The fonds consists of typescript of manuscript of reminiscences of southern Alberta pioneers from Fort Macleod, Pincher Creek, High River and Lethbridge. Pioneers include Thomas Clarke, A.E. Cox, Bertha Crooks, Mr. Dayman, Mrs. de Veber, Mrs. Richard Duthie, A.L. Fairbairn, Walter Fairhorn, Alex Fleming, Hamlin Garland, Clyde Gilmour, Justice W.C. Ives, Mrs. J.P.J. Jephson, Norman MacLeod, Mrs. Jack Murphy (later Mrs. Bunt), Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Newman, G.D. Plunkett, Senator Riley, Caroline Sanders, Abilgail Sexsmith, Mrs. Steadman, Mrs. Alex Thompson, R.A. Wallace, George Webb, Mrs. Alfred Wilson and R.N. Wilson. Topics discussed include remittance men, stopping places, polo, Dominion Day, balls and dances, social life, travelling, Christmas, theatricals, floods, blizzards, wind, prairie fires, loneliness, Charcoal (Blood), houses and furniture, churches cowboys, round-ups, education and schools, branding, round-ups, early settlement, pioneers and homesteading.