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This series contains records documenting communities' participation in the Wildlife '87 celebration and the documentation they sent back to the National Committee or the Alberta Association. It includes records from governments, hobby groups, children and youth groups, political lobbyists, professional organizations, clubs, national and provincial parks, heritage associations, and international charities. Some groups' influence also stretches into the Eastern United States. The records include correspondence, newspapers, publications, speeches, and pictures. Where possible, records were grouped by location and organizing body.

This series consists of materials created by the Wildlife '87 National Committee and the Alberta Wildlife Conservation Centennial Association Committee in their administration of the Wildlife '87 celebration. It includes their founding documents, meeting documentation, promotional materials including posters, stickers and pins, fundraising activities, awards, speeches, correspondence, political lobbying, and participation and planning of national and provincial events including their involvement in the 1986-1989 Christmas Bird Count events.

This series consists of records created as a part of Joy's work in Outdoor Education. It includes publications, curriculum development documents, correspondence, conference documents - both attending and speaking at - workshop documents and records documenting the development of educational programming in alternative education spaces including museums, radio programs and television. It covers Joy's work with K-12 education in Edmonton and the surrounding area, some work in Banff and Jasper, invitiations to speak in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, her education at and sessional instruction at University of Alberta, education in the playschool and preschool years and teacher training workshops she attended and taught.

These records also document the subtle and constant discrimination Joy faced as a woman in Science Education. It includes notes about her published papers having non-contributing male co-authors , Joy's husband Cam receiving credit for her work, her personal information and family status being elevated over her career achievements in professional allocates, and her eventual failure to get Outdoor Education included in the Edmonton and Alberta school curriculum as its own unit and then men who took on her work after her.

This series consists of records that Cam and Joy created and collected mostly through the 1950s to the 1990s including their involvement both professionally and personally in environmental organizations, environmental protest, the creation of wildlife sanctuaries, their feedback on various environmental projects by the City of Edmonton and the Province of Alberta, Cam and Joy’s work in Edmonton Parks, and their later birding and nature exploration column with the Edmonton Journal. It also includes some records of their son Brett Finlay, now Dr. Finlay, and his involvement with the Junior Nature Federation and environmental protest. It also includes some records not related to environmental activities including some Edmonton history books, an early computer users group, and Joy’s pottery hobby.

Displays inside JJNC

Terry Cavanagh and Joy Finlay going to lead a nature hike

Terry Cavanagh planting a tree

Opening of John Janzen Nature Centre