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The fonds consists of photos of High River, the Calgary Stampede, Canadian National Railways construction, and southern Alberta ranches.

The fonds consists of CPR passes and cemetery documents belonging to Ernest and Clare. Includes photographs of oil industry, Bow Falls, Great West Saddlery Company buildings and staff, and of Boalch family and friends.

The fonds consists of photographs of Turner Valley oil industry and Calgary; sketches, photographs and articles regarding aircraft; and a recorded interview about home-built airplanes.

The fonds consists of images of family members, Medicine Hat at the turn of the century and the 1908 train wreck.

The fonds consists of traveller's sample book of photographs of mountain scenes, the British Columbia interior, CPR points and railway bridges, tunnels, trains and workers (1889). Includes photographs of native people and a Blood sun dance (1887); of May, his wife, family and ranch (1885-1907); of Boorne, his Manitoba homestead, and the Calgary studio; and experimental photographs (1883-1884). Includes his article, "With the Savages in the Far West", published in the Canadian Photographic Journal, 1893. Also includes a diary of Boorne's cousin Ernest May (1897).

Fonds consists of textual and photographic records pertaining to Brewster Transport and its predecessor and subsidiary companies. Series are: I. James I. Brewster, 1892-1962; II. Brewster Brothers, 1905-1909; III. Brewster Transfer Company Ltd., 1909-1916; IV. Brewster Trading Co. Ltd., 1907-1926; V. Brewster Hotel Company Ltd., 1909-1926; VI. Brewster Transport Company / Brewster-Rocky Mountain Grayline, ca.1900-1988; VII. Brewster Transportation and Tours Co. records, 1930s-1996; VIII. Other, 1956-1972. Series VI is the major series, consisting of 146.5 cm of textual records (and ca.50 col), ca.700 photographs, and ca.100 sets of plans and blueprints. The series includes: Agreements, 1915-1974; Minutes, 1915-1963; Financial papers, 1915-1966; Operating, ca.1900-1988; Properties, 1906-1974; Subsidiaries, 1924-1962; Other, 1943-1977. Photographs, ca.1900-ca.1970, are mainly publicity photographs relating to Brewster Transport vehicles, tours, facilities, Sunshine Ski Lodge and area, Canadian Rockies hotels and scenic views, also Brewster family and Banff personalities; include 2 albums. Plans pertain to properties and facilities.

The fonds consists of: one City of Medicine Hat license (No. 9832), issued to Paul Brosnikoff to act as "Common Carrier" with one team of horses (1946).

The fonds consists of: script of the play "The Ghost Train of Medicine Hat" (9 pgs) (1990).

The fonds consist of: various personal correspondence & ephemera belonging to James Briggs (1910-1936); various correspondence and ephemera regarding the Greyhound Bus Line operated out of Medicine Hat (1934-1950); various correspondence and documents regarding James Arthur Briggs and his timed served during the Second World War (WWII) (1942-1946); various legal documents such as Last Will and Testaments, marriage certificates, and birth certificates (1910-1936); various correspondence relating to the Medicine Hat Public Library Board (1960-1968); newspaper clippings; 2 scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings; 5 photo albums; 6 photographs.

The fonds consists of photographs of Lethbridge buildings, businesses, institutions, personalities, events including the Lethbridge Fair, and industries including the Galt Coal Mine. Also consists of photographs of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) viaduct at Lethbridge, agriculture and irrigatrion in the Lethbridge area, and nearby communities including Diamond City, Monarch, New Dayton, Warner and the Crowsnest Pass.