Series consists of an assemblage of clippings in 48 scrapbooks collected by Dosanjh and staff from local and foreign newspapers, magazines, and online sources. Individual items have been cut from their original source material and pasted into scrapbooks with date and publication data attached. A range of features including political comics, news articles, and opinion pieces document his advocacy and political career. Additionally, they present media reaction and opinions regarding various political decisions, announcements, and issues brought forth by the subject.
Clippings from two large Metro Vancouver print media establishments, The Vancouver Sun and The Province, make up the bulk of the pasted items. Smaller local publications and online news media sources such as The Georgia Straight, Global BC, and CTV News also feature.
Specific foreign language clippings form distinct compilations. Punjabi and Hindi news from local and Indian sources include The Indo-Canadian Voice, The Punjab Guardian, Des Pardes, Ajitweekly, Jagbani, Punjab Kesari, Daily Nawan Zamana, Chandigarh Bani, and Dainik Bhaskar. Chinese language papers are limited to Metro Vancouver based publications such as The Asian Star, SingTao Daily, Ming Pao Daily News, and World Journal.
Advertisements are compiled into standalone books. Dating from 1985 to 2009 and sourced from locally published newspapers, they relate to the promotion of Dosanjh’s law firm, political election campaigns, and well wishes to members of the public regarding holidays.
Individual scrapbooks are identified by the date of their contents in day-month-year format.
Due to the nature of the scrapbooks’ content, the clippings relate to topics found in the Provincial Political series and the Federal Political series.