The collection consists of correspondence, subject files, material relating to Canadian writers, photographs and writings of Lorne Pierce. The material provides invaluable research materials relating to the careers of her father and mother, Lorne and Edith Pierce, as well as manuscripts from many other writers including Bliss Carman, Charles G.D. Roberts, Duncan Campbell Scott, Marjorie Pickthall, Constance I. Davies, John Richardson, and Georges Bugnet. Also includes photographs of the Pierce family.
This collection consists of two deposits of correspondence between Shane MacKay, Executive Editor of the Winnipeg Free Press and Grant Dexter, Editor Emeritus of the Free Press. During these years, Dexter was in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, analyzing the political situation for the Free Press. The correspondence contains comment on the policy of the Free Press, notes of confidential conversations with politicians and some background information on the reports that Dexter filed. Includes several obituaries and appreciations of Dexter from the Free Press.
The fonds consists of copies and transcriptions of records relating to World War I and World War II; the Colby Collection description; calendars of some records; 106 photographs relating to World War II; and finding aids for several collections in the museum, including the papers of Sir Henry Tizard, 1885-1959.
