File contains correspondence between Gary McPherson, president of the Challenge Cup Wheelchair Basketball League, and other wheelchair basketball associations. Correspondence documents the organization of an international wheelchair basketball tournament that would include the top North American teams from the Challenge Cup League, the National Wheelchair Basketball Association league, and the Eurocup League. Correspondence deals with team concerns, logistical arrangements, team standings, and host city negotiations.

File contains the constitution and bylaws for the Challenge Cup Wheelchair Basketball Association.

File documents updates given to the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association Executive Committee, which included Steadward and Gary McPherson. File contains reports from members in executive positions, provincial reports from: Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island, reports summarizing or planning disability sporting events such as: the XXVI Stoke Mandeville Games, Pam Am Games, 5th National Women's Wheelchair Basketball Tournament, 11th National Wheelchair Games, International Super Challenge, 1980 Olympiad, and Bank of Montreal Marathon. File also contains Executive Committee minutes, Board of Governors minutes, memoranda, correspondence, qualifying standards for various sports, financial statements, draft constitution and bylaws, policies and procedures for Canadian teams, a list of federal grants received, and a publishing contract.

File documents the history of wheelchair basketball and wheelchair basketball clubs in Canada. File contains correspondence nominating candidates for a Canadian Wheelchair Sport Association (CWSA) certificate of recognition, student essays/assignments, brochures, a history of Canadian wheelchair sports written by Joseph Wong, a history of wheelchair basketball published by the Alberta National Wheelchair Basketball Association, and a history and information guide on the Alberta Northern Lights Wheelchair Basketball Club.

File documents incidents of Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association (CWSA) athletes being involved with doping and disciplinary issues at the Forester Games in Brantford, and the role of CWSA President, Gary McPherson, in addressing the issues. File contains correspondence, memoranda, certificates of analysis, incident accounts, policies and procedures on antidoping and doping penalties, minutes, news articles, an Ontario court decision, and press release.

File documents the leadership and membership of the CWSA. File contains executive position registers, association directories, contact lists for specialized staff, membership lists, attendance lists for sporting events, memoranda, and a newsletter.

File contains issues of the newsletter 'Wheeler's Choice', the official newsletter of the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association. File also contains newsletters of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF) and the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Bulletin, and a list of coaches and participants for the 6th National Wheelchair Basketball Championships.

File documents the relationship between two disability sports organizations: the Canadian Federation of Sport Organizations of the Disabled (CFSOD) and the Sports Fund for the Physically Disabled (SFPD), as well as the planning of a Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association (CWSA) reunion. File contains correspondence, minutes from a joint CFSOD and SFPD meeting, directory lists for CWSA, and a CFSOD constitution and bylaws.

Item is a souvenir program and tournament schedule for the 1994 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship.

Item is a program for the 20th National Wheelchair Games sponsored by the National Wheelchair Athletic Association.

File documents reporting on the 7th National Wheelchair Games held in Montreal. File contains reports, competition results, financial statements, and correspondence.

File documents the budgets of the Alberta Wheelchair Sports and Recreation Association (AWSRA) and the Paralympic Sports Association (PSA). File contains budget plans, budget recaps, statements, treasurer reports, PSA membership lists, corrections and additions to membership lists, grant application forms, grant regulations, correspondence, lists of AWSRA executive committee members, and a newsletter.

File documents the participation of Canadian teams at the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Pan-American Wheelchair Games. File contains reports written by team managers, head coaches, and athletic directors of the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association.

File documents the staging of the third Pan-American Wheelchair Games. File contains daily events programs, rules, minutes, recommendations of the Medical Committee, anthems, a competitors and officials guide, seminar agenda, and opening ceremonies schedule.

File summarizes attempts to convince the Commonwealth Games Federation to fully integrate events for disabled athletes in the Commonwealth Games. File contains correspondence, meeting highlights, press releases, and a news article.

File documents the history and activities of the Wheelchair Dancing Subcommittee of the International Sports Federation for the Disabled (ISOD). File contains bylaws, descriptions of different methods of wheelchair dancing, competition details, a summary of the composition and purpose of the Wheelchair dancing sub-committee, and a membership application form.

File contains correspondence, a history of wheelchair tennis and the International Wheelchair Tennis Federation (IWTF), and an IWTF newsletter.

Subseries documents records received and produced by Steadward in the course of his involvement with wheelchair sports organizations, and associations that represent wheelchair athletes, such as the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation, International Wheelchair Basketball Federation, International Wheelchair Tennis Federation, National Wheelchair Basketball Association, Alberta National Wheelchair Basketball Association, International Paralympic Committee, International Sports Federation of the Disabled, and the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association. Subseries documents the administration of wheelchair sports associations, coaching and athlete symposia, the planning and execution of sporting competitions and events, inter-organization relationships, and wheelchair sport histories.

Subseries contains correspondence, reports, minutes, policies, bylaws, newsletters, schedules, membership lists, team lists, athlete standings/rankings, rules, and videos.

Item is a report on the 6th Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled.

Item is a miniature souvenir mug commemorating the 1983 Canadian Games for the Physically Disabled.

File contains a collection of pins, medals, and other jewelry commemorating a variety of disability sporting events and organizations. Items were acquired by Steadward and Gary McPherson in the course of their work at the University of Alberta and in their leadership roles with disability sports organizations. File contains objects related to the following events and organizations: Calgary Wheelchair Sport Association, 1976 Canadian Olympics, National Wheelchair Games, Wheelchair Basketball Gold Cup, 1976 Olympiad for the Physically Disabled, Canadian Games for the Physically Disabled, International Year of Disabled Persons, Ontario Summer Games, Canadian Wheelchair Indoor Championship, 7th World Wheelchair Games, Edmonton Universiade, Stoke Mandeville International Games, 15th Olympics Winter Games, 11th Commonwealth Games, the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association, German Wheelchair Sports Association, National Wheelchair Basketball Association, British Paralympic Sports Society, Paralympic Sports Association, Empire Sports Club, Korea Volleyball Association, Alberta Softball Association, and others.

Item is a video of children with special mobility needs playing and practising movements in a training facility.

Item is an instructional video on how to play goalball, a sport design for blind athletes. Video was produced by the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Item is a video of highlights from the Labatt Lite-Sporkchek 24 hour relay. Funds from the relay support the physically disabled in northern Alberta.

Item is a video documentary about sit-skiing with the Arroya, a downhill ski system for individuals with disabilities. Item also contains a short excerpt of the sit-skiing National Handicapped Ski Championships. Video was produced by the Rehabilitation Research and Development Centre Veterans Administration and Stanford University.

Item is a video highlighting the mission and programs of the Jubilee Sailing Trust. The Jubilee Sailing Trust is a charitable sailing training organization that integrates abled and disabled sailors.

Item is a video demonstrating mono-ski, kan-ski, and sit-ski fitness equipment for disabled athletes. The moni-ski segment was produced by the British Columbia Physically Handicapped Winter Sports Association.

Item is a video documentary about sit-skiing with the Arroya, a downhill ski system for individuals with disabilities. Item also contains a short excerpt of the sit-skiing National Handicapped Ski Championships. Video was produced by the Rehabilitation Research and Development Centre Veterans Administration and Stanford University.

Item is a taped television segment promoting the 1984 Olympics of the Physically Disabled. Item also contains part of a basketball tutorial.

File documents Steadward's attendance at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia. File contains biographies and inscriptions for tribute plaques, minutes of the Commonwealth Games Federation Sports Committee, correspondence, tickets, taxi receipts, news articles, notes, newsletters, a VIP handbook, disability events information package, reception agenda, ID card, games guide, issue of the Commonwealth Games newspaper, magazine, invitation, greeting from the Premier, and a pin.

File documents a debate about the inclusion of INAS-FMH represented athletes in IPC sanctioned events. File contains correspondence, a memoranda, and a conference report from the British Paralympic Association.

File documents the establishment of a national organization to represent sledge hockey in Canada and the inclusion of sledge hockey in the Paralympics. File contains proposed foundational principals, characteristics, objectives, values, and mission statements for a Canadian sledge hockey organization. File also contains recommendations from the Minister's Task Force on Federal Sport Policy report, sledge hockey tournament guidelines, agendas, minutes, sledge hockey rules, schedules of sledge hockey tournaments and games, news articles, correspondence, press releases, brochures, invitations, excepts from the IPC, IPC technical classifying procedures, a five year plan for the development of sledge hockey in Canada, application for incorporation, constitution and bylaws, IPC organizational structure, list of IPC executive members, list of IPC sports committees, team officials application, report of Sport Forum II proceedings, and a report of the IPC International Committee on Integration of Athletes with a Disability.

Item is a proposal to renegotiate the vision, mission, and strategic plan of the SASAPD in order to make their association more inline with IPC member organizations.

File documents the Canadian Therapeutic Riding Association (CanTRA) application to the Canadian Federation of Sport Organizations for the Disabled (CFSOD). File contains score sheets, press releases, competition results, correspondence, rules and details for the East Coast Equestrian Games, proposed statutes, a list of Canadian riding instructors, and a program for the 7th International Therapeutic Riding Congress.

File documents the 6th Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled (FESPIC) held in Beijing in 1994. File contains promotional programs, brochures, newsletters, Chinese newspapers, correspondence, a technical handbook, registration application, reception center guide, photograph of the FESPIC executive, and an opening ceremony program.

File documents an issue between the IPC and the Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons (CFPDP) regarding the right to establish a permanent location for the Paralympic flame and the promotion of the Paralympic touch via the WhyNot Marathon. File contains correspondence, a special issue of the Toronto Sun, program for the dedication of the Canadian Paralympic torches, general information for the WhyNot Marathon, and background information on the CFPDP.

File documents lobbying efforts by the International Paralympic Committee to include disabled athletes in the Commonwealth Games. File contains correspondence, excerpts from the constitution of the Commonwealth Games, minutes, a status report, and a paper on the inclusion of events for athletes with disabilities in the Olympic Games.

File documents a Think Tank that was held to explore the feasibility of establishing a secretariat for the integration of Canadian athletes with disabilities, and the work of the resulting Task Force on Integration. File contains correspondence, agendas, minutes, draft proposals, drafts of the Task Force on Integration report, responses to the draft Task Force on Integration report, notes, research papers, organizational charts for the ICC and Canadian Federation of Sport Organizations of the Disabled (CFSOD), and a list of Think Tank participants.

File documents the work of the ICC in organizing Paralympic games and liasing with other international disabiliy sports organizations. File contains ICC minutes, correspondence, ICC sub-committee minutes, agendas, a Medical Committee report, Technical Committee report, and guidelines for a questionaire project.

File contains directories of national disability committees and non-governmental disability organizations produced by the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs.

File documents summits discussing the development of disability sport in the areas of snowboarding, volleyball, and boccia to. File contains event schedules, agendas, summit summaries, evaluation forms, lists of attendees, and a draft report.

File documents a mini-summit sponsored by Canadian Sport for Life, an organization that promotes sport and physical activity in Canada. File contains slides from an presentation about athletes with disabilities, participant workbooks, a draft CSAL-LTAD five year activation strategy, agenda, and workshop description.

File contains newspaper articles and advertisements from the 1967 and 1975 Pan-Am Games, a special supplementary issue of the newspaper Focus on Ability, an award nomination slip, and a brochure.

File contains two copies of an introductory booklet about the Paralympic Sports Association. Booklet contains information about association programs, membership, awards, financial statements, and rules and regulations.

Item is a video of a series of commercials for the International Blind Sport Association (IBSA).

File contains two copies of the program commemorating the 20 year reunion of the Paralympics Sports Association.

File contains two copies of a set of published symposium proceedings.

Item is a set of published symposium proceedings.

File contains newspapers and news articles covering the XV 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia.

Album contains photographs of individuals and teams participating in the 1977 Canadian Games for the Physically Disabled, which were held in Edmonton, Alberta.

Item is a dossier providing introductory information about the African Sports Confederation for Disabled. Package includes an organizational chart, brief history, constitution, membership list, and list of supported sports.

File documents the planning of and eventual cancellation of The Great Wall run in China. File contains correspondence, maps of the Summer Palace, lists of participants, an information package for an international meeting of the National Co-Ordinating Committee on Disability in Developing Countries, company profile for the Channel America television network, information package on The Great Wall Run, sponsor's television coverage report, issue of the tourist newspaper 'Welcome to Beijing', and a press release.

File documents the activities of General Association of International Sports Federation (GAISF) and the federation's working relationship with the International Paralympics Committee (IPC). File contains GAISF minutes, all member notices, newsletters, agendas, correspondence, brochures, a section of the Council of Europe procedures on doping control, congress and general assembly report, insurance coverage summary, GAISF Council summary of decisions, and a report on Sportel market.

Item is a published list of upcoming sporting events sponsored/hosted by GAISF member organizations.

Item is a published list of upcoming sporting events sponsored/hosted by GAISF member organizations. Item also contains a list of upcoming GAISF congress meetings and a GAISF membership list and contact information.

Item is an audio cassette containing seven commercials for the International Blind Sport Association (IBSA).

File documents the activities of the Far East and South Pacific Games Federation for the Disabled (FESPIC) and its relationship with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). File contains FESPIC newsletters, correspondence, FESPIC minutes, business cards, photographs, FESPIC historical information, a visa application, itinerary, welcome address, toast, FESPIC amended constitution, FESPIC member list, and a draft newsletter article.

File contains brochures and pamphlets from the China Disabled Persons' Federation on the laws, rights, and services for disabled people in China.

File contains candid shots of individuals, groups, and scenery from a camping trip organized by the Alberta Paralympic Sports Association.

Item is an observer's report of the IV Commonwealth Paraplegic Games that were held in Dunedin, New Zealand.

File documents the activities of Canadian Therapeutic Riding Association (CanTRA) and its relationship with the IPC. File contains correspondence, CanTRA newsletters, CanTRA instruction manuals, brochures, dressage rules and tests, reports from equestrian competitions, IPC rules for equestrian sports, news articles, workshop notices, International Paralympic Equestrian Committee newsletters, an invitation for the 3rd World Championship for Disabled Riders, IPC Equestrian Committee report, competition program, fundraiser proposal, and a list of CanTRA officers and directors.

Object is a board mounted with gold, silver, and bronze medals commemorating the 2001 CP-ISRA World Games held in Nottingham, England.

File contains Paralympic Sports Association newsletters, meeting notices, tournament invitations, and program flyers.

File documents discussions regarding the inclusion of athletes with disabilities participating in the Commonwealth Games. File contains correspondence, Commonwealth Games Federation minutes, reports, press releases, proposed rule changes, notes, organizational charts, directories, news articles, proposals, an event program and a history of the Paralympic Games and Canadian team.

File documents information received by the International Paralympic Committee regarding sporting opportunities and championships for blind athletes. File contains a development report, report on the World Sports Championships for the Blind, communications report, and a media report.

Item is a publicity campaign dossier prepared by the International Blind Sport Federation. Dossier contains draft advertisements, correspondence, and cost breakdowns.

Item is a promotional information package for The Great Wall Run, organized by the International Sports Foundation (ISF). Package contains runner profiles, sponsorship packages, a press release, competition description, history of the IPC, and prize structure description.

File documents the structure, aims, and activities of the International Committee on Integration of Athletes with a Disability (ICI). File contains financial statements, correspondence, an agenda, director report, draft budget, mandate, strategic plan, operational plan, and a draft proposal for the inclusion of full-medal status for disabled athletes in the 1996 summer Olympics.

Series documents records received and produced by Steadward in the course of his involvement and communication with international sporting organizations, and national and international sports organizations that represent disabled athletes. Organizations include: the Canadian Therapeutic Riding Association, International Blind Sport Association, Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons, Canadian Federation of Sport Organizations of the Disabled, Commonwealth Games Federation, Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association, Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association, Far East and South Pacific Games Federation for the Disabled, General Association of International Sports Federation, International Coordinating Committee of World Sports Organizations for the Disabled, International Committee on Integration of Athletes with a Disability, International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability, International Sports Foundation, International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation, International Sports Federation for the Disabled, Paralympic Sports Association, South African Sports Association for Physically Disabled, and others.

Series documents administration and organization of worldwide disability sports associations, relationships between disability sports organizations and the International Paralympic Committee, International Paralympic Committee membership, information on programs, services, and adaptive equipment for disabled athletes, and the planning and execution of sporting competitions and events such as the Commonwealth Games, Great Wall Run, World Blind Sports Championship, Games for the Physically Disabled, Canadian Olympics, National Wheelchair Games, Wheelchair Basketball Gold Cup, Olympiad for the Physically Disabled, Canadian Wheelchair Indoor Championship, World Wheelchair Games.

Series contains two subseries: Wheelchair sports and associations and video reels. Series also contains correspondence, reports, minutes, policies, bylaws, newsletters, conference and symposia proceedings, schedules, proposals, membership lists, team lists, athlete standings/rankings, rules, videos, memorabilia, news articles, and press releases.

Item is a print and electronic version of the post-game report on the Sydney Paralympic Games. Item contains a forward written by Steadward in his capacity as the President of the IPC.

File documents news coverage leading up to and during the Sydney Paralympic Games. File primarily contains full issues and articles from the Sydney Morning Herald. File also contains news articles, magazine articles, opinion pieces, press releases, newsletters, and special edition newspapers from other news organizations. File also contains a speech by Steadward, official games program, and a report on the impact of the Olympics on host city businesses.

Item is a marketing plan for the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games.

Item is a set of guidelines outlying the official images and intellectual property to be used to promote and market the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games.

Item is management plan for the delivering the 2000 Paralympic Games created by the Sydney Paralympic Organizing Committee.

Item is an annual report on the operations and achievements of the Sydney Paralympics Organizing Committee.

File documents the organization of the 2000 Sydney Paralympic games. File contains newsletters, biographical details for members of the Sydney Paralympics Organizing Committee, magnets, a brochure, lapel pin, and an annual report for the Homebush Bay Development Corporation.

Item is an introduction to the management, design, and construction of the permanent sports facilities for the 2000 Sydney Paralympics prepared by the Olympic Construction Authority. Item contains site maps.

Item is the first edition of a management plan for the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, prepared for the IPC by the Sydney Paralympics Organizing Committee (SPOC).

Item is a Sydney 2000 Olympics planning and construction report, prepared for the people of New South Wales, by the Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG).

File documents the planning of the 2000 Sydney Paralympic games. File contains newsletters, press releases, the 6th progress report of the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee (SPOC), and a SPOC organizational chart.

File contains issues of the newsletter The Sydney Spirit, the official publication of the Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. Newsletters contains updates for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

File documents the planning and organization of the 2000 Olympics and Paralympics in Sydney, Australia. File contains a Paralympic games information kit, the 5th progress report of the Paralympic Organizing Committee, a Olympic planning and construction report, and slides from a presentation by the Olympic Co-ordination Authority.

File documents the planning of the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games. File contains correspondence, schedules of events for an IPC general assembly meeting, and a Sydney Paralympic Organizing Committee annual report.

File documents the planning for launching the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games. File contains key messages, VIP profiles, speech summaries, and schedules.

Item is a special issue of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper dedicated to the upcoming 2000 Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games.

File documents a formal agreement between the IPC and the Sydney Paralympics Organizing Committee regarding the 2000 Paralympics. File contains draft contract agreements and a joint marketing agreement.

Item is a Paralympic bid prepared by the Sydney Paralympic Bid Committee and submitted to the IPC. Item contains correspondence, letters of Paralympic support from members of the Australian government and Olympic officials, logistical information regarding holding the games in Sydney, progress reports from the Sydney Paralympics Organising Committee, an invitation, and a financial plan.

Item is a set of presentation slides summarizing and highlighting takeaways from the Sydney Paralympics.

Subseries documents the planning, organizing, and implementation of the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney, Australia. Subseries also documents the relationship between the IPC and the Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committees. Subseries contains reports, correspondence, contract agreements, schedules,newspapers, newsletters, press releases, presentation slides, site maps, guidelines, marketing plans, and news articles.

Item is the edited proceedings of the winter Paralympic Experts Congress, also known as the 4th Paralympic Congress which was organized and published by the IPC and the Nagano Paralympic Organizing Committee. Item contains a forward written by Steadward in his capacity as the President of the IPC.

Item is an official report prepared by the Organizing Committee for the 1998 Winter Paralympic Games, Nagano. Item contains a forward written by Steadward in his capacity as the President of the IPC.

File contains two information packages prepared by the Nagano Winter Paralympics Promotion Committee and the Organizing Committee for the VII Paralympic Winter Games. Packages include a schedule of events leading up the the Paralympics, maps, descriptions of facilities, and brochures.

File documents the planning of the 1998 Nagano winter Paralympic games. File contains newsletters, correspondence, contract objections, news articles, artist renderings of Olympic facilities, brochures, an application to host the winter Paralympics, progress report, and a report on the vision for the Nagano Paralympics.

File documents the city of Nagano's bid to become the 1998 Paralympic host city and preparations for the 1998 Winter Paralympics. File contains correspondence, newspaper articles, a list of questions by the host country for the IPC, site inspection report, and site visit itinerary.

File contains correspondence, promotional stickers, a Nagano Paralympics brochure, and a Paralympics entry form.

Item is a book of bound issues of the Japanese newspaper 'Paralympics'. Item contains issues 1-12.

File documents the promotion of the 1998 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Nagano, Japan. File contains brochures, guidebooks, and descriptions of sports facilities.

Item is a brochure for the 1998 Winter Paralympic Games in Nagano, Japan.