The fonds consist of a Medical Superintendent's Report by Dr. Oilver (1891); a President's Report by John Niblock (1890); financial ledgers (8) (1948-1958); patient registers (16) (1890-1958); minute books (4) (1889-1956 and 1889-1907); scrapbook ([ca. 1957]); annual reports (1891-1989); Hospital Visitor Books (2) (1890, 1902); collection of policies, loose minutes, legal agreements, contracts, and various items of correspondence (1889-1957); School of Nursing materials (1929 -- 1976); research collection including town council minutes regarding the establishment of the Hospital (1899-1951); newspaper clippings and published annual reports (1894-1989); accounts (1942, 1960); Hospital and City By-Laws (1930, 1963); infrastructure chart (undated); Constitution (1965); name change document (1987); general personnel and staffing policy (undated); building information and reports (undated); Nurses Training School material (undated); Nurses Alumnae correspondence and biographical information (undated); Auxiliary Association material (undated); contents of cornerstone (1955, 1957); guest registers (1986); correspondence (1960-1975); miscellaneous research notes (1952-1989); draft and bound copies of "A Healthy Outlook" and computer disc (1989); certificate commemorating cornerstone of Medicine Hat General Hospital (1955); a subscription roll of pledges for construction of hospital (1889); images of the Medicine Hat General Hospital building, the nurses' residence, staff, hospital and nurses' residence events, and views of the new Medicine Hat Regional Hospital building (1894-1989).

The fonds consists of: research collections (4) by /1 Gordon Drever re: "Josephsburg and Newburg" (1983) /2 Neil Ward re: inventory of historic sites in the Medicine Hat/Redcliff areas (1982) /3 David Armitage re: "Medicine Hat Residents Holding Public Office in the Years Up to and Including 1930" and "A History of Suffield, Alberta" (1984) /4 Valerie Martins re: "First Street Homes," "The Trenouth House, Irvine," "The Crawford House," "Irvine History," "Gravesite Locations in Medicine Hat," "St. Barnabas Church, Medicine Hat," "Victoria Nurses Residence, Medicine Hat" (1985-1986), paper (17 pgs) re: Hewitt/Wallace House (1987), site data form (3 pgs) re: Hewitt/Wallace House (1987), 14 photographs re: various images of the North West Mounted Police outpost at Writing-on-Stone Park. The textual records consist of: 4 research collections by /1 Gordon Drever re: "Josephsburg and Newburg": notes and documents relating to the history of the settlement of the Northern Approaches to the Cypress Hills (1983) [M83.34.1], notes about the following churches: St. Anne's Anglican Mission, Josephsburg Baptist Church, St. Peter's German-Lettish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Josephsburg), Salem Evangelical Church (Newburg), Seventh Day Adventist Church (Newburg), Newburg Church of God, and the "Dreamer" Sect (various dates) [M83.34.2];/2 Neil Ward re: inventory of historic sites in the Medicine Hat/Redcliff areas (1982) [M82.17.1] /3 David Armitage research papers (2) entitled "Medicine Hat Residents Holding Public Office in the Years Up to and Including 1930" [M84.35.2] and "A History of Suffield, Alberta" (1984) [M84.35.1] /4 Valerie Martins re: "First Street Homes" [M87.8.1], "The Trenouth House, Irvine" [M87.8.2], "The Crawford House" [M87.8.3], "Irvine History" [87.8.4], "Gravesite Locations in Medicine Hat" [M87.8.4], "St. Barnabas Church, Medicine Hat" [M87.8.6], "Victoria Nurses Residence, Medicine Hat" (1985-1986) [M87.8.7]; paper (17 pgs) re: Hewitt/Wallace House (1987) [M87.32.2]; site data form (3 pgs) re: Hewitt/Wallace House (1987) [M87.32.1]. The graphic material consists of: /1 antelope hunters camped near Writing-on-Stone Park (1897) /2 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. Man and horse-drawn wagon in the foreground. Building in background across the Milk River (undated) /3 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. View looking down the Milk River toward buildings (undated) /4 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost barracks and stable. View from atop the cliffs of Police Coulee (undated) /5 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. Taken from a distance and showing six unidentified men in front of the building (undated) /6 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost stable. Shows four unidentified officers standing in front of the building (undated) /7 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. An unidentified man is leaning against the door with a dog near him, and a buggy on the right (undated) /8 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. An unidentified officer on horseback in front of the building (undated) /9 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. An unidentified man is seated in front of the building with a dog at his side (undated) /10 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. Distant view showing two horse-drawn wagons in front of the building (undated) /11 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. View from the side of the building showing a jagged cliff face across the way (undated) /12 Writing-On-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. View of the building (undated) /13 Writing-On-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. View with an unidentified man and officer holding a dog (undated) /14 Writing-on-Stone North West Mounted Police outpost. View of buildings with a wagon in the yard. (An enlargement of the right side of P0285.0130) (undated).

The fonds consists of: a research paper entitled "History of Health Care in the Maple Creek Area" by Joyce Griffith (1982).

The fonds consists of: unused prescription pad for Dr. Charles F. Smith, C.P.R. Physician, Medicine Hat, N.W.T. ([ca. 1900]); list of Popular Song Hits published in Canada (1948); self addressed air mail envelopes (4) commemorating the 1st Air Mail flights to Medicine Hat from Calgary, Winnipeg, Regina and Moose Jaw. Each was signed by the respective flight pilot and contains special stamps regarding the new service. (envelope also contains Medicine Hat related graphics.) (M99.13.1-.4)(March 3, 1930); images of various airplanes and crafts, and views of Medicine Hat; oral history interview conducted by the Alberta Pharmacy Association on the History of Drug Stores in Medicine Hat.

The fonds consists of: *bill of sale for optometric equipment from A.E. Nye to Charles Pingle for $2,000.00 (1915); images of students and staff at Elm Street School, and the Medicine Hat Police Force.

The fonds consists of blueprint of C.P.R. Bridge (1915); cloth map of Medicine Hat Industrial Site (1919); blueprint-City of Medicine Hat (1914); "Consolidated By-Laws" (1912); By-laws No. 366-378 (1913), No. 417-423 (1913), No. 449-454 (1914); Amendments to Charter of City of Medicine Hat (1947); manuscript material gathered in the writing of book "All Hell for a Basement" (1981-83); Medicine Hat Community Profile Booklet (1984); WWII Honor Roll Book (on indefinite loan to the Royal Canadian Legion) (1945); ledger of building permits (1909-1947); receipt book-Town Weigh Scales (1905); Historic Title Search (1903-1975), St. Patrick's Church (1908-1972); photographic views of Medicine Hat (16) (undated); ticket to TeCo Social Welfare Club Dance (1931); Honor Rolls (7): City Employees (1914), Dulce it Decorum ist Pro Patria Mori (ca. 1914), 3rd C.M.R. (ca. 1914), 175th Battalion (ca. 1914), 13th Mounted Rifles (ca. 1914), 10th, 31st and 50th Battalions (ca. 1914), 63rd, 56th and 82nd Battalions (ca. 1914); land survey and blueprint album for City of Medicine Hat (1913); article "Life in Medicine Hat POW [Prisoner of War] Camp" (1945); bound copies re: Medicine Hat Industries-Research Project (1986); Final Report-Historic Resources Impact Assessment S. Railway St. Realignment (1987); report entitled "Specification for a Bridge" (1915); report on conditions at Medicine Hat Pumping and Power Plant (1920); contract and specifications for Bridge, Piers and Abutments (undated); bid and contract specifications for the Concrete Floor of Finlay Bridge (1920); description of land required by Ogilvie Milling Comapny as a Spur Right of Way (1913); City land leases (1926); land transfers (13), to the Society of the Nurses of Jesus (undated), to the Rosery Flower Co. (1927), to Rutherford and Merriam Planing Mill Co. (1907), to Lake of the Woods Milling Co. (undated), to Alberta Clay Products (1911), of the J.H. Bray property (1911), of the Shannon property (1913-1914), to Kennedy and Swan (1918), to the YMCA (1914), to the Prairie City Oil Co. (1913), of the Wm. Cousins property (includes blueprint) (1914), to A.A. Johnson (1914), to the Canadian Farm Implement Co. (1919); description of Alberta Foundry and Machine Co. property (1941); "Medicine Hat News: Industrial Section (1919, 1920); correspondence, letters, leases, etc. of the City of Medicine Hat (1913-1920); public works department statistics (1914-1943); O.S. atlas of the Medicine Hat Region (undated); O.S. plan showing sub-division of a portion of the town of Medicine Hat and attached proposed sub-division (2) (undated); O.S. map of Medicine Hat, Dunmore and Redcliff (undated); O.S. map of Redcliff future sub-divisions; O.S. maps of the planned sub-divisions (2) (1883); map of Medicine Hat Land District (1913); booklet of By-Laws from the Medicine Hat Board of Trade (1913); cemetery ledgers (3) (1894-1946); O.S. laminated blueprint maps of "St. Barnabas Cemetery" (2) (undated); O.S. Election Posters (9): Separate School Board (1949, 1951), Municipal (1949, 1950, 1951), Public School Board (1950, 1951), Municipal Polling Stations (1950, 1951); blueprints (5): boundary plan of the POW Camp (1947), POW Camp (3) (1946), Joint Air Training Plan (1940), Final Site Plan-SFTS (1944), slaughter house (1947); O.S. framed petition re: Incorporation of Medicine Hat as a town (1897); map of Redcliff (undated); two horse stand reciept books (undated); gas utility business plan (1989); gas utility business plan workshop presentation (1989); Town and City Council minutes, Committee and Committee of the Whole Minutes (1899-1950); 2 O.S. blueprint ledgers showing gas lines in the SE (M99.19.1), NE/NW areas of town (M99.10.2); one pamphlet from the City of Medicine Hat Natural Gas Department, showing the "schedule of rates for gas service - effective April 15th, 1935" (M99.10.3); City of Medicine Hat Minute Books, 1 tax assessor's notebook (1946-1948); Blueprint showing diversion of Seven Persons creek for CPR spur line (1911); City of Medicine Hat Financial Statements, (1930-1977); Medicine Hat General Municipal Plan (1979); Video Tape of Sept 3, 2002 City Council meeting discussing the Esplanade; O.S. maps (4): East Crescent Heights (undated), Northwest Crescent Heights (1962), Crestwood (1962), City of Medicine Hat (1955); photographs of Medicine Hat ([ca. 1905-1981]). M91.5 .1 to M91.5 ..8 Juvenile Court records from Medicine Hat Community Services Department: M91.5 .1 - Diary of Curtis Hollinger; Probation Officer OS (1917). M91.5 .2 - Juvenile Court register (1923 - 1955), M91.5 .3 Juvenile and family Court record OS (1913 - 1965), M91.5 .4 Case Record Book OS (1965 - 1967), M91.5 .5 Case Number Record Book (1958 - 1967), M91.5 .6 Files Closed Record Book (1958 - 1964), M91.5 .7 Occurence Reports Record Book (1959 - 1967), M91.5 .8 Index of file Numbers and Names (nd). Framed collage (1 O.S.) of portraits of the City Mayor and Council, and two images of a public demonstration in front of City Hall following the signing of the armistice (1918).

The fonds consists of: a high school essay entitled "Honourable Dr. Frederick William Gershaw" by Karla Laidlaw (20 pgs) (1987); certificates issued to F.W. Gershaw by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada for General Surgery (1944), and by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, as a member (1910); invitation to Parliament (1966); MH News clippings re: Senator F.W. Gershaw Appreciation Day (1960); pamphlet re: F.W. Gershaw (n/d); dedication page from "Footprints" a student publication from Bow Valley Central High School of Cluny, AB. (n/d); radio broadcast/commentary re: Senator Gershaw sponsored by Calgary Power Ltd. (n/d); City of Medicine Hat placemat showing tourist and recreational points of interest (n/d); student essay by Karla Laidlaw titled "Honorable Dr. Frederick William Gershaw" (1987); hand written notes on Senate Letterhead, Book, "The North West Rebellion" by C.D. Mulvaney; 16 short historical publications by Senator Gershaw: Medicine Hat Early Days in Southern Alberta, The Blackfeet Confederacy, Parliamentary Notes, Political History of Alberta, Medicine Hat sidelights on early days in Medicine Hat and Vicinity, Highlights of Medicine Hat and District, Ranching in Southern Alberta, Parliament, My Favourite Quotations, Fort Walsh, History of Fort Walsh; images of members of City council, official sod turning at the Goodyear Tire Plant and family portraits; 1 audio cassette interview with F.W. Gershaw (1964); and images of family members.

The fonds consists of: handwritten medical notebook belonging to Dr. D.N. MacCharles (1916-1917); letter from W. Wingdon, Chief Scouts, Government House, Ottawa to E.D. "Pat" MacCharles re: Boy Scout Jamboree (1929); plus images of family, boy scouts, and medical staff.

The fonds consists of: medical certificates (11) issued to F.W. Gershaw, D.N. MacCharles, G.G. Elder (1908, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1930, 1949); images of staff at Winnipeg General Hospital, graduates of Manitoba Medical School, and WWI officers.

The fonds consists of: a Red Cross workroom (war work) account book (1939-1943); 6 photographs.