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The collection pertains to Matt Berry's and Wop May's careers as bush pilots and includes copied photographs circa 1930s to the 1940s featuring Matt Berry and Wop May as well as other individuals and subjects related to air travel in northern Alberta including Frank Harley (Berry's mechanic) carrying canoes, Cranberry Portage, airplanes, airplane wrecks, Bathhurst Inlet, Harry Hayter and Curtis Robine, Patsy Xlengenberg's residence on Wilmot Island, K.V. salvage operations on Lake Athabasca, McMurray airport construction, installing floats on an airplane, hand-made carriage and track for wood hauling on Boar Island, R.H. Channing Jr., Tom McCallum, Jack Stark, construction of the Yellowknife airport, Berens River, Jack Humble, members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Bob McInnes, Frank Baragar, Bill Francis, Bob McInnes, Frank Baragar, Bill Francis, Ed Ballan (Berry's instructor), Curtis Jenny, and Ruby Henss

The fonds consists of the records used, created, and maintained by Matt Berry pertaining to his personal and business life, and his career as a pilot including agendas/itineraries, agreements, annual reports, articles, articles of association, bills of sale, boring, drilling, and trenching records, budgets, business cards, correspondence, crew lists, diaries and daily journals, employment contracts, equipment inventories, expense accounts, financial records, flight logs, geological surveys, reports, and assessments, greeting cards, hand-drawn maps, historical/biographical sketches, income tax returns, insurance policies, invitations, iron prospecting permits, leases, mining equipment catalogues, an issue of Canadian Aviation magazine, maps depicting various areas in Alberta and British Columbia and Canada, including some mining areas, Masonic pamphlets, membership lists, memorandum, mineral claims, miner's licenses, minutes, newspaper clippings, notes, option agreements, ore analysis reports, organization charts, a pictorial book of the Inuit entitled The Far North, pamphlets, partnership agreements, permits, pilot's licenses, postcards, powers of attorney, press releases, programmes, progress reports, receipts, share certificates, site plans, syndicate agreements, telegrams, trust declarations, and wedding announcements. Fonds also includes 40 negatives, 30 copy negatives, 240 photographs, and 285 copy photographs depicting various people, views, buildings, mining areas, mining equipment, airplane accidents, airplane equipment, aerial views, rescue operations, boats, camps, Inuit camps, and Berry friends and family members. The fonds divides into three series: Personal records; Pilot records; Business records.