Fonds consists of executive, administrative and operational records relating to the cultural activities, business licensing, promotional and tourism development functions of the Department and its predecessors. The fonds also contains records of the Alberta Agent-General's Office, which reported to the Department. The fonds is made up of correspondence, reports, studies, licensing case files, minutes and agendas of meetings of departmental committees, boards and councils, financial records, publications and a variety of Golden Jubilee commemorative material. The fonds also contains records of the Provincial Marketing Board and its wholly-owned corporate subsidiaries, Marketing Services Limited and Prairie Woolen Mills Limited. The records have been arranged into the following series. Agent-General records; Alberta Golden Jubilee Committee records; Business licensing records; Promotional film production and distribution records; Provincial Marketing Board records; Publicity records; Tourism development executive records.

Fonds consists of records created, used and maintained by the Department of Hospitals and Medical Care in the performance of the following functions:;- management and administration of hospital care programs;- planning and oversight of hospital construction and expansion of hospital facilities;- oversight of hospital administration and inspection of facilities;- administration of health care insurance programs;- planning of manpower needs for various health care professions and occupations;- provision of emergency air ambulance services;- disaster planning in regards to provincial health care facilities;- administration of research programs funded by the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund;The fonds contains correspondence, reports, various types of audit project files, insurance and health care facility billing reports, hospital board minutes, records of various departmental committees, hospital construction project files, architectural drawings of hospitals and nursing homes, research project applications, and various statistical reports. The fonds consists of two sous-fonds:;1. Alberta Hospital Services Commission sous-fonds from 1946 to 1970;2. Alberta Health Care Insurance Commission sous-fonds from 1967 to 1974;The fonds has also been arranged into the following series:;1. Emergency air and ground ambulance records from 1959 to 1978;2. Emergency health services administrative records from 1960 to 1980;3. Health Care Insurance Commission registration forms from 1981;4. Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund research project administration records from 1977 to 1982;5. Departmental committee records from 1969 to 1982;6. Federal/provincial health care agreements;7. Financial planning records;8. Health care facilities capital project records;9. Health care insurance audit case files;10. Health care insurance executive records;11. Health economics operational records;12. Health manpower planning records;13. Hospital Services Commission executive records;14. Hospital Services Commission health care facility profiles;15. Hospital Services Commission health care facility program correspondence;16. Hospital Services Commission hospital administration correspondence;17. Hospital Services Commission hospital administration projects and studies;18. Hospital Services Commission hospital board minutes;19. Hospital Services Commission hospital finance records;20. Hospital Services Commission hospital planning records;21. Hospital Services Commission nursing home insurance claim files;22. Hospital Services Commission research project files;23. Hospital Services Commission third party liability records;24. Ministerial records;25. Systems planning and development records

The fonds consists of the following series: Department of Public Works Records from 1903 to 1973; Design and Construction Division Records from 1951 to 1981; Realty Division Records from 1970 to 1981; Realty and Accommodation Division Records 1970-1979; Accommodation Services Division Records from 1970 to 1975; Contract Administration Branch Records from 1906 to 1980; Project Management Division Records from 1968 to 1980; Finance and Administration Division Records from 1954 to 1973; Executive Records, Deputy Ministers from 1947 to 1980; Executive Records, Minister of Housing and Public Works from 1947 to 1976.

The fonds consists of the following sous-fonds and series: Purchasing Agency sous-fonds from 1942 to 1983; Administrative Services Division Records from 1966 to 1975; Information Services Division Records from 1975 to 1981; Operating and Maintenance Division Records from 1969 to 1979; Supply Division Records from 1970 to 1976; and the Computing and Systems Division Records from 1964 to 1978.

Fonds consists of executive, administrative and operational records of the department created through the performance of the following activities:

• planning and policy development for the health care system in Alberta
• program development
• consulting services to and oversight of health units
• oversight of the Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan
• administration of operating and capital grants to hospitals
• performing research on a number of issues related to health care and the health care system
• provision and administration of programs to mentally and physically handicapped adults
• administration of nursing aide training programs
• communications and public relations
• evaluation and development of information management systems for the department
• financial and human resources administration for the department
• participation in inter-departmental and inter-governmental boards, councils, and committees relating to health care

. 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 relating to a wide variety of departmental programs. The fonds also contains records from the Alberta Hospitals in Ponoka and Edmonton, mental health care facilities at Raymond and Clareview, mental health clinics, Rosehaven Home for the Aged, and the Nursing Aide Training School. The fonds is made up of executive, administrative and operational records, including correspondence, case, and subject files; records of program, branch, departmental, interdepartmental, and intergovernmental committees, including minutes, agendas and reports; policy and position papers; forms; financial and budget records; various types of audit files and reports; planning papers; annual reports; statistical reports; farm accounts; annual reports and audited financial statements of hospitals and health units; hospital budgeting records; a variety of types of hospital statistics and reports; vital statistics certificates and name indices; registers of births, marriages, deaths and burials; research project case files and proposals; air ambulance flight logs; ward books from various provincial facilities; petitions; test data; specimen survey responses; database documentation; blueprints and plans; maps; video recordings of public hearings; and various audio-visual material related to health education and promotion. The records have been arranged into the following series:;Accounts and vaccination ledgers from 1924 to 1963 Provincial Mental Institute Edmonton administrative records from 1956 to 1962 Coordinated Home Care program records from 1973 to 1988 Public health education and promotion records from [192-] to 1982 Speech pathology and audiology programs posters from [ca. 1970] to [ca. 1980] Tuberculosis program administrative records from 1950 to 1956 Hospital district petitions from 1916 to 1920 Provincial Mental Hospital Ponoka administrative and operational records from 1923 to 1961 Rosehaven Home for the Aged daily patient change reports from 1961 to 1965 Rosehaven Home for the Aged administrative records from 1947 to 1965 Municipal engineering records from 1931 to 1965 Nursing aide training records from 1962 to 1966 Polio treatment services records from 1954 to 1965 Emergency air and ground ambulance records from 1959 to 1987Provincial Board of Health minutes from 1944 to 1985 Provincial Board of Health operational records from 1972 to 1986 Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund research project administration records from 1978 to 1986;Alberta Aids for Daily Living/Extended Health Benefits program operational records Alberta Health Care Insurance operational subject files Child health care programs operational records Cleft palate and amputee services records Communicable disease control programs records Community health nursing reports Community mental health services operational records Community social services programs operational records Corporate development studies and projects Corporate services executive records Dental health programs operational records Department administrative records Department executive records; Department financial records Departmental regulations Early Intervention Program operational records Emergency health services administrative records Environmental health programs administrative and general operational records Environmental health emergency response programs operational records Environmental health food safety programs operational records Environmental health water protection programs operational records Executive correspondence administration records Family health services administrative records Family health programs operational records Family planning program records Finance and administration executive records Financial planning records Handicapped registry Health care facilities administration operational records Health care facilities capital project records Health care facilities equipment acquisition records Health care facilities legal matters operational records Health care facilities programs and services administration records Health care insurance administrative records Health care insurance executive records Health economics administrative records Health economics operational records Health manpower planning records Health policy and planning executive records Health policy development operational records Health program development executive records Health protection and promotion operational records Health services programs administrative records Health services executive records Health unit finance records Health workforce survey program records Hospital annual returns Hospital annual returns analysis project records Hospital board minutes Hospital district petitions Hospital finance operational records Hospital laboratory facilities records Hospital services administrative records Hospital services executive records Hospital services policy and planning records Hospital radiology facilities records Long term care program administration records Management support records Medical workforce development records Mental health administrative records Mental health care centres administrative records Mental health community clinic client records Mental health executive records Mental health general operational records Minister of Hospitals and Medical Care papers Municipal nursing operational records Notifiable diseases physicians' reports Nursing workforce development records Nutrition programs records Occupational health and safety executive records [DM, Occupational Health] Planning and policy development records Poison control programs records Policy advisory committee operational records Practition services executive records Program and facilities planning records Program evaluation and review operational records Program planning studies and projects Public communications records Public health education audio-visual material Public health executive records Rehabilitation programs administrative and operational records Rheumatic fever treatment program records Sexually transmitted disease control programs records Special health services records Speech pathology and audiology programs operational records Systems planning and development records Urban Hospitals Project operational records Vital statistics certificates Vital statistics name index books Vital statistics registers.

The fonds consists of Aboriginal Affairs records from 1991 to 1993; Centennial Branch records (originally from the Department of the Provincial Secretary) from 1965 to 1967; Communication records from 1980 to 1994; Department operational records from 1950 to 1993; Deputy Minister records from 1971 to 1990; Ottawa Office records from 1945 to 1972; Tokyo Office records from 1969 to 1979.

The fonds consists of records created by the Department in performing the mandated activities of providing public relief, administering various pension and grant programs, and conducting civil defence support activities. The records have been arranged into two series:;1. Public welfare cheques from ca. 1955 to ca. 1961 ;2. Emergency civil defence administrative and operational records from 1950 to 1965.

The fonds consists of the following series: Accounting records from 1953 to 1972; Alberta Forest Service operational records from 1924 to 1950 and 1955 to 1967; Department of Lands and Mines records from ca. 1900 to 1949; Department of the Interior (Lumber) Mill Return Registers for Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia from 1909 to 1927; Departmental files from 1970 to 1972; Department-related reports and surveys from 1910 to 1971; Dominion Land Administration records from 1885 to 1937; Dominion Land Surveyors' reports from 1922 to 1924; Eastern Rockies Forest Conservation Board records from 1948 to 1973; Land Administration records from ca. 1885 to 1973; Organizational and Procedural records from 1968 to 1974; Technical Division maps, plans and diagrams from 1894, 1900 and 1920 to 1973; Timber Exploration on the North Saskatchewan River West of 144 Meridian (surveyor's sketchbook) from 1880.

The fonds consists of two series: Accounts records from 1961 to 1962; and Mines Inspectors records from 1888 to 1965, predominantly 1910 to 1960.

The fonds consists of the following series: Maintenance Branch Records from 1941 to 1962; Building Branch Records from 1905 to 1950; Building Maintenance Branch Records from 1905 to 1930; Maintenance and Construction Records from 1957; William A. Fallow Executive Records from 1935 to 1947; Alex Ross Executive Records from 1921 to 1925; Oran L. MacPherson Executive Records from 1937 to 1939; Frederick C. Colborne Executive Records from 1957 to 1962; Duncan B. MacMillian Executive Records from 1949 to 1950; S. E. Kenworthy Executive Records from 1965 to 1968; Utilities Branch Records from 1938 to 1967; Design and Construction Division Records from 1905 to 1970; Physical Plant Division Records from 1924 to 1975; Accounts Branch Records from 1952 to 1975; and Personnel Branch Records from 1937 to 1971.