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Collection documents the history of professional, amateur, and varsity/collegiate sport in Canada, particularly hockey, football, baseball, golf, and rodeo. The collection illustrates the development of these sports in the 20th and early 21st centuries (the period from the 1940s to the 1990s is particularly well-documented), and focuses on Canadian leagues as well as international leagues in which Canadian teams participated. Most of the collection relates to Canadian teams and athletes (although American teams are also well-represented), with a particular focus on Alberta and Western Canada.

The collection largely consists of publications, ephemera, and promotional objects including: game and tournament programs, photographs, magazines, media guides, yearbooks, schedules, calendars, trading cards, game tickets, pins and buttons, pennants, patches, and decals.

The collection is arranged into 5 series by sport: hockey, football, baseball, golf, and rodeo (devoted to the Calgary Stampede). The collection was meticulously organized and documented by the donor Bob Blaine, with most of the collection housed in binders that are arranged by level of competition (professional, amateur, varsity/collegiate), league, date range, and type of material. The contents of each binder are further arranged, typically by material type and date, and many items are accompanied by detailed supplementary contextual information provided by Blaine.

Collection mostly consists of professional portraits of sports teams, classes, and clubs at Mount Royal College.

This collection contains images captured between 1966 and 2006 which relate to the activities administered by the SAIT Athletics and Recreation department and the teams which it manages. Images within this collection fall into six primary categories: team photographs; individual portrait photographs of event participants and team members; images captured at sports events which show players in action during the event; promotional images created to help advertise the Athletics and Recreation department activities; and photographs taken during non-competition events, such as awards banquets and luncheons. In addition to these six main categories, there are also four examples of photography assignments produced by students at SAIT which directly capture images from events involving the Athletics and Recreation department, as well as several images which provide an image of the recreational facilities available on campus.

The collection consists of recorded interviews and interview summaries with pioneers of Waterton Lakes National Park. Frank Goble, and Ed and Cheryl Mitchell were interviewed but not recorded, although notes were taken and are found with the inventory. There is very poor sound quality on the Tom Jenkins recorded interview due to a cassette malfunction. The Frank Johansen interview summary is accompanied by extensive biographical material about his great aunt, Lu Nielson.

The collection consists of Valentich's research materials for her Red Mile project.

The collection consists of photographs of Coronation and area personalities, farming views, street scenes and events.

The collection consists of 37 glass plate negatives with matching prints, 11 glass plate negatives without prints and 9 prints without negatives, of a variety of subjects purported to be from east of Edmonton, Alberta dating circa (ca.) 1900 to ca. 1914 including family portraits and portraits of children, buildings, houses, log cabins, parks, a church and cemetery, a baseball game, sleighs, the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) 66th Overseas Battalion, and farm activities such as threshing, ploughing and haying, with some of the agricultural images marked as copyright R. Weaver.

The collection consists of six silent, black and white 16mm films of Edmonton Eskimo football games.

The collection consists of material commemorating the first flight over the Canadian Rockies in 1919 by pilot Captain Ernest C. Hoy including two formal invitations for the City of Lethbridge luncheon proceeding the ceremony to unveil a plaque, an official program, photographs, and newspaper clippings dating from 1966.

The collection consists of programs, invitations, schedules of events, parade organization lists, minutes of the Miss Grey Cup Pageant, and a poster advertising Grey Cup activities.