The fonds consists of photographs of streets, businesses, hotels, hospitals, Bow River, swimming pool, garage and boat house, mountain scenery, and wildlife in Banff, Alberta; and views of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry leaving Calgary for France.

The fonds consists of photographs of the surveying and construction of the Kananaskis Falls and Horseshoe Dams of the Calgary Power Company.

The fonds consists of prospectus, business correspondence, shares registers, drilling reports, financial statements and liquidation records. Includes personal correspondence between Jack Dillon and Guy Weadick (1925).

The fonds consists of photographs of lumbering in the Crowsnest Pass; lumbermen at Calgary (1915); and William G. Armstrong at Sarcee Army Camp (1915). Also consists of research notes and articles on logging.

The fonds consists of information bulletins pertaining to lumber market conditions, balance sheets and lumber orders of Evans-Tedham Lumber Company and its predecessors.

The fonds consists of photographs of Bassano dam construction.

The fonds consists of mine plans of Western Gem Coal Co., Kleenbirn Collieries, Golden West Coal Mine, Bay Coal Co., Superior Grade Coal Co., Consolidated Diamond Collieries, Regal Collieries, Thomas Kerrison Mine, H. Muller Mine, and Rock Springs Coal and Brick Co. plan of the Taber Transit Co. bridge; and technical reports about Block Coal Co. and West Canadian Collieries.

The fonds consists of photographs of the building of the Kananaskis Dam.

The fonds consists of Duncan McDonald's certificates of competency, articles by him and about his career in mine safety and rescue work, and a letter from the miner he rescued in 1917.

The fonds consists of reminiscences of his life in Nordegg (1972); newsclippings about the 1941 mining disaster and various Nordegg residents; letters from Marin Nordegg; lists of births and deaths in Nordegg; and photographs of Nordegg,Banff, and his father (1888-1927).