Preface [pp. 5-6]
Chapter 1 - Introduction [p. 7]
Origin and Purpose of the Survey.
Chapter 2 - Economic Conditions [pp. 8-16]
General [Tendency to Large Farms; Land Valuation; Tenantry and the Share System of Rent; Methods of Farm Practice; Clover and Corn; Stock; Summer Fallow; Farm Labour; Noxious Weeds; Power Machinery; Capital]; and Co-operative Organizations [Beef Rings; Grain Growers' Associations; Farmers' Co-operative Society].
Chapter 3 - Social Conditions [pp. 17-31]
General [Population; Tenantry; Housing and Household Conditions; Means of Communication; Social Equality; Informal and Community Gatherings; Farmers' Reading]; Community Organizations [Secret Orders; Home Economics; Athletic Clubs; Moral Conditions; Social Life and Attendance]; and Special Community Study [the Marsden District].
Chapter 4 - Educational Conditions [pp. 33-47]
Function of the School; Material Equipment; School Sanitation; A Standard School; Organized Play; Religious Exercises; Educational Expenditure; Enrolment and Attendance; Few Obtain Common School Education; Need for Compulsory Education; Children's Act; School Garden; Consolidation of Rural Schools; Influence of Schools on Vocational Desire; Consolidation at Geographical Centre.
Chapter 5 - Religious Conditions and Activities [pp. 49-72]
Distribution of Population and Religious Services; Material Equipment; Horse-sheds; Ministerial Support and Finance; Missions and Benevolences; Local Expenses; Ministry; Economic Classes in the Open Country; More Intensive Church Work Needed; Comparison of Growth in Population and Church Membership; The Tenant, the Hired Help, and the Church; Tenantry and Church Membership; Church Growth; Church Membership and the Teen Age; Methods of Evangelism; Pastoral Visitation; Church Attendance; Overlapping; The Church and Recreation; Church Membership by Families; Other Organizations in the Church [Women's Missionary Societies and Mission Bands; Ladies' Aid Societies; Young People's Societies; Sunday Schools]; and Country Church Programme.
Appendix [pp. 75-77]
Reports of Committees on Social Service and Evangelism; and List of Books.
The ffep is a map of district showing churches with and without resident Ministers [denominations included: Methodist, Presbyterian, Anglican, Holiness Movement, and Roman Catholic] and schoolhouses with and without church services in schools.
Photographs cover agriculture, farm buildings, horses, houses, roads, cemeteries, town buildings, Métis living conditions, "Country White" living conditions, schools, horticulture, and churches.