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Fonds consists of business records of the United Grain Growers, specifically relating to the activities of Hugh Allen, a director of United Grain Growers, and to the activities of A.J. Fender who was an agent of the United Grain Growers in Camrose, Alberta and includes annual reports, notices, correspondence, radio broadcast transcripts, speeches, telegrams, memorandum, bills of lading, inventories, issues of The UFA, an Edmonton telephone directory, agricultural information bulletins, notices, copies of proceedings of the Alberta Legislative Assembly, photographs depicting an oyster shell deposit and oyster grit manufacturing buildings on the Belly River, near Glenwood, Alberta, and a grain field. Fonds also contains records pertaining to the Pinto Creek Coal Mines in Wembley, Alberta and minutes from a Canadian Trade Committee Meeting held in London in 1950.

The fonds consists of minutes of AFCEC annual general meetings (1913, 1915, 1917); minutes of UGG annual general meetings (1925-1943, 1945-1951, 1953, 1955-1956, 1958-1971); bylaws (1943); extensive scrapbooks of newsclippings about UGG, grain marketing and agriculture (1917-1962); films about cooperative organizations, farm safety, elevator construction, weed control, harvests, grain handling and other agricultural topics (1951-1957); recordings of annual meetings, John E. Brownlee addresses to agents, and UGG radio commercials (1952-1962); transcription discs of a CFAC broadcast about UGG's history (1952); photographs of executives and office staff; plans and specifications for grain elevators; and photographs of elevators, company houses and employees.