The collection consists of recorded interviews with Tom Baines, E. Reynolds Baptie, Earle Birney, Milton W. Brock, Charles Bull, Alexander Calhoun, J. G. “Red” Cathcart, Victor Cleator, Willard Cumming, D. G. L. Cunnington, Hugh Webster Dann, G. Ryder Davis, H. Sydney Daykin, Harold De Caux, Louise Dean, T. B. Donald, Howard Dowling, H. P. “Ted” Forsey, Bill Foster, Ida Graves, John Hugill, Aarne Kaskeleinen, Eleanor Patton Kent, Donald Leslie, Herman Linder, Jack MacDonald, Stuart Mackid, R. H. MacKinnon, Lee B. Martin, Charles H. McKinnon, Edward B. Nowers, Ernie Peachey, Tom Peers, Harold Pfeiffer, Herb D. Surplis, George H. Taylor, Mark Tennant, Bernard H. J. Thoms, P. A. “Pat” Thomson, Howard W. Tye, Charlie Venables, Terence Walton, Mrs. Water Chief (recording Tobacco Dance songs), and Helen Yule. There are transcripts for many of the interviews.

The collection consists of correspondence from researchers and inquirers which includes significant and substantial compilations on Metis genealogy. Includes pedigree charts, descendancy charts, family group sheets, essays, articles, and photocopied newsclippings. The files are arranged alphabetically by the names of the researchers or inquirers, and include William Frederic James Bell, Rhiannon Boardman, Jim Bowman, James D. Campbell, Mary Sandison Fox, Malcolm S. Gray, Kelly Guilmette, Jim Lavers, Gail Morin, Garnet Quigley, Tammy Rempel, and the Wylie family. Files include information on families descended from early fur trader bearing the following surnames: Auld, Bethune, Cook, Erasmus, Favell, Fellers, Gariepy, Gray, Kwaraconte, Latreille, Laurence, McKay, McKinlay, Mowat, Nepissing, Robertson, Sandison, Wylie.

The collection consists of photocopies of Métis genealogical research material collected by Burtonshaw from such sources as Library and Archives Canada, various libraries and churches, and personal contacts. Includes a complete run of "The Métis Newsletter" as well as Métis Researcher lists compiled by Burtonshaw. Burtonshaw's personal memoirs "I Remember" are included. Also includes photographs of Manitoba and Geoff's hometown of Valpoy, Barkerville and the Cariboo country of British Columbia, Fort Simpson, Hay River, Nahanni, Batoche, the Fidler family reunion, etc.

The collection consists of a database of 65,434 records of persons who were Metis ancestors. For each individual, dates and places of birth, baptism, marriage, death, and burial, and notes on sources are given if known. Using Ancestral Quest software, the data can be linked to show genealogical relationships in the form of pedigree charts and descendancy charts.

The collection consists of 28 recorded interviews with residents and former residents of Cliff Bungalow and Mission. The interviewees were: Sister Margaret Pilling, Dolores Woolrich, Berthe Miquelon, Antonia Comeault, Evelyn Bohannon, Loise Lefebvre, Carmel Despins Klassen, Theodora Holbrook, William Crawford, Jean Brews, Isobel Stevenson, James Campbell, Edmona Ryan, Hyman Belzberg, Jenny Belzberg, John Shipley, Barbara Schmeekle, John McComb, William Doherty, Jack Gallivan, Robert E. Lucy, Margaret Patterson, John A. Irvine, David Sinclair, Valerie Tait, Larry Purdy, F. John Sherlock, V. L. Doug Hawkes, Maud Hendrick, and Ethel Tarves.

The time capsule collection consists of items donated by the following senior citizens, senior's groups and homes: Bethany Care Centre; Chinese Elderly Citizen's Association; Dave Wereschuk; Alberta Family Histories Society; Father Lacombe Nursing Home; Greater Forest Lawn Senior Citizens' Society; Maria Labrecque Centre; Carewest Glenmore Park; Ogden House Senior's Club; Kerby Centre; Doris Grummeth; Steve Windlinger; Calgary Public Library; Catholic Immigration Society; Heritage Seniors; Westview Seniors; the Renoir; Calgary Board of Education, Community and Continuing Education; Village Square Senior Society.

The collection consists of essays and letters submitted by listeners, recounting their experiences of the Great Depression.

The collection consists of sound recordings of sounds of nature; the last steam train to enter Lethbridge; a cattle auctioneer at work; ceremonies for the opening of the Fort Macleod Museum; Peigan chicken dance, hand game, and hoop dance songs; stories by the naturalist and writer Andy Russell; interviews with Fred Botsford (on railway building and early telephones), Charles Croweagle (on tipi design), William Ferguson (on prairie fires), Norman Grier (on chuckwagon racing), Harry Long (on Fort Whoop-Up), Helen Mills (pioneer of Fort Macleod), James Morrison (pioneer of High River), and Marie Rose Smith (pioneer of Pincher Creek).

The collection consists of an essay, descendancy chart, and collected photographs of the Pope family.

The collection consists of a scrapbook containing copies of photographs, documents, correspondence, and genealogical charts documenting the life of Wolfgang Zoepfel.