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The collection consists of diaries, letters, memoirs, reports and other records created by these individuals involved in searches for the missing Franklin Expedition, as well as other explorers who were comtemporaries of Franklin: Sir Edward Belcher, George Brown, E.N. Kendall, W.H. Hooper, Sir Francis McClintock, Sir Erasmus Ommanney, Sir William Edward Parry, Robert Peary, John Rae, Sir John Richardson, Sir John Ross, Sir Edward Sabine, R.C. Scott, and the Canadian Department of National Defence. Also consists of Robert Hood's diaries of the 1819-1820 Franklin Expedition and photographs of original watercolours painted by Lt. Hood on this Expedition; Robert McVicar's letters; Jane Franklin's signature; and miscellaneous correspondence of Sir John Franklin. Includes Royal Geographical Society articles and documents about Franklin and the Arctic (1825-1928); and records related to the following Arctic visits: M'Clure's navigation of the Northwest Passage (1876); George Back's northern Canada overland expeditions letters (1833); J.A. Cook's whaler's log, San Francisco to Arctic (1905-1906); James W. Allan's manuscript of a whaling voyage (1893); Henry W. Fielden's Arctic voyage diary (1875-1876); O.C. Forsyth-Grant's Davis Strait whaler's log (1903); Surgeon R.H. Hilliard's diary and sketches of a voyage to the eastern Arctic and Greenland (1859); log of the HMS Herald's Bering Strait voyage (1848-1851); Knud Rasmussen's Fifth Thule Expedition letter (1922); and B Westropp's journal while on the Parry polar expedition (1824-1825).

The fonds consists of photographs of the 50th Battalion during the First World War, Ogden military hospital, Calgary, and post office staff (1925).

The fonds consists of diaries (1929-1930, 1933-1935, 1937-1960), and autograph book (1952-1954).

The fonds consists of extracts from his Aldersyde farm diary concerning economic and climatic conditions (1932-1941); literature distributed in Minnesota and Nebraska, USA, promoting Alberta homestead lands (1902-1903); High River photographs of cattle branding, brickmaking and his father, Laurence, on a bridge (1893-1898); a photograph of Senator Dan Riley at the Medicine Tree (nd); and slides of tipi rings and Cst. A. Walker (1973).

The fonds consists of personal and business papers of John T. Foster and Cliff Foster, and photographs of the family.

The fonds consists of annuity pay lists.

The collection consists of photographs of North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) at Fort Macleod and other posts. Also includes photographs taken on the Blood and Peigan reserves, and of the town of Fort Macleod, Alberta Provincial Police, and miscellaneous agricultural and ranching views.

The collection consists of drafts of family histories for Fort Macleod, Our Colourful Past; and photographs of Fort Macleod personalities, businesses, societies, and the Peigan and Blood. The following ethnic groups are also represented: Americans, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, French Canadians, Germans, Icelanders, Irish, Russians, Scots, Swedes and Welsh.

The fonds consists of W.D. Albright's articles on agricultural topics and on Peace River area history, his radio broadcasts on victory loans, photographs of the Beaverlodge Station and correspondence. Included is historical material related to the communities of Beaverlodge, Battle River, Fort St. John, Hudson Hope, Fort Vermilion, Grande Prairie, Grouard, High Prairie, Lesser Slave Lake, Pouce Coupe, Rolla, Dawson Creek, Shaftesbury, Dunvegan, Spirit River and Wanham. Also includes biographical material on the Albright family; historical reminiscences, interviews and photographs collected from the Peace River territory; material prepared for a book on the area by Albright, compiled and edited by Mrs. W.D. Albright; meteorological records; and newsclippings.
Records related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: B.K. Acton, Francois Adam, Swan G. Anderson, Anglican Church missions, Athabasca Landing, Frank W. Beatton, Beaver Indians, bee culture, William N. Bernard, Blacks, Gilbert Blake, W.F. Bredin, Frank T. Brewer, Rev. J. Gough Brick, Mrs. B.D. Brooks, Georges Bugnet, H.A. Cadenhead, Louis Callihoo, William Callihoo, Malcolm Campbell, Thomas Chisholm, C.M. Clarke, Theodore Cleland, James Kennedy Cornwall, Alex Craig, Samuel E. Cushway, William Cust, H.E. "Twelve-Foot" Davis, Ralph Dyer, J.B. Early, Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway, Edson trail, William S.O. English, Falher, F.G. Fletcher, G.V. Flint, V.C. Flint, Fort St. John, Ellsworth Foy, Walter Funnell, J.W. Frame, John A. Fraser, James Gibbons, Philip H. Godsell, Grande Prairie, William Grant, Grouard, Frank Guthrie, J.J. Haan, George Harris, High Prairie, T.W. Hill, C.F. Hopkins, Hudson's Hope (BC), William Innes, Iroquois, Dr. Mary Percy Jackson, Louis Jobin, O.H. Johnson, F.A. Johnston, Robert Jones, Mrs. Avery Kenny, Thomas Kerr, Klondike gold rush, Sheridan Lawrence, Thomas Lilac, Hillard Lyle, Alexander McDonald, Walter G. McFarlane, Mackenzie River (NWT), Dr. James Douglas Maclean, George McLeod, A.H. McQuarrie, Mennonites, Meteorology, Alex Monkman, Monkman Pass, North Star, Notekiwin, R.J. Ogilvie, Mrs. J.O. Patterson, petroleum exploration, physicians, C.O. Pool, Pouce Coupe (BC), Mary Roberts, B.C. Rolla, Mel Rossie, H.B. Round, W.D. Savage, D. Sexsmith, Gordon Sherk, W.H. Smith, William Smith, Social Credit, Soldier Settlement Board, Spirit River, Rede Stone, Robert Stone, Isaac O. Stringer, George J. Sunderman, Norman Talbot, John B. Thompson, Maud Traux, Herman Trelle, Hector Tremblay, Valhalla, Wanham, John Watson, weather forecasting, S.J. Webb, M.S. White, Mitchell Willis, N.W.T. Wrigley and George Yeomans.

The fonds consists of diaries and scrapbooks about service in the tank corps during the First World War, as transcribed by his nephew.