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Fonds consists of records relating to the life and work of Christina Sharon Olsen. The records include a news article from the Calgary Herald published in 2009 detailing Christina’s childhood and experience as a preoperative trans woman living and working in Alberta and overseas; report cards and photographs from Christina’s schooling in Claresholm, Alberta between 1953 and 1965; photographs documenting Christina’s work as a drilling engineer in Africa and Alberta between 1977 and 2000; and photographs of Christina’s cats and visiting wildlife to her acreage west of Calgary taken in the years after her gender reassignment surgery in 2004.

This fonds consists of papers of the Edworthy family including speeches, memoirs, articles, photographs, maps and family history of the George Edworthy family. Also includes family papers of the Livingston family such as correspondence, photos and articles. Also includes the Jack Edworthy papers consisting of correspondence, photos, clippings, programs, reports, Fort Edmonton/Harvest Fair material and Edmonton South Rotary Club material. Also includes Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties Convention Handbooks.

The fonds consists of records that were created and maintained by Gerald S. Anderson which document his careers, interests and hobbies, covering the period of the late 1890’s to 1999. The photographs and negatives cover his travels through Canada, the United States and Europe as well as the Anderson family and Gerald's army training unit.

Fonds consists of records pertaining to Elizabeth Kirkbride's journeys to Canada including correspondence with outfitters and guides, photographs and travel brochures.

Fonds consists of records pertaining to Cooke's personal and business life, as well as records relating to the Barr colonists' expedition, including photographs, correspondence and newspaper clippings.

Fonds consists mainly of photographs depicting people transporting goods via canoe and horseback in northern Alberta areas such as Lesser Slave Lake, Great Slave Lake, Fort Resolution, Peace River, Fort Vermilion, and Dunvegan.

Fonds consists of a three volume journal entitled 1923 Journal of Some Travels in the North, and captioned survey photographs depicting various people and views in northern Alberta, including rock formations, First Nations camps, Hudson's Bay forts, and various modes of water transportation.

Fonds consists of an annotated photograph album entitled "Surveying and prospecting for coal in the wilds of Western Alberta, Canada and British Columbia, during the Spring, Summer and Fall of 1909" containing photographs which depict the survey party led by Augustus Clements Finley. Also included is a list of members in the party and an itinerary compiled by Finley.

Fonds consists of the personal records of Irene Gonsett and includes correspondence, postcards, newspaper clippings, and photographs depicting Gonsett family members and friends, various inventions of Robert R. and Faust R. Gonsett, and Gonsett Company buildings. Fonds also includes newspaper clippings about Robert R. Gonsett and Faust R. Gonsett and their inventions, including copied newspaper clippings from 1939, information about the R.R. Gonsett Memorial Ukrainian Library, various advertising flyers and catalogues for Gonset Company products, and Ukrainian magazines.

Fonds consists of records pertaining to various Gonsett companies and to various inventions created by R.R. Gonsett and F.R. Gonsett and includes letters patent, specifications, diagrams, and descriptions of inventions, correspondence, advertising flyers and catalogues depicting various Gonset Company products and depicting various Gonsett inventions, and technical and instruction manuals for radio sets. Also included are Ukrainian magazines, information about the R.R. Gonsett Memorial Ukrainian library, and a flyer for Cal Farley's Boys' Ranch in Amarillo, Texas. The fonds has been arranged into the following series: Inventions of R.R. Gonsett; Inventions of F.R. Gonsett; Inventions of R.R. and F.R. Gonsett; Gonsett Companies; Miscellaneous.