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The fonds consists of research materials collected or created by Gilda Rath. The records generally relates to three themes: excerpts from the Edmonton Bulletin 1880-1882, and the Saskatchewan Herald, 1879-1882; the story of the Lamoureux family from their origins in Quebec to their settlement in the Edmonton district; and translations of correspondence from the Oblate Archives relating to members of the order and to the history of the Edmonton area.
Also included is information on First Nations, Metis, steamboat transportation on the North Saskatchewan, and notes and excerpts from other sources. The research material appears to have been accumulated for a book on the history of French settlement in North America and the Canadian northwest, focusing on the Lamoureux family. A partial typescript of this work is included in the fonds. Some of the notes are transcripts from tape recordings, but the original tapes are not present.

The fonds consists of a history of the Chimo Youth Retreat Centre. The author is not known, but likely associated with the centre.

The fonds consists of photocopied transcripts of letters and articles written by Ernest S. George and the certificate of membership of E.S. George to the Northern Alberta Pioneers and Old-Timers Association, Dec. 31, 1926. It also includes a photocopied transcript of an article by Barbara Mary George, Ernest George's mother. The photograph is a portrait of Ernest George, ca. 1962 that was used for an Edmonton Historical Board award in 1977.

The file consists of volume 2 of the scrapbook 'The First Fifty Years: A Pictorial Review of the origin of the Parish of St. Anthony of Padua and the contributions made by the pioneers, both for the Church and in the Community'.
The scrapbook was compiled by Mary Wankel Dornan and Mae Bedard Green, and includes reminiscences on early Edmonton as well as family and community histories.
The scrapbook includes photographs EB-40-57 to EB-40-103.

The writings in this volume cover the following subjects or topics:

• The O'Brien Family (Maurice O'Brien, Fred O'Brien, Steve O'Brien, Jim O'Brien, Fanny O'Brien Moreau, Josephine O'Brien Spicer, Bridget Bibby, Agnes O'Brien O'Donnell, Nell O'Brien Connelly, Mary O'Brien McGuinness)
• Mr & Mrs Alois Dittrick, Zelie Fontaine, Regina Bilodeau
• Last Meeting of Strathcona Council Before Amalgamation 1912
• Brother Anthony Kowalczyk, OMI
• College St. Jean (Leo Bartley, Albert Goyer, Aime Goyer, Henry Roth, Thomas Carrigan)
• Mr. & Mrs O'Brien and Family (Dennis O'Brien, Winnie Cahill O'Brien, Nancy O'Brien, Rev 'Bert' O'Brien, Rev. John Legge)
• (likely) St. Anthony's Parish 1917, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1926
• Faith Today - Father John Spicer (Josephine O'Brien, Dolly Mayall, Mr & Mrs Diebolt, A.J. Crowe)
• Sir Austin O'Brien, Knight of St. Anthony, and Lady O'Brien
• Dr. Joseph O'Brien
• Mr & Mrs J.J. Murray, Justina Murray
• In Our Merry Oldsmobile
• Here and There
• Ross' Hardware
• My Father's First Car
• Victoria Moreau Pilon (Bishop Grandin, Father Lacombe, Bishop Legal)
• Mary Wankel
• New School and first teachers (Mother Margaret, Ambrose O'Neil, Florence Esch, Sister Patrick, Mary Wankel, Catherine Carrigan)
• Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (Mary Wankel Dornan's early teaching career)
• The Spanish 'Flu, 1918
• The Coal Mine Explosion, 1907
• McKernan Lake and Whitemud Creek
• Edmonton Journal Bicycle Race 1919 (winner Dan Carrigan)
• South Side Athletic Grounds and Swimming Pool (John Michaels, Mrs. Michaels, Josephine Carrigan, Billy Bedard, Bernard Allen, Babe McLean, Jack Duggan, Dolly Mayall, Zephir Moreau, Fanny O'Brien Moreau)
• Mount Carmel School, 1925 (Ed Carrigan, Catherine Carrigan, Father Carleton)
• St. Anthony's Raquette Club (Vi Fitzgerald, Bernardine O'Connell, Mae Allen, Catherine Carrigan, Blanche Moher, Mamie Wankel, Helen McGuiness, Theresa Carragher, FCJ Sisters, Trimuse Club of St. Joseph's, Heart Club of Sacred Heart, St. Al's from St. Alsphonsus, Jack Dornan, Barney Tansey, John McLean, Tom Carrigan, Ed Dornan, Maudie Walsh, Catherine Carrigan, Bernardine O'Connell, Luella Roth, Pearl Moher, Laura Tansey, Mae Bedard, Rose Pollard, Edna Bedard)
• St. Anthony's Choir (Mrs. Jackson, Miss Slaboda, Victoria Moreau, Mr. Hassan, Madam Coupez, Mary Wankel Dornan, Ruthr Lavallee, Mr Nonn, Lou Peverelle, Mr Schmidt, Johnny Brown, Miss Peverelle, Helen Loughlin, Mrs Carr, Alfred McLean, Jim Smith, John Smith, Louis Naubert)
• 3rd Edmonton Company Girl Guides (Mary Wankel Dornan, Stella McAnally)
• Hay Ride
• 3rd Street Separate High (Laurette Carrigan, Adeline Devereau, John McLean, Mary Murray, Mabel Bard, Louella Roth, Dolly Mayall, Theresa Fraser, Alice McLean, Peg Carrigan, Grace Bard, Kathleen Moher, Mae Allen, Blanche Moher, Margery McKenna, Della McDonough)
• Stan Moher
• Josephine McAuley Lavallee (Mrs. Patrick McAuley, Mary Lavallee, Ruth Lavallee, Margaret Lavallee)
• The Vaugeois Family (Alfred Vaugeois, Bernadette Brouillette Vaugeois, Alex Vaugeois, Jack Chisholm, Dan McDougall, Ralph Pratt, Alice Vaugeois, Germaine Vaugeois, Angela Vaugeois, Florence Vaugeois, Leona Vaugeois, Anne Vaugeois, Helen Vaugeois, Henry Vaugeois)
• Arthur & Ida Cary
• Peter Biollo & Dolly Mae Casell Biollo
• The Catholic Women's League (Mrs Samuel Gorman, Katherine Hughes, L'Abbe Casgrain, Mrs T.P. Malone, Mrs J. Morkin, Mrs Lavallee, Mrs Boucher, Mrs Loughlin, Mrs Bard, Mrs Fraser, Mrs Underwood)
• Catholic Business Girls' Club (Mrs Duggan)
• The Altar Society (Mrs. Wankel)
• Emile Pilon & Victoria Moreau Pilon (Father LaRose, Mr W.J. Chisholm, Cardinal Leger, Cecile Leonard)
• The Blackburn Family (Adrien Blackburn, Antionette Labonte Blackburn, Marcel Blackburn, Maurice Blackburn, Adrinne Blackburn, Jeanette Blackburn, Cecile Blackburn, Gerry Blackburn, Jerome Blackburn, Frank Blackburn)
• Ursuline Convent (Mother Anne-Celine O'Keefe, Mother Gabriel, Sister Adelina, Mother Augustine, Sr. Mary Margaret, Sr. Agnes, Sr. Patrick, Sr. Lelia, Sr. Angela, Sr. St. John, Sr. Celine Marie, Sr. Sebastian, Sr. Vincent Mary, Sr. Mary St. Peter, Sr. Marie Leo, Sr. Mary Felicity, Sr. Scholastica, Sr. Helen, Sr. Rose, Sr. Mary St. Anne, Sr. Alphonse Joseph, Sr. St. Charles, Sr. Helena Valentine, Sr. Joanne, Sr. Marguerita, Mother Ursul, Mother Fidelmia Joseph, Sr. Catherine, Sr. Florence, Sr. Mary Clare, Sr. Geraldine, Sr. Francis Joseph, Sr. Francoise)
• Dances (Raquette Club, Trimuse Tennis Club)
• Varsity Tuck Shop and George Dame
• Mr. Wankel and Friends (Mary Lavallee, Marie Pollard, Ruth Lavallee, Margaret Lavallee, Florence Bedard, Frances Bedard)
• A Tribute To My Mother (Mrs. E. Wankel)
• The Loughlin Family & Residence (Mr & Mrs Andrew P. Loughlin, Helen Loughlin, Frank Loughlin, Joe Loughlin)

The fonds consists of records relating to the Urban Reform Group of Edmonton (URGE), including production of a 1978 historical calendar, Board minutes, reports and correspondence. It also contains records relating to the Society for the Protection of Architectural Resources in Edmonton (SPARE) and personal correspondence.
The photographs consist mostly of buildings and street scenes in Edmonton and Toronto, ca. 1980, taken as part of research into heritage buildings for SPARE. They include the Ross Brothers and Brighton Block in Edmonton, and the St. Lawrence Market and Gooderham Building (flatiron) in Toronto (EA-560). One photograph is a portrait of Elly De Jongh used for an Edmonton Historical Board award in 1984.
The artwork consists of an ink drawing of Primrose House, 1979, as part of research on heritage buildings for SPARE (EAA-113).

The fonds consists of administrative and financial records of the Alberta Pensioners' Society, including correspondence, scrapbooks of minutes, news clippings, legislative materials from various jurisdictions and other publications.
The photographs include portraits of Chief Justice William R. Hawson and a photo of the Fred Marshall family.
The material was arranged as follows:

• Correspondence files
• News clippings
• Incorporation and Policy
• Other Literature
• Records scrapbooks
• Financial records

The fonds consists of private letters, business correspondence, documents relating to the L.D. Parney Estate, and a scrapbook relating to various subjects.

File List:
File 1: General correspondence - includes
~ letter and envelope, John McDougall, Methodist Church, Dept. of Missions to Mrs. L.D. Parney, Ridgetown, Ontario, 29 Feb 1904, re - books;
~ letter, addressed to Fred (L.D. Parney's son), likely by L.D. Parney, 9 Apr 1935, re - family and business activities

File 2: Correspondence - re: Warehouse, 10256 - 107 St., rental by Wilson Transit and Distributing Co. Ltd., installation of railway spur, 1933-1941

File 3: Accounts, L.D. Parney estate, 1943-1948

File 4: Scrapbook news clippings - re: new London telephone exchange, with illustration of Canada House, 1933; members of the Parney family; poetry; Royal family; World War I and II; Jenny Morris, (“mother” of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry); pencil drawing, duck with nest of eggs; deaths of Wilfred Grenfell, Thomas Alva Edison, Wilfrid Laurier, 1898-1942.

File 5: News clippings - loose clippings from scrapbook, include:
clippings re: World War I and II; Jenny Morris (“mother” of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry); poetry; inspirational stories; royal family; cartoons, 1918-1942.

The fonds consists of five letters written by Dr. Thomas H. Whitelaw and sent to periodicals based in eastern Canada. The narratives describe Whitelaw’s journey across Canada by rail and his perspective of the town during the closing days of the Klondike. Whitelaw also sets himself a vocal proponent of Edmonton by encouraging people to move west and take advantage of the growing community.

Also included in the records is a prescription written on Dr. Whitelaw’s prescription pad dated April 26th, 1899.

The photographs consist of an image of Main Street Edmonton (looking west in August 1898), an image of one of Edmonton’s mines, an image of mine workers, and a composite image of the Edmonton Y.M.C.A Maple Leaf Club membership from 1914 - 1915.

The fonds consists of a transcribed interview from December 31, 1977 with Herbert B. Ganton, elder son of John Alexander Ganton. The interview covers the Ganton family experience in Edmonton from 1909 to 1912.

The fonds consists predominantly of photographs covering three generations and five of the six branches of the W. Scott Robertson family. The photographs include Frederic’s parents (Robert and Isabel Robertson), siblings, as well as aunts, uncles, and cousins.

There are also many unidentified photographs but it is likely these belonged to Frederic’s mother-in-law, Cassie Bain Foley, as ‘C.B.’ is written on the back of the photos.

The textual records consist of one birthday card from Alice J. Wright (Frederic’s maternal grandmother) to Bob, likely Robert Robertson (Frederic’s father) (n.d.) and a calendar card from Isabel Wright Robertson (Frederic’s mother) to ‘Dolly’ (1939).