The fonds includes Hugh Johnson's homestead receipt (1903); letter from a cousin (1908); report on analysis of a water sample (1922); Deputy Returning Officer's statement for Cayley (1935 provincial election); correspondence, financial reports, budgets, agendas, and minutes accumulated as a trustee of Foothills School Division (1939-1943); receipts and invoices; and farm account book (1957-1960).
The fonds consists of political correspondence (1952-1976), Social Credit pamphlets, drafts of historical articles, collected news clippings, township maps annotated to show the locations of early Cayley farms, and correspondence regarding publication of Under the Chinook Arch.
The fonds consists of George E. Mack's certificate of declaration and appointment as agent for the prohibitionist side of the plebiscite; two copies of the returning officer's certificate of the results of the High River East poll; a prohibitionist handbill; and alphabetical lists of the electors of High River East and High River West annotated "W" or "D" to indicate their "wet" or "dry" preferences.
The fonds consists of personal and professional papers including correspondence, research material, reference files, drafts and copies of columns, newspaper clippings, unpublished manuscripts; personal papers of her grandparents, Joseph and Julia Anna Short; personal papers of the family of Joseph and Julia Anna Short; personal papers of her parents, Charles and Margaret (Blennerhasset) Short; personal papers of Alexander Knupp; papers relating to the Alberta Progressive Conservative Women's Association; papers relating to the Museum of the Highwood and the Pioneers and Old Timers Association; and photographs.