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The fonds consists of original letters written by Jeffrey Hale Supple and by the correspondents that his mother wrote to following his death. There are no outgoing letters written by Supple’s mother. There are also three photograph albums documenting Jeffrey Hale Supple’s career from 1928 to 1934, and one photograph album that may not have belonged to Supple, but which documents another Royal Air Force (RAF) service member’s experience while stationed in Baghdad from circa 1924 to 1926. Work of museum staff and volunteers have been included in the fonds, including photocopies and transcriptions of the letters, and supplementary research (mostly copied articles). The fonds has been arranged in five series: Original letters; Photocopies of letters; Transcriptions of letters; Supplementary Information; and, Photograph albums. Original letters were given sequential point numbers after the catalogue number 1967.1157, ranging from 1967.1157.1 to 1967.1157.131. The photocopies and transcriptions of the letters were given global catalogue numbers 1967.1157.200 and 1967.1157.300 respectively. The photograph albums were given global catalogue numbers 1967.1157.400, 1967.1157.500, 1967.1157.600, and 1967.1157.700, but were also designated with letters A-D. Individual photographs were then given a sequential number based on their placement in the album, such as, for example A-1 for the first photograph in Album A. The supplementary information was given global catalogue number 1967.1157.900. The number 1967.1157.800 was not used.

Series consists of bound minutes from the Medical Advisory Committee of The Toronto Hospital.

Fonds includes eight series of minutes:

8.1 TGH/TTH Board of Trustees minutes
8.2 Toronto Western Hospital Board of Trustees Minutes
8.3 Toronto Western Hospital Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Members
8.4 Audit Committee minutes
8.5 Clinical Quality Assurance Committee minutes
8.6 Finance Committee minutes
8.7. Human Resources Committee minutes
8.8 Planning Committee minutes

File 22.6.1 contains 2 colour photographs of former TGH Neurosurgical operating room Head Nurse Jessie Young (taken in 1998), and the original key (1936) to Operating Room “D”, the first OR dedicated to neurosurgery at the TGH.

Series consists of news releases issued by the Department of Public Affairs and Communications. The releases cover a variety of news items such as research developments, information sessions, and events taking place at TTH.

Series consists of correspondence and reports from the curator of the Canadian Museum of Health and Medicine, as well as miscellaneous publications accumulated by the Curator. File 2.7.14 to 2.7.17 consists of material donated to the Museum by Dr. John Desmond in October 1997. These materials relate to his privately produced booklets on the history of medicine in Toronto. File 2.7.18 includes a letter from Margaret Best to Dr. Bill Bigelow explaining the history of the photograph of Banting and Best on the roof of the UofT medical sciences building with one of the diabetic dogs (Marjorie?) used in experiments with insulin , and a copy of the booklet TGH 150 Years (1829-1979) with notations.

Series consists of minutes of the TGH and TTH Board of Trustees. Minutes from 1822-1994 are in 39 bound volumes. Minutes from 1995-1998 were kept loose in binders. As of the meeting of October 1986, a joint meeting of the Boards of both the Toronto General Hospital and the Toronto Western Hospital, the minutes change from being for the TGH Board of Trustees to those of the TTH Board of Trustees. It was at that meeting that the Chairman, Vice-Chairmen and Secretary for the new Board of Trustees for The Toronto Hospital were elected. However, all minutes continued to be bound identically and labeled as Minutes of Meetings for the Board of Trustees of the Toronto General Hospital. Minutes for the period of May 1848 to February 1866 are missing. Several items and appendices are also missing from the minutes for July, September and December 1997. A sheet listing the items missing from 1997 can be found in file 8.1.61 along with the minutes for January 1997.

Series consists of miscellaneous publications or documentation collected or created by the Department of Public Affairs & Communications during their regular course of business.

File 3.4.1 contains memoirs from Dr. E.A. McCulloch, which were excerpted into UHN News (both print and online versions) in 2008. It also includes a series of anecdotes of Dr. McCulloch’s interactions with notable people: J.C.B. Grant, Arthur Worth Ham, L. Siminovitch, Roscoe Graham, K.J.R. Wightman, Ian MacDonald, Harold Johns, and William Boyd.

File 3.4.2 was originally sent to Dr. Bob Bell from Dr. Bernard S. Goldman and includes a hand-written note explaining the origins of the sculpture on Elizabeth Street.

File 3.4.4 contains three issues of Strategic Directions@uhn, a periodic update published by Public Affairs and Communications about the UHN Strategic Directions long-term planning process. These are from June 2011, Fall 2011, and Winter 2002.

File 3.4.6 contains issues 1 and 2 of Vision Insight, the newsletter of the Joint Oncology Program of The Toronto Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital. There are two versions of Volume 1, Number 1 in this file—one dated February 19, 1996 and one dated February 26, 1996. The content of the two versions is similar with some changes to content, formatting and style.

Series consists of records created and accumulated by Marilou McPhedran in her capacity as a consultant to Homewood Health Care, a company providing behavioural, addiction and psychiatric services. The records in this series pertain to McPhedran's contract with Homewood, her participation in company meetings and a roundtable for Homewood employees based on a paper titled "Quest for empathy: human health in the post-deficit society." Files in this series include research notes, correspondence, memoranda, briefing notes, draft documents, reports, pamphlets, presentation slides (paper format), annual reports, invoices, conference materials, and journal articles.

Subseries consists of the most current Board of Directors Handbook that was kept on file in the Office of the Board Secretary.

The handbook consisted of seventeen sections, which have been arranged into two file folders.

Series consists of the annual reports of The Toronto Hospital Corporation, prepared and published by TTH Department of Public Affairs and Communications on behalf of TTH Board of Trustees.

Reports contain such information as lists of administrative and medical staff; statistics and/or departmental reports illustrating major hospital functions, services and activities; summary reports by the chairman of the Board of Trustees and the President identifying and describing significant TTH accomplishments and events; annual financial statements outlining the Hospital’s revenues and expenses; photographs and illustrations depicting Hospital buildings, facilities, services and staff.

The fonds consists of by-laws and agreements maintained by Medical/Legal Affairs. The fonds includes two series:

4.1 Hospital By-Laws
4.2 Corporate Agreements

Fonds consists of five series:

14.1 TTH Auxiliary (General Division) Minutes
14.2 TTH Auxiliary (General Division) Annual Reports
14.3 TTH Auxiliary (General Division) Scrapbooks
14.4 TTH Auxiliary (General Division) Correspondence
14.5 Histories and Ephemera

Series consists of yearly scrapbooks containing minutes, annual reports, newsletters, photographs, newspaper clippings, volunteer handbooks, membership lists, and advertisements for events hosted by the Auxiliary.

Fonds consists of minutes from various hospital committees, correspondence, administrative and research reports, memorandums, publicity photographs, and reports and architectural drawings regarding hospital planning and construction. Records relate to the administrative, teaching and research activities of the various divisions of the hospital. Fonds is arranged into two sousfonds and five series:

Sousfonds
1) Board of Trustees of the Ontario Cancer Institute
2) Medical Advisory Committee

Series
1) Division of Hospital Services records
2) Director of the Ontario Cancer Institute records
3) Division of Physics records
4) Division of Biological Research records
5) Division of Clinical Services records

The arrangement of the series reflects the organizational structure as it was in 1957. Since no official policy for records transfer existed, fonds is incomplete.

Sousfonds consists of meetings of the Medical Advisory Committee and its various subcommittees, as well as supporting documentation for the minutes. Files are arranged in series by committee, and then chronologically by date, as per original binders. Files have been arranged in chronological order when possible. Not all series have been processed.

Sousfonds includes fourteen series.
SF2:2) Medical Advisory Committee minutes
SF2:3) Ambulatory Care Committee minutes
SF2:4) Budget & Finance Committee of the Medical Advisory Committee minutes
SF2:5) Clinical Trials Committee minutes
SF2:6) Computer Services Committee minutes
SF2:7) Infection Control Committee minutes
SF2:8) Medical Records Committee minutes
SF2:9) Operating Room Committee minutes
SF2:10) Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee minutes
SF2:11) Medical Audit Committee minutes
SF2:12) PMH Resident Committee minutes
SF2:13) Princess Margaret Hospital - The Wellesley Hospital Liaison Committee minutes
SF2:14) Admission, Inpatient and Discharge Committee minutes
SF2:15) Patient Education Committee

Series consists of minutes of the Board Development Committee of the Board. Series reflects the fact that the medical and scientific staff of OCI/PMH and the University of Toronto as well as members of the community were part of the consultative process of the Board Development Committee. Minutes of the Board had been kept in one separate binder, within which minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. The files have been arranged chronologically by date.

Series consists of minutes of the Clinical Trials Committee of the Medical Advisory Committee. Minutes of the Clinical Trials Committee from 1977-1995 had been kept in three separate binders, within which minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. The files have been arranged chronologically by date. Minutes for 1997 had been kept chronologically; their original order has been maintained.

Series consists of copies of <i>Caring</i>, the TTH weekly staff newsletter. <i>Caring</i> was first published April 7, 1989, replacing <i>Generally Speaking</i>, the staff newsletter of the Toronto General Hospital (Sub-series 7.1, The Toronto General Hospital fonds).

The newsletter contains news and announcements, including staff appointments and retirements; special events; changes to Hospital services and facilities, organizational charts, obituaries etc.

Files 2.2.8 to 2.2.9 contain some of the master copies of the issues.

There are some errors in issue numbering. Some issues are also missing.

Series contains published histories of the TTH auxiliary and its predecessor bodies. Series also contains two meeting gavels as well as pins handed out to members in recognition of their years of service.

The Auxiliary’s recognition pins were originated and established by the committee of Terry Globe, Margaret Hicks and Ruth Johnson in 1989. The pins were given out for the first time on Volunteer Night, October 4th, 1989, and afterwards to all volunteers with five or more years of service. The first lot of pins (approximately 200 – value approximately $2, 300.00) were paid for by the Cradle Pictures baby photo company and given as a gift to the Auxiliary.