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The collection pertains to Julie Hrapko's career in the heritage industry, and consists of copies of photographs featuring the Miette Hot Springs circa 1930, Mr. and Mrs. Lakusta's wedding circa 1919, and a civil protest by farmers in Two Hills in 1931.

Fonds consists of negatives depicting various people, views, animals, buildings and sporting events in the Jasper area, Alberta.

The fonds consists of images of early Edmonton and includes photographs of Edmonton and Strathcona, Edmonton hospitals, schools, brewery, train stations, streets (including Whyte Avenue), houses, buildings, ferry, bridges, a train derailment, Heimthal church (east of Ellerslie), the Stettler creamery, the Innisfail Hotel, the dining room of Royal Hotel, children swimming, canoeing, shaving, and a bear, and postcards of the Royal Hotel, Diamond Hall (Ash Brothers (Bros.)), Edmonton bridges, an incline railway, buildings, views, streets, street cars, the Legislature, the University, views along the Athabasca River, hotels, buildings and banks in Wetaskiwin, Sylvan Lake, scouts, buffalo, bridge at Rocky Mountain House, First Nations peoples, North Battleford (Saskatchewan), buildings, trolleys, bridges, and rivers in Calgary, mountains, glaciers, near Banff and Jasper, buildings, bridges in Banff, branding, and harvesting.

The fonds also includes an Edmonton Orpheus Society banquet program, toast lists and menus for the Old Timers’ Association of Edmonton, a business card for the Royal Hotel, a Salvation Army Diamond Jubilee dinner ticket, a Christmas card, a Jasper House Christmas Day menu, Royal Hotel Christmas menus, and sheet music for song “The Emblem of Alberta” (words by Jeannette Forsyth and music by Gilbert Stirling).

The fonds consists of images of mountain scenes, Jasper, Alberta sites, swimmers, children, wedding portraits, bison, Wainwright, farm machinery, and a ship.

The fonds consists of nine cine films of Jasper and Banff National Parks depicting wildlife and winter events dating from [1940 – 1969].

The collection consists of articles, oral histories, and government reports about the development of Jasper National Park and the influence of human development in the area. The photographs focus on the Pocahontas area of Jasper National Park, including mining and rail infrastructure.

The fonds consists of the bulk of the Cunningham Photographers photographic holdings and include wedding portraiture, commercial photographs, scenic photographs, 1959 Royal Tour photographs, personal photographs, and event photographs.

The wedding and family portraiture, including formal portraits and candid images, represent the largest portion of the images. The subjects and dates are all identified and span several decades. Commercial photographs for such businesses and Hudson’s Bay Company and many Alberta-based companies including manufacturers, retailers, energy companies, and others are also present and include images intended for advertising, personnel, sites, and interiors. Many events such as parades, banquets, and festivals are also represented in the fonds.

Scenic photographs of locations around Alberta such as Banff and Jasper National Parks are sampled, as are personal and family photographs.

The textual records consist of indexes to the photographs and negatives, arranged by portraits, weddings, commercial, and events.

The fonds consists of family photographs, certificates, and genealogical information related to the lives of William Charles Cable and William John Phillip Cable, including military portraits, family snapshots, records related to federal fish hatcheries, military certificates, and family trees.

The fonds consists of images of the CN railway through areas of Alberta including Miette, Medicine Lodge Station, and Edson Hotel taken by an unidentified photographer and dating from the 1950s and the 1960s.

The fonds consists of records relating to the Sears family and includes a booklet entitled "My Price Ceiling Record" which was used as an address book and a diary likely by a member of the Sears family, images of a log barn on the Sears homestead, a farmer, a Bennett buggy, soldiers including Captain Bidwell of the 49th Battalion, possibly a colliery in the Rocky Mountain area, 1950s holiday shots from a trip to the Rocky Mountains including the Banff and Jasper administration buildings, Banff's Cave and Basin, automobiles, and a Brewster's bus, and a tintype of a baby.

The fonds consists of records pertaining to Vern French’s activities in a lobby to the federal and provincial governments to re-establish Buffalo National Park at Wainwright, Alberta and includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, various government acts, articles, press releases, reports, minutes and photographs depicting various buffalo artefacts owned by Vern French, and flint corn.

The fonds consists of photographs and negatives taken in or near Coal Branch, Jasper, Banff, Luscar, Mountain Park, Lovett, and Yellowhead County with some photos taken in Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, and British Columbia.

The photos have a wide breadth of subject material including mining (including mine fires, rescue horses, miners, specific mines, equipment, and infrastructure), sports (including baseball, curling, tennis, soccer, and track), leisure activities (including music, parties, and performances), women, outdoor activities (including picnics, hunting, camping, ice skating, horseback riding, and snow-shoeing), landscapes, and people in a wide age range.

The fonds consists of two photographs featuring the High Level Bridge in Edmonton, and one photograph featuring the Jasper National Park townsite dating from the 1920s taken by an unidentified photographer. The fonds also includes an ambrotype portrait of Muriel Hales' grandmother circa 1880.

Fonds consists of copied and original articles written by E.T. Love about highway building in Alberta, the Trans Canada Highway, Icefields Parkway, and Yellowhead Route, as well as his experiences with the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Road Committee.

The fonds consists of records relating to Alfred Driscoll and includes his certificate of appointment as Dominion Land Surveyor, a surveying certificate, a copyright certificate, images of Alfred Driscoll, a hunting party (including Driscoll), members of the International Boundary Commission, maps of road diversions in the Municipal District of Sturgeon No. 548 by A. Driscoll, a 1908 map of Edmonton by A. Driscoll, and Driscoll and Knight maps for the Municipal Districts of Grasswold No. 248, Lorne No. 400, Merton No. 451, Wellington No. 481, Cornhill No. 487, Black Mud No. 488, Liberty, No. 489, The Pines No. 516, Sturgeon No. 548, Pibroch No. 609 and Nelson No. 638. The fonds also includes Grand Trunk Pacific Railway photographs of Jasper, including images of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's visit to Jasper in 1914, Angel Glacier, the sign at the summit of the Yellowhead Pass, an internment camp at Jasper, a horse-drawn wagon, Maligne Canyon, and Mount Edith Cavell.

Fonds consists of photographs depicting a the visits of George H.V. Bulyea and Sir Wilfred Laurier, to Edmonton, Alberta, a goose hunt, and the Athabaska Falls in Jasper National Park, Jasper, Alberta.

Fonds consist of a photograph depicting the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) barracks in Calgary, Alberta dated 1910, and an undated article entitled History of the Establishment of the Chief Parks along the Main Line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Waterton Lakes Park in Southern Alberta and Jasper Park along the Canadian National Railway in the neighbourhood of Yellowhead Pass in the Rocky Mountains, written by William Pearce.

The fonds consists of images copied from Thomasine Lenkewich’s family album and includes images from the Jasper area including the Miette Hot Springs, hotels, houses, banks, the fire hall, the train station, the icefields, hockey teams, baseball teams, and images of the 1957 railway worker strike in Edmonton.

The fonds consists of records of the LaPerle family including photographs, correspondence, diaries and other personal papers, cookbooks and recipes, gardening, how-to and decorating magazines, books and booklets, biographical and genealogical papers, press clippings, school handbooks and other materials used or accumulated by Annie LaPerle as a teacher.

The fonds also includes records from the Winterburn Golden Agers and Winterburn Women's Institute, store and farm cash books and statements of accounts and other records documenting daily activities, as well as greeting and sympathy cards, maps, slides and 8 mm film reels.

The photographs, slides and films depict the LaPerle family and friends, the Winterburn Store, post office, house and other buildings, farming, farm machinery and crews, weddings and anniversaries, burials, churches and other buildings, cars, picnics, parties and leisure activities, students and schools, soldiers, First Nations people, Banff and Jasper, Edmonton and other places in Alberta, and the Edmonton Ski Club.

The three lantern slides and four stereoviews are as follows: “A Treacherous Crevasse in Victoria Glacier;” Centre Street Bridge – Calgary (colour); “Midnight Sun [river boat] – G. Rubie – 1896;” “Mt. Edith Cavell from Jasper Park Lodge…;”Beautiful Crystal Garden and Cascade Mountain Range, Banff, Alberta, Canada;” “One of the Three Sisters Overlooking the Snow River Valley, Banff, Alberta, Canada; ”Ancient Monarch of the Herd, Buffalo at Banff, Alberta, Canada.”

The fonds consists of records created by the Engineering and Construction Service Section, National Parks Branch, for its work in national parks located in the Rocky Mountains, including those in Alberta and British Columbia. The records include photographs and negatives that depict section projects such as bridges and roads as well as specifications, drawings, and inspectors' reports.

The fonds consists of two photograph albums containing 131 photographs from across Alberta including Peace River, Grande Prairie, Brulé, Red Willow Valley, Pouce Coupe, Spirit River, Jasper National Park, Crowsnest Pass; images include surveyors, camps, horses, views of various towns, buildings, creeks and rivers, Alberta-British Columbia boundary markers, mountains, water falls, riverboats, and the Provincial Mental Hospital at Ponoka and its nurses.

The material consist of two genealogies of the Provost and Ouimet families (Genealogie de la famille Provost et en particulier celle de Firmin Provost de Legal, Alberta, jusqu'en 1953 and The Ouimets, 1892-1992), commercial photographs from Jasper National Park of mountains and lakes, and photographic reproductions featuring views of Edmonton and Edmonton buildings.

The fonds consists of records reflecting Michelle Elfstedt's interest in Alberta's history and comprises 3 photographs of Bing Crosby on the 1948 set of The Emperor's Waltz filmed in Jasper National Park, Alberta, and taken by an unknown photographer.

The collection consists of a photograph of Billy Day of Athabasca Landing driving a team of moose at the Edmonton Exhibition in 1911 and a Christmas card dating from 1912. The collection also includes 12 photographic postcards dating from the 1920s featuring elk in Wainwright Park, men and a dog team, Mt. Robson in Mt. Robson Park, Mt. Edith Cavell in Jasper National Park, buffalo in Wainwright Park, Maligne Canyon in Jasper National Park, Chateau Lake Louise in Lake Louise, and Jasper Park Lodge.

The fonds consists of films from the 1930s and 1940s of H.R. MacLean's trips to the Rocky Mountains including footage of Tonquin, Sunshine Lodge, Mount Athabasca, the Columbia Icefields, Mount Fitzwilliam, Little Yoho, Banff and Lake O'Hara. The fonds also includes maps of Jasper Park, Banff Park, Waterton Lakes Park, North West Alberta, northern and southern Alberta and the County of Strathcona.

The fonds consists of 15 colour, silent 8mm home movies [1 hour 45 minutes] including footage of family events and activities such as weddings, anniversaries, vacations, picnics, waterskiing, camping, and hunting in locations such as Edmonton, Jasper, Lethbridge, Glenevis Alberta, Al Oeming's Game Farm outside Edmonton, Toronto Ontario, B.C., and the U.S. Also includes some footage of Don's work with the Northern Alberta Dairy Pool (N.A.D.P.) Don was one of Jim and Irene's sons.

The fonds consists of a microfilm copy of a publication by Jack Glen entitled Mountain Tales . Mountain Tales discusses Jack Glen's life as a forest ranger in Alberta.

The fonds consists of images by William McLennan depicting various sites around Alberta, including Edmonton, Drumheller, Calgary, Jasper, Lethbridge, Red Deer, Fort McMurray, various provincial parks, several heritage sites, churches, and more. The slides also contain images of community events such as Edmonton’s Heritage Fest, chuckwagon races, etc.

There are also slides of McLennan family members and events. Furthermore, there is a relatively comprehensive collection of close-up images of various species of butterflies and other insects from across Alberta. Lastly, there are title card slides that McLennan would have used to create slide shows from his work.

The fonds consists of a VHS copies of the following documentaries produced by Great North Productions: The Life and Times of Peter Lougheed (1994), Jasper (1995), and Gabriel Dumont: Prince of the Prairies (1998).

The fonds consists of images, originally dating 1925 to 1932, of trips Chris and Grace took to Jasper, Alberta, and include bears, trestle and other bridges, carts, Jasper Park Lodge and mountains.

The fonds consists of an article entitled "The filming of River of No Return" written by Robert Jordan in 1990 and published in Marilyn Forever. The article discusses the production of River of No Return, a film starring Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum, and filmed in Jasper National Park in 1953.

The fonds consists of 8 photographs featuring scenes of Jasper and Banff National Park dating from circa 1907 - 1909.

Fonds consists of photographic and mechanically produced postcards and photographs depicting various mountain views in Alberta, as well as the interior and exterior of Jasper Park Lodge in Jasper, Alberta, an incline railway and Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) fort in Edmonton, Alberta, and the interior of the New Cecil Grill. Fonds also includes hand coloured photographs and photographic postcards depicting women, children and wilderness scenes.

The fonds consists of photographs of family, friends and Navy ships, maneuvers, events, people and Alberta Legislature ceremonies, financial records, original and copied birth certificates, invitations, records related to Munro’s university degree and his career in the Navy, newspapers clippings, photocopied reminiscences of growing up in Edmonton by Munro Williamson, slides of hunting trips (Beaverlodge), Imperial Oil staff, an arctic trip, Jasper area, Edmonton homes, streets, the Legislative building and the river valley, and maps of the North American East Coast, the Nova Scotia South East coast, and Peace River.

Fonds consists of one packet of 28 photographs of Jasper National Park.

Fonds consists of records relating to Hubert Thorne’s career as an officer with the RNWMP and RCMP and includes copied correspondence, telegrams, patrol reports, a will, discharge papers, a biographical sketch, and articles from Radio Broadcast Advertiser, Canadian Aviation, and True Detective Mysteries dating 1911-1941. Fonds also includes copied photographs depicting various people and buildings, mainly in the Fort Yukon and Jasper Park areas of Alberta, including RNWMP and RCMP officers and barracks, First Nations people and camps, the Fort Yukon Hospital, Haly’s Roadhouse and the Maligne Canyon Tea Room. Fonds also includes a poem and daily journals containing patrol reports and personal observations.

The fonds consists of images, originally dating 1920 to circa (ca.) 1955, of the Banff Springs Hotel and the Banff townsite and buildings, Angel Glacier near Jasper, Chateau Lake Louise, Central Park, the library, Burns’ house in Calgary, views of the University of Alberta and the river valley in Edmonton, the interior of different homes in Edmonton including kitchens and living room with fireplaces and radios, and the interior of a cabin and St. Mark’s Church, both at South Cooking Lake.