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The fonds consists of 28 original black and white photographs, 7 photographs developed from negatives, and two pages of excerpts from letters written to his fiance. The excerpts are filed with the photographs. The photos include: Athabasca, Grand Rapids and tramway, House River, oil well drilling rigs, Pelican gas wells, and steamboats.

The fonds consists of excerpts from published books was used for research in the writing of the book "Athabasca Landing: an illustrated history". 1) excerpt from "Buffalo Jones' Forty Years of Adventure" compiled by Colonel Henry Inman, 1899. 2) excerpt from "Northland Echoes" by Doris Neeley Haralson. 3) excerpt from "The Legend of John Hornby" by George Whalley, 1962. 4) excerpt from "Ploughman of the Moon" by Robert W. Service, 1945. 5) excerpt from "Land of the Muskeg" by Somers Somerset, 1895. 6) excerpt from "Fire Canoe, Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited" by Theodore (Ted) Barris, 1977. 7) excerpt from "Grande Prairie: Capital of the Peace" by Isabel Campbell. 8) "Report on an exploration from Port Simpson on the Pacific Coast, to Edmonton on the Saskatchewan" by George M. Dawson, 1879.Geological Survey of Canada. 9) excerpt from "Lands Forlorn" by George A. Douglas, 1914. 10) excerpt from Canadian Pacific Railway Report by Sandford Fleming, 1880.Appendix 6, 13 "The Physical Character of the Prairie Region obtained from authentic sources". 11) excerpt from "A Hatchet Mark in Duplicate" by Rev. A.C.Garrioch. 12) excerpt from "Sport and Travel in the Northland of Canada" by David Hanbury, 1904. 13) excerpt from "The Barren Grounds of Nothern Canada" by Warburton Pike, 1892. 14) excerpt from "Explorations in the Far North" by Frank Russell, 1898. 15) excerpt from" David Thompson's Narrative of his explorations in Western America, 1784-1812". Edited by J.B.Tyrrell, 1916. 16) excerpt from "Tar on the Floats" by Margaret McDougall. References to Art Schumacher and Earl Wright. 17) excerpt from "Son of the North" by Charles Camsell, 1954. 18) excerpt from "In Search of a Polar Continent, 1905-1907" by Alfred H. Harrison. References to Loutit family and Von Hammerstein. 19) excerpt from "The Arctic Prairie" by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1911.

The fonds consists of periodical articles was used as research material for the book "Athabasca: an Illustrated History". 1) Outing, an international illustrated monthly magazine of Sport, Travel and Recreation. Oct-Dec, 1895. Includes a 4 part article titled "A Woman in the MacKenzie Delta" by Elizabeth Taylor. 2) Canadian Geographical Journal. May, July and August 1961. "Voyageurs Highway; the geography and logistics of the Canadian fur trade" by Eric Morse. 3) Alberta Transportation. Oct 1981. "A short history of Alberta's Riverboats" by Andy Turnbull. 4) Saint John's Edmonton Report. Aug. 2, 1976. "One man drownded, another floats". 5) Canadian Geographical Journal. Jan. 1947. "Athabasca River Transport" and "Athabaska Trail" by S.C.Ells. 6) The Trustee; Alberta School Trustees Association. 1907-1982. "My favorite trustees" by William H. Swift. He discusses Toles, Smith and Parkhurst Schools and Mr. Edwin Parr. 7) Forest Landscape: a newsletter published by Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. Sept. 2, 1993. "Homesteading's freedom carried a price" by Lillie Hagelund. 8) Royal Geographical Society. Nov. 1883. "On the Athabasca District of the Canadian North-West Territory" by Rev. Emile Petitot. Includes information on First Nations inhabitants. 9) Alberta Trails Task Force, Research Section, Historic Sites Service, Alberta Culture, 1975. "Historic Trails Report" by Anne Carscallen. 10) "The Klondyke Trail from Edmonton" by Harold Fryer. 11) Canadian Cattlemen. Nov. 1953. "Old Trails and New, from sternwheeler and pack-train to "Iron Horse" and Aeroplane" by Phillip H. Godsell. 12) New Trail, U of A. Winter, 1951. "The Athabasca Trail" by James MacGregor. 13) "Report on the drainage area of the Peace & Athabaska Rivers" by Wm. Pearce, 1908. 14) The Alberta Gold Rush News, Alberta Gold Prospectors Assoc. Spring, 2009. "Devil's Canyon Gold Mine,1918" by Mark Hayward. 15) Food For Thought. Fall, 2007. "The Rice Stuff, wild rice from farmer Wayne Ptolemy" by Wes Lafortune. 16) Canadian Geographical Journal. February, 1964. "My Home Town" by Charles Camsell. Drawings by S.C.Ells.

The collection consists of photographs of the RCMP boat "Athabasca" based in Ganges, B.C. Six Mile Stopping Place on the Athabasca River; SS Northland Echo; loading scows; aerial view of Athabasca [1970s]; newspaper photographs of James Harris Wood, William Rennison, Isaie Gagnon, Louis Fosseneuve, and Hon. Justice R. Boyle; men at a tie camp (Paul Berkey, Mr. Koster, Mr. Jameson, Eugene Sale, Ole Strome, Joe Laflamme); 1937-38 Athabasca Boy Scout troop (Ralph Noddings, Bill Calder, Ken Cocke, John Birks, Allen Fell, Fred Meadows, Bob Garton, Frank Falconer, Dale Nelson, Jim Service, Budge Jones, Frank Bergeron, Verne Lewis, -- Webb, Alec Bergeron, Donald King, Reg Bayliss); Half Moon Lake School, 1936 (Josie Kunbah, Josie Kordyban, Alexandra Smerychinski, Marian Kowalski, Katie Kordyban, Maria Kordyban, Rosy Dowhaniuk, Stephanie Kushak, Olga Komarniski, Antonnette Komarniski, Maggie Shapka, Annie Kushak, Helen Zayezierski, Josie Gerla); Revillon Brothers Store, farm implement-reaper and horses, Terence John Shank, Elmer Norman Shank, Demonstration Farm barns and house (Experimental Farm barns), Leon Soudet farm, view of Athabasca from Century Villa condominiums dated Sept. 28, 1996; 1985 Tourist Information Booth volunteers (Hazel Rein, Pearl Baker, May Webb, Steve Wasel, Joe Bortnick, Alice Donahue, Charlie Senz, Dot Evans, Laura Green, and Muriel Senz); Chris and Lyandra Elkjer; the Athabasca train station in Nov. 1912, team driver is James A. Minns who was killed during WWI. Four postcards have been added which include an aerial photo of the town, a view from the bridge of the town lights, a painting by Larry Zornes and local citizens forming the number 99 in 2010 as they look forward to the 100th anniversary in 2011. There are two postcards published by the Northern Transportation Company :whitefish from Lesser Slave Lake and a homestead on Lesser Slave Lake, a ferry at Athabasca Landing, and two photos of William and Wilhelmina (Becker) Koerner. Perryvale Central School 1947 - 49. Dog team below the bridge. View of Athabasca from the east, 1990. 95.24: Six photographs donated by Doug Kariel of the historic mail run from Athabasca to Edmonton in February, 1995 to commemorate Edmonton's Bicentennial in 1995; photos #13633-13638. 96.42: Two postcards donated by Keith Randon, Leicestershire, Eng. of Athabasca Victoria Day celebrations, May 25, 1914, of the Athabasca Town Band and a larger view of the celebrations on Litchfield Street (50th Avenue) including the new Grand Union Hotel; photo s #14183 and 14184. Photos 18664 and 18665 donated by Jody Howells which show her father and uncle threshing in Saskatchewan c.1910; 21.07, Ted Langton-Adams slides # 20496–20622; 21-11, Athabasca fire at old Home Hardware building August 11, 2021, images # 20623–20678. 13.27: Two binders of photographs of the Grosmont Community Club Garden Walk, 1998 and 2005; the images are not numbered.

The fonds consists of photographs of : 1933 aerial view of Athabasca, Alberta & Great Waterways Railway (1927), Athabasca view from across the river [1910], cable cage, ferry, scows, and Vance house.
18.06: letter written to Barbara Ashacker which tells a story about her father, RCMP Sgt. Hubert "Nitchie" Thorne.

The fonds consists of photographs of: All Saints Anglican Church Sunday School picnic; Athabasca Public School, Grade 8 class [1919]; Cecil, Jack, Laura, Marjorie, and Sid Barnott; CGIT group on a picnic, ferry in 1923, ferry shack, Cecil Fowler, Katherine Lewis, Grace Mills, Muskeg Creek bridge in 1923, Alice Pratt, Margaret Rennison, and swimming in the Athabasca River.

The fonds consists of a 1986 letter from J.G. Cote regarding the Canadian Northern Railway; material regarding the Northern Alberta Railways Company and the McKeen gasoline cars; a record of CNR yard leases in Athabasca from 1946 to 1986l; and photocopies of articles from The Hub Newspaper in Westlock, dated 1980-1990, concerning closing the rail line from Legal to Athabasca. One map shows the condensed plan and profile (rail bed elevations) of the Athabasca Subdivision of the Canadian National Railway from Morinville (mile 20.29) to Athabasca (mile 93.1) in 1976. It was originally drawn in 1938. A terrain map is part of it. The other map, dated 1959, shows only the rail bed elevations from Athabasca to NAR Junction in Edmonton.

The fonds consists of a spark plug from a power generator, the [1905-1910] illustrated General Catalog NO. 10 of the Canadian Fairbanks Company Limited, and an aerial photograph taken by Len on June 16, 2003 as he flew over the Grand Rapids on the Athabasca River.
06.28: Photo No. 20679: Ivan & Irene Stonehocker c. 1941 RCAF

The fonds consists of photographs of the Johnston family, William R. (Bill) Day's moose team, the Johnston house and bakery, and cattle boarding the ferry to cross the river. Daisy Gooding (Johnston) wrote a brief family history which includes information on the 1913 fire, 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, and life as a ferryman.

The fonds consists of photographs of the steamer Athabasca River and an unidentified steamer being built.