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The Provincial Archives is a branch of the Department of Supply and Services. Function: The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick collects, preserves, and makes available for research, documents and records bearing upon the history of New Brunswick. Most of the holdings are for the period from 1784, when New Brunswick was made a separate province of British North America. However, some materials relating to the earlier exploration, Acadian and pre-Loyalist periods have also been acquired.

The Provincial Committee for an Alberta Council on Women's Affairs was a group of Alberta women representing a coalition of 60 women's organizations from across the province. This Committee was concerned about the need for an effective voice for women to speak to the government of Alberta, and the Committee mandate was to lobby the provincial government of Alberta to establish an Alberta Council on Women's Affairs. The Provincial Committee coordinated province-wide efforts to gain support for the creation of this Council by letter writing, meetings with MLAs and public forums. After input from other women's groups and research on other advisory councils, the Provincial Committee developed a proposal for a council in Alberta. Bills were presented to the Alberta Legislature in 1986 with amendments introduced by the Liberal and NDP caucuses. The final Bill 19 (the Advisory Council on Women's Issues Act) passed third reading in 1986. Margaret Leahey was appointed Chair of the Council by the Hon. Dennis Anderson, Minister responsible for the Status of Women. Fourteen other members were appointed to the Council in 1986. The Provincial Committee for an Alberta Council on Women's Affairs was disbanded on November 13, 1986 when the goal of this Committee was reached with the announcement of the appointment of the fourteen women to the Alberta Advisory Council on Women's issues.

The Provincial Mental Health Advisory Council was founded in August 1973 with the mandate of: (a) to inquire into any matter referred to it by the minister, (b) to inquire into and consider any matter pertaining to mental health, (c) to review any policies, programs, services, or administrative procedures of departments of the Government or of Government agencies in matters pertaining to mental health and (d) to advise on the planning, development, standards, coordination, (d) advising on the planning, development, standards, coordination and evaluation of mental health services in Alberta, and report and make recommendations on mental health issues to the Lieutenant Governor in Council. The Provincial Mental Health Advisory Council was made up of 13 members, each appointed by his/her professional body or organization. The University of Alberta appointed one of the 13 members. The Provincial Mental Health Advisory Council was disbanded in 1990.

From 1913 until 1942 a Jesuit College for boys occupied the original structure of the Charles Camsell Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1942, the U.S Army assumed the building for use as a holding and forwarding centre for the U.S. Army personnel and civilian engineers employed in the construction of the Alaska Highway. In 1944, the U.S. Army departed, and the Government of Canada purchased the remaining property and equipment, and the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps established the Edmonton Military Hospital. The Canadian Army then connected the detached buildings to the main building. In the summer of 1945, Dr. W. Lynn Falconer, assistant to the Acting Superintendent of Medical Services for Indian Affairs in Ottawa, arrived in Edmonton to determine if the facility constituted a suitable site for a tuberculosis hospital for the Inuit and other First Nations groups in Alberta, the Yukon Territory, and parts of the Northwest Territories. Following the inspection, a conversion occurred and the hospital admitted its first patients at the end of 1945. For several months, the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps and Indian Health Services ran the hospital jointly. Transfer of the land and buildings from the Department of Defense to the Department of National Health and Welfare transpired on June 1, 1946. The Charles Camsell Hospital, named after Dr. Charles Camsell, a former geologist and Deputy Minister of Mines and Resources (1920-1946), officially opened on August 26, 1946. In 1964, the Federal Government approved plans for the construction of a new hospital building. On July 11, 1967 equipment, staff, and patients moved into the new building. In the 1970's, the Charles Camsell Hospital became a general treatment hospital. In 1992, the Charles Camsell merged with the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

On May 21, 2004, the Public Archives of Canada (founded in 1872) and the National Library of Canada (founded in 1953) joined to form Library and Archives Canada. All employees of the two former institutions automatically became employees of the new Library and Archives Canada. Mr. Ian E. Wilson, the former National Archivist, assumed on an interim basis, the duties of the newly-created position of Librarian and Archivist of Canada. The building of Library and Archives Canada was opened on June 20, 1967 by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson with 400,000 volumes of information which has grown to over 18,000,000. After the merger there are now slightly more than 1,100 employees in the Library and Archives.

In 1913 a single-storey brick structure was built on the Bow River to house water supply pumping equipment for Calgary's 40,000 residents. The pumphouse was abandoned twenty years later. In 1971 the Calgary Youth Drama Society, founded by Joyce Doolittle, Ellen Tims, Victor Mitchell and Ernest Watkins, spearheaded the renovation of the pumphouse into a versatile centre for the performing arts. The Pumphouse Theatre was declared an Alberta historic site in 1975 and received a Heritage Award for Architecture in 1984. It is used by a wide variety of theatre, dance and music groups. In 1987 the Calgary Youth Drama Society changed its name to the Pumphouse Theatres Society. Beginning in the late 1990s Pumphouse ran drama day camps for children, and sponsored a one-act play festival.

The Purchasing Management Association of Canada, Calgary District was established in Calgary, Alberta as the Calgary Purchasing Association in 1950 to promote professional practice in the field of purchasing. At that time the Calgary group was combined with British Columbia in District 3 of the National Association of Purchasing Agents of the USA. A year or two later all Canadian branches formed the Canadian Association of Purchasing, later the PMAC. Calgary membership grew from 30 in 1950 to over 300 in the early 1980s.