Fonds consists of records generated by the University of Winnipeg, including its administration, teaching faculty, support staff, governing bodies, committees, internal departments, and student groups. Some of the records were generated in the same capacity by United College, Wesley College, Manitoba College, and the Collegiate, with continuity to the University of Winnipeg. The records include minutes and records of meetings; reports; correspondence; newspaper clippings; publications such as yearbooks, brochures, pamphlets, and posters; lectures, essays, and other compositions; and student records. The fonds is comprised of three separate record groups, namely UW (University of Winnipeg), AC (“All Colleges”), and CL (the Collegiate), which are arranged into a total of seventy-four series.

Series consists of the minutes and correspondence of several committees and administrative units of Manitoba College, particularly the Board of Management and correspondence with the Board of Studies of the University of Manitoba. Many of the minutes are accompanied by a letter for transmission to members of the committee not present at the meeting. Also includes several annual reports made by the administrative bodies of the College. Series is arranged chronologically into four files, the first three being minutes and correspondence, the fourth being annual reports.

Series consists of correspondence concerning the assets of Manitoba College, including stock investments, estates, and issued mortgages. Series is arranged alphabetically by the name of the individual or corporate body to whom the correspondence pertains.

Series consists of receipts for all kinds of college expenses -- from renovations & repairs, to sundries, to wood for heating. Includes also some outlying documents regarding insurance appraisals, mortgages, and property management that might better belong in MC-6. Series is arranged somewhat arbitrarily into by date into six chronologically overlapping boxes, and alphabetized within by the individuals or corporate body issuing the receipt.

Series consists of correspondence concerning the assets of Manitoba College, including insurance, property appraisals, payments made on mortgages and loans issued by the college, and accounts held with various financial institutions. Files are arranged somewhat arbitrarily by date into six chronologically overlapping boxes, and alphabetized within by the individual or corporate body to whom the correspondence pertains.

Box consists primarily of the correspondence of Dr. Andrew Browning Baird on behalf of the Manitoba College Library: receipts, advertisements, and communication both outgoing [copies] and incoming, with library patrons, booksellers, bookbinders, stationary suppliers, other libraries, museums, and publishers. Includes a small number of other documents related to the library such as inventory lists, a draft of library rules, and a brief biography of Dr. Baird clipped from an unknown newspaper. Documents are sorted [seemingly arbitrarily] into five boxes, and within each box are divided into files: in which the papers are alphabetized by the name of the corporate body or individual generating the document.

File consists of records of the holdings of Manitoba College and their use, including accession registers, loan records, and inventories.

Minutes of the meetings of various administrative bodies and committees of the College.

Ledgers documenting the financial activities of Manitoba College in a variety of contexts, including student payments for room & board and tuition, donation records from presbyteries, salary paid to faculty & staff, transactions of specific Funds, and others.

A ledger detailing various expenses of the Manitoba College Association, with an alphabetical index showing the source of expense and the page containing the account.