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The My Life in the Federal Government subseries contains 154 files discussing Marguerite Ritchie’s positions as legal counsel at the Department of Justice and as Vice-Chair of the Anti-Dumping Tribunal, including major cases she worked on at both. Files are arranged by department and topic, while general correspondence is arranged chronologically. This subseries contains a variety of document types including Correspondence, memorandum, legislation, contracts, reports, legal research, newspaper clippings, maps, court documents, cabinet decisions, annual reports, seminar programmes, rules of procedure, transcripts of meetings and tribunal proceedings, press releases, performance evaluations, House of Commons debates, articles, telephone transcripts, findings of the Anti-Dumping Tribunal, conventions, questionnaires, informational booklets, service records, newsletters, contact list, briefs, and factums. The specific topics this subseries covers from Marguerite Ritchie’s employment with the Department of Justice are offshore mineral rights and whether they fall under federal or provincial jurisdiction, offshore exploitation of resources including oil, territorial waters, sea law and fishing rights, international air law, hijacking airplanes/skyjacking, international law and Canadian responsibilities, , amendments to the criminal code, constitutional law, the official languages act, provincial powers and ability to sign treaties, foreign relations and visitors, the Combines Investigation, human rights, racial discrimination, origins of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, United Nations conventions on slavery, the League of Nations, Canada’s human rights violations such as publically funded Catholic schools in Ontario, freedom of religion, political rights, war crimes and the Geneva Convention, establishment of an ombuds in Canada, abortion and the Morgentaller case, territorial boundaries between Quebec and Labrador, history of Canadian law, and international conferences on issues of international law. Marguerite Ritchie’s documents from the Department of Justice also touch on many women’s issues including change of name at marriage and divorce, child custody and family law, divorce, desertion, maintenance, dower rights, gendered language, status of women, illegitimate children, equal pay, discrimination against women, women’s education and employment, women in politics and government, impact of early marriage, legal status of women, and prostitution and sex work laws. The specific topics this subseries covers from Marguerite Ritchie’s employment with the Anti-Dumping Tribunal are cases from the tribunal such as the Western Bread Case, rules and procedures from the Anti-Dumping tribunal including reorganisation and legal counsel, legal articles written by Marguerite Ritchie based on practices of the tribunal, Marguerite Ritchie’s issues the chairmen of the tribunal while she was the vice-chairman, and the scandal surrounding Chairmen Gauthier.

Subseries consists of illustrations by Ian Sheldon of ants from the Mutillidae family.

Sub-series consists of records documenting the production of the University of Alberta Studio Theatre's production of Mr. Arcularis.

Various books about 'Punch' Dickins.

Photocopies of excerpts (in some cases, of whole works) from monographs pertaining to various aspects of plains bison. Items have been arranged into main topic areas: the role of bison in Native culture, archaeology, cultural anthropology, cultural ecology, plains ecology, biological information on bison and other plains mammals, European settlement of the West, and personal accounts. The personal accounts are predominantly enthnographies of various Native bands and accounts of travel and exploration by fur traders, missionaries, and politicians.

The Missing Women – The Truth About Women’s Appointments to the Senate – The Original Persons Case – The Betrayal of Emily Murphy subseries contains 22 files discussing the Persons Case which established women’s eligibility to be appointed to Senate and the failure of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to appoint Judge Emily Murphy to Senate despite her appointment being the impetus for the Supreme Court reference. Files are arranged chronologically by subject. This subseries contains a variety of document types including correspondence, memorandum, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, historical legal research, reference to the Supreme Court of Canada, petition, encyclopedia entries, book chapters, magazines, journal articles, reports, speeches, Senate debates, Access to Information requests, and court documents. The specific topics this subseries covers are research on the Persons Case, requests to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to appoint Judge Emily Murphy to Senate and his refusal on legal grounds, the Persons Case Supreme Court reference, and the appeal to the Privy Council in England. This subseries also includes some documentation of women being granted the right to vote, the first woman being elected to the House of Commons, and women being appointed Judges in lower courts. In their initial ruling, the Supreme Court of Canada said tradition barred women from appointment to the Senate. On appeal, the British Privy Council said women were persons under the law and therefore eligible for Senate appointment and all other government appointments. It took nearly six years from the first petitions to have Judge Emily Murphy appointed to Senate for the final ruling from the Privy Council. Cairine Wilson, President of the Ottawa Women's Liberal Club, was ultimately the first woman appointed to the Senate in 1930.

The Missing Women – The Truth About Women’s Appointments to the Senate – The Betrayal of Emily Murphy and Women’s Claim to the Senate subseries contains 27 files discussing Persons Case II, Senate reform, and efforts made by the Human Rights Institute of Canada to have Persons Case II referred to the Supreme Court of Canada. Files are arranged by person or organization. This subseries contains a variety of document types including correspondence, resolutions, memorandum, speeches, newspaper clippings, biographies, legislation, press releases and promotional materials, transcripts of telephone conversations, meeting minutes, Senate minutes, Senate debates, historical background research, political party platforms, newsletters, House of Commons debates, grant applications, budgets, reports, affidavits, Supreme Court rulings, contact lists, petition for Persons Case II to be referenced to the Supreme Court, the Alberta law review, and programs. The specific topics this subseries covers are requesting support for Persons Case II and Senate reform, gender equality, asking for LEAF’s (Women's Legal Education and Action Fund) support for Persons Case II, requests to the Minister of Justice and Prime Minister to refer Persons Case II to the Supreme Court, funding and financial support for Persons Case II, the Charter Challenges program, consultations with legal firms for Persons Case II, applications for the court challenges program, the Governor General’s Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case award ceremonies, women’s rights, Senate reform, Senate appointments, attempts by the province of Alberta to elect a Senator, and the Reform Party suing the federal government for not appointing elected Senators.

The Missing Women – The Truth About Women’s Appointments to the Senate – Persons Case II – Chronological Record subseries contains 27 files discussing the appoint of women to the Senate during the Mulroney and Chretien governments, gender disparities in the Senate, and Persons Case II. Files are arranged chronologically. This subseries contains a variety of document types including correspondence, memorandum, press releases, newspaper clippings, open letters, background information, biographies, resolutions, speeches, transcripts, and Senate debates. The specific topics this subseries covers are Senate reform, women appointed as Senators, calls for equal appointment through Persons Case II, United Nations convention on the Political Rights of Women, the 1982 constitution requiring equal opportunity regardless of gender, status rights of aboriginal women, the death of aboriginal woman’s activist Mary Two-Axe Earley, Marguerite Ritchie being awarded the Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case, the Persons Case, the Famous Five, women being allowed to sit on juries for criminal cases, and penalties for stalking.

Various photographs from 'Punch Dickins' days with Western Canada Airways and Canadian Pacific.

Photographs of various types of airplanes.

Five miscellaneous letters and two printed prayer cards acquired with the Rev. John Smithurst Correspondence collection. Thirteen envelopes and enclosures addressed to Rev. Smithurst for which no matching letters are found in this collection.

Assorted landscape and aerial photographs.

Miscellaneous private items including tags, envelopes, etc.

Materials donated by the McFadden family that do not clearly or readily align with other existing categories.

Sub-series consists of production and promotion records for Studio Theatre's performance of Misalliance.

David McKnight’s Micro Presses individual files organized alphabetically in two folders, dating from ca. 1980-2010.

Contains address books, appointment books, tickets, cards, programmes, poems, buisness cards, brouchures, diaries, personal documents, recipes, travel information, news clippings, etc.

File consists of an illustration by Ian Sheldon of hoppers from the Membracidae family, also known as treehoppers.

The Meeting the First Peoples of Canada – Natives/ Indians subseries contains 22 files discussing land claims and treaties, self-government of aboriginal peoples, and status rights of aboriginal women. Files are arranged by subject and general correspondence is arranged chronologically. This subseries contains a variety of document types including conference documents, newspaper clippings, correspondence, memorandum, resumes, newsletters, press releases, background papers, government booklets, legislation, court documents, transcripts, presentations, statistics, and House of Commons debates. The specific topics this subseries covers are discrimination in the Indian Act, media representation of aboriginal issues, the Saskatchewan Native Woman’s Conference, rights of aboriginal women, Cree rights in Quebec, Assembly of Aboriginal Peoples of Saskatchewan, self-government for aboriginal bands, land claims and treaties, adoption of aboriginal children, voting rights, historical perspectives on aboriginals in north America, and discrimination against aboriginal peoples.

The Meeting the First Peoples of Canada – Native Women – Legal Cases subseries contains 14 files discussing legal cases on the status rights of aboriginal women. Files are arranged by case. This subseries contains a variety of document types including court documents from the Supreme Court of Canada, correspondence, memorandum, House of Commons debates, newspaper clippings, and transcripts of telephone conversations. The specific topics this subseries covers are the court cases of Jeannette Lavell, Yvonne Bedard, and Vivian Corbiere Lavell over status rights of aboriginal women and their legal cases appealed to the Supreme Court over gender discrimination in the Indian Act, specifically status loss for aboriginal women who marry non aboriginal men or band status loss for marrying outside of their band. This subseries also contains court documents from various other Supreme Court cases on aboriginal rights, including land claims and inheritance and estate administration with regards to reserve residents.

The Meeting the First Peoples of Canada – Native Women – Friends/Associates subseries contains 13 files discussing status rights of aboriginal women. Files are arranged by person. This subseries contains a variety of document types including correspondence, speeches, transcripts of telephone conversations, newspaper clippings, proceedings of Senate committees, promotional materials, and reports. The specific topics this subseries covers are the activism of Mary Two-Axe Earley for the status rights of aboriginal women, taxation for native run businesses, activists who fought to amend the Indian Act to grant equal status rights for aboriginal women, and activism to end discrimination against women in band status. This subseries also contains a file on corruption and the subsequent scandal surrounding the preservation of petroglyphs at Petroglyph Provincial Park in Ontario.

The Meeting the First Peoples of Canada – Native Associations subseries contains 9 files discussing aboriginal self-government and status rights of aboriginal women. Files are arranged by source organization. This subseries contains a variety of document types including correspondence, reports, newsletters, memorandum, speeches, court documents, press releases, and presentations. The specific topics this subseries covers are aboriginal rights, research conducted by Marguerite Ritchie on behalf of aboriginal associations and councils, amendments to the Indian Act to end discrimination against aboriginal women, amendments to the Indian Act requiring bands to readmit women with reaffirmed status, aboriginal self-government across Canada and with respect to Quebec sovereignty, and solidarity between different aboriginal nations and bands.

The Media and Public Relations subseries contains 28 files on the media representation of the Human Rights Institute of Canada including publicity and responses to current events, media bias, letters to the editor, articles supporting the same causes as the Human Rights Institute of Canada, and the misrepresentation of the Persons Case in popular media. Files are mainly arranged by media outlet while general correspondence is arranged chronologically. This subseries contains a variety of document types including newspaper clippings, correspondence, memorandum, press releases, newsletters, transcripts of telephone conversations, and speeches. The specific topics this subseries covers are Persons Case II, bilingualism in Canada and in the city of Ottawa, Quebec as a distinct society, Canadian history, relocation of Inuit people to the high arctic in the 1950s and the resulting Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Meech Lake Accord, the Oka Crisis, the Official Languages Act, the expropriation of Nanoose Bay, the New Brunswick constitutional amendment, the constitution, Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, treatment of women in legislation, stalking, misappropriation of government funds, audit reports, and the life of Muriel McQueen Fergusson as the first female speaker of the senate.

Sub-series consists of production and promotion records for Studio Theatre's performance of Marat / Sade

Subseries consists of illustrations by Ian Sheldon of lacewings and allies from the Mantispidae family.

Subseries consists of an illustration by Ian Sheldon from the Mantidae family.

The Major Supporters of the Human Rights Institute of Canada – Hon. Senator Muriel McQueen Fergusson, Q.C. – Friend and Ally subseries contains 22 files discussing the mutual support of Senator Muriel McQueen Fergusson and Marguerite Ritchie, Muriel McQueen Fergusson’s position as the first woman to hold the position of Speaker of the Senate, and Muriel McQueen Fergusson’s efforts to allow women on criminal juries. Files are arranged by topic or type with Senate debates and correspondence arranged chronologically. This subseries contains a variety of document types including correspondence, memorandum, Senate debates, legislation, House of Commons debates, Senate and House of Commons journals, telephone transcripts, newspaper clippings, biographies, books, conference reports, and standing committee proceedings. The specific topics this subseries covers are the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, equal pay, gender discrimination, the Meech Lake Accord, a documentary on the life and work of Muriel McQueen Fergusson by Semra Yuksel, Muriel McQueen Fergusson being awarded the Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case, estate tax and discrimination against women in tax law, poverty, and women in politics.

The Major Supporters in the Human Rights Institute of Canada subseries contains 58 files discussing Hilda L. Cryderman’s support of the Human Rights Institute of Canada. Files are arranged by topic and type. This subseries contains a variety of document types including correspondence, memorandum, newsletters, questionnaires, seminar documents, House of Commons debates, newspaper clippings, press releases, transcripts, resumes, donation receipts, resolutions, biographies, and programs. The specific topics this subseries covers are opinions on the women’s liberation movement, suffrage, equal pay, women in politics, and support from Hilda L. Cryderman, Chair of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, for the Human Rights Institute of Canada.

Sub-series consists of production and promotion records for Studio Theatre's performance of MacBeth.

Subseries consists of illustrations by Ian Sheldon of true bugs from the Lygaeidae family, also known seed bugs or milkweed bugs.

Sub-series consists of illustrations by Ian Sheldon of butterflies from the Lycaenidae family, also known as Blues. Some illustrations can be found in the book Acorn, John and Sheldon, Ian. Butterflies of British Columbia, Edmonton: AB, Lone Pine Publishing, 2006.

Subseries consists of illustrations of beetles by Ian Sheldon from the Lucanidae family.

Sub-series consists of production and promotion records for Studio Theatre's performance of Love's Labour Lost.

Sub-series consists of records created in the production and promotion of Studio Theatre's performance of Love of Four Colonels.

Sub-series consists of production and promotion records for Studio Theatre's performance of Love for Love.