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The fonds consists of images taken during David Neil Allison's trip up the Athabasca and Mackenzie Rivers in Alberta dating from 1912-1913. The fonds includes images First Nations Peoples, towns, settlements, missions, industry, and the North West Mounted Police. The fonds also includes correspondence related to the financial activities of the Appleton School District No. 2818, and a farmer's handbook dating from 1913 to 1924.

The fonds consists of diaries of travel and observations in western Canada.

The collection consists of an archival inventory of the David Thompson journals held at the Archives of Ontario and exploratory notes on the inventory prepared by the Archives of Ontario circa 1968.

The fonds consists of a typescript of his article, "A Journey over the Plains from Fort Benton to Bow River and Back", which includes descriptions of the country passed through, bull train travel, Fort Macleod, Fort Calgary, the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), native peoples, a sun dance, buffalo hunters, whiskey traders, a prairie fire, and the surrender of Sitting Bull at Fort Buford, Montana. Includes an 1895 photograph of the Faculty of Comparative Medicine at McGill.

Fonds consists of three series : I. Diaries, 1902-1963, 44 v of textual records; II. Scrapbooks, 1910-1933, 2 v. of textual records; III. Other material, [1946-1947], 4 items. Diaries pertain to early life in Ontario and Alberta, service as a surveyor in India, service with the Royal Engineers in France and Mesopotamia, 1915-1918, trips on leave from India to Canada, U.S.A., England, South Africa, Asia, south Pacific, and New Zealand. Diaries also detail ACC camp preparations and activities, travel to and from Banff, clubhouse work; travel details, daily activities and accounts of climbs in France and Scotland; trans-Atlantic and trans-Canada voyage; Alpine Club of Canada Vermilion Camp activities; Strathcona, Vancouver Island reconnaissance trip and climbs; travels to California, Hawaii and Japan: travel from Los Angeles to Canada, through British Columbia to Banff; ACC camp at Glacier, B.C. trip from India to Canada; life in Banff; trips and ACC camps in the Rockies, Selkirks and Kootenay district; ACC activities and operations; travels in the Okanagan, Kootenays and Columbia Valley, BC. Also included in this series are two diaries of his wife Dorothea. Scrapbooks pertain to school life, military training, surveyor's training; Alpine Club of Canada activities and lecture activities; military career, 1910-1919; surveying and mountaineering activities; Mount Everest expedition of 1921. Other material consists of items found loose in the 1946-1948 diaries, including letter written on board ship from Asia to the United States, 1947; photographs of unidentified women, 2 items; and postcard of Vancouver City Hall

Fonds pertains to Earl Spencer, friends, associates, activities, including hunting, skiing and mountain travel. Includes views of Glacier area, B.C., Skoki area and Mount Norquay ski area, near Banff.

The fonds consists of Joseph's diary (1887) of his trip from England to Calgary. He subsequently used the same notebook to record details of his quarrying and building contractor business in Calgary (1889-1897). The fonds also consists of Albert's diaries (1900-1907), Joseph Jr.'s First World War letters (1916) [photocopies only], miscellaneous programs, and photographs of Red Deer Lake School (1920).

The fonds consists of five postcards featuring images of the Blairmore, Alberta area, four postcards featuring images of the Turner Valley oilfields, and one postcard featuring images of the Lethbridge Canadian Pacific Railway Viaduct. The postcards date from 1913 to 1919.

Fonds consists of tourist films taken at Banff and in Yoho National Park. Consist mainly of pans of mountains based on the roadside or while driving. First film includes Bow Falls, Bow Valley, Banff Springs Hotel, Moraine Lake, Castle Mountain and Takakkaw Falls, and includes brief shots of a man with a Graflex camera, cars on the Bow River Bridge and people feeding a bear; length ca.400 feet. Second film pertains to the Banff Springs Hotel, Lake Minnewanka, Bow Falls and Bow Valley, Lake Louise and an Indian family; length ca.300 feet.

The collection cosists of personal histories, maps, school assignments, and articles on the history of the Edson - Grande Prairie Trail.