The collection includes material relating to Alert Bay that was created or collected by Thomas and Mildred Laurie, as well as photographs and textual records created or received by James Barclay Williams, who bequeathed the records to Mildred Laurie. The collection includes a photo album, photographs, postcards, correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and a calendar. Photographs document Alert Bay and the surrounding area, including the B.C. Packers store, Christ Church, the native cemetery, St. Michael’s Residential School and Preventorium, Canada Packers, Hardy Bay, totem poles, a long house, and the Nimpkish Hotel. Photographs also document local events, including potlatches, weddings, an outdoor salmon barbeque, BC centenary celebrations in 1958, native ceremonies, and a visit by the Governor General.

The fonds consists of documentation of the commercial, industrial, educational and social developments within the region and outlying areas, including the City of Prince George, British Columbia. Many of the images were taken "on spec" for the use in the Prince George Citizen Newspaper. The fonds is arranged in the following series: 1. General, 1946-1991; 2. Simonson, 1910-1925; 3. Pulp Mill, 1964-1969, 1974-1975; 4. Schools, 1946-1960.

The fonds consists of some curricular material and email correspondence that Dr. Healy used in shaping her course, a rough draft and notes on "Work in progress: a collection of local history essays by students of History 407", audio tapes, computer disks, transcriptions, release forms, notes, draft articles and Dr. Healy's comments on student projects.

The fonds consists of a variety of historical images of the past, that depict the commercial, retail; industrial and transportation industries during the mid 1910s. The 1921 images depict City Mayor, Harry Wilson, waterfront scenes and the old City Hall building.

The fonds consists of photograph images depicting school buildings, class photographs; school dances; recreational teams; construction, conventions; banquets; flood areas; news and promotional portraits; aerial images of Prince George; events; celebrations; organizations; commercial; recreational and retail services within the city of Prince George, British Columbia.

The fonds consists of minutes and administrative/subject files.

The fonds consists of oral history interviews on audio cassettes with accompanying transcriptions.

The collection comprises b&w photographs of the area, buildings, and incomplete sets of class pictures. Coloured transparencies are mostly of the area. The album records school activities primarily. The images are records of conditions the Sisters met in 1949 and are remembrances of subsequent encounters and events.

The fonds consists of photographs depicting beautiful black and white prints of the c. 1900 era of the old Fort George, group portraits; scows; paddle wheelers; pioneer women; clothing styles; commercial/retail business; transportation vehicles and scenic views of the newer Prince George; Prince Rupert and Quesnel areas.

The fonds consists of Burr's manuscripts created in Fort George and photographic images depicting street scenes of Fort George, camp sites, landscapes and people he met in his travels.