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The collection consists of material relating to May Day celebrations which was a key community event in West Vancouver from 1931 to 1971. The celebrations included installation of a May Day Queen, parades and other ceremonies. After 1971, the celebration was renamed Community Day, and the collection also includes records pertaining to this event.The material includes photographs, registers, scrapbooks, speeches, organizing committee records, and correspondence.

The fonds is arranged into the following series:
Series 1: Film and photographs
Series 2: Administrative records
Series 3: Speeches
Series 4: Ephemera
Series 5: Newsclippings
Series 6: May Queens' scrapbooks

The collection consists of two files of correspondence, petitions and newsclippings documenting efforts to preserve Shannon Park as a community park. The first file pertains to work carried out by the Shannon Park Area Improvement Association (1941-1949) and the second covers efforts of area residents (1977).

Collection consists of lantern slides depicting church buildings in England and Ireland, illustrations of David Livingstone's stories, portraits of individuals, daily indoor and outdoor scenes, landscapes, texts, poems, hymns and prayers issued by General Board of Religious Education. Includes also more recent photographic slides which depict British Columbia church buildings and sites (Yukon's churches), events (the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Anglican College of Theology - 1964, the construction of the ATC chapel - 1963, activities of faculty and students at the ATC, church buildings in other dioceses in the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia.

The collection consists of the Sooke Region Historical Society's photographs relating to the early development of the Sooke Region.

Collection includes correspondence, reports, notices, resolutions, minutes and financial records relating to Gordon's capacity as a School Trustee and Municipal Councillor.

The collection consists of group photographs of graduating officers of the Royal Naval College of Canada (1913-1922) and HMCS Stone Frigate (1940).

The collection consists of oral history interviews pertaining to life in the Cariboo, Chilcotin, Boundary, East Kootenay and Fraser Valley regions of B.C. from 1910-1950, conducted as part of the New Horizons Oral History Project.

The collection consists of a colour film showing the construction of the Victorias Memorial Arena, and a recorded Christmas greeting for 1941 from Victoria Mayor Percy George.

The collection consists of oral history interviews pertaining to Terrace and the Skeena River regions of B.C.

The collection consists of oral history interviews pertaining to ethnic communities in the Terrace area, as well as the history of Terrace and Kitimat.

The collection consists of oral history interviews pertaining to the history of the theatre and its development in Vancouver and Victoria.

The collection consists of oral history interviews pertaining to theatre in B.C., including an interview about George Ryga.

The collection consists of oral history interviews by Adolph with Jack and Margaret Aye pertaining to life in the East Kootenays prior to the flooding of the Kootenay River Valley; and interviews pertaining to Woodlands, a mental health facility.

The collection consists of glass negatives depicting landscapes, group portraits and informal outdoor portraits of scenes and persons in the Chilliwack area.

The collection consists of radio broadcasts pertaining to the Sunny Trails Nudist Club in Surrey, B.C.

The collection consists of sound recordings of interviews with former members of the Surrey Fire Department and of volunteer fire departments located in Surrey, B.C.

The collection consists of interviews, speeches, and political advertisements of W.A.C. Bennett, Premier of B.C. from 1952-1972.

The collection consists of slides, photographs and negatives, all copies of Curtis’s most extensive work, “The North American Indian.”

The collection consists of mimeographed scripts for two plays presented by the club at the Empire Theatre, Calcutta, India. The scripts come from the plays' original productions in England, several years earlier. Also included are programmes for the two plays, a clipping containing a review of one play, and a rehearsal list for the other play. The two plays are “Murder on the Second Floor” by Frank Vosper and “The Wind and the Rain” by Merton Hodge.

The collection consists of two albums of photographs with some supplementary textual material. Included in the first album are photographs of the Memorial Service held at Isandhlwana, Zululand to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Zulu War (1879), plus some photographs of battle locations, taken about the same time. Also included are clippings from various English papers and a handwritten transcription of a relevant passage from Rider Haggard's autobiography. The second album contains photographs taken at various sites (ca.1896) including Teneriffe, Canary Islands; Durban, South Africa, as well as other places in Natal and Zululand; Dar-es-Salam, German East Africa; Zanzibar; Somalia; Aden; Suez Canal & Port Said (Egypt); Naples, Pompeii and Rome, Italy; Switzerland, mostly Lucerne; Paris, France; Madeira. Also included are some tipped-in clippings concerning the death (1879) of the Prince Imperial (called Napoleon IV by French Bonapartists).

Collection consists of printed material, photographs.

The Rossland Warehouse & Transfer Co. Collection contains textual records from 1896-1914, and is arranged in the following order:

1. Correspondence, 1897-1914
2. Financial Records, 1896-1909
3. Legal Records, 1897-1900
4. Daily Reports, 1904
5. Lists

The Aldridge Family main collection contains textual records from 1899 to 1959, and is arranged in the following order:

1. Correspondence, 1899-1959.

Collection consists of reference material Includes mainly newspaper clippings, printed and published material, and correspondence (correspondence from Reverend W.C. Bompas to the Reverend H.A. Naylor, 1896-1906). Includes also some original items created by individuals, such as: letters testimonial, certificates of ordination, handwritten diaries.

The collection consists of correspondence, studies, reports, clippings and other material on diverse topics related to city planning and citizens action groups in the Kitsilano, Jericho, Point Grey and University of British Columbia areas of Vancouver.