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This fonds consists of 4 cm textual material including: a contract the company had with the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company (Cominco) hospital and correspondence received from head office concerning the day to day operation of the drilling company.

Records include board meeting minutes and board training records.

Records include board meeting minutes, correspondence and training, as well as a file on the construction of the Hay River reserve health centre, and senior management meetings.

Records include board meetings and board training records.

The records include files from Board meetings, complaints lodged with the Board, reports to the Board and Board governance.

Records date from 1998-2008 and include board bylaws, the Health Beat newsletter, a board contribution agreement and a file regarding health services in Wrigley.

Records consist of board meeting minutes and CEO meeting minutes.

Records include regular, special, and annual board meeting agendas, minutes, and supporting documentation.

Records include board meetings, program reports, strategic planning and financial records.

This fonds consists of 1.26 m of records from the Dehcho Health and Social Services Authority. The files include board meeting records, senior management meeting records, board training records, correspondence, newsletters, program reports and bylaws.

This fonds consists of one DAT audio cassette and 5 cm of textual material. The DAT audio cassette contains a recording of Dr. Cass in early 1980, dictating letters for her secretary. She discusses her health and her recent trip to Brazil with the International Society of Geographic Opthalmology. The textual material consists of transcripts that contain Dr. Cass' personal observations on the Gwich'in. These observations were made in 1959. Her recollections cover such topics as puberty, religious beliefs, burial customs, personal hygiene, marriage, music and dancing. She has also recorded many of the Gwich'in stories and legends that were related to her by such individuals as Paul Bonnetplume (Aklavik), Annie McPherson (Fort McPherson), Peter Lord (Old Crow, Yukon), Lazarus Sittichinli, Peter Moses and Edward Snowshoe. Although many of the legends relate to medicine men, Dr. Cass also recounts stories about the Willow Man, the Ungrateful Indian, Sakeethuck the "Trickster," the Crow Who Lost His Beak, the Lazy Boy, three stories about Bushmen [Hare and Slavey Indians] and a two hour saga about two brothers as told to her by Edward Snowshoe. The remaining textual material consists of reports written by Dr. Elizabeth Cass. The reports examine blindness and eye problems amongst children and adults in the Northwest Territories. There are charts and graphs included in the reports.

The collection consists primarily of slides taken by Helene Caufield during her time working as a nurse stationed in the Northwest Territories. Photograph locations include: Aklavik, Fort McPherson, Reindeer Station, Inuvik, Fort Simpson, and Yellowknife. Topics include scenery and community views, Anglican churches, hospitals, and hostels, students and patients, and activities including sewing, harvesting ice, making dryfish, picnics, and walks. The collection also includes a portrait of Helene during her training and a two page list of photograph captions.

This fonds consists of records from the Finance and Administration section of the Mackenzie Regional Health Service. They include organizational charts.

This fonds also consists of one Betacam SP videocassette from the Contaminants division of the Mackenzie Regional Health Service. The title of the promotional film is Environmental Contaminants in the North.

Records include minutes and reports regarding the Social Agenda working group, as well as records from the former Aboriginal Rights and Constitutional Development Secretariat regarding GNWT and federal policies on Aboriginal rights and claims.

Records include published reports, brochures and newsletters. The records date from 1977-[1995] and include reports on health conditions, ambulance services and poison control. There are also information pamphlets on a wide variety of topics for public information as well as career promotion within the Department. There are several copies of an internal department newsletter entitled N.W.T. Healthbeat. There is also one large information kit on northern cuisine published in French.

The slides were part of the Information Services section's slide library. The images include photography of health services, staff, infrastructure and programs offered by the Department of Health and date between 1960 and 1981.
The textual records consist of committee files, records relating to the amalgamation of the departments of Health and Social Services, as well as records relating to the transfer of Baffin region health assets from the federal Department of Health. As well, 90 cm of the textual records relate to the Medical Patient Search Project (MPSP).
The MPSP project was undertaken between 1988 and 1991 to search for the location of medical patients who were sent south for treatment and subsequently lost to their families. The MPSP attempted to provide families with news of their loved ones including where they were sent for treatment, their final resting place as applicable, and copies of medical records if relevant and located. The project searched for individuals from: Baker Lake, Eskimo Point (Arviat), Rankin Inlet, Repulse Bay, Holman Island, Spence Bay (Taloyoak), Arctic Bay, Cape Dorset, Hall Beach, Igloolik, Iqaluit, Pond Inlet, Resolute Bay, Lake Harbour (Kimmirut), Sanikiluaq, Pangnirtung, Rae (Behchoko), Lac La Martre (Whati), Fort Norman (Tulita), and Fort Simpson. Included as part of the MPSP project are a series of colour photographs taken of southern cemeteries where northern patients were buried, as well as a cairn ceremony from June 1990 attended by Health Minister Cournoyea and MPSP staff in St. Albert dedicated to patients who died at the Charles Camsell Hospital.

The MPSP files are organized into three general groups: administration files (contact information, correspondence, briefing notes, reports, media relations), provincial/territorial files (correspondence with other jurisdictions, lists of institutions and cemeteries), and patient files (correspondence, forms relating to the patient, memos to file).

Records include a report, "Summary of health research studies conducted in the NWT by the Department of Health and other agencies: 1988-1994."