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The collection consist of documents related to the Kalyna Country project collected by the Government of Alberta advisor for Kalyna Country Ecomuseum Bill Tracy. It includes materials of the Kalyna Country Ecomuseum Trust Society, Kalyna Country Destination Marketing organization, Shandro museum and Lakusta museum.

The Kalyna Country Ecomuseum Project was initiated in 1990 as a joint undertaking by the then Department of Culture and Multiculturalism and the Candian Institute of Ukrainian studies. Conceptually the Ecomuseum was to preserve and develop the heritage resources - both cultural and natural - of a 15,000 square kilometer portion of East Central Alberta which was primarily settled at the turn of the century by Ukrainian pioneers. In 1992 the residents of the area organized themselves into a non-profit association called the “Kalyna Country Ecomuseum Trust Society”. The Board of Directors of the Society were drawn from across the entire ecomuseum which has been divided into “electoral districts”. The Society had undertaken various research and promotional projects.

Kalyna Country Ecomuseum is a “heritage” and eco-tourism district, “living” outdoor museum in rural East Central Alberta.

Officially, Kalyna Country comprises Sturgeon County, Thorhild County, Smoky Lake County, the County of St. Paul No. 19, the County of Vermilion River, the County of Two Hills No. 21, the County of Minburn No. 27, Beaver County, Lamont County, and Strathcona County and many of the neighbouring urban municipalities, Indian reserves and Metis settlements.

The series contains working papers pertaining to the founding and development of the Kalyna Country project including Kalyna Country Ecomuseum Trust Society, Kalyna Country Destination Marketing organization, and other constitutive parts of the project. These documents include (but are not limited to):

• grant applications,
• meeting minutes,
• bylaws,
• development strategies,
• action plans,
• budgets,
• receipts of money transfers,
• variety of reports,
• certificate about changes of the objectives,
• lists of board directors, executive officers, and other members of the administration,
• extensive correspondence,
• materials of conference meetings,
• clippings of newspaper publications about Kalyna Country project,
• a brief history of the organization,
• biographies of prominent people, writers, politicians, and artists, born in the territories constituting the Kalyna Country Ecomuseum: Michael Gowda, Illia Kiriak, Kupchenko family, Kostash family, Joseph Yasenchuk, William Kurylek, Michael Luchkovich among others,
• set of visitor's and events guides and booklets.

There are also several folders organized by the creator containing the following documents:

• "An Alphabetical Concordance to the Central and East European Place Names in the Kalyna Country Ecomuseum Area"
• Native peoples (Cree)
• Fur trade posts and Missions
• "Centennial Landscaping and Highway beautification project east Yellowhead Highway Corridor," a brief prepared by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Alberta Provincial Council
• Building condition report, Ukrainian Church, Smoky Lake, Alberta. Prepared for the Facilities Management Division.

The series consists of a few documents - letters, notes, emails - about the transfer of the Lakusta Museum collections.

The series consists of documents related to Shandro Museum activities including annual financial reports, list of executive, bylaws, renaming documents, certificate of incorporation, agreement with other organizations (Alberta Museum Association), and dissolution documents.