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 collection consists of copied photographs dating 1927-1955 that depict various people, buildings and views in Barrhead, Alberta including Carl Johnson’s Central Meat Market, Hooper’s Garage, the Bank of Toronto, nuns, the United church and St. John’s Lutheran church, an Alberta Jubilee parade, street views, cars, the first train in Barrhead, and a hospital built by Doctor (Dr.) E.J. Varreau.

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 fonds documents Clayton Willson's career with CPR and consists of images of a CPR train and CPR boats at Arrow Lake, BC (1900), Clayton Willson on a CPR steamer (1908); Clayton Willson and other men in a CPR engine yard in Canmore, Alberta (1912); Clayton Willson inside the cab of the North Passenger Train #2532 behind the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) building in Calgary (1912), Alberta; Clayton Wilson in the cab of the North Passenger Train #2532 in front of the Palliser Hotel in Calgary (1929), and a map illustrating the stops and side trails along the track from Calgary to Field, BC [1910].

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.

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 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 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 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 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.

Fonds consists of copied photographs dating circa (ca.) 1922 depicting Grand Trunk Pacific Railway trains.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Item is one 16mm colour silent film of home movie footage filmed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, 8 minutes 20 seconds in length. Footage includes lakes, mountains and glaciers in the Lake Louise area, Chateau Lake Louise, Moraine Lake Lodge, Canadian Pacific Railroad Spiral Tunnels at Kicking Horse Pass with train (three steam engines), Takakkaw Falls and Emerald Lake in Yoho National Park, Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman (RCMP) and woman outside RCMP building in [Banff] , and black bears beside cars. People from an unknown family, principally a woman, appear from a distance in various scenes. Good footage of glaciers showing size and locations in 1948.

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 fonds reflects Walter Lewis' involvement with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPR) and consists of Canadian Pacific photographs of the last spike to complete the CPR in 1885; the arrival of the first train from Montreal to arrive in Calgary in 1886; the construction of the High Level Bridge in Edmonton in 1913; and CPR transportation services in the 1960s. The fonds also includes clippings from the Edmonton Journal pertaining to the construction of the High Level Bridge; an image of the CPR station at 109th St. and Jasper Avenue in 1922; and typewritten articles related to the operation of CPR.

Fonds consists of negatives and a photograph depicting Northern Alberta Railways (NAR) trains. Also includes images of the Alberta Great Waterways train, railroad stations, employees, and a crash.