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The fonds consists of photos that depict members of the Smoky Lake Ukrainian community and the Smoky Lake Board of Trade. The provenance is unknown, but many of the people in the photos are identified, dates are noted on the photos, and some of the photos feature group portraits with identifying signs. Two of the photos are of Ukrainian groups and organizations, one is the Board of Trade Sports Committee, and the last features the four-piece Andrews Orchestra.

Fonds consists of a report entitled Report on Edmonton Interurban Railway Company, written by Maurice Polet, a resume, correspondence, newspaper clippings and a copied newspaper clipping, a transcript of a personal reminiscence, daily journals, poems, and post cards. Fonds also includes negatives, glass plate negatives, and photographs depicting the Polet and Boulenger families and the Boulenger homestead, as well as various people, places, and views, mainly in Alberta, including railroad construction, bridges, and stations, roads, street views, survey parties, machinery, and camps, boats, hunting, automobiles, animals, automobiles, churches, Hudson's Bay Company trading posts, and furniture. Fonds also includes photographs depicting a number of creeks, rapids, rivers, lakes, and mountains.

The fonds reflects Stochinsky's participation in the Canadian Jewish community. The fonds consists of correspondence, resolutions, and a financial statement from Congress Union of Western Canada Jews, Edmonton Branch dating from 1916-1919; proposed bylaws and bylaws of the Edmonton Jewish Community Council dating from 1962; Records of the Edmonton Zionist Council and final records, donor lists, and receipts pertaining to the United Israel Appeal dating from 1946-1955; minutes, correspondence, and the opening and closing rituals of the Herzl Lodge dating from 1955; records regarding the hiring of a cantor, correspondence, membership lists, newspaper clippings, and photographs depicting cantors, menorahs, and Yahreit tablets dating from 1952-1971; minutes, membership lists, donor lists, financial records, and correspondence from the Shaarev Tzedeck Building Fund dating from 1920-1921; correspondence, donor lists, telegrams, bank statements, and bonds from the State of Israel Bonds campaign in Edmonton, Alberta dating from 1956-1960; minutes, financial records, articles of association, bylaws, and correspondence dating from 1927- 1961; photographs of Maurice Stochinsky in military uniform, on a baseball team, on the Edmonton Talmud Torah Board of Directors, in a synagogue, and participating in various community activities dating from; and an Edmonton Jewish War Efforts Committee donor list.

The fonds includes meeting minutes of the council and of the Dames de Saint-Joachim. Also included is an early church register from the late 19th century.

Fonds consists of records pertaining to Lucien Maynard's political career, to his involvement with ACFA, and to his personal life, and includes affidavits, agendas/itineraries, almanacs, articles, blank cheques, business cards, bylaws, books, certificates of incorporation, correspondence, court transcripts, draft manuscripts, election materials, financial records, historical/biographical sketches, invitations, leases, legislation, maps, member lists, memorandum, minutes, the ACFA newspaper La Survivance, the Social Credit newspaper Today and Tomorrow, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, notices, oaths, pamphlets, petitions, plans, poems, postcards, programmes, questionnaires, radio broadcast transcripts, receipts, reports, resolutions, speeches, telegrams, various government commissions reports, voting proxies, wills, and photographs.

The collection consists of oral history interviews conducted in 1970 by M. Szymczak with Polish immigrants in Alberta. The tapes discuss the immigrant experience in Alberta, homesteading, education systems, religions, war service, and concentration camps. The fonds includes interviews with Jan Liss of Sangudo, Alberta, born in 1892 in Rodoszkowice, near Minsk; Jan Kwasniewski of Radium, British Columbia, born in 1912 in the district of Brodnica; Stanislaw Kazuro of Edmonton, Alberta born 1921 in Swieciany near Wilno, Poland; Mr. and Mrs. Urban of Edmonton born 1907 in Mokra in the district of Krakow; Waclaw Tylicki of Peace River, Alberta born in 1914 near Niburg in East Prussia; Antoni Turbiasz of Redwater, Alberta born circa 1920 in Sutowa near Lwow, Poland; Mr and Mrs. Stefan Struzynski of Redwater born in Przemyslany, near Lwow; Apolinary Wojciechowicz of Redwater born in 1904 in White Russia; Jozef Gordon of Redwater born in 1921 in Nowy Targ; Michal Grunert of Edmonton born 1900 in Krzywe in the district of Tarnopol; Mr. and Mrs. Stanislaw Czesiak born in 1952; Dr. Sefan Rusak born in 1932 in Toronto, Ontario; Andrej Prozniak of Raymond, Alberta born in 1914 near Lesko in the district of Lwow; Jan Wailewski of Lethbridge, Alberta born in 1905 near Bialystok; Mr. Marcinkowski of Barons born in 1931; Mr. and Mrs. Michal Sowinski of Taber, Alberta born in 1895 in Galicia; Feliks Sudol of Taber born Nowe Miasto; Stefan Piontek of Taber born 1903 in the district of Sandomierz; Stanislaw Marcinkowski of Taber born 1909 in Volhynia near Rowne; Stansislaw Forczak of Lethbridge born 1892 near Mielec; Josef Lukasievicz of Lethbridge born in 1896 in Janow Lubelski in the district of Lublin; Mrs. Janina Burecka of Taber born in 1927 in Bagaj in the district of Wielun; Krystyna Burecka born in 1952 in Lethbridge; and Adam Szulczewski of Lethbridge born in 1913 in Duszniki, near Szamotuly

The fonds consists of the typewritten manuscript of Le rayonnement d'une œuvre dans le nord albertain by Marie-Anna Adèle Roy. The manuscript has 108 pages of text, and 35 photographs and 3 maps illustrating the text. The manuscript is inscribed: "Collège de Gravelbourg, Section historique. En hommage!" It is composed of two parts: one, of 20 pages, with the title "Aux missionnaires et aux pionniers de La-Rivière-La-Paix", which locates the region, explains the origin of its name and tells the settling story of this part of Alberta; the other, called "Tangent", is the history of the village with the same name, founded in 1927, 300 km North-West of Edmonton. The manuscript ends the evocation of pioneers' life with the narrative of the 50th anniversary's ceremonies of the neighbour parishes Fahler, Donnelly and Girouxville on the 23rd of June, 1963.

The records relate to the running of Union Printing owned by Pierre Féguenne in Edmonton, including an inventory of the business for 1928, a list of employees for 1927--1929, a sale contract for a linotype machine, one caveat and its withdrawal, an offer for land lease, six photographs of Pierre and his wife, of the printing facilities and staff.

The records consist of the 'Diary of Victor Mercredi: Fort Chip, 1962', re-typed in English.

The fonds consists of minute books and a financial ledger created by the District Lodge No. 18 of the Vasa Order of America as well as material created by individual Alberta Lodges. The fonds has been divided into series according to the creating lodge. The fonds consists of these series: District Lodge No. 18 records, Branting Lodge 417 (Calgary) records, Norden Lodge 513 (Meeting Lake) records, Skandia Lodge 549 (Edmonton) records, Tegner Lodge 565 (Stavely) records, and Lethbridge Lodge 579 (Lethbridge) records.