The fond contains records pertaining to the administrative and charitable activities of The Peter Pan Club. The administrative records include minutes, lists of members and volunteers, annual reports, financial reports, guidelines, general information about the Club and photographs of members. Donations, requested and received, encompassed a large part of the organization. Such records relating to donations include documentation of donations made to and from The Peter Pan Club, requests for funding, wish lists, grants and photographs of donated items and cheque ceremonies. The Club also initiated events and programs to aid with fundraising for the Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Burn Ward and their patients and families. These consist of textual and photographic records of hospital tours and orientations, the Burn Discharge Book Project, Chi-Chi’s Charity Fiesta and the Wishing Wells / collection boxes. Other records consist of miscellaneous ephemera including newspaper clippings, awards and certificates and a cookbook. Artefacts include embroidered badges, plaques, signs, pins and posters.
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.
The collection contains items related to the VON including artifacts (hat, buttons, pins and one piece of equipment), photographic images (slides & photographs on board), archival materials (scrapbooks, bag list) and copies of various history books about the VON.
Records consist of Lists, History fact sheets, annual reports, Minutes, correspondence, financial records, Board orientation and manuals, records related to the Trust Fund and records related to the Thrift Shop.
The fonds contains printed and bound material including minute books, annual reports, newsletters, miscellaneous bound record books, photographs and museum artifacts.