Fonds consists of records generated in the course of municipal business by the City Clerks office and Council, including the provision of public safety, health and welfare and in the execution of public works, the licensing and the zoning of land, tax collection, assessment, and the administration of elections. Records include the City of Coquitlams bylaws, correspondence, regular and executive council minutes and their indexes, Council committee minutes, security dockets composed of legal documents, public hearing minutes; city managers reports to Council.

The fonds consists of records pertaining to the development and administration of the Como Lake Preschool from its inception in 1952 through to its dissolution in 2011. The fonds consists of committee meeting minutes, administrative records, newsletters, procedural handbooks, photographs, promotional materials, and a leather-bound history of the preschool.

The fonds consists of three police log books dated 1914, 1915, and 1918.

The fonds consists of photographs taken as part of real estate appraisals in Coquitlam.

The fonds consists of minute books, a ledger book, loose minutes, correspondence, an insurance policy, financial statements covering the period 1932-1951, Annual Reports from 1933-1950, loose meeting minutes from 1953, and an empty membership book.