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The collection consists of photographs of the RCMP boat "Athabasca" based in Ganges, B.C. Six Mile Stopping Place on the Athabasca River; SS Northland Echo; loading scows; aerial view of Athabasca [1970s]; newspaper photographs of James Harris Wood, William Rennison, Isaie Gagnon, Louis Fosseneuve, and Hon. Justice R. Boyle; men at a tie camp (Paul Berkey, Mr. Koster, Mr. Jameson, Eugene Sale, Ole Strome, Joe Laflamme); 1937-38 Athabasca Boy Scout troop (Ralph Noddings, Bill Calder, Ken Cocke, John Birks, Allen Fell, Fred Meadows, Bob Garton, Frank Falconer, Dale Nelson, Jim Service, Budge Jones, Frank Bergeron, Verne Lewis, -- Webb, Alec Bergeron, Donald King, Reg Bayliss); Half Moon Lake School, 1936 (Josie Kunbah, Josie Kordyban, Alexandra Smerychinski, Marian Kowalski, Katie Kordyban, Maria Kordyban, Rosy Dowhaniuk, Stephanie Kushak, Olga Komarniski, Antonnette Komarniski, Maggie Shapka, Annie Kushak, Helen Zayezierski, Josie Gerla); Revillon Brothers Store, farm implement-reaper and horses, Terence John Shank, Elmer Norman Shank, Demonstration Farm barns and house (Experimental Farm barns), Leon Soudet farm, view of Athabasca from Century Villa condominiums dated Sept. 28, 1996; 1985 Tourist Information Booth volunteers (Hazel Rein, Pearl Baker, May Webb, Steve Wasel, Joe Bortnick, Alice Donahue, Charlie Senz, Dot Evans, Laura Green, and Muriel Senz); Chris and Lyandra Elkjer; the Athabasca train station in Nov. 1912, team driver is James A. Minns who was killed during WWI. Four postcards have been added which include an aerial photo of the town, a view from the bridge of the town lights, a painting by Larry Zornes and local citizens forming the number 99 in 2010 as they look forward to the 100th anniversary in 2011. There are two postcards published by the Northern Transportation Company :whitefish from Lesser Slave Lake and a homestead on Lesser Slave Lake, a ferry at Athabasca Landing, and two photos of William and Wilhelmina (Becker) Koerner. Perryvale Central School 1947 - 49. Dog team below the bridge. View of Athabasca from the east, 1990. 95.24: Six photographs donated by Doug Kariel of the historic mail run from Athabasca to Edmonton in February, 1995 to commemorate Edmonton's Bicentennial in 1995; photos #13633-13638. 96.42: Two postcards donated by Keith Randon, Leicestershire, Eng. of Athabasca Victoria Day celebrations, May 25, 1914, of the Athabasca Town Band and a larger view of the celebrations on Litchfield Street (50th Avenue) including the new Grand Union Hotel; photo s #14183 and 14184. Photos 18664 and 18665 donated by Jody Howells which show her father and uncle threshing in Saskatchewan c.1910; 21.07, Ted Langton-Adams slides # 20496–20622; 21-11, Athabasca fire at old Home Hardware building August 11, 2021, images # 20623–20678. 13.27: Two binders of photographs of the Grosmont Community Club Garden Walk, 1998 and 2005; the images are not numbered.

The fonds consists of a brief history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Alberta; the origins of the Athabasca Detachment; 1901 report of Superintendent Constantine; 1915 report of Superintendent Albert Edward Crosby McDonell; biographies of Deputy Commissioner George Leslie Jennings, ex-Inspector Kristjan Fjeldsted Anderson, and ex-Superintendent Arthur Howard Llewellyn Mellor; 1961 booklet "A National Police Service" and 1962 copy of "The Police Act". Other officers mentioned include: Sgt. S. Hetherington and Sup't Gilbert E. Sanders.

The fonds consists of photographs of the Johnston family, William R. (Bill) Day's moose team, the Johnston house and bakery, and cattle boarding the ferry to cross the river. Daisy Gooding (Johnston) wrote a brief family history which includes information on the 1913 fire, 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, and life as a ferryman.

The fonds consists of the diary of Constance Jukes Sanders kept from August 27, 1910 to April 6, 1911. There is both a hand written and a typed copy of the diary. Mentioned in the diary are the Bannerman family, Captain Charles Barber, Ruth Barber, Mrs. Blackwell, Captain Bowker, Mr. Box, Sofie Brazeau, Osburne Brown, James Cornwall, Mr. Cote, Mrs. Cull, Egge's Stopping House, Mrs. Falkner, Mr. Farrell, Mr. Fraser, Mrs. Gauthier, Mrs. Greer, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Hautin, Holmes girls, Mr. Jackson, Setty Johnstone, Mrs. Keith, Miss Lang, Mr. Liss, Mrs. McDonnell, Judge McGuire, Ethel McKernan, Irene McKinley, Mrs. McKinnan, Mathilda McLeod, Mr. Martingale, Mrs. Mills, Dr. Milne, Cecil Milne's wedding to Ted Herbert, Miss Osler, Patry's Stopping House, Mr. Pearson, Mrs. Pollett, Mrs. Rennison, Archdeacon and Mrs. Robins, Anne Robinson, Mr. Royds, Mrs. Sawle and Bonny, Mr. Selby, Sgt. Shurer, Mr. Smith, Mr. Stanton, Miss Waghorn, Mr. and Mrs. Walker, Mr. Waugh, Rev. Mr. White, Rayner Whiteley, Rev. Mr. Winch, Mrs. James Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Wood, Lewis Wood, and Nell Young. Activities described include church attendance, a boating trip, dances, tennis, cards, house work, horseback riding,and a trip to England to visit Jukes relatives.

The fonds consists of 51 photographs taken by Ernest William Bavin, RNWMP, and others of Athabasca, the Athabasca River, Fort McKay, Fort Chipewyan, Lac La Biche, the Peace River, Grouard, Sawridge, Fort Vermilion, steamboats and Rev. Alfred Speechly White of the Anglican Church.