The fonds contains literary manuscripts of most of her books, personal and professional correspondence, material pertaining to both her literary and academic careers, more than 1000 photographs, 33 audio-cassettes, 1 videocassette, and 3 computer diskettes. The A12-41 accession of the fonds consists of legal documents and correspondence relating to the Robertson v. Thomson Corp. class action lawsuit, as well as awards, portraits and other correspondence. The A12-133 accession consists of correspondence and a review of "A Terrible Beauty", a periodical on Heather Robertson and a National Magazine Awards Booklet, plus awards and portraits. The 15-005 is comprised of nine series, including: biographical & personal information; literary career; research material; publishing contracts; correspondence; areas of interest; photographs; tapes & electronic records.

First Accession (A1991-022):
The papers in the fonds range from the early part of the 1950s to the 1990s and reflect the career of Dr. Helen P. Glass as a nursing educator, researcher, practitioner, and administrator at the provincial, national and international levels.

The fonds consists of vitae, biographical sketches, photograph, professional correspondence, materials relating to awards, speeches and addresses, conferences presentations, drafts and copies of publications, university course materials, and papers about consultations and review board activities. Her contribution to professional nursing and health associations - provincial, national and international - constitute a large portion of the fonds. These include the Canadian Nurses Association, Canadian Nurses Foundation, Victorian Order of Nurses, Canadian Red Cross, Canadian University Nursing Students Association, Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing, International Nurses Association, World Health Organization, International Council of Nurses, National League of Nursing, Royal College of Nursing, National Federation of Nurses’ Unions, National Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Manitoba Association of Registered Nurses, Manitoba Educational Research Council, Manitoba Health Research Council, and Manitoba Nursing Research Institute. Correspondents include Ginette Rogers and Monique Begin.

Also included is the background work on her “Study of the Use of Clinical Facilities by Nursing Students in the Province of Manitoba,” and a manuscript copy of the assembled study. The notes include proposals, applications for project renewal, reports, interviews, correspondence, and data analysis. The study was published in 1977 by Dr. Glass, Patricia Zimmer, and Carolyn Vogt, and was funded by a Health and Welfare Canada National Health Grant.

Second Accession, A2000-055:
The papers in the accession range from 1979-1999 and reflect the career of Dr. Helen P. Glass as a nursing educator, researcher, practitioner, and administrator at the provincial, national and international levels.

The fonds consists of vitae, biographical sketches, photograph, professional correspondence, materials relating to awards, speeches and addresses, conference presentations, drafts and copies of publications, university course materials, and papers about consultations and review board activities. Helen Glass’ contribution to professional nursing and health associations - provincial, national and international - constitute a large portion of the fonds. These include the Canadian Nurses Association, Canadian Nurses Foundation, Victorian Order of Nurses, Canadian University Nursing Students Association, Western Region Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing, World Health Organization, International Council of Nurses, Royal College of Nursing, Manitoba Association of Registered Nurses, Manitoba Nursing Research Institute, St. Amant Centre, Manitoba Association of Licensed Practical Nurses, Nursing Economic Interest Group, Indian and Inuit Nurses Council, Catholic Health Association of Manitoba, Canadian Public Health Association, Canadian Health Economics Research Association, Manitoba Organization of Nurses Association, Canadian Society for International Health, Manitoba Public Health Association and the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing.

Also included are her notes for proposals, applications for project renewal, reports, interviews, correspondence, and data analysis.

Third Accession, A2002-007:
The fonds consists of Helen Glass' papers from her studies at the Teachers' College, Columbia University in 1970; her reports, articles, and correspondence; the files pertaining to the establishment of the Manitoba Nursing Research Institute (MNRI); the files re: Nursing Crises of 2000; World Health Organization reports; and the books from the Library of Helen Glass.
PC 134 (A.2002-007)
Official Opening of the Helen Glass Centre For Nursing

The fonds consists primarily of letters between Helen Promislow and her first cousin, author Leon Edel. Edel is best known for his biography of novelist Henry James. Most letters focus on personal matters or Promislow's political career. Some letters were addressed to Promislow's husband, Hank Promislow, after her death.

This collection consists of:
Photographs: Winnipeg - Unidentified People and Places, some at the University of Manitoba [196-?]-[197?]
University of Manitoba postcards & 1971 Graduation Dinner and Dance notice.
Christmas Cards from the University of Manitoba
“The Johnian” – 1969 St. John’s College yearbook
“The Johnian” – 1971 St. John’s College yearbook
University of Manitoba Sweatshirt
University of Manitoba Banner
University of Manitoba Jacket
2 blankets with the St. John’s College Crest

Fonds comprises a labeled photograph album; loose photographs; newspaper clippings, including articles by or about T.G. Hamilton and Margaret Hamilton Bach; and carbon copies of minutes of some of the 1929 Hamilton experiments as well as drafts of two letters from Dr. Hamilton to European researchers.

The fonds consists of personal and professional papers, photographs, tapes, and clinical records and studies dating from 1936 to 1979. The papers deal with diseases affecting newborns and children, and genetic and anthropological blood group studies. An almost complete reprint collection of Dr. Chown's publications form an important part of the collection. The collection will be of interest to a variety of specialists, immunologists, pediatricians, hematologists, pathologists, and medical historians.

The fonds consists of an unpublished report written by Grant and funded by the Hudson's Bay Research Fellowship 1922-1923. The report provides details on research into the production costs, management, and business organization of fifteen mixed and fifteen dairy farms in Manitoba. The report includes an autographed typescript letter from Premier John Bracken, Winnipeg, dated May 11, 1925.

The fonds consists of personal papers documenting his participation in several national and international committees, his scientific studies and achievements, his role as chancellor of the University of Manitoba and various other personal papers covering his multi-faceted career. The 2009 accrual (A.09-47) consists of seven series. They include biographical information, articles and conference papers, student notes, teaching material, atomic mass conference in Winnipeg, correspondence, and photographs and drawings (PC 121). The A.11-80 accrual contains 12 series. They include: biographical information, speeches, Advisory Committee on Nuclear Safety, correspondence, University of Manitoba historic plaques project, books, conferences, University of Winnipeg, research material, photograph collection, tape collection, and oversize material.

The Collection is organized into 22 series:
1) Personal Records
2) Biographical Information
3) Friesen's Career
4) Speeches, Presentations, and Other Attended Events
5) Correspondence
6) Henry G. Friesen, Frederic Newton Starr Award and Others
7) Convocation
8) Hall of Fame
9) Professional Associations
10) Reports
11) Consultation
12) Operations: State of Health Care Research in Canada and the World
13) Research Developments
14) Memorandum
15) Newspaper Clippings
16) Harvard University Medical School
17) Reunion
18) Miscellaneous
19) Photographs
20) Digital Media
21) Henry G. Friesen's Office Material
22) Publications

The fonds consists mainly of books with attached photographs and correspondence. All loose inserts were removed. The material that could not safely be removed remains in the volumes in the Rare Book Collection and is noted briefly in the listing appended to the register. The donated library comprises some 425 titles. The majority are Canadian works, some historical or descriptive, with emphasis on the Maritimes. The remainder are largely works of or about Charles Dickens. The material taken from these volumes consists of letters and notes, press clippings, programs, and other memorabilia.

The fonds consists of photographs of life on the Marshall family farm in Miami, Manitoba and Deerwood, Manitoba, as well as photographs and slides of Manitoba plant life.

The collection consists of two letter “M’s”; a University of Manitoba crest showing the staff of Caduceus; a University of Manitoba varsity crest showing a downhill skier; the program for the Medicine class of 1948 farewell party; and a program for a dinner party at the Chateau Laurier for University of Manitoba alumni in the Ottawa area in 1959.

The Henry Kalen fonds is a veritable photographic A-Z of Manitoba culture, geography, architecture, and industry with a significant representation of western provinces and Ontario as well.

The Henry Kalen fonds has been organized into 3 categories comprising 28 series. The textual records (MSS 256) consist of reference questions and correspondence, biographical/miscellaneous material, books, and indexes. The photograph collection (PC 219) is comprised of prints of jobs, prints, small prints, postcard collection, postcards, black and white postcard collection, postcard album collection, album prints, slides by subject, slides of old Ontario/Saskatchewan/Montreal, etc., stock slides, slides by chronological order, miscellaneous slides, slides of large projects, largeformat transparenices, negatives, job files, architectural negatives, unnumbered job negative files, photographs of Henry Kalen's "One-Man Show" at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (1966), transparencies, negatives and miscellaneous slides, oversized prints, and oversized transparencies. In total, the photograph collection consists of 113,783 slides, 69,774 negatives, 13,125 transparencies, and 10,584 prints. The tape collection (TC 128) consists of 7 audio-cassettes.

The fonds consists of Henry Kreisel's diaries, correspondence, literary manuscripts and notes. The correspondence includes letters to and from the Kreisel family, close friends and other writers. The business correspondence deals with publishers, editors, universities and a number of organizations. Many essays are also included, as are manuscripts of all of Kreisel's novels and short stories.

The fonds consists of a photocopy of a typescript (13 leaves) entitled "Profiles in Canadian Literature: Frederick Philip Grove," written by Henry Makow. The fonds also contains an edited collection of Frederick Philip Grove's letters with commentary by H. Makow entitled "Letters from Eden: Grove's Creative Rebirth."

The fonds consists of a letter written by Henry Mills Alden to Julian Ralph on June 23, 1890. The letter is in regard to Julian Ralph writing articles about the Northwest Pacific coast for Harper's Magazine, and the possibility of later publishing a number of articles in book form.

The fonds consists of H.P. Crabb's documents, notebooks, training manuals, correspondences, digitized postcards, and photographs from his military service with the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) in World War I and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in World War II.

The fonds contains material generated while Dr. Weil was a member of the English Department at the University of Manitoba from 1978-2002. There are also two drafts of his book Henry IV Part One.

Fonds consists of 13 issues of newsletters from 3 different parapsychological societies, as well as 16 books regarding parapsychology, telepathy, and spirit communication through mediumship. The fonds contains two series: newsletters, organized by publication name; and books, arranged alphabetically by author surname.

The Hiebert, Brown Family fonds represents stories, experiences and contributions of three generations of a Mennonite-Northumberland family painting a vivid picture of life in Winnipeg, Manitoba in the first half of the 20th century. The fonds consists of biographical information on all members of the Hiebert, Brown family, their correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Also included are Paul Hiebert's audio-recordings and a manuscript, "Willows Revisited" (1970); Wallace Brown's recollection of the Winnipeg General Strike (June 21, 1919); Catherine Brown's genealogical research material into the Hiebert-Brown family's roots; and material pertaining to Catherine Brown's cousin, Erdman Penner, a cartoonist for the Walt Disney Company from the 1930s to the 1950s.

During the Great War of 1914-1919, organizations formed in Canada to support the war effort as well as contending with the human casualties. Included in these organizations were women’s projects such as sewing circles and other social functions to help incorporate community members while large segments were abroad. Humanitarian organizations like the Red Cross played a pivotal role in engaging members of the community at home to service those abroad. The fonds contains two letters of internal correspondence written in 1918 from The Canadian Red Cross Society and the Patriotic Sewing Circle. Both letters are type-written on letterhead and are in good condition.

The fonds consists of two series: textual records and photographs. The textual records series is comprised of two letters mounted on cardboard and signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower as Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, photocopies of two maps of England and Germany, a four-part typewritten memoir of the donor's war-time experiences, and a partial list providing captions for the photographic series. The photographic series is comprised of 39 monochrome photographs (each 16.5 x 23 cm) taken and printed by the donor. Each photograph is mounted on 29 x 36 cm card-stock on which brief captions have been written in pencil.

Series consists of two folders of textual records realting to:

(1) Anatomy Act misc records incl papers by IM Thompson on the supply of anatomical material 1949;

on the Anatomy Act 1958; by WJ Condo on Service after Death 1975 pub photos of graveside ceremony and monument

(2) incl lists of Anatomy staff 1884-1919;

copy of RB Mitchell's Manitoba Anatomists, Moore's "The anatomy depart" MMR Feb 1967 material on KL Moore and the sex of newborns, Persaud's Early Man anatomists Man Med 62: 160165 1992;

Persaud's "brief history of anatomy at UM" Anat Anz 1983: 153 3-31 with bios & photos;

procedures and notes from JA Paterson re Histology Prep Lab (198)

Med I Practical Exams (1982)

The fonds consists of Cloakmakers' Union correspondence (International Ladies' Garment workers' Union), materials related to the Ukrainian Mutual Benefit Association of St. Nicholas and St. Peter, a program of the First Ukrainian Canadian Congress (1943) and various programs of Ukrainian cultural events (1939) and a photograph collection (1920).

The scope and content of this collection is best described in the appraisal report of the National Archival Appraisal Board, dated January 20, 1983. The following is a quotation from that report:

"This collection will be of particular value to anyone studying social, political, land economic conditions in Winnipeg, especially from the mid-twenties to the mid-forties. In addition to chronicling events in that city, the papers trace the activities of prominent community leaders and the various associations of which Speechly was an active member. The unpublished autobiography provides a detailed account of the life and career of an active and vigorous civic leader.

The papers include correspondence, photographs, published articles, notes, pamphlets, and memorabilia and an unpublished autobiography of a prominent Winnipeg doctor over a period of almost four decades (1925-1961). The 1,329 letters to his daughter (Margaret Stansfield) written between 1925 and 1943, provide an interesting and relatively detailed chronicle of events and prominent people in Winnipeg. The collection is in excellent physical condition and occupies 75 cm."

The fonds consists of a notebook of manuscript lecture notes taken by Howard J. McDougall for lectures no. 2-71 in political economy, delivered at the University of Manitoba, 1 October 1913 - 8 April 1914 by Professor Archibald Brown Clark, the first professor in the University of Manitoba's Department of Economics.

This fonds consists of two accessions in eleven series: the first is composed of books and other publications, materials removed from those books, CDs, and artifacts relating to dowsing (stored in an oversize box); the second is composed of several unpublished works of George W. Meek (ca. 1984-96), correspondence and other materials removed from Reed's books still held at SRIC, publications, and sound recordings.

The fonds consists of Stella Hryniuk's material on the Ukrainian Catholic Students Union "Obnova", the University of Manitoba; Andrey Sheptytsky Institute, St. Paul University, Ottawa; St. Vladimir's College, Roblin, Manitoba, and Ukrainian Art and Odessa Theatre posters. This fonds also consists of Michalyshyn Family material regarding St. Joseph's Church and Frederick Stambrook's FIFA and Canadian Soccer Association documents and memorabilia.

The fonds are divided into seven series: Negatives, oversized photographs and prints, photographs, newspapers and clippings, personal documents, Allan's roladex, and slides.