Fonds consists mainly of poems by Gordon Burles, 1970-2003; includes twenty-two hundred works, some with revisions. Some pertain to personalities such as Bill Peyto, Norman Sanson, Margaret Stone, Walter D. Wilcox, Walter J. Phillips, Conrad Kain and Georgia Engelhard. Also includes manuscripts, research materials and notes etc. regarding Bill Peyto, Copper Mountain Mine, Banff National Park museum and logging roads in Johnson Lake area. Photographs pertain to remains of hay rake and wagon at Vermilion Lakes, 1975 and remains of the Queen of the Hills Mine, near Silver City, 1977. CD-ROMS's contain typeset copies of manuscripts by Gordon Burles in Pagemaker, In Design and .pdf file formats. Manuscripts include "The Jagged Harmony," 2005, "An Avenue Without End," 2005, "That Perfect Elsewhere," n.d., "Much Like A Dream," 2004, "All the Universe of Sight," 2006, "Those Grand Poplars," 2004, "Lords of Many Orchards: Selected Best Poems of Gordon Burles," 2003, "That trellis of tombs: Further Selected Poems of Gordon Burles," 2004, "The Closing of Many Doors: More Poems by Gordon Burles," 2006.