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The fonds consists of number of greeting cards collected by Mrs. Reidel between the years of 1920 and 1970. The fonds also includes mementos from Mrs. Reidel's life in Edmonton including Johnstone Walker ads; a local insurance company premium book, a bank book from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce,a photo of the Edmonton Radial Railway observation car, a photo of the interior of Ghormley's Store, and other souvenir publications.

The collection consists of a souvenir book of the Canadian Grand Union Meeting of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen and Ladies’ Societies, and photographs of the staff and students at the Western Canada College in Calgary, Alberta.

The collection consists of images, originally dating ca. 1914 to ca. 1983 from Cereal, Alberta, including images of views of Cereal, streets, hotels, train station, schools, hospitals, a restaurant interior, houses and log houses, children, residents, hospital matrons, a hospital doctor, the director of nurses, geese hunters, a fiddler, horse and carts, horse and sleigh, horses, cattle, oxen, barns, farming, harvesting, plowing, harrows, water well, baseball spectators, cars, picnics, skiing, trains, and a steam engine.

The collection consists of images of dating from about 1903 to about 1930 from the Lloydminster, Saskatchewan area relating to Barr colonists, and includes images of a variety of buildings including the school, train station, bank, post office, and hospital, automobiles, houses, log cabins, tents, ploughing, haying, horse and cart, a musical band and a soccer team. The fonds includes a number of images relating to the Tebbs, Booth, Topott, Hall, Wright, Grey, Fisher, Jones, Sutton, and Cripps families and to Rev. Trench.

The fonds consists of a photograph album with twenty-four photographs of the North West Territories (Alberta and Saskatchewan) and Manitoba, featuring trains, riverboats, picnics, parades, a fire brigade, [Indigenous people and First Nation camps] natives and native encampments, Doukabors, mining, a hotel, the St. Andrew's Lockport bridge, Countess Grey, and a toboggan slide.

The fonds consists of records related to Amos Mann's work with the Woodland Dairy Ltd. including a price list for Woodland Dairy dating circa 1941. The fonds also includes photographs owned by Amos Mann featuring Edmonton in the 1940s. The fonds also reflects James Mann's career with the Canadian National Railways and includes certificates, manuals, forms, photographs, a history of Northern Alberta Railways line, instruction manuals, wage tables, gazetteer and shippers directory, freight car types, a telephone directory, equipment registers, and a system map dating from 1951 to 1990. In addition the fonds includes James Mann's high school yearbooks from Strathcona Composite High School dating from 1945/46 and 1948/49, a price list from California Confection Store located on Whyte Ave, Edmonton in the 1940s, and booklet from the opening celebrations of the Francis Winspear Centre for Music in Edmonton, Alberta dating from 1997.

The fonds consists of photographs, negatives, and slides featuring locations, facilities, and equipment of Northern Alberta Railways that were created by Cecil Swanson during the course of his work and were subsequently used to create the publication The Northern Alberta Railways Vol. 3 (1998). The fonds also includes a copy of The Northern Alberta Railways Vol. 3.

The fonds consists of photographs depicting a Canadian Pacific Railway labour gang and a lodge parade in Tofield, Alberta, which includes an image of Earle Ferguson.

Fonds consists of photographs that depict scenes on the Kluck family homestead in Provost, Alberta including agricultural machinery, building construction, and members of the Kluck family. Also includes images of a band at the agricultural fair in Macklin, Saskatchewan and various buildings and views in Provost, Alberta including St. Mary’s and Rosenheim churches, Franz Joseph school, and Provost railroad station.

The fonds consists of images, originally dating 1957, from the Crowsnest Pass area and east of the area, of CPR track work and construction. The fonds also include 1957 newspaper clippings relating to Gerald S. Bradshaw, as well as his obituary

Fonds consists of records dating 1975 that pertain to activities surrounding the visit of Lord Strathcona and includes a programme, information about the Special Heritage Project Grant, a newspaper clipping, and slides depicting the visit of Lord Strathcona, including the rail tour and the spike driving ceremony.

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 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 fonds consists of an image of the crew of Bassell’s Extra Gang #20028 for whom Inga Stephenson was the cook (photograph by C.E. Tighe), an image of the Stephenson’s home, likely in Strathcona (photograph by H.H. Huntting), and an image of horses and carts in front of the Edmonton Ice House (photograph by H.H. Huntting).

The fonds consists of images relating to the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, primarily near Wolf Creek, Alberta, including Big Eddy, the Pembina River, Moose Lake, Duck Lake, the Athabasca River, Sundance Creek, Brazeau and the Coal Branch; these include photographs and photographic postcards of trestles, bridges, camps, workers, bridge construction, construction equipment, railroad cars, mountains, rivers, packhorses and buffalo, and a postcard of the first train over the High Level Bridge in Edmonton.

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 membership cards, birth and marriage records, passports, and licenses. There are also copies of by-laws and constitutions from the Masonic Lodge and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees union. The photos include a military portrait of Harry’s brother, Roman, during the First World War, family photos from Poland and in Harry’s early years in Canada, images of Harry at work in rail yards, images of Marie’s family, and many photos from the Ostashes’ 50th wedding anniversary and of their extended family. There are also a few examples of b&w photographs that have been colourized and a large, gum print photograph of an unrelated couple on their wedding day.

The fonds consists of professional records such as correspondence, tax forms, insurance forms, receipts related to George Masikewich's career with CNR and the operation of his farm. The fonds also contains personal records of George and Annie including certificates, correspondence, and postcards. The fonds dates from circa 1904 to 1953.

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 photograph album circa (ca.) 1910 featuring views of Edmonton and surrounding area including Jasper Avenue, a First Nations parade, individuals, farms, school buildings such as Norwood School, and railroad tracks. The fonds also includes a photograph of a lightning storm on the prairies and a view of a grain field ca. 1910.

Fonds consists of maps of Canadian National Railway trackage in Red Deer, Alberta, photographs of Canadian National Railway tracks and rail cars, a cemetery plan for Red Deer Cemetery, specifications of a Lacombe and North Western Railway power unit, and a newspaper clipping.

Fonds consists of copied photographs that date from 1910-1945, predominantly 1910-1922, that depict various people, buildings, and views in the Whitecourt, Alberta area and includes barns, log buildings, carriages and carts, a hockey team, Beaver Bridge, a survey party, school children, street views, churches, tractors, ferries, railroad construction, various public events and picnics, Harrop’s Hotel, Torgerson’s Store, H. Steward Pool Room, and the Whitecourt Hotel.

Fonds consists of a report entitled Report on Edmonton Interurban Railway Company, written by Maurice Polet, a resume, correspondence, newspaper clippings and a copied newspaper clipping, a transcript of a personal reminiscence, daily journals, poems, and post cards. Fonds also includes negatives, glass plate negatives, and photographs depicting the Polet and Boulanger families and the Boulanger homestead, as well as various people, places, and views, mainly in Alberta, including railroad construction, bridges, and stations, roads, street views, survey parties, machinery, and camps, boats, hunting, automobiles, animals, automobiles, churches, Hudson’s Bay Company trading posts, and furniture. Fonds also includes photographs depicting a number of creeks, rapids, rivers, lakes, and mountains.

The fonds consists of photographic postcards of the Peace River area, including views of Main Street, various buildings, a train, and views of the town; the images are by J. Martinos.

The fonds consists of three photographs regarding CN and the Keefes, numerous Rail Operating Instruction and rule books and other trade manuals, ledgers detailing day to day train operations, newspaper articles related to railway history, two union constitution manuals and a labour relations manual, Instructions and Schedule for the CNR Royal Tour in 1939, a folio of folded circuit designs, and numerous CN time tables.

Fonds consists of instructions for building model trains and photographs of completed models.

The fonds consists of 2502 images of locomotives, cars, and stations across Canada and the United States dating from ca. 1915 to 1980 primarily shot but also collected by Norman Fisher. The fonds features images from the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, the British Columbia Electric Railway, the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, the British Columbia Railway, the Northern Alberta Railway, the Greater Winnipeg Water District, the Algoma Central Railway, the Ontario Northland Railway, Quebec Central Railway, Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway, the Dominion and Atlantic Railway, Canadian National Railway, and the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The fonds also includes blank employee forms used by Northern Alberta Railways dating from the 1950’s.

The collection consists of a share certificate receipt book for Refineries Distributors Limited for 1926, various advertisements, a music program for the Westminster Glee Club, a Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regimental Song Book, an "Everybody Sing" songbook, commencement programs for Holy Cross Hospital's School of Nursing (1945), a prize list and entry form for the Edmonton Poultry Show (1943), a Diamond Jubilee of Confederation program and song sheet, prize lists for the Annual Caroline Fair (1929, 1935), Canadian Pacific Railway Company operating rules and schedule of rates and rules, a booklet "Ritual for the use of Subordinate Divisions of the Order of Railway Conductors," images of an unidentified man with a water tower in background and men on a caboose.

Collection consists of various records relating to the City of Edmonton Street Railway Department, Edmonton Street Railroad and Radial Railway, Canadian National Railroad, Canadian Northern Railway Company, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Grand Trunk Pacific Companies, Northern Alberta Railways Company, Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway Company, and Central Canada Railway Company. Collection includes financial records, passenger statistics, correspondence, telegrams, equipment inventories, specifications and advertising catalogues, tenders, equipment and track standards, duplicate certificates of title, newsletters, newspaper clippings, a conductor’s book, public notices and transit system schedules, employee files and seniority lists, radio advertising broadcast transcripts and advertising copy. Collection also includes plans and maps depicting various areas in Edmonton, Alberta that are serviced by transit and railroad companies. Collection also includes photographs that depict the interior and renovations of a street-car, and various railroad construction crews and equipment.

There is also a photograph of the last remaining Northern Alberta Railways engine being removed from the Cromdale Barns to the Alberta Railway Museum site by the Alberta Pioneer Railway Association on 12 October 1975. This was the last APRA engine housed at the Cromdale Barns and it is still part of the APRA holdings on display at the Alberta Railway Museum.

The collection is made up of items donated to the Provincial Archives of Alberta from the Society’s holdings. The collection is made up of postcards and postcard-format photographs depicting places in Alberta, including views of Banff, Mount Stephen and Cathedral Peak, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Lacombe, a train on the Lacombe Branch of the C.P.R., Lacombe High School, an early view of Calgary, and the Lacombe hockey team, winners of the Alberta Amateur Hockey Association championship. Addressees of the postcards are: Miss Ruth McKenzie (Ft. Pierre, SD), Mr. L.M. Fortune (Andover, SD), Miss Sarah Summerside (Pierre, SD), Mrs. Emma Fortune (Coude, SD), Mrs. T. Jones (Andover, SD), Mr. And Mrs. R.W. Fortune (Coude, SD), and H.D. Parhauw (Woonsocket, SD).

The collection consists of a variety of copied images including photographs featuring maps of the areas of Fort Garry, Fort Ellice, Fort Pitt, Fort Edmonton, the Yellowhead Pass, the North Saskatchewan River, and Fort McMurray dating from the 1880s; photographic copies of certificates and correspondence related to Col. Francis Mewburn dating from 1776 to 1880; photographs of the Lethbridge area featuring images of railways, dwellings, minters, engines, businesses such as H. Bentley and Co., T. Botterill Hardware, and members of the Blood Nation dating from the 1880s; photographs of Medicine Hat featuring a hospital and the Lady Aberdeen's Women's Hospital dating from 1894; images of Saskatchewan including a carbonizing and briguetting plant; photographs of the University of Alberta and the Edmonton area including images of campus residences, the Royal Alexandra Hospital, the University Hospital, classes of students, St. Joseph's College, CKUA Radio Station, farm buildings, the Oliver Institute, and First Nations dating from the 1920s.

The collection consists of copies of photographs acquired from the Medicine Hat Historical and Museum Foundation featuring views of the Medicine Hat area dating from the late 19th century and the early part of the 20th century including views of Medicine Hat, Bassano, Irvine, Farmers' Lumber Co. Ltd, Metis women, Connaught School, a milling company, Medicine Hat Crayon Company, a fire at the Alberta Linseed Oil Mills, Medicine Hat Glass Company, a court house, agricultural machinery, agricultural activities, Captain Ross' steam launch, flour mills, a baptism, a Canadian Pacific Railway Train, cowboys, First Nations, a pottery barn, pioneers, a football team, St. John's Presbyterian Church, surveyor's camps, and Canadian National Railway Depots. The collection also includes images featuring Hudson's Bay Company Factors.

Fonds consists of records dating 1912-1973 and includes a report on the Canada Land and Irrigation Company Limited, which contains maps and photographs of areas in Medicine Hat, Alberta, a report entitled The Lost Mine of the Saskatchewan, and a brief history of Medicine Hat. Fonds also includes various photographs relating to engineering, railroads, land and irrigation, and farming.

Fonds consists of researched histories of the development of the Edmonton Interurban Railway and the Edmonton, Yukon, and Pacific Railway, both written by R.F. Corley. Also includes some research articles and information.

Fonds consists of the personal records of Anthony Salga and includes federal and provincial income tax statements and time sheets from his time working at Mountain Park Coals Ltd. Fonds also includes Canadian National Railways (CNR) and Canadian Pacific Railways (CPR) train timetables.

The fonds consists of images of the Edmonton and Camrose hockey teams, Renfrew baseball park and a train engine.

The fonds consists of correspondence, journals and reports created during the course of Harold Stepney's employment with the Northern Alberta Railways Company. The fonds also includes records of his involvement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The records pertain to his career as an engineer, as a Rules and Safety Inspector, as well as his education to become an engineer, or engineman. The fonds also contains newsclippings and articles highlighting some of Harold Stepney's own personal interests, including elections, the 11th Commonwealth Games and Centennial celebrations.

Fonds consists of photographs depicting various Strathcona and Edmonton people, buildings and views, including Edmonton police officers and buildings, the High Level and Low Level bridges, paddle steamers, trains, buildings, and airplanes. Fonds also includes photographs of Officer W.A. Crawford.

The fonds consists of copies of records relating to the life of Charles Anderson and includes correspondence relating to his appointment to the Order of Canada, newspaper clippings, and other records that provide biographical information about Charles Anderson and historical information about the Northern Alberta Railways and the Alberta Resources Railway Corporation. The fonds also include a 1973 image of Charles Anderson.

The fonds consists of photographs, plans, agreements, negatives, plans and blueprints related to Canadian National Railway dating from ca. 1910 - 1982 collected by Robert Valere during his service with CN and from antique dealers.

The fonds includes a photo album documenting Colin Hardwicke's experience working for the Canadian National Railway (CNR) from 1912 to 1916. The album includes images of people, places, and events around the building and development of railways in Northern Alberta taken by Colin Hardwicke while he worked for CPR. The fonds also a biography written by Norman Hardwicke in 2004, the Colin and Beatrice Hardwicke Story.

The fonds consists of five maps entitled, "The Fertile North" published by the Railway Lands Branch, Department of Interior, Government of Canada in circa 1908. The maps provide information on natural resources, agriculture, the railways, and the environment for northern and central Canada.

The fonds includes records relating to the family history and employment history of Paul Hawirko. The records from the family consist of a stereotype matrix (printing plate) for the front page of the October 29, 1931 Edmonton Bulletin, and photographs of delegates to the Rural Municipalities Convention in Calgary and the officers of the 101st Regiment (Edmonton) of the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Valcartier Camp (Quebec).

The employment material mainly relates to the Northern Alberta Railway and railway pension reform. These records contain material from the Retired Railway Veterans Organization, the American Association of Retired Persons, the Northern Alberta Railway, and the National Council of CN Pensioners Association. They include meeting minutes, publications, meeting attendance, correspondence, labour and pension booklets, constitution and bylaws, brochures and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and newsletters.

The collection is made up of five photographs donated to the Provincial Archives of Alberta from the collection of the Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery. The photographs include one photo of soldiers and nurses in front of St. Stephen’s College, University of Alberta, one of Cadomin Mines, one of construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway bridge in Edmonton, one of construction of the High Level Bridge in Edmonton, and one of the horse “Edgewood Boy” owned by Alex Galbraith and Sons, Edmonton.

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

Fonds consists of copied photographs dating circa (ca.) 1910-1967 that depict the Sawdon family and residents of Three Hills, Alberta, and various other images of Three Hills including Sawdon Drug Store and other businesses in Three Hills, railroad stations and construction, churches, building interiors, fires, carriages and carts, barns, Sarcee Camp, soldiers, automobiles, grain elevators, picnics, houses, women, ferries, bands, fairs, children, and street and aerial views of Three Hills, Alberta.

The fonds consists of photographs and photographic and mechanically produced postcards which depict various people and views in Banff, Hardisty, Bow River, Edmonton, and Sylvan Lake, Alberta including rivers, a locomotive, buffalo, agricultural machinery, a First Nations chief, a church and church booth, log cabins, floods, bridges, street views, carriages, and hotels. Fonds also includes an image of Emmanuel College in Saskatchewan, and the R.M. Empress of Ireland.

The fonds consists of correspondence, photographs, interview transcripts, and research materials Ena Schneider collected and created to write Ribbons of Steel: The Story of the Northern Alberta Railways dating from 1916-1992. The fonds also includes records of an unrealized traveling exhibition compiled by Schneider entitled, “Women Teachers in Alberta – A Century of Service.”

The fonds consists of images of workers in front of a Grand Truck Pacific engine, First World War soldiers, train engines; most images include R.T. McGrath. The fonds also includes a short synopsis of R.T. McGrath's life.

Fonds consists of records associated with F.R.R. McKitrick’s time as a teacher, farmer, and newspaper correspondent and includes correspondence, homestead records, curriculum material for geography and history, school exams, financial records, brand records, promissory notes, bank books, resort brochures, newspaper clippings, notes, written and typed manuscripts, railroad timetables, poems, income tax forms, receipts, pamphlets, hand-drawn maps, and bankruptcy records. Fonds also includes photographs, negatives, and glass plate negatives depicting various people, buildings, and scenes in Alberta and Ontario including the McKitrick family, the Edmonton Commercial Grads, the logging industry, churches, parades, steamers and ferries, First Nations, railroad and road construction, bridge construction, farming, train wrecks, horses and other animals, exhibitions and fairs, and an oil field.

The fonds consists of five images dating from 1913 to 1914, one of Frank Gaudette’s Drugstore in Mirror Landing (renamed Smith), Alberta and four of Granum, Alberta, including the train station and grain elevators, a school, a church, and Main Street.

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.

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 includes a transcript of a letter to William Weir and his sons from Robert MacDonald recalling MacDonald’s life working for the railway on the Coal Branch in the 1940s and 1950s, a photocopy of a map of the area and a second letter from MacDonald with photocopied information about Brule, Alberta.

The fonds consists of images, originally dating circa (ca.) 1890 to ca. 1919, from Edmonton, Battenburg, Vermilion, and Mirror, Alberta of a ferry, a covered wagon, a church, a power generating station, tennis, stores, parades, train stations, cars, homes, hair cutting, farming, a horse and sleigh, Kathleen Graydon, Rosetta Graydon, George H. Graydon, Graydon family members, and Susannah Gibbons; photographs of George H. Graydon, the interior of George H. Graydon’s second drug store, the Graydon home in Edmonton, the Woodward family, the Gibbons home in Gibbons, William Reynolds and Susannah Gibbons and family, and a tractor and rider; a photocopy of a history about Rosetta Graydon and husbands William Charles Asprey and George Hughes Graydon, and copied newspaper clippings and information about George H. Graydon.

Fonds consists of photographs depicting Russell Hadley with locomotive Number (No.) 21, and various railroad accidents and bridges, and the siding at Hythe, Alberta.

Fonds consists of oral history given by Emma Gertrude Mayer dating 1977, and copied photographs and postcards dating 1908-1914 depicting members of the Mayer family, a sod house, buildings, railroad survey crew, the first opera at Wainwirght, Alberta, and views, buildings, hotels, and hospitals in Wainwirght, Strathmore, Athabasca, Lac La Biche, Jasper and Mayerthorpe, Alberta.

Fonds consists of photographs depicting various people, views, buildings and agricultural machinery in Vegreville and Edmonton, Alberta including a railroad station, the Vegreville Baseball Club, the Sawyer-Massey (Massey-Harris) Farm Implements store in Vegreville, and a display by the Vegreville Horticultural Society at an exhibition in Edmonton.

The fonds consists of images of a team of moose at the Edmonton Exhibition, the first train to come to Edmonton, the provincial inauguration ceremonies where Edmonton was designated the capital and reputedly the first frame house in Edmonton.

The collection consists of records collected by the Multicultural Heritage Centre in Stony Plain, Alberta. The collection includes a history of the Winterburn Area Church by Noel Gour and images from a number of different individuals: John Ducholke, Hilda Margerison, Mrs. Pahal, Mrs. Vanderwell, Mrs. Dringenberg, Dora and Alex Ziegler, Dan Dale, C. Groat, Mrs. J. Eatock, Clara Evjen, Mrs. Deby, D. Dickie, Harold Anderson, Frank Maddock, Mrs. C. Talbot, Mrs. Burger, Mrs. Erickson, A. Kulak, Dennis Jettkant, R. Breitkrietz, Elizabeth Altheim, Curtland Schwalbe, Mr. A Shep, Mike Nonay, Allite Meads, Willie Propp, and Emil Fischer. The images date from circa (ca.) 1905 to 1937, and feature the Stony Plain area including Stony Plain, Spruce Grove and Wabamun, and include images of stores (exteriors and interiors), train stations, hotels, grain elevators (exteriors and interiors), garages and liveries, houses and log houses, schools and students, churches, harvesting, agricultural machinery, musicians, picnics, a merry-go-round, laundry, sleighs, exhibitions, logging, locomotives, ferries and town views.

The fonds consists of images of mine rescue workers, the Edmonton Canadian Pacific Railway station, railway workers, miners, trains, haying near Castor, Alberta, men cooking, the Legislature, Pete’s Dollar Taxi’s store front, automobiles (most likely taxis), McCauley School in Edmonton, views of Fort Saskatchewan, Paris Confectionary, automobile races, a funeral service and the badlands.

The fonds consists of films containing footage of wheat farming and farmers, parades and festivals in Vermilion, train and car accidents and efforts to clean the crash sites, curling and hockey games in Vermilion, weddings, Vermilion Provincial Park, and Dartmoor, England.

The fonds is composed of textual material, blueprints, and photographic records from the operations and history of Westmoreland and its predecessors in Alberta. The records contain a wide variety of textual records from these companies, such as balance and financial sheets, shareholder registers, supply and other agreements, correspondence to and from company officials, reports and minutes from various organizations, shares certificates, maps, mine and area plans, and cross sections related to mines north of Jasper National Park, south of the North Saskatchewan River, and several other locations in Alberta.

The photographic records include stereoscopic aerial photographs, photographs of mine employees, event photographs, and mine and landscape photography.

The companies referred to in these records include Luscar Coal, Canadian Pacific Railway, Great West Coal Company, Mountain Park Coal, Gregg River Coal, Chinook Coal, Alberta Coal, and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, among several others.

The series consists of records related to the analysis of economic issues surrounding the transportation of agricultural commodities to markets outside Alberta. The files include evaluations of policies, procedures, acts and legislation; studies and reports; correspondence regarding agricultural commodities such as grains, livestock, specialty crops, and other goods; as well as records related to hopper cars used for the shipment of grain and the development of grain terminals.

The series consists of policy records that relate to passenger transportation. The records address railway relocation, Shortline Railway information, Multi-Modal Council information, Highspeed Rail information, VIA rail information, airport issues, air service and airport policy, helicopters, transport policy, policy issues, Alberta bus industry, marketing, engineering policy, and free trade. The records include policy and planning documents, copies of legislation, regulations, bylaws, studies, reports, correspondence, action requests, agreements, meeting materials, briefing materials.

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.

The fonds consists of nine lantern slides that were potentially created as promotional images for Canadian Pacific Railway in the early 20th century. The images depict CPR employees, trains, interiors of train cars, and a biplane.

The photographs include a portrait of scouts from the 1885 Northwest Resistance, images of railway construction, sites in Tofield and Edmonton, and images of the Anderson family.

The fonds consists of photographs created by or belonging to James Bismark Holden and include images of a train wreck near Leduc, Leduc scenes, the opening of Alberta's first Legislature, Members of the Legislative Assembly, Elk Island Park, Vegreville scenes, Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier speaking in Vegreville, and a Shriners' convention in the United States.

Collection includes a cheque, an account book of the Drumheller Women’s Club, drivers’ and vehicle licenses for Drumheller, Alberta, an Alberta Citizens’ Registration Covenant, and various photographs of railroads in the Drumheller and Banff, Alberta regions.

Collection consists of lantern slides depicting photographs and drawings of First Nations people in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, maps depicting the Dominion of Canada, a photograph album depicting farm scenes along the Canadian Pacific Railways (CPR) line in Manitoba and Assiniboia and a souvenir album for the Fifth Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the Empire which depicts members of the congress as they traveled to various cities across Canada. The collection also includes a letter from William Aberhart to R.H. Babbage of Westmount, Quebec.

The fonds consists of images of scenes in Alberta acquired by Ian Paterson including Big Island on the North Saskatchewan in 1926, Athabasca Landing Ferry in 1926, the Peace River Highway in 1931, a ferry on the North Saskatchewan River at Strawberry Creek in 1931, the Town of Athabasca in 1932, the Ghost River Dam in 1938, and the Calgary-Edmonton Highway near Bowden in 1938.

The fonds also contains copies of photographic postcards acquired by Ian Paterson dating from the early part of the 20th century. The postcards feature images of Alberta including the Red Deer River Crossing of the Canadian National Railways (CNR) at Drumheller, the Hanna CNR station, the Athabasca River Bridge, the Beaver Bridge at Bonnyville, "Big Eddy", "Steveville", the CNR Station at Alliance, the St. Albert Hotel, Saunders Creek, a pack train at Edson, a bridge at Wabamun, the CNR depot at Jasper, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) at Lethbridge, the Athabasca River bridge, the Brazeau Collieries at Nordegg, and the Town of Wayne.

The collection consists of views pertaining to the Northern Alberta Railways in the 1920s collected from Library and Archives Canada in 1968. The collection includes views of the Edmonton Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway near Sexsmith, Alberta; construction work on the Edmonton Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway; the approach to Smoky River; the McLennan Station and Town; Spirit River looking east; between Tangent and Eaglesham; the end of the Alberta Great Waterways Railway; 15 miles east of Sawridge on the Edmonton Dunvegan and British Columbia Railways; the Edmonton Dunvegan Railway and British Columbia Railways stop at Judah, Alberta featuring buildings used as a terminus; and the Edmonton Dunvegan and British Columbia Railways bridge over the Athabasca River at Smith, Alberta.

Fonds consists of records belonging to the Blank family including correspondence, account books, and photographs.

The fonds consists of photographs from their time in Edmonton and includes images of construction workers, buildings under construction, the construction of the 109th street subway (later known as the “Rat Hole”), Grand Trunk Pacific workers and excavation machinery, a trestle bridge and workers, construction of a railway station in Fabyan, Alberta and construction of a building, the Donald Fraser Memorial building, which was possibly located in New Brunswick.

The fonds consists of a photograph of the Edmonton Canadian National Railways (CN) Station dating from ca. 1930 and a photograph of the Alberta Legislative Building in Edmonton, Alberta dating from ca. 1930.

Fonds consists of copied photographs dating in the 1900s that depict views of Stettler and Banff, Alberta and include grain elevators, houses, railroad cars, and a view of Stettler taken from the school.

The fonds documents the life and activities of the Geddes family and consists of photographs, publications, clippings, certificates, sound recordings, maps, plans, correspondence, and cards. In particular, the fonds documents Malcolm Geddes activities with the Alpine Club of Canada from 1917 to 1927; Tony Oke's career with CN during the early part of the 20th century; and Alvin Geddes engineering career and his business venture, Geddes Engineering Ltd, during the 1960s to the 1980s.

The fonds also includes poetry and writings by Malcolm Geddes, vital statistic records, family histories and genealogical information written and collected by members of the Geddes Family dating from the 1910s to the 1990s, and an audiocassette capturing an oral history interview with Alvin Geddes completed for the Petroleum Industry Oral History Project at the Glenbow Archives.

The fonds consists of 1 VHS copy of a documentary program created by Greystone Communications entitled, "Trains Unlimited: Trans Canadian Railway" (1997). The program features images sourced from the photographic holdings of the Provincial Archives of Alberta.

The fonds consists of a postcard featuring the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Station in Calgary circa 1921 and a postcard featuring the Palliser Hotel in Calgary circa 1921.

The fonds consists of images of engines of the trains of the Northern Alberta Railways (NAR) taken in the 1950s and 1960s and acquired by Peter Cox. The trains and engines featured in the photographs were built from 1909 to 1959. The fonds also includes images of Canmore Mines Railway Engine No. 4 dating from 1905.

The fonds consists of material reflecting Robert Bruce Davidson's interest and professional occupation in the study of Alberta's history and includes scripts created for a radio program pertaining to pioneers of the Peace River District by the Great Western Garment Company entitled "Pionera" written in 1960 and 1961; three copies of photographs of Alberta scenes including a view of a ferry crossing a river, the Mountain Park rail station, and the Mountain Park town site dating from the early part of the 20th century; and a pamphlet and program from the Edmonton Topographical Union No. 604 50th Anniversary in 1957.

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.

Fonds consists of copied photographs dating 1919-1935 which depict various images in the Mayerthorpe, Alberta area including Dr. Paul Wolochow and other Wolochow family members, horses, sledges, ferries, automobiles, railroad cars and engines, agricultural machinery and scenes, women, log cabins and other buildings, and a drugstore.

The fonds consists of a copy of Frederick George Topp's autobiography, "An Immigrant of '82". The autobiography recounts Topp's life in Calgary as well as politics, business, the North West Mounted Police, and railroad construction.

Fonds consists of copied photographs dating about 1904 to about 1952 depicting various people, horse-drawn wagons, farm machinery, buildings, vehicles, train wrecks, train stations, sack races, and schools in Stony Plain, Alberta. Fonds also includes notes regarding the images depicted.

The fonds consists of records created or collected in the course of Atkin’s involvement with the labour movement, the CCF, and the NDP, and consists of NDP and CCF information pamphlets; convention programs from the AFL, IFLA, Canadian Congress of Labour, the Canadian Labour Congress, the CCF, and the NDP; union magazines; press clippings related to the labour movement, CCF, and NDP; notes from the founding conventions of the NDP; information pamphlets related to pensions and social security; United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) leaflets and stickers related to the 1998 boycott of Maple Leaf Foods; and two copies of The Battle of 66 Street, a two-song record recorded to support the UFCW strike at Gainers meatpacking plant in 1986.

The fonds consists of the manuscript 'Seventy Years of Growing with Canada' (368 p. with name index), a letter from an editor from Pyerson Press, dated 1938, and a photocopy of an article on Zephirin Malhiot. The manuscript is the autobiography of Mr. Malhiot, from his childhood spent on his parents' farm in Becancour, where he learned French traditions, up to 1927. His memories cover both the technical and the political aspects of building railways and energy stations in Canada at the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

The fonds consists of audio cassettes written and narrated by Gordon Waite circa 1993. The tapes illustrate the duties of railroad employees, standard railway rules, examinations and rules for operators, the history of the Central Canada Railway, the history of Edmonton Railways, the history of the Dunvegan Railway, and the history of the British Columbia Railway. The fonds also includes a photocopy of the rules and regulations for railroad employees in 1921 and other textual material related to the railroad industry.

The fonds reflects Sylvia Walsh's participation in the creation of writing the local history Leaves of Yesteryear: a History of the Bon Accord District and the Biographies of the Men and Women who Pioneered the Area. The material pertains to the history of Bon Accord and includes copies of images featuring the laying the railway through Bon Accord in 1914, a copy of a certificate appointing Alberta E. Putnam of Excelsion as a Justice of the Peace dating from 1905, a copy of a tax receipt to George Carleton of Bon Accord dating from 1916, a copy of a sale receipt from the Freeman Company Ltd dating from 1918, a copy of a sales receipt from Lines Motor Company dating from 1918, a copy of a cultural program attended by residents of Bon Accord dating from 1925, and a copy of The Bon Accord Herald dating from 1937.

The fonds consists of photographs taken by Robert S. Niven, primarily taken on a Sunday visit to Calgary by airplane from Arrowwood, and includes images of an airplane, aerial views of the Bow River and Calgary, the oil derricks at Turner Valley, the Bow River at Arrowwood, an irrigation flume at Crossing Valley and workers along the railroad tracks.

The fonds consists of records used, created, and maintained by Louis Broten while serving on the International Board of Directors of BLF and E, North Star Lodge 810, Local 1771, as General Chairman of the Board of Appeals of the BLF and E and its successor body, the UTU, (E) Division, and as an Engineer for CNR including reports, correspondence, memoranda, information files, audits, photographs, constitutions, publications such as the Locomotive Firemen's and Enginemen's Magazine (1891 - 1960), Enginemen's Press (1959 - 1968), circulars, lodge directories, newsletters, reports, bulletins, pamphlets, agreements, contracts, appeals cases of the BLF and E dating from 1886 - 1969. The fonds also includes copies Hansards dating from 1960 to 1967 collected by Louis Broten.

The collection consists of images of Northern Alberta Railway cars and engines, including the business car “Dunvegan” and the sleeping car “Grande Prairie;” photographs are stamped on the reverse with “Collection of W.C. Whittaker.”

Fonds consists of photographic postcards depicting a Canadian Pacific Railways (CPR) railroad bridge at Carmangay, Alberta and steamboats at Athabasca, Alberta.

The fonds consists of 2 audio cassette recordings of an oral history conducted by the Old Strathcona Foundation with Albert Donnelly.

The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, newsletters, directories, meeting material, and meeting minutes relating to the Retired Railway Veterans Organization and pension programs. Also included are some personal correspondence, an NAR employee pass, an issue of The Railroad Telegrapher, and the first timetable issued to cover the Hythe Dawson Creek extension between Alberta and British Columbia

The fonds consists of photographs relating to the construction of the Central Canada Railway Company, particularly near Reno, Alberta and includes images of tracks, workers, restaurants, wagons, and tents.

Fonds consists of the operational and administrative records of the Canadian Railroad Historical Association Rocky Mountain Branch, the Alberta Pioneer Railway Association, and the Alberta Railway Museum, including records pertaining to its collections and acquisitions, operations, fundraising, employees and volunteers, health and safety procedures, outreach programs, site development, and association with other railroad organizations and includes historical/biographical sketches, inventories, membership lists, reports, presentations, bylaws, resolutions, organizational charts, articles, correspondence, agreements, membership notices, share certificates, operations rule books, minutes, donor lists, convention programmes and newsletters, including The Marker, The Rattler, the Alberta Railway Journal, and Highball, a guest book, press releases, business plans, annual reports, budgets, financial records, grants applications, proposals, and equipment rosters, catalogues, drawings, and specifications. Fonds also includes plans, drawings, photographs and a slide which depict various railway equipment and members of the association. This fonds has been arranged into the following series: Canadian Railroad Historical Association Rocky Mountain Branch (1962-1990) and Alberta Pioneer Railway Association (1959-1996).