Here are detailed file-by-file descriptions of the contents of specific fonds and/or links to scanned documents.
 District nurses starting out on visit
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indicates the presence of scanned documents. Series 1 | Public Health Nursing. - 1918- 1966 |
| M-4872-1 | "Department of Public Health Nursing: an Experiment in Rural Nursing" article by K. S. Brighty. - 1935 |
| M-4872-2 | "History of Nursing in Alberta" manuscript by K. S. Brighty. - 1942 |
| M-4872-3 | "The History of the Department of Public Health of Alberta" article by Malcolm Bow and F. T. Cook. - 1935 |
| M-4872-4 | Articles regarding Public Health Nursing. - 1934-1966. - Includes proposed outline for a history of nursing in Alberta. |
| M-4872-5 | Articles regarding history of medicine in Edmonton. - 1933 and 1935 |
| M-4872-6 | Lists of Public Health Nursing staff. - 1918- 1928 |
Series 2 | Nursing experiences. - 1939-[1940s] and n.d. |
| M-4872-7 | Kate Shaw Brighty, account of New Brigden trip. - 1939 |
| M-4872-8 | Kate Shaw Brighty, notes from diary regarding nursing during a northern trip. - 1940 |
| M-4872-9 | Olive Watherston, letters to K. S. Brighty regarding nursing overseas. - [1940s] |
| M-4872-10 | Olive Watherson, draft of article by K. S. Brighty based on her letters. - n.d. |
| M-4872-11 | Olga Freifeld, article about her career as a Public Health nurse. - n.d. |
| M-4872-12 | Mary E. Conlin, reminiscences of nursing in the Peace River district. - n.d. |
| M-4872-13 | Amy Louise Conroy, reminiscences of nursing in Pendryl district (90 miles west of Edmonton). - n.d. |
| M-4872-14 | Laura C. Allyn, article on the Canadian Baptist Mission Hospital in India. - n.d. |
| M-4872-15 | Notes regarding historic hospitals of Europe. - n.d. |
Series 3 | While Rivers Flow. - 1929-1941, 1956, 1970 and n.d. |
| M-4872-16 | "While Rivers Flow". - 1970. - Manuscript of book by Kate Shaw Brighty Colley. Chapters 1,6,9,11 and 16 are missing. |
| M-4872-17 | Sketches by Margaret Manuel Elwell to illustrate book. - 1970 |
| M-4872-18 | Excerpt from The Treaties of Canada by Alexander Morris. - n.d. - Regarding treaty medal referred to in chapter 13 of Colley's book. |
| M-4872-19 | Treaty payment talley cards. - 1929-1935. - For Treaty 8, Bigstone Band (Cree), Wabasca. Colley describes this event in chapter 13 of While Rivers Flow. |
| M-4872-20 | "The Three Swans". - 1956. - Excerpt from While Rivers Flow, published earlier in Chamber's Journal. |
| M-4872-21 | Scripts for radio talks. - 1939 and 1941. - For CBC broadcasts by K. S. B. Colley. They are based on events described in While Rivers Flow. The second script is incomplete. |
Series 4 | Other writings by Kate Shaw Brighty Colley. - n.d., 1935 and 1962 |
| M-4872-22 | "Greetings from the home of the Brown Bear". - n.d. |
| M-4872-23 | "Alaska Highway", incomplete. - n.d. |
| M-4872-24 | "When we were Young". - n.d. |
| M-4872-25 | "Salute to Flowers". - n.d. - History of Terrill's Flowers Ltd., Calgary, owned by her husband W. H. Colley. |
| M-4872-26 | "Extracts from the Diary of a Cat". - 1935 |
| M-4872-27 | "The Lure of the Islands". - 1962 |
Series 5 | News clippings. - 1930- 1974 |
| M-4872-28 | News clippings regarding Colley's career, Public Health Nursing, and While Rivers Flow. - 1930-1974 |
Series 6 |
Some of these photographs have been scanned. |
| PA-2081 | Views of Slave Lake, Wabasca and Peace River areas. - 42 photographs |
| NA-3956-(1-3) | Sawridge Hotel, Slave Lake, and district nurses. - 1914-1921. - 3 photographs |
