Fonds documents the administration of and functions related to parks, civil defence, streets and transit, water and waste, planning, finance, assessment, as well as the relationship between Metro and municipalities, provincial and federal levels of government, organizations and citizens.

Common record types include minutes, by-laws, correspondence, reports, maps/plans, and financial records.

Photographs of overpasses and areas of the Greater Winnipeg Area for which overpasses were proposed.

Photographs of various pipes, machines, and facilities around Winnipeg for the delivery and treatment of water and waste.

Photographs of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. Photos include boating and canoeing on the rivers, landscape shots of the city that include the rivers, and aerial shots of the rivers. Photographs originally assembled for use in an unknown publication.

Photographs of buses in operation, the Fort Rouge garage, and maintenance being performed on buses.

Photographs of streets and traffic from various places around the Greater Winnipeg Area. Photographs are primarily aerial shots, but the file also contains photos of people and buildings.

Two photographs of buses stuck in snow, possibly after the March 4, 1966 blizzard.

Consists of a single photograph of a bus in front of City Hall for an unknown publication, possibly "The Metropolitan".

A series of photographs that were returned to the Metro Government by the Federal Publications Services in Montreal. The photos were presumably sent to be used in a publication. The photos were returned on January 16, 1975.

Photographs of various parks and park goers around the Greater Winnipeg area, as well as a small amount of textual records created by the Metro government describing the photos, their collection, and their use. Photographs were collected and used by Allan Bready, Metro's Information Officer, as part of a publication project of park featurettes.

Photographs of Kildonan Park and the Kildonan Golf Course in use. Photos include aerials of the golf course, summer and winter activities in the park, and interiors of the the Peguis Pavilion.