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This series includes correspondence relating to taxation, legislation, building construction, Council, and the Bouillon Investigation. This series contains the following classes:

• Class 1: Correspondence, 1891-1913
• Class 2: Scrapbook

This series comprises repealed municipal bylaws.

This series includes the minutes of Edmonton Town Council from 1892-1904, and from Edmonton City Council from 1904-1991, as well as agendas from 1913-1945.

This series includes all incoming and outgoing correspondence and several administrative registers. The correspondence deals with all matters involving the Town, in particular municipal elections, water and sewer extensions, electric lighting, the street railway system, immigration, the sale of Town debentures, taxation, property alterations, and numerous petitions for extended services. The records have been classified according to subject and provided with an index.

This series contains the following classes:

• Class 1: Outgoing correspondence, 1892-1894
• Class 2: Outgoing correspondence, 1894-1896
• Class 3: Incoming correspondence, 1895-1896
• Class 4: Outgoing correspondence and census report, 1896-1899
• Class 5: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1902-1903
• Class 6: Plumbing undertaken for private citizens, 1902-1906
• Class 7: Debentures sold, 1893-1906
• Class 8: Electric metre recordings and payments, 1903
• Class 9: Receipts and disbursements, 1903-1905
• Class 10: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1904
• Class 11: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1905
• Class 12: Register and index of new buildings, 1905-1911
• Class 13: Outgoing correspondence to various school districts, 1905-1907
• Class 14: Electric light register, 1905-1906
• Class 15: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1906
• Class 16: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1907
• Class 17: Debenture register, 1906-1910
• Class 18: Electric metre books, 1907
• Class 19: Electric metre books, 1908
• Class 20: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1908
• Class 21: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1909
• Class 22: City Council Finance Committee, recommendations for payment, 1909-1911
• Class 23: Disbursements, 1909-1911
• Class 24: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1910
• Class 25: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1911-1912

This series includes correspondence, ledgers and receipts. This series contains the following classes:

• Class 1: Journal detailing income and expenditures, 1892-1915
• Class 2: Cash book detailing income and expenditures, 1892-1902
• Class 3: Ledger detailing finances of various departments and listing the major areas of public expenditure, 1892-1899 (includes index)
• Class 4 : Ledger detailing the financial situation of the Town and listing the major areas of expenditure and sources of revenue, 1899-1904 (includes index)
• Class 5: Two cheque books, 1894-1896
• Class 6: Correspondence, receipts and financial statements, 1896-1904
• Class 7: Insurance policy for the City of Edmonton protecting from embezzlement by the Secretary-Treasurer, 1900

This series includes certified copies of agreement between the corporation of Edmonton and various other parties. This series also includes agreements made by the Town of Strathcona between 1899 and 1909.

This series contains minutes from various Council Committees. Much of City Council's business was conducted through these Committees, which then reported to Council. Many specially appointed committees existed, as well as two standing committees: the Bylaws Committee (1922-1965) and Finance Committee (1914-1965).

In an attempt to streamline meetings, in 1965 the Committee of the Whole was established, replacing the Bylaws and Finance Committees. The Committee of the Whole met prior to Council meetings to listen to delegations and consider matters, and bring forward recommendations to the regular Council meeting.

This subseries consists of the original ledgers used to record information regarding Civic Elections and Census Enumeration throughout the City of Edmonton's polling districts. Each ledger corresponds to one polling district within the City and were carried by City staff to each address in the district to record information regarding the occupants. The ledgers from 1945 onwards include name, address, if they are a British subject, if they own property, their section of either Protestant of Catholic for school taxes, their marital status, the name of their employer, the number of people in the residence under the age of 21 and their gender, and the type of dwelling in which they reside.