The fonds consists of home movies of the Brown family and oil wells (nd); photographs of the R.A. Brown, Sr. and R. A. Brown, Jr., families; "With the Forces" broadcast (1949); cartoons of R.A. Brown, Jr. and diploma (1923).

The fonds consists of six company ledgers: 1894 - 1896, 1896, 1898 - 1901, 1900, 1904 - 1905, 1923 - 1926. Also includes 15 pages of correspondence and notes. The ledgers note expenses for various operations in the mine and in the company owned premises in town. The letters and notes concern the purchase of explosives for the mine and discusses the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company.

The fonds consists of photographs of the Turner Valley oilfields and area, Dingman Wells #1 and #2, the Southern Alberta Oil Refinery, derrick construction, transportation of oil and gas, and the Dingman family. The fonds also consists of A.W. Dingman's reports and prospectuses related to the Calgary Natural Gas Company and Calgary Petroleum Products Company; Claude Dingman's notes and articles on the petroleum industry; Turner Valley operative results (1913-1935); and Corrine Dingman Patteson's family scrapbook. Includes a 1956 speech by Eric Harvie about the discovery of oil in Turner Valley.

This fonds consists of 16 day books or account books of J. E. McAuley's general mercantile business, which operated after 1906 as J. E. McAuley & Co. These records cover most years between 1893-1916. An index dating to about 1897 is also included.

This fonds consists of administrative and financial records and includes reports (1891-1903), a bond (1890), correspondence (1892-1898), a receipt book (1892), a copy of the consitution and by-laws and a ritual book.

"This fonds consists of documents related to James C. Hovey's work with the provincial Department of Public Works as a supervisor of roads. There are letters regarding Hovey's responsibilities with the Department of Public Works, road tax notices, certificates, and correspondence with the Cobbler Sexton Mining Company Limited.

There are also documents from the parish of Northampton, school district 2, including minute books, teacher agreements for both Ella R. Purvis and Etta Grant (1919), and classroom registers for teachers Effie M. Forest and Annie E. Gibson, dated 1915-1916 and 1925-1926. The relationship between James Hovey and the school records is unknown."

The collecton consists of Russian death certificates of Joseph and Anna Vlalaitis (1891); Canadian immigration card (1914); miscellaneouss land titles certificates for properties in Pine Creek, Frank, Stavely, Wetaskiwin, Bawlf and High River in Alberta, and the Kootenay district in British Columbia (1890-1912); fire insurance policies in Calgary and Medicine Hat (1907-1913); company incorporation documents for Jenckes Machine Company, H.F. Sandeman Company, Saskatchewan Savings Society, Alberta Loan and Investment Company, and Western Agencies and Development (1906-1919); bonds for Diamond Coal Company, Consolidated Diamond Collieries and Drumheller Consolidated Collieries (1910-1928); livestock certificates for British Americam Live Stock Association and Percheron Society of America (1904-1914); townsite plan for Kindersley, Saskatchewan (1913); map of petroleum and gas rights in the Turner Valley oilfields, and ad for Big Chief Oil shares (1926); posters for farm auction sales at Jackville, Coaldale, Milk River, Chapman and Airdrie (1917-1919); poster for Percheron stallion (1920); and German-American Colonization Company poster (1914).

The fonds consists of reminiscences of his life in Nordegg (1972); newsclippings about the 1941 mining disaster and various Nordegg residents; letters from Marin Nordegg; lists of births and deaths in Nordegg; and photographs of Nordegg,Banff, and his father (1888-1927).

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, memoranda, etc., related to Alberta's oil and gas industries.
Records related to the following subjects are also in this collection. See inventory for details: Alberta Associated Oilfields Ltd., Alberta Petroleum Consolidated Ltd., Athabasca Oils Ltd., John Bain, R.B. Bennett, Dr. T.O. Bosworth, Bow Island, British Empire Trust Co., John E. Brownlee, Calgary and Edmonton Railway, Calgary Petroleum Products Ltd., Canada Southern Oil and Refining Co., Canadian Oil and Refining Co., Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), Canadian Western Natural Gas, Light, Heat and Power Co., Dillon Coste, E.H. Cunningham Craig, Archibald W. Dingman, Edmonton-Wainwright Oils Ltd., Newton W. Emmens, Herbert Greenfield, Eric Harvie, W.S. Herron, Lethbridge Oils Ltd., Willian Livingston, McDougall-Segur Exploration Co., Northern Alberta Natural Gas Development Co., Northwest Company Ltd., William Pearce, Range Oil and Gas Co., Daniel Lee Redman, Otty P. Savary, Southern Alberta Oil Co., M.Y. Williams, and J.H. Woods.

This fond consists of the business records of Erlon Bell and his son, Samuel W. Bell. It includes correspondence, account books, day books, ledgers, cashbooks, accounts receivable, time books, wage books, journals, payroll record cards, year-end statements, vouchers, and invoices. Also included are workers group insurance records, workmen's compensation records, legal records, and information relating to cutting and scaling.

There are also materials related to a number of companies, including North Carleton Land Co. (1965-1967), Carleton Development Co. Ltd., Monquart Lumber Co. Ltd., Woodstock Woodworking Factory Ltd., Lockhart Woodworking Limited, Flemming Industries Ltd., Flemming & Gibson Ltd., Dead River-Merican Industries Ltd. A few personal records of both Erlon Bell and Samuel Bell (correspondence, bills, school trustee papers, school books, photographs) are also included.

The photographs have been moved to the Photograph Section.