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The series consists of general files from the Federal Department of the Interior and the Provincial Department of Lands and Forests regarding the Northern Alberta Railways (NAR), Canadian National Railway (CNR) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). The series also relates to railroad right of ways located on public land as well as abandoned railway rights of way and the management of the affected lands. The records may include exchange of right of ways; abandoned railway right of ways; reports; copy of certificate of title; maps, surveys, drawings and sketches; legal land searches; and correspondence.

The series relates to easements. It includes easements (EZE) issued to allow for right of access and occupation of public land for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a power line or communication cable. It includes Rural Electrification Association (REA) easements, which are issued to allow for the right of access and occupation of public land for the purpose of construction and maintaining a power line by a rural electrification association. As well, it includes Vegetation Control Easements (VCE) issued for the ongoing management of vegetation outside of another disposition (typically a linear right of way). The records may include but are not limited to easements and applications; amendment and renewal documents; lease/rental documents; plans, sketches and surveys; financial documents; specific disposition type documents; inspection reports; termination and reclamation documents; legal land searches; forms; and correspondence.

The series consists of maps relating to Forestry in Alberta. The records include Forest Reserve Maps, Forest Cover and Planimetric Maps, Provincial Access Series Maps, Alberta Forest Service Base Maps, and Forest Management Maps including Air Operations, Fire Bombing, and other related material.

The series consists of maps that relate to mineral resources within the Province of Alberta. The maps show major dispositions of land related to coal mines, mineral resource leases on crown land, resource maps, and geological surveys. The series includes maps used by the Mineral Support Branch and as part of applications for mine permits and bituminous sands permits.

The series consists of topographical and planimetric maps created by the Technical Division of Lands and Mines and Lands and Forests as well as from the Department of Transportation.

The series consists of maps showing Provincial electoral divisions or districts.

This series consists primarily of correspondence between the Dominion Government (Department of the Interior) and various Dominion Land Surveyors (DLS) and/or Dominion Topographical Surveyors (DTS) working mainly in Alberta during the years 1879-1931. The documentation that had been collected by the Surveyor General (Dominion Government) was sent to Alberta in 1931. After 1931, the series includes correspondence to and from the Albertan Director of Surveys. The series also addresses township subdivision starting in January 1879.

The records include correspondence between the Land Survey Branch Office and land surveyors when plans were amended, Dominion Land Surveyor's correspondence files, correspondence regarding surveys in various town sites, and correspondence files regarding township subdivisions created by the Surveyor General and maintained by the Director of Surveys. The files may include contracts between the surveyor and the department, financial accounts, reports on the survey, information on temperature and climate, maps and plans, and general correspondence.

The series consists of original township plans or surveys, subdivision plans, survey diagrams, township registers, and related maps and settlement plans.

Official Township survey plans are the result of official surveys conducted as early as January 1873 and still occur today. In 1871, the first of 3 Dominion Land surveys in the prairie provinces began west of the first meridian in Manitoba, followed by surveys in 1880 and 1881. The surveyors worked on the principles of astronomy and divided the province of Alberta into a grid system composed of ranges, townships, and meridians. Ranges number approximately 1-30 running East to West from each of the three meridians, the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth while the townships (1-127) run from North to South from the International Boundary to the Northwest Territories. These plans became official if they were approved and confirmed by the Surveyor General or after 1930 by the Director of Surveys. For each township, it is possible to have numerous editions. It was the policy of the Office of the Surveyor General to create a new edition every time additional survey work was done, corrections made or updates to standard changes adopted. The scale on the maps is described in terms of chains, where 100 links = 1 chain, 1 chain = 66 feet.

Copies of these township plans were then used as a visual indexing tool for creation of homestead leases, dispositions, and other uses of the land. It allowed a government to draw the area of land and identity of the entity who leases, purchases, or otherwise makes use of the land. These were often part of large ledgers or registers that became part of this series.