The fonds largely consists of the records of the Calgary Civil Liberties Association, the predecessor organization of the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre and the Alberta Civil Liberties Association. It includes minutes of board meetings and annual general meetings; general correspondence; research and position papers; files pertaining to the organization of two conferences dealing with the Charter of Rights, including minutes of organizing committees, budgets, applications for funding and final reports; and a series of case files for issues with which the CCLA was involved.

Fonds consists of executive officers' general files including correspondence, executive committee minutes, and other material, ACTLA newsletter, The Barrister, membership directories, binders of reading material prepared for participants in seminars offered by ACTLA, and photographs of some seminar activities. Arranged in four series: 1) Executive members' general files 1985-1991; 2) Newsletter, The Barrister, 1986-1995; 3) Membership directories, 1987-1992; 4) Workshop reading material, 1988-1992. The records reflect the organization's educational, networking and communiciation activities, as well as its concern with major issues facing lawyers whose adversaries in court were most often large insurance corporations.

Fonds consists of records maintained by individual executive and committee members in the course of conducting the business of the ACAA from their own places of employment. Fonds is arranged in 3 series: 1) Executive and members' manuals, minutes and incorporation documents, 2) Briefs, reports and collected reference material, and 3) Executive members' and committee chair's records. Executive members and committee chairs whose records are included here are Willard Willms, Cliff Purvis, I. Yaverbaun, E.O. (Orest) Yereniuk, Martin Elton, Gordon Falconer and Grant Nickless. Activities reflected in the records include liaison with the attorney general regarding working conditions and remuneration for crown attorneys, organization of conferences, monitoring public perceptions of crown attorneys, and other matters. Includes executive manuals, correspondence, minutes of executive meetings and annual general meetings, some committee meetings, and reports produced by the ACAA. Records of most committees established by the association are not included in this fonds, the exception being the Ways and Means Committee. The newsletter which the association distributed is also not included among the records. Fonds also includes a 1967 photograph of the inaugural meeting of crown prosecutors, prior to the establishment of the ACAA, and a photo of the hockey team. The records never formed part of a single record-keeping system.

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 annual reports 1982-85 (not a complete series), some letters of transmittal to the Attorney-General of Alberta which accompanied the reports, and audited financial statements 1973/74-1993/94. Arranged by document type, chronologically.