This material consists of textual and audiovisual records created over the course of Radford’s career, including material created under the Filmwest Associates, Great North Productions, Great Plains Productions, White Pine Pictures, and Clearwater Documentary labels.

    The material includes records related to completed projects such as Inuit Odyssey, Tar Sands, A Scattering of Seeds, The Power of Dreams, The End of Evolution, Ernest Brown: Pioneer Photographer (including audio reels of interviews with early Edmonton photographer Gladys Reeves), Hockey Night in Harlem, Ma Vlast, The Honour of the Crown, Arctic Dreamer, Great Lodges of the Canadian Rockies, The Great Divide, Road of Bones, Alberta Bound, Codebreakers, Roughing It: A Golfer’s Guide to the Universe, and Tipping Point.  These records include job files, production stills, scripts, camera tapes, and some masters.  There are also numerous records related to incomplete projects, unsolicited script submissions, and administrative records from Great North Communications, Clearwater Documentary, and Great Plains Productions.

The fonds consists of P.G. Laurie's Owen Sound diary (1859), correspondence, accounts, and business records related to the Saskatchewan Herald newspaper (1878-1891); Jessie DeGear's brief autobiography, correspondence, and 15 extensive scrapbooks about Battleford, Saskatchewan, pioneers, and the Riel Rebellion (1890-1965); Mabel Reid's wedding certificate and three scrapbooks which include memorabilia and war articles compiled while the Reids lived in London, plus articles about the Laurie family and western history (1888-1948); R.C. Laurie's correspondence; William Laurie's reminiscences; Mary Eliza Laurie's recipe and sermon book; and J.C. DeGear's letters and diary extracts. Includes a photograph of P.G. Laurie, and views of the Battleford area.

The fonds consists of drafts of these books: Historic Sites of Alberta (1962), Crowfoot, Chief of the Blackfeet (1972), North With Peace River Jim (1972), A Winter at Fort Macleod (1972), Men in Scarlet (1974), The Best of Bob Edwards (1975), The Wit & Wisdom of Bob Edwards (1976), The Rundle Journals (1977), Indian Tribes of Alberta (1978), Charcoal's World (1978), Red Crow, Warrior Chief (1978), My People the Bloods (1979 - based on Mike Mountain Horse's 1936 manuscript), History in their Blood : The Indian Portraits of Nicholas de Grandmaison (1982), Christmas in the West (1982), Big Bear : The End of Freedom (1984), Gentle Persuader : A Biography of James Gladstone, Indian Senator (1986), Heaven is Near the Rocky Mountains (1989), Treasures of Glenbow Museum (1991), The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories (1994), and Calgary, Spirit of the West (1994).
Also consists of recordings of native history lectures (1968); articles about Leavings, Doesn't Sit Down Shield, Peigan Post, and Calgary's establishment; research notes, maps and photographs related to the Fort Calgary project (1968-1975); research notes and correspondence about the Cochrane Ranche project (1969-1972); recording of a U. of C. convocation address about natives in today's society (1974); conference paper about local histories (1970); program for the unveiling of the Senator James Gladstone bust in Ottawa (2001); and photographs of native peoples, Fort Macleod, Pincher Creek and Calgary (1880s-1925).

Contains various menus, two-dimensional advertiques, letterheads, logos, flyers, brochures, pamphlets, and other print related advertising mediums.

The fonds consists of Farm and Ranch Review records: articles of association (1958), minutes (1922-1969), correspondence (1937-1966), financial statements (1953-1965), agreement (1964), and photographs of personalities which appeared in the Farm and Ranch Review (ca. 1929-1934); and CFCN - the Voice of the Prairies records: minutes and agreements (1928-1936), correspondence amd circulars (1927-1946), trademark (1925), and equipment list. Also consists of photographs of the J.W. Clarke and H.G. Love families, and Calgary pioneers (1880-1960s); and photographs of CFCN employees (1950s-1960s), and of H.G. Love and Company Ltd (1920s). Includes Mabel's reminiscences of early Calgary and her parents (ca. 1972), photograph and list of Calgary members of the Canadian Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters (1963, 1967) and Strathmore townsite map (1931).

The fonds consists of Charles Peterson's correspondence, articles, speeches, radio broadcasts, certificates, railway passes, invitations, programs and newsclippings. Includes sympathy letters written to Else Peterson on her husband's death, and Prosperity League of Canada pamphlets.

The fonds consists of family correspondence and personal papers; agricultural correspondence; legal records; receipts; account books (1912-1917, 1929, 1930); diaries (1923, 1934-1947); correspondence of official Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) and Lieutenant-Governor duties; political and Liberal party correspondence (1922-1959); speeches; CBC board of governors correspondence (1947-1949); City of Calgary Library Board correspondence, monthly and annual reports (1945-1948), and financial statements (1945, 1947); and newsclippings. Includes radio broadcast recordings of political speeches given by John J. Bowlen, Mackenzie King, and Ernest C. Manning; and family, political and official photographs, and photographs of the Klondike gold rush (1897-1902). Also includes some of Maurice's personal papers.
Records related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: William Aberhart, A.C.L. Adams, D.M. Allan, W.C. Barrie, R.B. Bennett, Nels V. Buchanan, William Ashbury Buchanan, Calgary Library Board, C.H. Conquest, James Kennedy Cornwall, T.A. Crerar, Frank Cusack, J.M. Dechene, A. Dunton, Manley Justin Edwards, P.R. Farnalls, Clinton James Ford, H.F. Francis, Frederick Fraser, T.M. Gainor, James G. Gardiner, S.S. Garson, Fred William Gershaw, J.A. Glen, C.H. Grant, Herbert Greenfield, S.J. Helman, August Hesse, C.D. Howe, J.J. Howson, Hutterites, C. Irving, P.J. Jennings, A.W. Lewis, Solon Low, Hugh John MacDonald, W.H. McGuire, A.A. MacKenzie, James Angus MacKinnon, A.G. MacLachlan, J.F. MacMillan, H. Millican, J. Percy Page, Neil Paterson, M.M. Porter, J. Harper Prowse, Page Rideout, Harold William Riley, G.H. Ross, Gordon Dunbar Ross, A.C.L. Smith, Wesley Stambaugh, Charles A. Stewart, Louis St. Lauren, J.H. Tremblay, Burton J. White, John H. Woods and J.W. Woodsworth.

The fonds consists of records created by Dr. Key during the last ten years of his life while engaged in writing his memoirs, and about William Aberhart; copies of his Drumheller Mail column; records of his museum consulting practice; and photographs of early Calgary. Includes some original Max Bates sketches used to illustrate one of his stories.

The fonds consists of H.B. Richardson's diaries (1914-1925), reminiscences, and miscellaneous Windermere records; and H.E. Richardson's diaries (1923-1941), reminiscences and historical writings, and miscellaneous correspondence, memberships and newsclippings; and photographs of the Richardson family, the Windermere area, electric power line construction, and setting up of telephone lines.

The fonds consists of personal correspondence with family and friends (1899-1915 and 1936-1944); business and personal papers from England (1899-1914); business and personal papers from his early years in Calgary (1911-1915); Non-Partisan League constitution and 1917 campaign literature; correspondence with NPL members (1917-1919); submissions to the Western Independent newspaper (1918-1920); correspondence as business manager of the Western Independent (1919-1923); William Irvine's correspondence and election campaign papers (1919-1922).