Consist of several sous-fonds and series. Records that fall outside the date of founding which were created by the Agricultural Department of the North West Territories have been incorporated into this fonds. The sous-fonds include: Alberta Agricultural Development Corporation sous-fonds from 1957 to 1993; Alberta Agricultural Products Marketing Council sous-fonds from 1965 to 1991; Alberta Crop Insurance Corporation sous-fonds 1964-1969; Alberta Hail and Crop Insurance Corporation sous-fonds from 1969 to 1994; Alberta Women's Bureau sous-fonds from 1928 to 1935; Alberta Women's Institute sous-fonds from 1915 to 1929; and the Irrigation Council sous-fonds from 1921. The series include: Animal Industry Records from 1905-1988; Finance and Administration Records from 1959 to 1979; Rural Development from 1906 to 1985; Deputy Minister Records from 1919 to 1991; Ministerial Records from 1954 to 1984; Marketing Services Records from 1967 to 1993; Grain Commission from 1938 to 1983; Central Program Support from 1985 to 1995; Communications Records from 1970 to 1976; Plant Industry Records from 1941 to 1997; Processing Records from 1972 to 1987; Dairy Records from 1890 to 1981; Economic Services from 1962 to 1988; Personnel Records from 1906 to 1974; Planning Secretariat from 1970 to 1985; Animal Health Records from 1948 to 1958; Wheat Board Monies Trust Records from 1927 to 1975; Research Records from 1977 to 1991; Farmer's Advocate of Alberta from 1972; Policy Secretariat from 1952 to 1990; International Marketing Export Agency Records from 1971 to 1976; Alberta Land Use Forum Records from 1973 to 1977; Agricultural Societies Records from 1987 to 1960.

Fonds consists of records created, used and maintained by the Department through the performance of the following activities:;management and administration of the health care system as a whole;administration of mental health services;administration of the Vital Statistics Act. The records have been arranged into the following series:;1. Rosehaven Home for the Aged patient records from 1964 to 1977;2. Vital statistics registers from 1895 to 1987;3. Eugenics board case files from 1925 to 1971;4. Eugenics board minutes from 1929 to 1972;5. Eugenics board administrative records from 1929 to 1972

Fonds consists of records of the department created through the performance of the following mandated activities:;providing career counselling services, including information, counselling, planning and testing services to assist individuals in making career choices,;providing employment placement and training services,;administration and operation of Alberta Career Development Centres,;identifying present and future workplace skills requirements,;recruiting from outside the province workers with skills identified as those in which the province's workforce is deficient,;providing employment, training, and settlement services to immigrants,;providing resettlement counselling services to Albertans,;providing skills training programs and coordinating private provision of skills training,;certifying individuals engaged in trades designated under Part 3 of the Manpower Development Act,;performing research on the Alberta labour market, composition of the province's workforce, and skills needs of the province's economy in support of planning and policy and program development,;creating and administering special manpower development programs and projects for the unemployed and individuals with special training needs,;creating information management systems to support apprenticeship training and tradesman certification programs,;performing strategic planning functions, and;performing financial and other administrative support services. The fonds includes records of the Deputy Minister's office, the offices of various Assistant Deputy Ministers, and various divisions and branches of the department. The fonds is made up of administrative and operational records, including correspondence and subject files, samples of various types of case files containing application forms, testing results, counselling notes and application assessments, records of departmental, interdepartmental, and intergovernmental committees and task forces, including minutes, agendas and reports, information systems manuals, policy and position papers, briefing notes and issues books, forms, licenses and certificates, contracts and agreements, registers of apprenticeship contracts, requests for decision, planning papers, statistical reports, reference material, publications, and press releases. The records have been arranged into the following series (many continue from Department of Advanced Education and Manpower series):;Apprenticeship contract registers;Career centres administrative records;Career Development Centre Calgary sample client case files;Career Development Centre Edmonton sample client case files;Career Development Centre Hinton sample client case files;Career Development Centre Red Deer sample client case files;Career Development Centre St. Paul administrative records;Career Development Centre Whitecourt administrative records;Career planning and job search training videocassettes;College program development records;Communications and public relations records;Counselling and relocation services sample client case files;Department executive records;Employment Initiatives Programs sample client case files;Program delivery administrative records;Hire-a-19Student Program administrative and operational records;Immigration and settlement services administrative and general operational records;Manpower services executive records;Personnel administrative records;Personnel grievance records;Special manpower programs administrative records;Systems development records;Training and employment programs administrative records;Training and employment programs sample client case files;Training and employment programs task force records;Program planning administrative records;Vocational training programs development records

Fonds consists of records created, used and maintained by the Department of Culture, Youth and Recreation in the performance of the following functions. Creation and administration of cultural development programs, including programs providing support to public libraries, and organizations and individuals involved in the performing and visual arts ; Administration of youth programs, including support of provincial 4-H associations and volunteer services ; Administration of programs supporting recreational development;Operation of the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium;The fonds contains correspondence, reports and statistics, minutes and agendas of various committees, and a salary register. The records have been arranged into the following series. Cultural development administrative and operational records;Ministerial records;Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium salary register;Stony Plain regional recreation development records;Youth programs administrative and operational records

The fonds consists of two sous-fonds, the Alberta Petroleum Marking Commission sous-fonds and the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board sous-fonds, and the following series: Alberta Electric Energy Marketing Agency records from 1981 to 1992; Alberta Oil Sands Equity records from 1972 to 1983; Alberta Petroleum Incentives Program administrative records from 1982 to 1988; Assistant Deputy Minister records from 1952 to 1994; Communications records from 1986 to 1995; Corporate Records Management records from 1989 to 1994; Deputy Minister records from 1947 and 1952 to 1994; Finance and Administration records from 1978 to 1991; Fish and Wildlife operational records from 1958 to 1988; General Services records from 1880 to 1988; Human Resources records from 1988; Energy Policy records from 1947 to 1992; Mineral Resources operational records from 1882 to 1995; Mineral Revenues records from 1898 to 1991; Mining General Land records from 1910 to 1978; Public Lands records from 1930 to 1992; Strategic Resources records from 1959 to 1988; Suffield Evaluation Committee records from 1941 to 1985; Sustainable Energy Development records from 1948 to 1994.

The fonds consists of three sous-fonds, one sous-sous-fonds and numerous series. The sous-fonds include the Land Conservation and Reclamation sous-fonds, the Water Resources Commission sous-fonds, the Sustainable Development Co-ordinating Council and its Conservation and Utilization Committee sous-sous-fonds. The series include: Accounts records from 1964 to 1977; Accounts Trust Fund records from 1931 to 1977; Air Quality Control Industrial Sites photographs from 1971 to 1981; Air Quality Control records from 1948 to 1988; Alberta Forest Service Forest Land Use records from 1983 to 1992; Alberta Forest Service Program Support records from 1964 to 1992; Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Research Program records from 1973 to 1980; Assistant Deputy Minister records from 1935 to 1995; Bureau of the Interior Irrigation Office records from 1885 to 1930; Chemicals Assessment and Management Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment records from 1981 to 1990; Communications records from 1971 to 1990; Departmental specimen contract records from 1976 to 1990; Department of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife ledgers from 1985 to 1986; Department of Recreation and Parks Financial Services administration records from 1976 to 1990; Deputy Ministers records from 1948 to 1995; Design and Construction agreement and arrangement records from 1973 to 1985; Design and Construction Capital City Recreation Parks project records from 1974 to 1984; Design and Construction committee records from 1975 to 1983; Development and Operations records from 1985 to 1989; Director of Environmental Health Services correspondence records from 1930 to 1971; Dr. W.R. Trost's (Chairman of Environment Conservation Authority) records from 1973 to 1984; Environment Council of Alberta records from 1958 to 1994; Environmental Assessment Committee records from 1976 to 1977; Environmental Assessment contracts from 1977 to 1983; Environmental Assessment Land Use records from 1972 to 1994; Environmental Assessment records from 1993 to 1994; Environmental Coordination Services records from 1920 and 1939 to 1971, predominantly 1950 to 1971; Environmental Protection Services operational records from 1968 to 1976; Financial Planning and Operations records from 1936 to 1993; Fish and Wildlife Enforcement records from 1973 to 1993; Fish and Wildlife Habitat protection and development records from 1928 to 1992; Fish and Wildlife regional records from 1961 to 1994; Fish and Wildlife/Natural Resource Services Program Support records from 1950 to 1995; Fisheries Management records from 1944 to 1994; Forest Management records from 1908 to 1997; Forest Protection records from 1964 to 1994; Groundwater Protection operational records from 1957 to 1988; Human Resources records from 1983 to 1993; Industrial Wastes and Groundwater Protection Deepwell Disposal and Storage records from 1956 to 1988; Industrial Wastes Hazardous Waste Disposal Manifest records from 1982 to 1987; Information Technology records from 1985 to 1989; Interdepartmental Relations Division records from 1970 to 1976; Land Administration records from 1951 to 1992; Land and Forest Environment Training Centre records from 1952 to 1995; Land and Forest Foothills Forest Area records from 1962 to 1996; Land and Forest Program Support records from 1979 to 1995; Land Reclamation records from 1960 to 1994; Municipal Engineering Municipal Sanitary Survey records from 1973 to 1975; Office Support Services Mail Room Policy and procedure records from 1972 to 1976; Personnel and Organization Development records from 1977 to 1981; Pesticide Chemicals Eurasian Water Milfoil Program records from 1978 to 1984; Pesticide Management Biting Fly Control program from 1972 to 1992; Pesticide Management Licensing and approval records from 1970 to 1989; Pesticide Management permit records from 1964 to 1985; Pesticide Management records from 1963 to 1989; Planning Division Peace Athabasca Delta Study Task Force records from 1971 to 1982; Pollution Control committee records from 1969 to 1987; Pollution Control Source Monitoring Program records from 1983; Pollution Control special studies records from 1982; Professional Institute of Public Service of Alberta Executive Committee from 1955 to 1972; Provincial Parks regional office records from 1946 to 1994; Public Involvement records from 1983 to 1994; Public Lands' Patented Quarter Section Land description records from 1913 to 1992; Recreation and Protected Areas records (includes Provincial Parks) from 1911 to 1993; Recreation Development records from 1983 to 1992; Research Management records from 1971 to 1988; Resource Data Land Related Information Systems project records from 1985 to 1991; Resource Data records from 1983 to 1994; Standards and Appeals Division records from 1972 to 1989; Standards and Appeals Division terminated project application records from 1956 to 1984; Strategic and regional support records from 1945 to 1994; Technical Services committee records from 1959 to 1990; Technical Services Land Survey notes from 1953 to 1965; Timber Management Manning Ranger Station Timber License and Permit records from 1965 to 1977 and 1989 to 1996; Timber Management Regional sawmill records from 1955 to 1992; Waste Management records (includes hazardous and industrial) from 1970 to 1989; Wastes and Chemicals committee records from 1975 to 1989; Wastes and Chemicals Recycling project records from 1976 to 1990; Water Quality Control incident and complaint records from 1956 to 1974; Water Resources Administration records from 1919 to 1987; Water Resources Administration Water Rights records from 1880 to 1990; Water Resources Commission records from 1983 to 1988; and Wildlife Management records from 1966 to 1992.

The fonds consists of the following series: Accounts records from 1928 to 1983; Alberta Forest Service Forest operational records from 1942 to 1975; Calgary Mining recorder records from 1910 to 1934 and 1946 to 1981; Department of Lands and Forests records from 1914 to 1969; Department of Mines and Technical Surveys (Canada) National Topographical maps from 1953 to 1973; Department of the Interior Mineral and Land records from 1871 to 1968; Departmental Maps from 1950 to 1954, 1962, and 1965 to 1974; Department-related reports and photographs from 1880 to 1977; Dominion and Alberta Land Surveyors' field notebooks from 1873 to 1979; Dominion Surveyors' correspondence files from 1879 to 1931; Eastern Rockies Forest Conservation Board records from 1947 to 1972; Fish and Wildlife records from 1979, 1981; Foreign Ownership of Land Administration records from 1975 to 1977; General Services records from 1906 to 1975; Human Resources Development Authority records from 1938 to 1975; Land Administration records from 1883 to 1982; Lands Agencies' records, 1885 to 1897 and 1910 to 1937; Mineral Resources records from 1931 to 1975; Organization and Procedures general records from 1971 to 1974; Personnel records from 1968 to 1971; Policy Analysis and Planning records from 1930 to 1964 and 1981 to 1984; Program Co-ordination records (from Alberta Syncrude Equity) from 1966 to 1975; Surveying and Mapping records from 1879 to 1978; Technical Division records from 1898 to 1976.

The fonds consists of the following series: Alberta Forest Service Forest operational records, 1951-1988; Department of the Interior Traverse Plot plans, 1913-1930; Dominion and Alberta Land Surveyors' field notebooks, 1882-1984; Fish and Wildlife records, 1882-1985; Land Administration records, 1882-1988; Land Survey Irrigation traverses and level books, ca 1895-1973; Surveying and Mapping records, 1880-1989.

The fonds consists of the following series: Construction Branch 1905 to1967; Equipment Branch 1932 to 1957; Motor Vehicles Branch 1951 to 1971; Maintenance Branch 1954 to 1959; and Department of Public Works, Highways Branch [ca. 1930] to 1950.

The fonds consists of the following series: Executive Records from 1982 to 1983 and Financial Assistance Division from 1913 to 1985.