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The fonds consists of the Gulf Canada Resources Inc. community impact assessment of Wabasca and Pelican areas prepared by Strong, Hall & Associates. The purpose of the report is to establish a comprehensive data base and to assess community impacts associated with the closure of Gulf's existing Wabasca pilot plant and with the construction and operation of their proposed Pelican pilot plant. The study area incorporates the communities of Wabasca, Desmarais, and Sandy Lake, the Indian Reserves and contiguous areas.

The fonds consists of genealogical charts, clippings from Athabasca newspapers, and a Hudson's Bay Company service record. One photograph shows an elderly Magnus Brown, the other is a photograph of Magnus' grandson, George Magnus Wright (1910-1976).

The fonds consists of a 16 page typed biography of Peter Erasmus by an unidentified author; correspondence between Peter Erasmus and lawyer A.H.Gibson regarding homestead applications and Alberta Old Age Pension; A.H.Gibson correspondence with D.E.Cameron, librarian at the University of Alberta, and Rev. W.H.Day of Goodfish Lake re: photographs for a MacLeans magazine article on Peter Erasmus; and a letter of condolence to David Erasmus on the death of his father, Peter, from A.H.Gibson. The photographs are of A.H.Gibson and his wife in Whitehorse in 1957, and Peter Erasmus and a dog dated Oct.23, 1929. There are 4 newspaper articles from the July, 1985 Vancouver Sun regarding George Erasmus being elected grand chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Unrelated correspondence is between lawyers A.H.Gibson, W.J.Shortreed, and Harold Dean.

The fonds consists of materials created by the Calling Lake Interagency Meeting between 1981 and 1983. The fonds consists of minutes of the Calling Lake Interagency Meeting, correspondence, and newsletters (1982-1983) of Education North, a cooperative project between teachers and community residents to develop activities to meet the needs of children in northern communities.

The fonds consists of materials created by Ken Sutton of Calling Lake, Alberta between 1968 and 1994. The fonds consists of photocopied pages of Mr. Sutton's diary concerning a 1968 forest fire, and personal reminiscences of events that occurred during his work life. There is also a photograph of a McCormick-Deering threshing machine taken on Ken's father's farm west of Alcomdale in the 1920s. Other photographs were taken at Calling Lake and include Treaty Day 1964, the first Sutton home, the Mennonite Church, the Post Office, Moose Horn Market, and the aftermath of the 1984 tornado in the Big Coulee area. Doris Sutton took a photograph of the 1966-68 archeological dig at Calling Lake which was headed by Dr. Gruhn. She also made postcards of some of her photographs, and molded animals from Athabasca clay.

The fonds consists of 6 sheets of the history of the Mennonite Voluntary Service units in Calling Lake written by Millie Glick and Hilda Crawford (Eby). A list of the personnel is included.

The fonds consists of the report of the Joint Metis-Government Committee to review the Metis Betterment Act and Regulations.

The fonds consists of 2 articles from the RCMP Quarterly and a patrol report by Constable Thorne dated Dec. 1914; copies of 113 B&W photographs and negatives taken during his years of service with the RCMP in the North West Territories and 60 original negatives, from a Kodak negative album, including negatives for 2 photographs taken in 1922 of people during the Nahanni Gold Rush (including Alvah and Hubert Thorne and Poole Field) , scenes at Mud Lake, George Bremner, Thorne at the Edmonton RNWMP barracks, photographs of Fort Simpson and Rae, airplanes, children at the Roman Catholic mission at Providence, and a group of mounties at Jasper.

The fonds consists of a 10-page article written by Kathleen Stafford entitled: Life in a one-room school; and a 1985 interview with Kathleen and Leo Noddings by Frank Falconer which includes subjects: Chief Baptiste, Baptiste Lake Trail, Crystal Lodge, Wm.Dent, a French club, gas wells, Syd Mearon, and motion picture theatres.

The fonds consists of photographs of the Lewis family and buildings in Athabasca including: Alberta Government Telephone office interior [1944], Tony Anderson, Artona Studio, Les Atkinson (1935), Atkinson's Garage (Northern Garage), Athabasca Bridge official opening (June 9, 1952), Calling Lake First Nations at the bridge opening, Canadian Northern Railway depot in 1914, Demonstration Farm, dog team on Strathcona Street after 1914, freighting, Laff Fritzer, Jean Baptiste Gambler (1952), grain elevators, Hudson's Bay Co. store, Lewis homestead [1913], George Seymour Lewis, Walton Lewis (1915), William Harper Minns, St. Matthew's Anglican Church (1948), Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 103 (unveiling soldier's memorial in 1932, veterans on Armistice Day 1934, 1935, 1938, 1948), Tom Simmertz (1929), Tutty Lumber Company. The fonds also contains a letter granting Walton Lewis homestead entry dated 6 April, 1922 and a card from the Soldier's Settlement Board.