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This fonds consists of notebooks, minute books, accounts, and other records of John Walter's business operations, including trading, river ferry and lumbering. Also included are photocopies of documents provided by the Walter family. In addition, this fonds contains 27 photographs provided by the Walter family.

The fonds consists predominantly of material relating to Mickey Macdonald's acting career, Alan Fraser Macdonald's legal and military career, and his involvement in community organizations, as well as their family life. The records include theatre programmes, correspondence, personal notes and writings, news clippings, and photographs.

To a lesser extent there are also records relating to other members of the extended Macdonald-Clifton families, particularly John Kenneth Macdonald and Therese Fraser Holland (Alan's parents), Henry Frances Holland and Selina Fraser (Alan's maternal grandparents), Faith Clifton (Mickey's mother), Bruce Fraser Macdonald (Alan's brother), Vernis McCuaig (Mickey's sister), and Brian Macdonald (Mickey and Alan's son).

The fonds has been arranged into series:
Series 1 – John Kenneth Macdonald & Therese Fraser Holland
Series 2 – Donald Walter Macdonald
Series 3 – Henry Francis Holland & Selina Fraser
Series 4 – Faith Clifton
Series 5 – Mickey Macdonald
Series 6 – Alan Macdonald
Series 7 – Bruce Fraser Macdonald
Series 8 – Vernis Clifton McCuaig
Series 9 – Brian Macdonald
Series 10 – General Theatre

This fonds contains an Edmonton Fire Department Souvenir book from 1908, a constitution and by-laws of the fire brigade of the Town of Edmonton, a promotional Examination for the Chief of the Fire Department, a Fireman seniority list, newspaper clippings, and one Vote No! cloth banner (1920).

This fonds contains 4 scrapbooks related to Vincent Dantzer's career as a politician and his tenure as the mayor of the City of Edmonton. This fonds also includes gifts to Dantzer as mayor, notes on a visit to Japan, magazine articles dealing with civic politics in Edmonton, and other ephemera.

This fonds contains material from Hazel Strang-McCardell's music career, including song books, sheet music, and music books. Material also included some genealogical information on the Strang family.

This fonds consists of records pertaining to the Lady Aberdeen League from 1964 to 1996 including meeting minutes, correspondence, insurance records, and financial records. Also included in the fonds are correspondence with children the League sponsored through the Foster Parents Plan of Canada. The financial records include ledgers, receipts, invoices, and statements. These records align with the main function of the League, which was to provide financial support to charitable organizations. The fonds also consists of an Ice Capades program the League sold, certificates, and a history of the League.

This fonds consists of the Planned Parenthood Association of Edmonton (P.P.A.E.)’s Archive, which was created to capture the history and the important records relating to birth control, sexuality, health, and sex education in Canada between 1964 - 1999. Their Archive contains news clippings, reports, resource guides, and newsletters. In addition to the P.P.A.E. Archive, this fonds also contains correspondence, meeting minutes, volunteer information, annual reports, and promotional material relating to the P.P.A.E..

This fonds contains Catherine Cole's research into patents obtained by Edmonton inventors between 1905 and 1975.

The fonds consists of records produced by the Edmonton Weavers' Guild (EWG) from their inception to 2012 and represents the activities and functions of the EWG. The records include minutes, correspondence, reports, membership lists, clippings, applications, financial records, and issues of the EWG’s newsletter, Webs and Wheels. The correspondence highlight the EWG's interactions with various art institutions and organizations including the Alberta Arts Council, Canadian Craftsmen Association, Hand Weavers, Spinners and Dyers of Alberta, University of Alberta's Department of Art and Design, Alberta Art Foundation, Canadian Crafts Council, Association of Northwest Weavers Guild, along with many other weavers' guilds throughout Canada and the United States.

The fonds also consists of the EWG by-laws, a file on the history of the EWG complied by Helen Bentley, and a history of weaving in Alberta from 1945. Included in the fonds are 8 colour photographs of wall pieces designed and woven by Grace Raitt and 1 photograph of a woven design attached to a greeting card.

The fonds consists of a scrapbook, mostly of newspaper clippings, created by Kenneth A. McLeod relating to the Government of Premier A. F. Sifton, Government of Alberta. The clippings cover a variety of topics, subjects and people, including:

• Alberta: provincial finances, natural resources, politics and government
• railways: the Canadian Northern Railway, Canadian Northern Western Railway, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway, Grand Trunk and Pacific Railway
• people: Donald Baker, R.B. Bennet, J.R. Boyle, G.H.V. Bulyea, Archy Campbell, W.R. Clarke, J.L. Cote, C.W. Cross, W.H. Cushing, Peter Gunn, George Hoadley, Robert Jaffray, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Peter E. Lessard, A.J. McArthur, J.D. McArthur, John A. McDougall, A.J. (Archie) McLean, Duncan Marshall, Edward M. Michener, C.M. O’Brien, Frank Oliver, William Franklin Puffer, E.H. Riley, Harold Riley, Alexander Cameron Rutherford, Walter Scott, Arthur Lewis Sifton, Clifford Sifton, John W. Sifton, Charles Stewart, Robert Taylor Telford, T.M. Tweedie.
• current events at the time: freedom of the press, women’s suffrage, World War I (1914-1918).
  The fonds also includes the book, The Last of the Buffalo: Comprising a History of the Buffalo Herd of the Flathead Reservation and An Account of the Great Round Up, by Tom Jones and Norman Luxtion, 1909 (599.64 JOH o/s).