The fonds consists of H.F. Francis' personal correspondence (1927-1985), and files relating to the Air Cadet League (1951-1958), Aviation Committee of the Chamber of Commerce (1955-1961), Canadian Club of Calgary (1936-1961), Canadian Institute of International Affairs (1966, 1969), Alberta Central Credit Union (1940-1954), Royal Canadian Air Force (1941-1945), Rape Seed Council (1967-1971), Citizens' University Committee (1945-1967), and United Grain Growers (1949-1969).

The fonds consists of CPR promotional materials designed by McMurray: placards, station displays, postcards and information sheets; photographs of, and used in, promotional displays; CPR circulars and memoranda; plans of Strathmore; and various family programs, souvenir booklets, greeting cards and newsclippings.

The fonds consists of a typescript of his article, "A Journey over the Plains from Fort Benton to Bow River and Back", which includes descriptions of the country passed through, bull train travel, Fort Macleod, Fort Calgary, the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), native peoples, a sun dance, buffalo hunters, whiskey traders, a prairie fire, and the surrender of Sitting Bull at Fort Buford, Montana. Includes an 1895 photograph of the Faculty of Comparative Medicine at McGill.

The fonds consists of Ed Nagle's diaries (1875-1890, 1906-1927), business records, and personal financial records; Ted Nagle's diaries (1926-1930), correspondence, notebooks, maps, reference files, and autobiography; and extensive photographs of fur trade and prospecting activities in northern Canada, including views of First Nations, fur traders and posts, prospectors, canoes and other transportation, camps, hides and furs, etc.

The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, appointments, newsclippings, etc., pertaining to the Dewdney Trail and his early career in British Columbia; correspondence, speeches, diaries (1879, 1882-1883, 1885-1886, 1888), reports and newsclippings related to his duties as Lieutenant-Governor and Indian Commissioner of the North-West Territories; appointments and correspondence as Minister of the Interior; some correspondence as Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia; and a series of personal correspondence of Blanche Dewdney (1914-1926).
Records related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: Magnus Begg, Big Bear (Cree), C.O. Card, Laurence Clarke, Columbia and Kootenay Railway and Transportation Co., Conservative Party, Crowfoot (Blackfoot), William Crozier, Nicholas Davin Flood, D.W. Davis, George M. Dawson, Amor de Cosmos, J.S. Dennis, Cecil Denny, Gabriel Dumont, Amedee Emmanuel Forget, I.S. Freeze, William McGirr, Bishop Vital Grandin, Col. A.G. Irvine, Dr. Augustus Jukes, Father Albert Lacombe, Wilfrid Laurier, Jean L'Heureux, Marquess of Lorne, James A. Lougheed, Hugh John Macdonald, John A. Macdonald, D.L. Macpherson, Frederick D. Middleton, Military Colonization Ranche, Walter Moberly, Mormons, Frank Oliver, William Pearce, William Dell Perly, Piapot (Cree), Poundmaker (Cree), Red Pheasant (Cree), Hayter Reed, Louis Riel, North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), Joseph Royal, Charles B. Rouleau, William B. Scarth, Alfred Richard C. Selwyn, Sitting Bull (Sioux), Sir John Thompson, Judge Jeremiah Travis, Tsimshian, William C. Van Horne, Laurence Vankoughnet, Col. James Walker, Walrond Ranch and Fred White.

The fonds consists of photographs of construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway between Edson and Jasper, the Blue Diamond coal mine and the Brule area.

The fonds consists of photographs of survey crews in Crowsnest Pass and along the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The fonds consists of E.J.'s diary describing the trip west, as transcribed by his daughter, Susan Lawrence Skinner.

The fonds consists of research notes and drafts of Ferries and Ferrymen. Includes copies of photographs collected for the book.

The fonds consists of pilot's log book (1918-1919); lectures, speeches and articles about flying and the air force; photographs of family, military career and personal life; correspondence and newsclippings.