The fonds contains photocopies of six short stories by Raymond Knister: "Peaches, Peaches", "The First Day of Spring", "Grapes", "Horace the Haymow", "Indian Summer", and "Hackman's Night".
The fonds consists of an unpublished report written by Grant and funded by the Hudson's Bay Research Fellowship 1922-1923.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 Pension Scrapbook was a newsletter published by Air Canada that was devoted to the effective development and administration of pension plans. The newsletter ceased publication in 1978.
The collection consists of chronologically bound copies of the Pension Scrapbook newsletters published by Air Canada between 1959 and 1978.
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 10 life stories of varying length written in Tanya Lester's "Writing Your life Story" class at the Stradbrook Senior Centre. The life stories chronicle a variety of topics including left-wing political life in the 1930s, the difficulties of buying a house during the depression and the grief caused by the loss of a spouse. All narratives concern Manitoba and range chronologically from 1920-1994. The fonds also includes two of Tanya Lester's syllabi outlining the structure of the course.
The fonds includes materials compiled by the two companies that merged to form Agricore, Alberta Wheat Pool (AWP) and Manitoba Pool Elevators (MPE). AWP and MPE materials include annual reports, policy reports, and policy manuals. The majority of the materials concern the creation and functioning of Agricore as a company during the three years it existed. These materials include annual reports, Agricore publications, policy manuals, news clippings related to Agricore, and other administrative materials. In addition to traditional textual materials, the fonds includes 6 Agricore maps, assorted Agricore ephemera, 36 video cassettes, 74 audio cassettes, and 6 audio compact discs.
This fonds consists of material relating to Nadine Boulay’s honours thesis in Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) at the University of Manitoba. Boulay examined the ways fellow WGS students identified in terms of gender and sexuality. The fonds includes institutional information about the WGS programs at the University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg; Boulay’s notes regarding outreach to fellow students for interviews; her thesis proposal and explanation of research methods; ethics review; audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with her subjects; a draft of her thesis; and the final copy of her honours thesis.
This fonds consists of three accessions of digital material from the creator. The first accession (A09-64) is 2 DVDs of the transcripts of “The T.G. Hamilton Files”; the second (A10-79) is 2 sets of 10 DVDs (7 video discs, 2 text and image discs, and 1 text disc) of “The T.G. Hamilton Files (2010)”; the third (A15-60) is a hard drive containing several .mp4 video recordings, mostly documentary films about life after death, completed in 2015.
