Fonds consists of the records created and maintained by the Cairn Committee over the course of the research, fundraising, advocating, and unveiling of the commemorative cairn at the St Albert Municipal Cemetery for Camsell patients. Records include a reconstruction of the original plot plan of the St. Albert Aboriginal Cemetery created by Donald J. McBride and John Beedle in 1992, correspondence of committee members, lists of the deceased buried in the plot, newsclippings on the cairn and plot grounds, and memorabilia from the unveiling ceremony for the cairn.

Fonds consists of daily registers of the Edmonton Residential School from 1942 to 1967, financial records of the Red Deer Industrial School from 1913 to 1919, of the Edmonton Industrial School from 1920 to 1923, of the Edmonton Residential School from 1923 to 1952, and administrative files relating to the staff and students of the Edmonton Residential School from 1958 to 1969; Fairview Credit Union Board of Directors minutes from 1945 to 1950.

The fonds consists of convent and school records in the ecclesiastical Province of St. John the Evangelist run by the Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin and embracing Alberta and Saskatchewan. The records of these institutions include, with gaps, the chronicles of yearly highlights with, in most cases, yearly lists of personnel and students; the financial journals which normally contain index of boarders and/or students, registers of admissions and departures, journals of receipts and expenditures; volumes containing programs of events, such as birthdays or anniversaries or Christmas concerts; half-yearly financial reports; inventories of properties; statements of accounts normally containing records of gifts, costs, taxes, insurance policies; minutes of local meetings; records of pupils associated with the Sisters in clubs; records of awards; registers of first communions and confirmations.
The fonds also holds material concerning the Japanese internment camps in Slocan, British Columbia, during the years of the Second World War; some materials concerning the general administration of the Sisters; publications written by the Sisters or used by the Sisters in the schools; personal records of sisters covering their career or research.