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Fonds consists of copies of photographs taken by A. S. Thomson while working as a surveyor on the Inter-provincial Boundary Commission dating circa (ca.) 1913-1921 and includes rafts, packhorses, mountains, ice fields, surveyors and surveying camps and equipment.

The fonds consists of photographs of Alberta including the sites of Edmonton, Gull Lake, Lake Louise, and Banff taken by Agnes Mary Whitney and Helen Gertrude Whitney in the 1920s. The fonds also contains some photographs of family members taken by Agnes Mary Whitney and Helen Gertrude Whitney in the 1920s.

The collection includes newsletters, membership lists, minutes, obituaries, remembrance cards, copies of historic photographs, photographs from Coal Branch reunions, and newspaper clippings. The records were created by the Alberta Coal Branch Club and document their club events.

The collection also contains The Cadomin Project, a teaching unit developed by Jim Shaw, Director of the Educational Media Services at the University of Alberta. The teaching unit was created as part of a series of units on small towns across Alberta and used photos, slides, recordings, and other media to teach in elementary and secondary schools.

This unit consists of slides and copies of photographs of subjects in Cadomin in the Alberta Coal Branch, as well as supplemental information, all with a focus on the social history of Cadomin.

There is also a scrapbook that includes clippings related to the Coal Branch and its residents, correspondence with other former Coal Branch residents, membership lists of Coal Branch unions, obituaries of Coal Branch residents, and short biographical sketches of Coal Branch residents.

The collection consists of 30 stereographic images of sites around the Rocky Mountains in Alberta with a small selection of images in other areas of western Canada. The images were created by the following photographic studios: Bingham and Thom, Thom, and Underwood and Underwood.

The fonds consists of three 16 mm cine films taken by Alex McNeil. Two films, dating from the 1930s and 1940s, include footage of Alex McNeil's family including images of the family farm at North Cooking Lake, the Rocky Mountains, the family playing a croquet game, taking outdoor tea, trains, golf, a backyard picnic, an outdoor oversized checker game, tug of war, backyard boxing, drinking beer, swimming, boating, logging, and mowing the lawn, family celebrations, wildlife, and swimming.

The fonds also includes a film containing additional family footage beginning in 1901, as well as footage of the Royal Family visit in 1939 including images of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, George V, Queen Mary, Edward VIII, and George VI.

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.

The fonds consists of a letter from F.H. (Bert) Riggall, a list of the images, and photographs and photographic postcards of mountains, lakes, wildlife including bears, mountain goats, mountain sheep, deer, a grouse, and a porcupine, pack trains, tenting, hunting, and Bert Riggall. The fonds also includes a photograph of Lethbridge Central School, a photograph of Medicine Hat Public School, a photograph of Edmonton Protestant Public School, and a photograph of Edmonton High School. The photographs date from circa 1900. The photographer remains unidentified.

The fonds consists of materials documenting the Alpine Club of Canada and includes a letter pertaining to the Canadian Alpine Club of Canada's Yukon Alpine Centennial Expedition in 1967; copies of the Canadian Alpine Journal dating from 1907 - 1993 (with gaps); copies of the Club's Gazette from 1946 - 1985 (with gaps); and Accidents in North American Pioneering 1967 - 1992 (with gaps); and a membership list of the Club dating from 1985.

The fonds consists of an album of photographs taken by Anne Wight in 1913 during a vacation through the Rocky Mountains from July 19 to September 17. The album features the scenery of Banff, Alberta, and Glacier, BC. H.S. Foster, a Lawrence, Kansas, railway clerk developed the prints.

The fonds consists of images taken by Archibald Dunlap of Edmonton, Alberta, and various other locations across Alberta, including the Rockies, Seba Beach, Edson, and Lacombe.

The collection consists of 15 photographs of the Banff area including views of "Beehive Mountain", a waterfall at "Johnson's Creek", a canoe, and the Banff Springs Hotel; a photograph of Vancouver; a photograph of Santa Monica featuring electric street lights; a photograph of New York Woolworth Building; two photographs of unidentified women; and two photographs of an unidentified harbor. The photographs date from ca. 1918 and were taken by an unknown photographer.

The fonds consists of photograph albums containing over 300 photographs from Bert and Alex Woodcock’s time spent on the traplines, and includes images from Edson, Mountain Park, Brule, Little Smoky, Buck Lake, Berland River, and Tony River, of mountain views, rivers, log cabins, fish, furs and pelts, snowshoes and snowshoeing, horses, dogs and dog sleds, and animals (live and furs) such as deer, moose, bears, caribou, lynx, weasels, wolf, coyotes, and skunks. One album also includes images of family and friends from after their time spent on the traplines. The fonds also includes a hand drawn map of the area around Little Smoky River where Bert and Alex trapped.

The fonds consists of 47 albumen photographs of Charles Niemeyer's automobile expedition from Edmonton to Victoria in [1913]. His was the first car through Jasper Park and the Canadian Rockies via the Yellowhead Pass and the Fraser Canyon. This trip also marked the first all-Canadian route through this area ; one hand-lettered poster regarding the automobile expedition, and one map showing the area of the route.

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 images taken on a trip the Somers took to Alberta to visit a Calgary woman whom Claire had met through her work as “conductorette;” images include Claire, Everett and their traveling companions, the Banff Springs Hotel, the Chateau Lake Louise, cabins, mountains, glaciers, lakes, roads, bears and deer.

The fonds consists of typed transcription of Clara Southwell's diary. The transcription describes Clara's trip by train from Field, British Columbia to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1910.

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

Fonds consists of records pertaining to Elizabeth Kirkbride’s journeys to Canada including correspondence with outfitters and guides, photographs and travel brochures.

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 photographs of views of Edmonton and Calgary, predominantly of buildings including university buildings, schools, churches, hotels, hospitals, libraries, court houses, grain elevators, train stations, city halls, armouries as well as bridges, monuments, rivers and parks; views of the Rocky Mountains, especially around Kootenay Park and Radium, British Columbia, including mountains, hot springs, canyons, rivers, trees, and highways; various views of Stanley Park and Capilano Canyon and River in Vancouver, British Columbia; postcards of the Alberta-British Columbia border, Bow Lake, Banff Springs Hotel, Chateau Lake Louise, Sicamous Hotel, Central School (Calgary), views of Banff buildings, water falls and mountains; and a booklet of scenes along the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Collection consists of two short 16mm films about the Canadian Rockies that were used by the Franciscan Friars for educational and entertainment purposes.

The collection consists of photos depicting mountainous scenes around the Frank Slide and Crowsnest Pass area, including images of the Frank Slide.

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.

Fonds consists of records relating the George T. Elliott's career as a pilot in the RCAF and includes four annotated photograph albums containing approximately 550 photographs which depict RCAF camps, including Camp Borden, Ontario and Lac Du Bonnet, Manitoba, pilots and other RCAF employees, planes, cockpits, machinery shops, hangars, parachuters, cars, buildings, a winter ambulance, pontoon planes and various plane crashes. Fonds also contains some farming scenes and aerial photographs of various places across Canada, including Banff and Lake Louise, Alberta, the Rocky Mountains, Ottawa, Niagra Falls, Toronto and Barrie, Ontario, and British Columbia, as well as aerial views of forest fires.

The fonds consists of photographs from November 17, 1927 of mountains and the Lake Louise and Banff train stations.

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 of the Main Street of Frank, Alberta preceding and following the Frank Slide in 1903

The fonds is made up of one file of clippings, notes, and handbooks relating to the Boy Scouts; one photograph of the 194th Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), Edmonton Highlanders, taken in Toronto November 7, 1916; and cinefilms depicting Edmonton’s Klondike Days parade in the 1960’s or 1970’s, mountain views, and aerial views of Edmonton and the river valley.

The fonds consists of a postcard of Nakoda people with a tipi and views of the mountains near Banff, Alberta, and photographs from Nordegg, Alberta of trains, the train station, buildings, stores, street scenes, a dogsled, religious services, Indigenous peoples and ceremonies, Harold Kidd and Harold’s brother, Stuart Kidd.

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.”

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 records relating to a special ceremony held on the North Kootenay Pass commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Blakiston and honouring his crossing of the Rockies and includes newspaper clippings, a program, certificates, a list of participants in the hike, a recording with Liz Hall, Dr. Alex Johnson and Bruce Haig regarding Thomas Blakiston and the Palliser expedition and a recording of Bruce Haig speaking about the Thomas Blakiston hike and the plaque unveiling.

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 images of Turtle Mountain, one taken circa (ca.) 1890, before the Frank Slide, and one taken in the 1960s by James Cousins after the Slide.

The fonds consists of promotional brochures from Canadian National Railways for their tours through Canada and in particular through the Canadian Rocky Mountains, a Canadian National Railways Tourist’s Map of Canada, advertisements for the Canadian Pacific Railway Tour, a promotional brochure from Canadian Pacific Railway for their tour from Australia and New Zealand through Canada and onto England, a brochure from the Union Pacific Railway for their Pacific Northwest and Alaska tour and two hand-drawn maps by J.D. McLean of the railway lines in Alberta.

The fonds consists of 33 photographs taken by Joan P. Wegert's parents featuring views of Mountain Park and the surrounding environment.

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

The fonds consists of five reels of 16mm colour silent film shot by Katherine Baier featuring scenes of cars, weddings horseback riding, Chateau Lake Louise, Bonnyville School dating from 1954; scenes of the Columbia Ice Fields, Banff, Frank Slide, and Turtle Mountain dating from ca. 1957; equestrian scenes in Bawlf, Alberta dating from ca. 1955; scenes of Radium, BC, the Banff town site, a restored Model-T Ford dating from ca. 1959; scenes of harvesting, the Banff Highway, waterfalls, the Banff town site, animals, campsite, cars, St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, and a Viking Parade dating from ca. 1949 to 1953.

The fonds consists of a souvenir booklet dating from ca. 1908 featuring images of Edmonton buildings, streets, and the Rocky Mountains. The fonds also contains one photograph featuring a parade in Edmonton dating from ca. 1908.

The fonds consists of photographs of mountains, of Peace River (by McDermid Studios Limited), and of the Chateau Lake Louise (by Fred Armbrister).

The fonds consists of 2 photographs featuring scenes of Lethbridge buildings, mountains, and mines taken by Ludwig Hagemann dating from circa 1926 - 1930.

This fonds consists of two commercially-produced photogravure albums of the Rocky Mountains. The first album consists of a series of 24 hand-coloured photogravures of the Rocky Mountains published by Byron Harmon. The second album consists a selection of 24 artistic views of the Rocky Mountains, originally photographed by Byron Harmon, copyrighted 1915. The photogravures are primarily scenic views of various mountains, lakes, falls, canyons and valleys in the Rocky Mountains, as well as views of Canadian Pacific Railway hotels, and the Banff townsite.

The fonds also includes images of the University of Alberta experimental farm and its students, a series of images of the haying process near Looma, Alberta from 1925, and an image of an unidentified woman with a Memorial fountain at 104th Street and 81st Avenue in Edmonton.

The fonds consists of 21 photographs of the Crowsnest Pass area in Alberta.

Fonds consists of photographs depicting people and images such as schools, Victoria Day celebrations, buildings, boats, dogsledding teams, and mountain views, in various National Parks and Alberta towns, including Fort McMurray, Tofield, Calgary, Camrose, and the Lethbridge land rush of 1910.

The collection consists of a home video of mountain scenery, waterfalls, and a family on a farm in winter dating from ca. 1932; a film advertising Kodak motion picture film with images of a California Shriner’s parade, aerial shots, a school parade, and a baseball game in Luscar dating from 1932; a film produced by Ducks Unlimited entitled “The Great Duck Factory” dating from ca. 1938; and the first five reels (out of a total of six) of "The Lone Eagle," a 1927 film directed by Emory Johnson about an American pilot's experiences with the Royal Flying Corps in France during the First World War.

The fonds consists of a photograph album including 175 photographs primarily from the Peace River district and along the Athabasca River, of First Nations graves, boy scouts, labourers, houses, farms, rivers, mountains, trees, valleys, pack horses, cars, horses, logging and hunting; and postcards of the Twin Falls in Yoho Valley and views of Vancouver, British Columbia including Capilano Canyon and Stanley Park.

Fonds consists of photographs and photographic postcards depicting various people, buildings, bridges and views in Alberta and British Columbia, including many scenes along the Canadian Pacific Railway line, and includes Columbia River and highway, Tooth Rock, Connaught Tunnel, Yoho Valley, Kicking Horse Canyon, Morraine Lake, Lake Louise, Cascade Mountain, Castle Mountain, Mount (Mt.) Rundle, Mt. Temple, Bow Valley, and Douglas Street in Victoria, British Columbia, and Banff Hot Springs Hotel. Fonds also includes images of canoes, automobiles, buffalo, mountain goats, log cabins, trains, and William S. Gavitt with a moose.

The collection consists of material found in Room A137 of the Provincial Museum and Archives Building in 1969. The collection includes: Edmonton and District Labour Council Annuals published by the Edmonton Trades and Labour Council and the Calgary Labour Council dating from 1951 - 1961; a booklet entitled "Boy Blue's Verses" by Frederick Balmer Watt (1918); the first annual report of the North Alberta Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Canada and Newfoundland (1938); regulations providing for the election of representatives of the Armed Forces (1944); a conference paper presented by Ernest Manning (1945); a booklet entitled "The Magpie Menace" by Kerry Wood; Alberta Public Service pamphlets (1955); informational pamphlets on Alberta's Jubilee Auditoriums of Calgary and Edmonton (1955); a program of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of Alberta (1959); Peace River and District Telephone Directory (1963); copy of the "Tattler" published by the Minus One Club of Edmonton (1955); pamphlets and postcards related to the history of Edmonton circa 1950s; a photo album entitled "The Canadian Pacific Rockies"; 25 photogravures published by Byron Harmon circa 1900; copies of the Raymond Review Aug 3, 1966 and Aug 10, 1966; Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Explorer first centennial edition, Peace River Country (1967); a copy of the Alberta Red Cross News Pictorial Campaign No. 3 (1925); a copy of the Edmonton Journal "Annual Review and Forecast (1967); an illustrated booklet celebrating Alberta's Golden Jubilee; Edmonton Transit System passes dating from the 1960s; and 6 blueprints indicating the construction of streets in Carstairs and Wetaskiwin, Alberta (1906).

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 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.

The fonds consists of 17 mechanically reproduced souvenir postcards of views of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge and Buffalo Park (Wainwright), Alberta.