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The fonds primarily consists of 24 oil paintings, painted from memory and photographs by Viola Martin specifically for the Provincial Archives of Alberta and donated to the Archives as the Burton Memorial Collection; the paintings are of various homes and scenes at Burtonsville, Waterways and Alberta Beach from the lives of Vi’s parents, Cornelius and Louise Burton.

The fonds also includes descriptions and photographs of the paintings, a publication about Burton family descendents (The Burtons of Black Cape and their Descendents), newspaper clippings about Cornelius and Louise Burton, a small published booklet entitled The Gaspé with sketches by Vi Martin, a poem about Cornelius and Louise Burton, photographs of the Burton family and places of importance to the family, certificates for the Bituminous Sand Extraction Company, Limited and the publication Incidents in the Life of John L. Sullivan and Other Famous People of Fifty Years Ago.

The fonds consists of images dating 1910 to 1942 relating to the lives of Thomas and Elizabeth McCallum, including images from locations such as Thorhild, Athabasca, Waterways, and Embarras, Alberta, of the construction of the Jasper railroad, a log house, musicians, icehouse construction, scows, boats, sawmills, a post office, and seaplanes.

The collection consists of images from Seba Beach, originally dating circa (ca.) 1910, of the beachfront, the lake, picnics, store exteriors and interiors, a baseball team and canoes and canoeing, and images from Lesser Slave Lake and Waterways, originally dating from 1930s and 1940s, possibly once belonging to Knute Booth, of commercial fishing operations.

The fonds consists of images relating to the fishing operations of McInnes Products Corporation, Limited in Waterways, Alberta, originally dating circa (ca.) 1930s and 1940s, and includes images of the horses and sleighs, trucks, cars, fish, workers, log buildings, airplanes, barges, ferries, fishing boats, net making, laundry and aerial views of the McInnes buildings at Waterways.

The fonds consists of images taken by Robert F. Legget during his travels in Western Canada in 1940, likely while researching the Mackenzie River System, and includes images along the Athabasca and Slave Rivers, images in and around Waterways as well as Fort Smith, images of rivers, bridges, barges, boats, the Northland Echo, freight, Hudson’s Bay Company stores and images from Banff including buildings, the hot springs, and train tracks.

The fonds consists of a chronological history of the development of the Anglican Church in Waterways, Alberta (now Fort McMurray) written by A.T.P in 1947.

The fonds consists of mining-related records of Raymond Martin and includes a diary of his journey from Waterways to Great Bear Lake and transcript of the diary, photograph albums with images taken by Raymond Martin of his journey to Great Bear Lake as well as images relating to the people at and operations of Eldorado Mine on Labine Point, a notebook with map sketches of mining claims at Hottah Lake, Northwest Territories, and maps indicating his route traveled from Waterways to Great Bear Lake. The fonds also includes a Mines Branch report, brochures about Great Bear Lake, Jasper and Edmonton, an issue of The Saint Paul Letter and "The Facettes of Burtonsville and Brightbank, Alberta and their descendents" complied by Ray Martin.

Fonds consists of photographs and mechanically and photographically produced postcards depicting Lucien Mercier and his wife, as well as various people, buildings, and views in Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories, including Inuit women, First Nations men and women, dredges, ferries, mills, rivers, churches, airplanes, stores, railroad stations and accidents, hotels, floods, fishing and fish drying, caribou, trading posts, trucks, street views, aerial and panoramic views, banks, hospitals, shipyards, post offices, bituminous oil production plants, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, fires, dogsleds, and houses. Fonds also includes a caribou skin map depicting Slave Lake, Alberta, and newspaper clippings about Lucien Mercier.

The fonds consists of a lease for land at Waterways, Alberta, from the Northern Alberta Railways Company to John Richardson Fairbairn, signed over to Lawrence Tolen, and images relating to the fishing operations of McInnes Products Corporation, Limited in Waterways, Alberta, originally dating circa (ca.) 1930s and 1940s, and includes images of rivers, barges, lakes, fishing boats, docks, cargo, ferries, log buildings, an airplane crash, logs and logging, and a dining hall.

The fonds consists of images relating to the fishing operations of McInnes Products Corporation, Limited in Waterways, Alberta, originally dating circa 1930s and 1940s, and includes images of fishing boats, canoes, docks, barges, cargo, workers, airplanes, lakes, log buildings, logs and logging, fish plant, United States Army officers, children, tennis games, swimming and views of Waterways.

Fonds consists of records mainly pertaining to the Northern Alberta Railways Company (NAR), Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPR), and Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway (ED&BC), and other railway companies and includes copied menus dating 1920, operation manuals, blank report forms, trainmen’s wages and merit tickets, a conductor’s ticket report book, and photographs, copied photographs and negatives depicting various railroad cars, locomotives, employees, trackage, accidents and stations in various parts of Alberta, including Peace River, Dunvegan Yards, Edmonton, Waterways, Grouard, Sexsmith, Watino, Grand Prairie, Sawridge, Smoky River, Nordegg, McLennan, Slave lake, Lesser Slave Lake, Widewater, Dog Island, and Salteaux Landing. Fonds also includes images of Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) boats and trading posts, tennis players, coal mine employees, buildings, equipment and machinery at Nordegg, Alberta, hotels, street views, sawmills, missions, houses, and a Dominion Land Office.

The fonds consists of records related to John Callaghan's involvement in Alberta railways and includes minimal correspondence, a biographical pamphlet, and images of John Callaghan, trains (including Northern Alberta Railways and others), employees, horse and wagons, bridges, washed out tracks at Slave Lake, flooding at Waterways, Grande Prairie main street (1914), Premier Greenfield, Minister V.W. Smith and others examining oil sands along the Athabasca River, and postcards with images of last spike, the Lethbridge viaduct and a Fort McMurray souvenir.

The fonds consists of images of river transportation in northern Alberta, possibly dating from the early 1950s, and includes images of boats, barges, tugboats, ferries, freight, crew, and fishing and fish processing, at Waterways, Hay River, Fort Chipewyan, and Fort McMurray.

The fonds consists of selected images copied from photographs albums and includes images from a surveying trip around Great Slave Lake in 1922 with images of Fort McMurray, Fort Chipewyan, the boat Northland Echo, canoes, Fort Smith Landing, a First Nations village, tents, Fort Resolution, Souci King Beaulieu, gold mining equipment, the drying of fish, a sawmill, Hudson's Bay Company posts, the Waterways train station; images from a surveying trip in 1923 with images of Largent's Post, Peace River, survey crew, canoes, Fort Fitzgerald, tractors, dogs, Hay River, Fort Simpson, the Stick River, First Nations members, Fort Franklin, camps and an First Nations grave; and miscellaneous images, originally dating from 1912 to about 1919, of a ferry at Athabasca Landing, the J.L. Côté and Alberta Land Survey's building at Grouard, and a First nations woman and her baby, surveyors at Wabasca Lake, Jack Hornby and his log house.

The collection consists of photographs of sites in and around Fort McMurray and Waterways, Alberta. Images include trains and railways as well as floods in Waterways and street scenes in Fort McMurray.

These photographs depict locations around Fort McMurray and Waterways, Alberta. The photos were printed on card stock and sold as postcards by Hill Drugs. The locations are all identified and depict such subjects as the Fort McMurray shipyards, tugboats, and aerial views of Fort McMurray and Waterways settlements.

Fonds consists of photographs depicting mainly railroad locomotives, cars, stations, employees and derailments in Lac La Biche, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Waterways and Hythe, Alberta, but also includes a ceremony for returning First World War soldiers, buildings, sled-dogs, a hotel, floods, buffalo, tar sands, a Hudson’s Bay Company steamer on the Athabasca River, bridges, and construction of a water tower. Fonds also includes a newspaper clipping entitled The Muskeg Special, correspondence, information and photographs used for publishing the book Ribbons of Steel.

The fonds consists of photographs taken by either Charles Eymundson or his son, Romeo, between 1911 and 1963, digitized copies of these photos on four DVD-Rs, and a newsletter from St. John the Baptist’s Church in Fort McMurray.

The photos depict subjects, events, and locations from across northern Alberta and some locations in Saskatchewan. Locations include Fort Chipewyan, Lesser Slave Lake, Cascade Rapids, McKenzie River, Lake Athabasca, White Mud Canyon, Waterways, Fort McMurray, Athabasca River, Goldfields (Saskatchewan), Edmonton, Brownvale, Slave River, and Embarras.

Events and subjects depicted in the photos include the Dr. Karl Clark oil sands expedition of 1929, Waterways floods of 1936 and 1963, the Dr. August Sandberg expedition of 1911, the poet Robert Service, the Athabasca Fire Brigade, Hudson’s Bay Company posts, water transportation, hunting and trapping, the crash site of CF-ARI (January, 1940), airplanes and airfields, dog sleds, work crews, American military forces in Waterways during the Second World War, forest fires, and other facets of daily life in northern Alberta. There are also several images of Eymundson family members and friends or associates of the family.

The fonds consists of images relating to the fishing operations of McInnes Products Corporation, Limited in Waterways, Alberta, originally dating circa (ca.) 1930s and 1940s, and includes images of airplanes, cargo, lakes, fishing boats, tricks, workers, log buildings, tents, dog sleds and views of Waterways.

The fonds consists of a copy of a chapter out of the First Person Accounts by Ukrainian Pioneers 1891 – 1914, signed by Mr. Erichuk, school and career records of Alex Erichuk, and research into the family tree of Ignace Wanyante, who Caroline Wayandi and Alice Erichuk are descendant of. It also consists of 1 CD of a recorded interview of Mr. Erichuk, 7 photographs of the Salt Mines at which he worked, and 1 USB of photographs depicting Alice Erichuk and her extended family throughout the years and in different places.

The fonds consists of a photo album created by Kvarnberg that documents his time working on the Canol Project. The photos depict transportation of supplies via portage, riverboat, and Caterpillar trains through the bush of northern Alberta and the North West Territories. There are also photos of camps and towns along the supply route, including Fort McMurray, Waterways, Norman Wells, Fitzgerald, Fort Smith and others. There are also images of pipeline and supply depots as well as U.S. soldiers and Indigenous people supporting the Canol Project.

There is also one photograph of the 1935-1936 Luscar Hockey Club. Kvarnberg’s connection to this team is unclear, as he was not listed on the photograph as a team member.

The textual records consist of a brief, hand-written explanation of the photos written by Kvarnberg and three articles about the history of the Canol Project from Arctic Journal, Alberta Oil magazine, and the Hougen family history website.