Fonds reflects Ray Sloan's work as a faculty member in the Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences at Mount Royal College, specifically his involvement with the development of the Applied Environmental Technology and Occupational Hygiene Technology programs. The fonds also documents a fisheries inventory project that Sloan conducted in the Ghost River/Waiparous watershed.

Collection contains pamphlets published by the Communist Party of Canada/Labor-Progressive Party, Progress Books, and other Canadian communist and socialist organizations and publishers. Pamphlet subjects include the anti-war movement, political platforms, labour, and economics.