The fonds consists of records documenting Austin Mardon's academic and scholarly career and his involvement in the community. Also included are records documenting the scholarly career of Ernest Mardon and the familial relationships between Austin, Ernest, May, Mary and Teresa Mardon.

The fonds consists of Snell's notebooks, financial records, personal and professional correspondence, cash books, blueprints and survey plans. Includes material relating to his membership with the Alberta Land Surveyors Association, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the New Democratic Party. Includes correspondence, newspapers and pamphlets relating to socialist and left-wing causes

The fonds consists of a passenger list (1905); dinner menus (1905); diaries (1895-1896, 1903-1904, 1905-1906); photographs of life in Essex and Ethel Hind's 1905-1906 travels across the Atlantic and across Canada; and a biographical essay by Mary Joan Cornett (1999)

The fonds consists of Robert Dawe's field survey note books (1913-1915); diaries (1910, 1925); various publications related to surveying (1895-1904); and two photograph albums documenting the construction of the Guelph and Goderich Railway (1905-1906)

The collection includes two series. The Central Alberta Physicians Project series contains a copy of a thesis by Paul Victor Collins on public health policies of the Alberta government, 1921-1935; a book-length anthology, "Medicine in Alberta: Historical Reflections" completed in 1993 by a committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta; and other articles and a news clipping. The Hunting Hills series contains correspondence, photocopied excerpts from early explorers' reports, programs, news clippings, and articles on the identification and naming of Hunting Hills (or Hunt Hills or Hunter Hill), Antler Hill, and Horn Hill. The research on the name was undertaken in conjunction with the opening of Hunting Hills High School.

The fonds consists of family photographs of the Thomas Anson Gaetz family, including family portraits, scenes of Red Deer soldiers in World War I (1914-1919), scenes of Red Deer (1919-1934), and two photograph albums of Beau Gaetz dealing with his work in the Rocky Mountains (1914-1915)