The fonds consists of charter, minutes, annual statistical returns, cashbooks, correspondence, and subscribers' accounts.

The fonds consists of correspondence (1854-1905) relating to his newspaper businesses, the Temperance Colonization Society, the crofters' immigration scheme, the Alaskan boundary, and the Dunbow Ranche; legal records; diaries (1842-1904); correspondence, minutes and incorporation documents for the railway company; and certificates, appointments and commissions. Includes Emily's correspondence (1853-1914) and photographs of the Begg family.
Records related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: Robert Begg, Bow River Ranch, Canadian Yukon Railway Co., D.W. Davis, William Duncan, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Richard C. Hardisty, J.J. Hill, Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) lands, Louis Riel, St. Joseph's Industrial School (Dunbow School), Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, and James Wallace.

The fonds consists of manuscript drafts, correspondence, journals, diaries, essays, biographical data, newsclippings, notes, photographs and slides of her artwork, photographs of the McCaughtery and Wheeler families, photographs and biographies of southern Alberta pioneers, photographs of farming and ranching scenes, a sound recording of Irene reading her poem, "The Land Rewards its Keeper", art catalogues, and miscellany.

The fonds consists of a directory for the District of Edmonton dating from 1895 published by J.B. Spurr in 1895.

The fonds consists of J.D. Baker's reminiscences of his early telephone work in Alberta.

The fonds consists of copied of articles and letters by Gilles Dignard, mostly relating to the Peace River area, predominantly for Le Franco.

Fonds consists of correspondence; poetry manuscripts submitted to Imago by George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, Dan McLeod, Frank Davey and others; prose and interview manuscripts; and manuscripts of poetry published in Imago, no. 7-11, 13-19.

Fonds consists of the business records of the Imperial Mutual Telephone Company including correspondence, minutes, and financial records.

Fonds consists of the business records of the Independent Mutual Telephone Company and includes memorandum of association, minutes, subscriber accounts, financial records, notices, voting proxies, certificate of incorporation, correspondence, agreements, annual reports, annual returns, telephone statistics, subscriber lists, and maps depicting the area serviced by the Independent Mutual Telephone Company.

Fonds consists of contracts, correspondence, minutes, project files, annual reports (1985-1988), pamphlets, administrative files from the Department of Administrative Systems (DAS) and from Academic Computing Services (ACS), committee meeting files, and related material. As well, issues of "Bernies Tips and Tricks" from the Desktop Technology Program and periodicals or newsletters published by the administrative unit, including "Micro Byte", "New Currents", "Info Serve", Big Byte", "ACS News", "ACS Staff Notes", and "Computing and Data Processing News". Also, the records of SuperComputing Services including correspondence, client support files, manuals, seminar reports, course notes, project descriptions (1984-1993), and issues of "Super*C" newletters.