The fonds consists of personal and family correspondence, speeches, lectures, newsclippings, programs, photographs and tax returns; legal client files; and minutes, correspondence and business papers of the many organizations in which he was active. RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS ARE ALSO IN THIS FONDS. SEE INVENTORY FOR DETAILS, AND FOR A MORE COMPREHENSIVE LIST: William Aberhart, Amalgamated House of Israel, American ORT Federation, Rabbi Barenholtz, Lt. S. Buchwold, Calgary Jewish Welfare Fund, Calgary Women's Musical Club, Doukhobors, Hadassah Chapter of Calgary, Saul Hayes, House of Jacob, Shaie Jaffe, Minuetta Kessler, Ida Nelson, L. Pearlman, Louis Rosenberg, Shaarey Tzedec Congregation, Aaron Sholomenko, Jesse Shumiatcher, Morris Shumiatcher, Morris Smith, Peter P. Verigin, and Zionist Organization of Canada.

Fonds consists of these series: I Committees (1975-1997). Includes membership lists and nominations; correspondence; minutes; pledges; reports relating to the University and Community Day Care Centre. II Constitution and bylaws (1976-1979). III Executive files (1975-1996) Includes agendas; memoranda; minutes; correspondence. IV Meetings (1977-1985). Includes agendas; correspondence; minutes; and notices. V President's files (1979-1996). Includes correspondence; minutes; notices. VI Projects (1972-1995). Includes reference material and other documents relating to assertiveness training, conferences, scholarships, and women's studies (includes 10 sound cassettes and 6 videocassettes). VII Senate Task Force on the Status of Women (1974-1978). Includes briefs; correspondence; petitions; reviews. VIII Treasurer's files (1972-1992). Includes financial statements; memoranda; notes; receipts. IX University affairs (1976-1978). Includes records relating to the Association of Academic Staff of the University of Alberta (AASUA), the General Faculties Council, and the President's Advisory Committee on Security. X Women's associations (1976-1992). Includes briefs, brochures, memoranda, newsletters, and notices relating to the Alberta Status of Women Action Committee and the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women.

The fonds consists of scrapbook about the Dowling and Costigan families, and her musical career (1883-1943), personal correspondence (1939-1950), letters from her father (1880), and miscellaneous programs (including funeral program for Donald A. Smith, Lord Strathcona, 1914) and newsclippings.

The fonds consists of miscellaneous family correspondence, certificates, calling cards, invoices and memorabilia; and photographs of the family, Pincher Creek and Waterton.

The fonds consists of historical articles written by Beaton about these Calgary pioneers and topics: C.J. Duggan, Alfred S. McKay, buffalo bones, George Elliott, Henry La Riviere, Robert Barker, John Herron, Father Leon Joseph Desire Doucet, Charlie Youan, J.H. Turner, John Franklin, Herb Millar, Isaac Ellwood, and Amos Wilkins. Includes a letter written to Ada by a daughter of Howard Pratt, telling of people and places in downtown Calgary. Also includes photographs of early Calgary.

The fonds consists of a photocopy of the diary of Annie Adams, Sr. (1920-1923); photographs of the Lockhart, Adams, Patterson and Austin families (early 1900s, 1965); G.R. Austin's notebook as a Canadian firefighter in England (1940s); and slides of the Calgary Stampede (1950).

Fonds consists of records created by the Advisor to the President on Women's Issues and the President's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women. These include subject files arranged in alphabetical order by subject (the individual file titles are not strictly alphabetical), the reports "Daycare Expansion" and "Women in the '90's", budgets, newspaper clippings and legal correspondence on the Aleksandra Vinogradov discrimination hiring case, membership lists, surveys, and minutes of meetings of the Status of Women Committee (1977-1989). Also consists of annual reports of the Advisor to the President on Women's Issues (1989-1993).