The fonds is the product of Laviolette’s photographic career with subjects including people and places in the Monashee Mountain wilderness and surrounding areas. The images also document events and people in and around Cherryville. Photographs have been taken between 1950 up until 1999. Some documentary materials and ephemera such as magazines with articles by Laviolette accompanies the photographs as well as a DVD of his 1965 film The Call of the Monashee. The fonds is arranged into three series: still photography, publications, and filmmaking.

Series consists of one DVD recording of The Call of the Monashee.

Series consists of 14 pamphlets, tearsheets, or magazine issues featuring writing and/or photography by Ernest Laviolette.

Series consists of 885 photographs.