kushak, Helen Zayezierski, Josie Gerla); Revillon Brothers Store, farm implement-reaper and horses, Terence John Shank, Elmer Norman Shank, Demonstration Farm barns and house (Experimental Farm barns), Leon Soudet farm, view of Athabasca from Century Villa condominiums dated Sept. 28, 1996; 1985 Tourist Information Booth volunteers (Hazel Rein, Pearl Baker, May Webb, Steve Wasel, Joe Bortnick, Alice Donahue, Charlie Senz, Dot Evans, Laura Green, and Muriel Senz); Chris and Lyandra Elkjer; the Athabasca train station in Nov. 1912, team driver is James A. Minns who was killed during WWI. Four postcards have been added which include an aerial photo of the town, a view from the bridge of the town lights, a painting by Larry Zornes and local citizens forming the number 99 in 2010 as they look forward to the 100th anniversary in 2011.

The fonds consists of the records of Athelstan Bisset and his wife Mary, and has been divided into two series: Professional records, relating primarily to Athelstan Bisset's time as a City Alderman but also as a judge, and includes copies of speeches, reports, correspondence, council material from the Dominion Conference of Mayors held in Montreal in 1935, and photographs of inauguration of Overland Mail Route (1943) and Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities conferences; and Private records, relating to the personal lives of Mary and Athelstan, and includes a bank book, menus, invitations, concert and other programs, school newsletters, newspaper clippings, a transcript and program from the opening of D.S. MacKenzie Junior High School, records relating to involvement Knox United Church, a variety of published journals, an assortment of bibles, poetry, English literature and text books, postcards from the Rocky mountains and photographs of friends and colleagues, mountains, Strathcona High School class of 1917-1918, Edmonton Normal School 1920, and an Edmonton Mercuries reception.