The fonds consists of sheet music, pipe band directories, paintings, photographs and other material.

Fonds consists of broadsides, chapbooks and business records generated by Mother Tongue's publishing activities.

Fonds consists of research sources, drafts, correspondence, interviews, journals, magazines, teaching files, essay files, grant applications, and tax information. Records document Zolf's work as a poet, critic, editor, essayist, filmmaker and professor at the New School and University of Calgary. People with whom Zolf regularly corresponds include poets Charles Bernstein, Anne Waldman, Michael Davidson, Rodrigo Toscano, Erin Moure, Joan Retallack; theorist Judith Butler; artists Josiah McElheny, Zoe Leonard and Moyra Davey, and publisher Alana Wilcox.

The fonds consists of records relating primarily to Innes’ drawing, painting, and writing. Records include original cartoons, publications containing Innes’ work, a chapbook, exhibit programs and reviews, and images of Innes’ paintings, as well as photographs of Innes, biographical material, and a patent agreement.

The fonds has been arranged into six series: Records relating to Innes’ paintings ([190-?]-1943); Illustrations and cartoons ([between 1880 and 1941]); Publications (1900-[ca. 1934]); Photographs of Innes ([192-?-193-?]); Patent (1 Feb. 1919); and Records relating to Innes created after his death ([1941]-1945).

Item is a cartoon by Innes showing a soldier confronting a man labelled “Bagdad” with the caption “Tommy Atkins (& Harim el Raschid, Bagdad): “‘Arim, old sport. You’re bloomin well pinched!”

Item is a cartoon by Innes showing “A. Slacker” crossing the U.S. border into Canada, away from a sign stating “U.S. at war. Selective conscription,” to find a sign stating “Canada rejects voluntary enlistment and adopts selective conscription.”

Item is a colour cartoon by Innes showing a First Nations woman “British Columbia” with a feast.

Item is a colour cartoon by Innes showing an “American demagogue” grabbing the tail of a large British lion.

Item is a cartoon by Innes showing Sir Joe Flavelle walking a pig labelled “$3,000,000.00 profits on bacon” into a bank with the caption “Sir Joseph: Come into your nice sty, piggy. The kind [?]-Keeper will look after you while I am away doing lots more patriotic work.”

Item is a cartoon by Innes showing the arm of “Allies’ Food Commission” stopping a bandit aiming a gun labelled “high prices” at a woman and her savings.

Item is a cartoon by Innes showing David Lloyd George standing over war needs including ammunition and food products.

Item is a cartoon by Innes showing children aiming toy guns and swords at a man with pockets full of candy and packages.

Item is a cartoon by Innes showing a sign stating “Militants attention. The tyrants have again resorted to forcible feeding,” likely referring to the treatment of hunger-striking suffragettes in Britain. A character named “Indigent Arnold” stands next to the sign and the caption reads “I wish the bloomin’ tyrants would get a’old of me.”

File consists of an original ink drawing of a bright star over a landscape, with a border of holly, as well as a newspaper clipping including the illustration.

File consists of 2 copies of a portrait of Innes. One is marked “Copyright 1923 P. Bentley.”

File consists of newspaper clippings relating to Innes’ paintings.

Item is a card with a title panel, “The Striker by John Innes. Illustrations by the author,” and an illustration by Innes captioned “The strike is hon.” The short story “The Striker” appeared in The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXX, no. 2 (December, 1907).

Item is a patent agreement relating to a device for “detecting the direction of motion on a horizontal plane,” filed in New York City.

File consists of a Christmas card with an image by Innes of a cowboy in the snow, inscribed “From John Innes, 1940,” as well as 3 drafts or unfinished cards.

Item is a Christmas card with an image of Innes’ painting “The Pathfinders” on the front. The card is inscribed “To the Lane family From the Innes family, 1940.”

File consists of newspaper clippings of two short stories written and illustrated by Innes, titled “Wall-eyed Googan” and “Translation of Pig-Eye.”

Item is a poetry chapbook written and illustrated by Innes.

Item is an issue of The Canadian Magazine containing the article “A ‘round-up.’ Described and illustrated by John Innes.”

Item is a booklet about the history of Vancouver, published by The Pacific Coast Fire Insurance Company to commemorate its fiftieth anniversary. The cover illustration is by Innes.

Item is a pen and ink sketch by Innes of small houses and forest with a cityscape in the background. The sketch is mounted on paper with an attached overleaf.

Item is a pencil sketch by Innes of a figure sitting next to 2 totem poles with a cityscape in the background. There are notes in the margin about the composition from Innes as well as “George.”

Item is a newspaper clipping of an illustration showing individuals in a boat near shore, looking out toward a larger ship.

Item is a Christmas card illustrated with an image of a cowboy riding in the snow, inscribed “To Douglas & Mrs. Lane & the boys. Every happiness, this Christmas season of 1937. John & Ida Innes.” There is a metal emblem attached to the card.

Item is a photograph of Innes walking on a sidewalk next to another man. Inscribed on the back by Innes’ wife Ida is “Look how they starved John Innes - bowed his head and broke his heart.”

Item is a photograph of Innes sitting on the lawn in front of an unidentified building.