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The collection consists of two publications, The Klondike Official Guide prepared by William Ogilvie, Dominion Land Surveyor and Explorer, published under the authority of the Department of the Interior, and The New North: The Gateway, written by F.S. Wright for Town Topics Publishing, Edmonton, 1930, which advertises the natural resources and financial opportunities of Edmonton and the Peace River Country.

The fonds consists of a diary documenting Walter Harvey Dunworth's attempt to reach the Klondike from 1898 - 1899.

The fonds consists of diaries written by George Edwin Cornell on his travels in the unsurveyed lands of Western Canada and the United States; correspondence of George Cornell; and images of gold mining on the North Saskatchewan River and the homestead at Kinuso.

The fonds consists of the financial statements of McGregor Telephone and Construction Co. dating from the 1930s to the 1950s, financial statements of Western Tile and Lumber Co. dating from the 1940s, and geological and mineral reports by Roymac Holding Ltd. in the areas of Burmis, Alberta and the Mackenzie Mining District dating from the 1980s.

The fonds consists of a booklet produced by the Athabasca Heritage Society in 1998 entitled, "The Overland Route to the Klondike via Athabasca Landing."

Fonds consists of copied photographs dating 1898-1900 that depict people and views during the Klondike gold rush in the Dawson, Northwest Territories area and includes camps, buildings, dogsleds, horses, rivers, and boats.

The fonds consists of a photocopy of a journal Franklyn Hasty Powell maintained while traveling to the Klondike Gold Rush from 1897 - 1898.

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 fonds consists of images originally dating 1930 to 1935, at the McLeod River Mining Corporation Limited, and includes images of gold dredging, mining camps, miners, panning for gold, and gold-mining equipment.