Sous-fonds consists of records created and maintained by the Office of the Special Representative The records include submissions from and interviews with various organizations, communities, native groups and individuals in the NWT, subject files concerning various aspects of government in the NWT and administration of the Ottawa and Yellowknife offices of the Special Representative. Twelve maps were included showing electoral districts, native land claims, population distribution and federal government establishments serving the NWT.
Sous-fond contains 11 audio tapes of community summaries for the Office in various languages e.g. English, French, Chipewyan, Western and Eastern Inuktitut, and Dogrib, and others. It also consists of 17 photographs depicting Hon. C.M. Drury, Special Representative to the Prime Minister for Constitutional Development in the Northwest Territories, visiting Cambridge Bay, Pangnirtung, and Spence Bay, N.W.T., from April-May 1979.