The fonds consists of images of various locations in Alberta, including Fort Saskatchewan (interior of a tailor shop), Leduc (interior of a confectionery), Irma, Peace River, Fahler, Castor, Vegreville, St. Paul de Metis, and Onion Lake; the images include churches, homesteading, street scenes, school, hotels, rivers, clergy, airplanes, houses, first nations, cars, and students.

The fonds consists of copied and original photographs that pertain to the career of G.H. (Mike) Finland as a pilot with Cominco and includes images of airplane, float planes, camps, aerial views of towns, airplane construction and repair equipment, accidents, boats, buildings and First Nations women. Fonds also includes images of G.H. (Mike) Finland and various other pilots and an index with information about the photographs.

Fonds consists of the personal papers of Hazel McCardell and includes music scores, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, greeting cards, diaries, an autograph book, articles, newsletters, correspondence, historical/biographical sketches, family histories, pamphlets, notices, a wedding invitation, tax receipts, journals, magazines, books, telegrams, an insurance policy, notes, returned cheques, negatives and photographs depicting family members and various people, views, buildings, airplanes, air pilots, street views, fires, and plane crashes, and cinefilms depicting home movies. Fonds includes many records pertaining to Hazel McCardell’s research of the Strang family, Jesse James Strang, and the Mormon community in St. James, Michigan, USA. Fonds also contains records pertaining to William McCardell’s service in the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian Forestry Service.

The collection consists of photographs of threshing scenes, a biplane in Viking, grain elevators in Blackie, and Peace River.

The fonds consists of photographs and negatives of an airplane salvage operation, the salvage of a Canada Post Office airplane that had crashed and was frozen in ice, along with a photograph of a river and cliff and one of the Edmonton Municipal Airport and its parking lot.

The fonds consists of films by Stan McMillan, with a few produced by Leigh Brintnell, about aviation, and includes the films about aviation in northern Alberta and northern Canada as well as the film "Wings over the North."