The fonds consists of: history submissions regarding the family, the town of Irvine and surrounding districts, maps (11), and materials contributing to the writing of "A New Beginning" (1983-1989); images of various scenes in Irvine, Alberta.

This fonds contains records from the Canadian Land and Ranch Company and the Canadian Agricultural Coal and Colonization Company, both companies who at one time owned the 76 Ranch enterprise.

The fonds consists of: research collections (4) by /1 Gordon Drever re: "Josephsburg and Newburg" (1983) /2 Neil Ward re: inventory of historic sites in the Medicine Hat/Redcliff areas (1982) /3 David Armitage re: "Medicine Hat Residents Holding Public Office in the Years Up to and Including 1930" and "A History of Suffield, Alberta" (1984) /4 Valerie Martins re: "First Street Homes," "The Trenouth House, Irvine," "The Crawford House," "Irvine History," "Gravesite Locations in Medicine Hat," "St. Barnabas Church, Medicine Hat," "Victoria Nurses Residence, Medicine Hat" (1985-1986), paper (17 pgs) re: Hewitt/Wallace House (1987), site data form (3 pgs) re: Hewitt/Wallace House (1987), 14 photographs re: various images of the North West Mounted Police outpost at Writing-on-Stone Park. The textual records consist of: 4 research collections by /1 Gordon Drever re: "Josephsburg and Newburg": notes and documents relating to the history of the settlement of the Northern Approaches to the Cypress Hills (1983) [M83.34.1], notes about the following churches: St. Anne's Anglican Mission, Josephsburg Baptist Church, St. Peter's German-Lettish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Josephsburg), Salem Evangelical Church (Newburg), Seventh Day Adventist Church (Newburg), Newburg Church of God, and the "Dreamer" Sect (various dates) [M83.34.2];/2 Neil Ward re: inventory of historic sites in the Medicine Hat/Redcliff areas (1982) [M82.17.1] /3 David Armitage research papers (2) entitled "Medicine Hat Residents Holding Public Office in the Years Up to and Including 1930" [M84.35.2] and "A History of Suffield, Alberta" (1984) [M84.35.1] /4 Valerie Martins re: "First Street Homes" [M87.8.1], "The Trenouth House, Irvine" [M87.8.2], "The Crawford House" [M87.8.3], "Irvine History" [87.8.4], "Gravesite Locations in Medicine Hat" [M87.8.4], "St. Barnabas Church, Medicine Hat" [M87.8.6], "Victoria Nurses Residence, Medicine Hat" (1985-1986) [M87.8.7]; paper (17 pgs) re: Hewitt/Wallace House (1987) [M87.32.2]; site data form (3 pgs) re: Hewitt/Wallace House (1987) [M87.32.1]. The graphic material consists of: /1 antelope hunters camped near Writing-on-Stone Park (1897) /2 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. Man and horse-drawn wagon in the foreground. Building in background across the Milk River (undated) /3 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. View looking down the Milk River toward buildings (undated) /4 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost barracks and stable. View from atop the cliffs of Police Coulee (undated) /5 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. Taken from a distance and showing six unidentified men in front of the building (undated) /6 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost stable. Shows four unidentified officers standing in front of the building (undated) /7 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. An unidentified man is leaning against the door with a dog near him, and a buggy on the right (undated) /8 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. An unidentified officer on horseback in front of the building (undated) /9 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. An unidentified man is seated in front of the building with a dog at his side (undated) /10 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. Distant view showing two horse-drawn wagons in front of the building (undated) /11 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. View from the side of the building showing a jagged cliff face across the way (undated) /12 Writing-On-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. View of the building (undated) /13 Writing-On-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. View with an unidentified man and officer holding a dog (undated) /14 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. View of buildings with a wagon in the yard. (An enlargement of the right side of P0285.0130) (undated).

The fonds consists of images of family members and their team of oxen harnessed to two-wheel cart.

The fonds consists of: baptismal certificate for Leonard Anderson (1919); CPR Pension Booklet (1936); CPR Seniority List (1938); biographies of Anderson, Erickson, and Ibbitson families; covering letter addressed to Myra Anderson from the Canadian Pacific Archives regarding information on the Walsh C.P.R. station (1993); World War I documents regarding Stanley Ibbitson (1917-1919); thank you note from Buckingham Palace; autobiography of Stanley Ibbitson (7 pgs) (1976); Walsh history book research materials including correspondence (1934), Ibbitson family information by Marion Williams and edited by Myra Anderson, rural cemetery information, CPR station deaths of George Duburga and James Calkins, and copied Cummins Alberta land maps, an LID map of the southwestern portion of Saskatchewan (copies), a MHSD #4 map of sub division No. 2 (undated), photocopy of MH News page titled Medicine Hat Service Men's Honor Roll listing military personnel who served in WW II (June 30, 1942); history of the Salvation Army at Medicine Hat by Dorothy Linfield (1935); history titled Medicine Hat Corps - Corps History written by L.B. (1983); booklet titled 100th Anniversary of The Salvation Army in Medicine Hat (July 1999); travel brochure titled Sunny Alberta Canada Holiday Guide (April 1955); travel brochure titled This Is Alberta Canada (ca. 1950's); images of various views of Medicine Hat and the Anderson family; a book about the history of Grace Lutheran Chuch and a 50th Anniversary Pictorial Directory of Grace Lutheran Church (1953 - 2003); transcribed letter from P.J Omera (1934); photo of and article about 49th parallel marker from 1872 found in 1983.

The fonds consists of: the personal diaries/daily journals (3) of Arthur Ion, a homesteader in the British Block (1912-1941); images of the Ion family.

The fonds consists of: a collection of pre-publication draft copies, a computer disk, newspaper clippings, maps and graphs for the publication "Dinosaurs to Defense" (1981, 1987); images of various scenes at Suffield and surrounding area.

The collection consists of: a handwritten letter from Mr. B.C. McCord to Mr. Dewdney re: his ability to apply for homestead (1882).

The fonds consists of: covering letter and interview transcripts of six Buffalo Alberta pioneers: George Mercer, Jennie and Dorothy Cicon, Ted Anderson, Florence Kulyk, Walter Heiland, and Joe Kulyk, as interviewed by Buffalo School students Kendra Beck and Lisa Monkman ([ca. 1993]).

The fonds consists of: a leather bound 1st edition of "Wagon Trails and Pioneer Tales" (1993); family history submissions for those of the Vale district ([ca. 1992]); a guest book of the Historical Society (August 1, 1993) and Book Launch (November 21, 1993); and a letter and Award of Merit from Friesen Publishers ([ca. 1993]); images of the Burkland family, the Haverkamp family, and views of Medicine Hat.