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Fonds consists of records relating to the life and work of Christina Sharon Olsen. The records include a news article from the Calgary Herald published in 2009 detailing Christina’s childhood and experience as a preoperative trans woman living and working in Alberta and overseas; report cards and photographs from Christina’s schooling in Claresholm, Alberta between 1953 and 1965; photographs documenting Christina’s work as a drilling engineer in Africa and Alberta between 1977 and 2000; and photographs of Christina’s cats and visiting wildlife to her acreage west of Calgary taken in the years after her gender reassignment surgery in 2004.

Fonds consists of military service and personal records of Dr Thomas Erwin (T.E) Brown, a veteran of both World Wars and a doctor in Taber and Lethbridge. Records include Brown’s military notebooks, ration books, field notes and correspondence; an account book from Brown’s medical practice in Taber in the 1930s and pamphlets relating to pediatric medicines; photographs of Brown’s family; and a sketchbook with Brown’s drawings of his home and family.

The fonds consists of Miss Morrison's commission into the armed services (1943); her toast to the Canadian Womens' Army Corps on their 45th anniversary, and the program of that occasion; a speech to the University of British Columbia School of Nursing; a speech, "Gertrude Hall - a Tribute to a Friend," and a photograph of the unveiling of a plaque dedicated to Gertrude Hall; "Nursing With the Canadian Army in Normandy - 1944"; a letter and information on Betty Barefoot; references regarding the Geriatric Nursing Institute; and a paper on Ethel Johns by Rae Chittick. The Morrison papers donated by Eleanor M. Hayes consist of the transcript of an oral interview and the text of a speech, in which Jessie Morrison describes her experiences as a Nursing Sister with the Canadian Army, 1941-1943; Miss Morrison's curriculum vitae and 2 photographs.

The fonds consists of University of Alberta and Faculty of Nursing student memorabilia: graduation program, invitation, valedictory exercises program, news clippings and photograph (1938); Christmas dinner program (1933), junior prom program (1936), midwinter program (1937), and examination papers (1938); varsity yells from the Faculty of Nursing; 50th anniversary program (1974); Alberta Department of Health, District Nursing Branch staff photograph (1938); Alberta Public Health Association annual meeting program (1942); convocation program and invitation for the presentation of an honourary doctorate to Helen Sabin by Athabasca University (1993).

The fonds consists of one letter, written by Ida Johnson to Jean Mackie, describing the 50th anniversary weekend for Royal Alexandra Hospital School of Nursing alumnae (1975).

The fonds consists of one booklet, "Alberta Achievement Awards 1981," which describes the activities which led to presentation of the Award to Mrs. Robbins.

The records consist of a scrapbook of memorabilia of the Nursing Sisters Association of Canada, World War II period; Royal Army Medical Corps manuals: Training Manual (1935), Notes for Troops Proceeding to North Africa (1943), Health Memoranda for British Soldiers in the Tropics (n.d.), instructions for handling penicillin (n.d.); and two copies of the military magazine, Canada's Weekly (December 1942, May 1944).

The fonds consists of records relating to District Health Nursing in Alberta and includes 2 photograph albums; transcripts of radio programs by Kate Brighty Colley, who became a District Health Nurse in 1919 and began her CKUA broadcasts in the 1930s, and Blanche Emerson, who established child welfare clinics in 4 Alberta cities; articles written by municipal nurses (1920-1979); reports of the District Nursing Branch; The History of the Department of Public Health of Alberta (1935); Guide for the Public Health Nurse: the Infant and Preschool Child (1972); and study documents and reports of the Federal- Provincial Public Health Nursing Conference (1961, 1963, 1965).

The fonds consists of University of Alberta Hospital School of Nursing class notes, handouts and pamphlets on nursing issues and methods of care.

The records consist of one booklet, prepared by Dr. Patricia Valentine: "History of Undergraduate Awards in the University of Alberta Faculty of Nursing," which lists the awards, including title, value, number awarded, start date, conditions, donor(s), and history.