Fonds reflects some facets of Merasty’s career in activism, including AIDS advocacy and Indigenous issues; as well as her career in performance, as a drag queen and an actor. Includes photographs depicting gatherings and drag events, personal ephemera, publications, material from the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto, and reviews and other material related to the two productions Merasty was involved in: the play Hectic and the film Stryker.

Fonds is comprised of records from the full lifespan of the Prairie Women’s Health Centre for Excellence, from its early conception as a proposal within the Centres of Excellence for Women’s Health Program, through the full breadth of its career in women’s health research and advocacy, to the end of its funding in 2013 and closure.

The majority of the fonds is related to PWHCE’s primary function, sponsoring and producing original scholarship about women’s health and health policy. The organization funded and published over two hundred research projects on a variety of women’s health subjects, and the records include the published reports from this research as well as the background documentation from its planning, administration, and production. In addition to its own research, PWHCE also acted as a supporting partner and funding body for the research of other community and health organizations and as a participant in academic conferences and government advocacy. The fonds includes records from these activities as well. Finally, the fonds includes records related to the administrative and organizational history of PWHCE itself, such as the minutes of its Board of Directors, yearly work plans, policy documents, and strategic planning; as well as records from its relationship to the greater Centres of Excellence for Women’s Health program and the other Centres of Excellence across Canada, and the provincial and federal government bodies that provided their funding.

Fonds consists of a complete run of the community newspaper, West Central Streets, from its first issue in October 1995 through to the final of January/February 2011. Includes both physical and digital copies of the issues.

Fonds consists of recordings on Betacam and U-Matic cassettes of television commercials advertising the Kern-Hill Furniture Co-op in Winnipeg, MB. The recordings were produced for several television studios in Winnipeg and Portage La Prairie, MB, and Grand Forks, ND, including Global TV, A Channel, and WDAZ-8, and possibly others. The commercials advertise sales and deals at the business, and feature owner Nick Hill and his son, Andy Hill. The individual cuts for each commercial feature an ISCI code, often identified on the labels on the cassettes themselves. The cassettes in the fonds are arranged chronologically.

The fonds consists of textual and electronic records pertaining to the publication of the University of Winnipeg-produced literary journal juice. Records include: manuscript drafts, publication layouts and prints, financial quotes, promotional material (including posters), donation requests, administrative records, letters of support, newspaper clippings, rejection letters, and related correspondence. The fonds also includes copies of other literary journals in Winnipeg such as Mindscape from The Collegiate at the University of Winnipeg, the Writer’s Collectives’ Collective Consciousness, and the University of Winnipeg English Students' Association's The Undergrad. The computer diskettes and CDs include writer submissions, publishing master copies from a variety of years, and copies of Urban Slices (a limited edition spoken word collection).

Fonds reflects the administrative activities of the University of Winnipeg Foundation’s Board of Directors, in terms of its meetings, its communications amongst each other and with the University of Winnipeg, and its liaisons with donors and consultants. The activities of the Foundation relate to fundraising, investing capital, planning events, and ultimately supporting the development and mission of the University of Winnipeg. The greater share of the records is comprised of material from meetings of the Board of Directors, including minutes, speaking notes, reports, presentations, and correspondence. The records also include financial and budget information, documentation of the Foundation’s by-laws and agreements with the University of Winnipeg and of its charitable and corporate status, media releases, Powerpoint presentations, University or Foundation publications, and ephemera from Foundation events. Includes also a small number of photographs and audio recordings.

This fonds contains master copies of approximately 80 oral history recordings, copied to compact disc, made by Louis Bird, an Omushkego (Swampy Cree) storyteller, as part of the Omushkego Oral History Project at the Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies (CRLS) (1999-2005). These CDs contain a subset of the stories that Bird first began to record in 1965 in an effort to preserve and maintain the history, language, and traditional knowledge of the Omushkego. They include a wide range of oral traditions and stories as told to him by Omushkego elders from his home community of Winisk, Ontario. They were recorded, digitized, and disseminated online to the public through the Our Voices website in collaboration with the CRLS in Winnipeg, assisted by a Canadian Heritage grant from the Canadian Culture On-line Program (CCOP) in 2003. These CDs are the University of Winnipeg Library’s backup copies to help maintain the Our Voices website. The fonds also contains two paper copies of the CD file list.

The fonds are arranged into four publicly available series, which include reports, surveys, the UAPS website, and video footage. The first series includes the main report and executive summary, and the city reports and executive summaries (excluding Ottawa). The reports were published as PDFs in 2010, and can be downloaded from the UAPS archived website. The second series contains the questionnaire and banner tables for both the Aboriginal peoples survey, and non-Aboriginal peoples survey. They are in either PDF or excel formats and were created in 2009. The PDFs can be downloaded from the UAPS archived website. The third series is comprised of the UAPS website, uaps.ca, which was archived in July 2013 using Archive-It and can be accessed through an internet browser. The fourth series includes eleven five-minute videos of selected Aboriginal participants. These videos can be found online on Vimeo and the University’s WinnSpace account.
The fonds also include SPSS data files for both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal survey, which are available under a license agreement.
The codeframe, verbatim comments and originally completed questionnaires (Aboriginal survey only) collected by the UAPS survey in 2009 are not available to the public. The video archive, which includes 50 hour-long interviews with survey participants, is also unavailable to the public.

The University of Winnipeg web collection contains captures of University of Winnipeg websites, including the uwinnipeg.ca domain, websites produced by the Library, the NewsCentre site, as well as social media channels for the University and Library including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The collection enables users to access content from different points in time. The collection is curated using the University of Winnipeg’s subscription to the Internet Archive service Archive-It. Captures of archived websites are created using the Internet Archive’s Heritrix and Wayback Machine tools. All captures of the archived web sites are hosted on Internet Archive servers.

The Racism in Winnipeg web collection was created in response to an article published by the news magazine, Maclean's, which made claim that Winnipeg was Canada's most racist city. The collection consists of archived web sites that range from the original online publication of the Maclean's article on January 22, 2015, to official responses made by the City of Winnipeg's municipal government including 1winnipeg.ca, to public responses made online by Winnipeg residents, and other responses made from other news media outlets. The collection is curated using the University of Winnipeg’s subscription to the Internet Archive service Archive-It. Captures of archived websites are created using the Internet Archive’s Heritrix and Wayback Machine tools. All captures of the archived web sites are hosted on Internet Archive servers.