Fonds consists of these series: I Community service (1949- 1968). Includes correspondence and minutes relating to the Edmonton Symphony Society, First Presbyterian Church, Friends of the University of Alberta, and Stratford Shakespearian Festival Foundation. II Correspondence (1916-1975). Relates to family; friends in academic life; art; the military; politics. III Essays (1918-1973). IV Family (1888-1969). Includes account books; clippings; publications of Samuel Walters Dyde; shopping list for mother's wedding, 1888. V Glass slides [19þ]. Consists of 132 items on various topics, mainly historical. VI Honours (1883-1956). Includes certificates and diplomas awarded to Henry Alexander and Samuel Walters Dyde. VII Investments (1956-1970). Includes agreements; bank statements; cash books; maps; minute books; share registers; tax notices. VIII Maps [19þ]. Consists of 91 items relating to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the United States, and Europe. IX Military service,1914-1918 (1914-1965). Includes handbooks; memorabilia; notebooks; reunion. X Military service, 1939-1945 (1939-1945). Includes clippings; background papers; dispatches; expense accounts; maps; memoranda; notebooks; obituaries; regulations; reports; scrapbooks; speeches; statistics. XI Notebooks (1921-1969). Relates to the preparation of essays, lectures, and speeches. XII Personal (1921-1975). Includes birth certificate; business cards; passports. XIII Photographs and sketches (1883-1971). Includes 129 photographs relating to Canadian and British political leaders, Mr. Dyde's family, Oxford, Royal Commission on Prices, World Wars I and II; six sketches by Mr. Dyde and others. XIV Political activities (1934-1968). Includes clippings, correspondence, diaries, notices, programs, and speeches relating to the Alberta and National Liberal Associations, Canadian Pacific and Trans-Canada Airlines, elections, Pineridge Liberal Summer School, Study Conference on National Problems, and the U.N. Summer School on International Law and Peace. XV Property (1963-1974). Includes agreements; memoranda; receipts; tax notices. XVI Royal Commission on Prices (1948-1949). Includes minutes; reports. XVII Speeches (1938-1946). Includes clippings; correspondence. XVIII University interests (1964-1969). Includes correspondence and publications relating mainly to Trent University.