The collection mainly records Ruby Dickie’s wartime service as a nursing sister during the First World War but also documents her graduation from the Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing, and her affiliation with the Manitoba Association of Graduate Nurses and the Canadian Association of Nurses. The collection is arranged into six series and consists of certificates, programmes, service records, photographs, guidebook, and objects, including a medicine chest which is believed to have been used during the North-West Rebellion of 1885.

Photograph of three self-propelled combines harvesting a field in the Hayfield, Manitoba district. The truck has "W.F. McRae & Sons Hayfield, Man." written on the door.

Photograph of two men with animals on the Treesbank Ferry.

Photograph of Benvenuta (Nutman) Peirson & her children Charles, Dorothy and John. Benvenuta Peirson is dressed in her Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Sisters uniform; the children are dressed in their boy scout and girl guides uniform.

Image of an eight horse team pulling a cultivator in a field. Ruby Lau is pictured sitting on the cultivator. (Otto Lau not pictured)

Photograph of a smiling woman washing clothes in a wooden wringer washing machine on the steps of a stone house. In the background (on the right) is a separator going into a barn loft; vehicle adjacent. Wooden washing machine includes a metal tub and wringer. Back of photo stamped "Assiniboine Historical Society." Loose typewritten note on back of photo, formerly attached by tape, provides historical context for washing machine.

Photograph of four unidentified boys sitting on a dock on the banks on the south side of the Assiniboine River at Third Street Brandon, Manitoba.

Photograph of the exterior of Western Canada Flour Mills Co. Ltd. in Brandon, Manitoba. Signs on the buildings read: "Purity Flour," "Oat Meal," "Feed Mill," and "Western Canada Flour Mills Co. Ltd." Two men with horse-drawn delivery wagons visible.

Photograph of the fire at the Brandon Winter Fair Building on October 29, 1920.

Photograph of a man operating a grain cleaner, complete with a barrel and sifter.