The collection consists of both textual records and photographs chronicling the life of Dr. J. W. Grant MacEwan and his personal involvement with the institution. Materials include newspaper, magazine, and article clippings, letters, books, awards, certificates, as well as MacEwan Day and other ceremony and special event ephemera.

The fonds consists of research material, photographs, correspondence, reviews, and a book jacket for Everyone's Grandfather: The Life and Times of Grant MacEwan authored by Donna von Hauff. It also contains drafts, printer's proofs and book jacket, photographs and slides for Buffalo: Sacred & Sacrificed, written by Grant MacEwan and edited by Donna von Hauff. Also included is a photocopy of a handwritten diary belonging to Grant MacEwan with entries dated 1906-1951.

The collection consists of diplomas, certificates, and a plaque awarded to John Hutton, as well as 2 photographs, and 2 framed prints labelled "In memory of John Graham Hutton."