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File consists of a book, The Prayer Book Companion authored by Louis Backer Jaques in 1963. Also included is a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Louis Backer Jaques conducted by Charles Roland on 17 October 1980. Topics cover: family background, family members and early years of Dr. Jaques’ life; recollection of his family physicians; anecdotes about his Legge-Pethes and Dr. Gallie; educational experience (Ryerson Public School, Harbord Collegiate, University of Toronto), family and personal connections with churches.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Dr. Orlando Harold Warwick conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on 21 January 1988. Topics discussed cover: family history; medical education and training in Montreal, Canada (University of Western Ontario and Royal Victoria Hospital); medical education in London, England (Oxford University, postgraduate work at the Royal Cancer Society); development of chemotherapy for cancer in the 1940’s-1970’s (single agent chemotherapy, anti cancer drugs, cancer treatments, VLB agent, mustard nitrogen agent, clinical trials, eventual combination therapy for cancer); discussion on the development of the Eli Lilly Company (producers of chemotherapy drugs, patents); patent development of chemotherapy drugs, specifically VLB and the involvement of the University of Western Ontario holding the patent; reminisces of meeting Maud Abbot as a student, and her death (Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbot, MD, 1869-1940); cancer stories of patients; discussion of Dr. Nobel’s Terry Fox Lecture in 1984; discussion of Hugh McAlpine, an endocrinologist studying an antidiabetic plant in Jamaica; and interactions of VLB and diabetes; account of Dr. J.C Meakins and his achievements.

File consists of a transcript and three audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Dr. Harold Nathan Segall conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on July 15, 1981. Topics discussed cover: recollection of his parents, wife and two children; discussion about the people in the history of medicine (W.W. Francis, Cecile Desbarats, Leo Pariseau, etc.); his finances throughout the career (earliest saving in 1937, household expenses, how he managed money, etc.); his involvement with the Osler library and the Osler Society); reminiscence and stories of Paul Weisz, Norman Bethune, Wilder Penfield, H. Ernest MacDermot, W.B. Howell, Karl Landsteiner, Sclater Lewis, T. Wesley Mills, Lloyd Stevenson, Earle Scarlett, E.G. Finley; discussion of the regrets and deficiencies on his professional and personal life.

File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Dr. Harold Nathan Segall conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on July 14, 1981. Topics discussed cover: research on coronary circulation at McGill; discussion about Arthur Mirsky, one of Dr. Segall’s volunteers he had for doing heart-lung preparations at McGill; shift of his research focus from coronary circulation to clinical auscultation; the acquisition of his first portable electrocardiograph; reminiscence and stories of Alton Goldbloom and Sam Baehrman; personal relationship with the family of Richard V. Look; stories about his girlfriend and their relationship; experience as a private physician to Sir Henry Thornton; experience of running a cardiac clinic in the Herzl Dispensary and recollection of interesting clientele and cases; stories about the establishment of the Women’s General Hospital (later Reddy Memorial Hospital); his involvement in the establishment of the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal; his teaching activities in 1930s and 1940s and the annual lectureship he had created and supported; the funeral of Louis Gross; discussion and comment on his experience of being a Jewish physician and a visible minority in Montreal; the story of the creation of the Montreal Cardiac Society; reminiscence and stories of I.M. Rabinovich; the origins of his interest in history and his involvement in the history of medicine; reminiscence and stories of Maude Abbott.

File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Dr. Harold Nathan Segall conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on July 13, 1981, in Montreal. Topics cover: Dr. Segall’s family history and the origin of his Hebrew name; early memories of living in De La Roche Street; early educational experience (the junior school he first attended, Dufferin school and the teachers, Montreal High School and the clubs he was involved in, etc.); experience in the McGill medical school and reminiscence of the people there (Professor Frank Lloyd, Charles Frederick Martin, Dr. John Scane, etc.); reminiscence and stories of Louis Cross; recollection of working with Dr. James H. Means and Paul White ; experience of getting involved in the establishment of the cardiac clinic at the Montreal General Hospital; the method he devised of describing heart sounds by quantitative symbols.

File consists of a transcript and three audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Earle Parkhill Scarlett conducted by Charles Roland on 12 November 1978. Topics cover: personal family life and history; education and teaching in Manitoba; involvement in the First World War- “Van Doo’s” of Quebec under Governor General George P. Vanier; medical training at the University of Toronto, and creation of the University of Toronto Medical School Journal; connections to various newspaper offices and activities; emergence of clinics in Calgary, Alberta- The Calgary Associate Clinic; launch of the Historical Society in 1932; history of the Historical Bulletin journal (1936-58); reminisces and stories of prominent friends (Bill Waner, Heber Hamieson, George Stanley, etc); process of writing and editing articles; writing history of Canadian Medical School articles; influence of the Historical Bulletin on Medical History in Canada.

Also included is a portrait of Dr. Scarlett and Dr. Charles Roland taken in July 1971, Calgary and three portraits of Dr. Scarlett taken in November 1978, Calgary.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Connie Lynn Rankin Roland conducted by Charles Roland on 18 July 1992. Topics cover: recollections of her father, Roy William Rankin from 1930’s-1970’s (First and Second World Wars); recollections of her father’s medical practice in Tillsonburg 1920-1970 (office, diabetes care, stick bugs and cancer research at the University of Western Ontario, poison ivy inoculation, testing of escorts, Demerol shots, hemorrhoid treatment); economics of being a doctor in Tillsonburg from 1920-1970.

File consists of a transcript and 3 audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Dr. Alexander Anderson Numbers conducted by Corinne Saunders on November 19th, 1980. Topics cover: experience of serving in the army in Rouen, France; family background; medical courses he had taken in medical school and his summer work during his medical studies; the clinical training received in medical school; experience interning at Hamilton General Hospital (giving anesthetics for obstetrics, treating summer diarrheas and burns in pediatrics, relationships with patients); experience of practicing medicine in Ancaster; discussions about planned parenthood and Elizabeth Bagshaw; stories about the superstitions he experienced when practicing medicine.

File consists of a transcript and a cassette of an oral history interview with McLay Miller conducted by Charles Roland on 17 June 1982. Topics cover: Dr. Miller ‘s family history; influences on medical career; education, training, professor discussion, and facility discussion at Western University, Ontario from 1926-1933; the graduating class at Western University; discussion about Dr J.W Crane- medical history and creation of the Osler Society; practicing medicine in Aylmer during the 1930’s (treating diseases, using sulpha drugs, penicillin, discussion of epidemic diseases (measles, tuberculosis); midwives in the 1930’s; perspective on newly trained doctors ; discussion on impact of Dr. Douglas Carey (a surgeon) in St. Thomas; reasons and reminisces on retirement; post retirement activities (photography and bookbinding).

Also included are two portraits of Dr. Miller taken at time of interview.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Howard John Alexander conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on 19 November 1980 and 11 December 1980 in Brampton. Topics cover: early life and educational experience; impressive professors in the University of Toronto Medical School; life in the medical school; experience of interning at Toronto General Hospital from 1925-26; reminiscence of married life with Florence Evelyn Cowan and their Children; experience in the Welland clinic and recollection of the doctors there; experience of practicing medicine in Tillsonburg (partners he’d been working with, interesting or challenging cases he had seen, the drugs that were available to use in the 1925’s and 1930’s, treating of patients before the age of antibiotics, stories about other practitioners).

The transcript is followed by pages that were sent to Dr. Charles Roland by Dr. Alexander when he returned the edited copy of the transcript for the interview, later in January 1982. They represent suggestions of his as to additional material that might be of interest, and also material that he is preparing with a view to a possible autobiography.

Subseries consists of transcripts, cassette tapes, and photographs relating to oral history interviews documenting notable Canadian persons and developments in medical history. Interviews are arranged alphabetically according to surname.

Subseries consists of transcripts, cassettes, and photographs documenting oral history interviews with former Prisoners of War in Asia during the Second World War. These interviews were used in researching and writing Long Night’s Journey into Day, 2001. Interviews are arranged alphabetically according to surname.

Subseries consists of transcripts, cassettes, and photographs documenting oral history interviews with former Prisoners of War in Europe during the Second World War. Dr. Roland recorded these interviews as part of his research for an uncompleted monograph on the topic, intended to complement his 2001 book on the experiences of Prisoners of War in Asia. However, Dr. Roland passed away before completing this work. Interviews are arranged alphabetically according to surname.

Subseries consists of transcripts and cassettes documenting oral history interviews with former Prisoners of War in Europe during the First World War.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Bronislaw Wisniewski conducted by Charles Roland at Elmhurst, New York on May 3, 1989.
Topics cover Wisniewski’s early life and education experience; the numerus clausus on the admission of Jews in the Secondary schools in Warsaw; working at the Jewish Hospital on Stawki Street and the conditions there; typhus epidemic and his own experience of getting typhus; lack of food in the ghetto, the hunger disease and his research and book about it; discussion about the children’s hospital in the ghetto and the director Dr. [Anne] Braude-Hellerowa; discussion about teaching in the underground medical school and students who survived the war; the massive deportations at the ghetto; experience of living in hiding; experience as the chief of the medical department of the military hospital and his discharge from the army; work and life as a professor in the postgraduate medical school of Warsaw in the 1950s; discussion about “Pavlov’s healing”; story of his coming to the United States and his experiences leading up to it in Poland and Israel; work and life in the U.S.
Also contained is a portrait of Wisniewski taken at time of the interview.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Dr. Henry Fenigstein conducted by Dr. Charles Roland in Toronto, Ontario on June 28, 1982.

Topics discussed in the interview cover: the underground medical school in the Warsaw ghetto from 1941 to July 1942, including the establishment of the underground school, Julian Zweibaum and his role in the underground school, the many different doctors and organisations connected to the underground school, courses at the school, education and the students, teaching and research studies in the Warsaw ghetto hospitals on hunger disease, tuitions for the underground school; students who survived the war; physical and mental state after the war; Dr. Fenigstein's experience of moving to Canada after liberation; discussion of treatment and possible betrayal of Jewish people towards other Jewish people during the war; motives of being involved in the underground school of medicine.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Dr. Henry Fenigstein conducted by Dr. Charles Roland in Toronto, Ontario on March 31, 1982.

Topics discussed in the interview cover: the studies recorded in Dr. Fenigstein's book "Hunger Disease" from the beginning of 1940 to July 22 1942, including how, where, and why the studies were done, the effects of the war on the studies, conditions in the Jewish hospitals during the studies, burning of the research papers, findings from the studies and autopsies, publication of the studies after the war; the students from the Warsaw ghetto underground medical school; sex life during the war; Treblinka extermination camp; the correctness and accuracy of television show "The Wall" in 1982; Dr. Fenigstein's roles in the underground fighting groups; German officer August Walling from the concentration camp Hessental and his trial; clarification of the dates mentioned in the first interview.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Dr. Henry Fenigstein conducted by Dr. Charles Roland in Toronto, Ontario on 21 January 1982.

Topics discussed in the interview cover: life in Poland in the 1930s, including the restrictions for Jews and the general atmosphere of anti-Semitism; Dr. Fenigstein’s life and educational experience before the war; experience as an army physician of the Polish army; work as an assistant physician in the department of pathology in the Warsaw Jewish hospital in 1940; relocation of the hospital to the Warsaw ghetto; experience of teaching in the underground medical school and conducting research projects; conditions of the underground medical school and the hospital; the first big liquidation/extermination of the Warsaw ghetto on July 22, 1942; conditions of the hospitals after the first liquidation; the second liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto in January 1943; the final liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto on April 19th, 1943; experience in different concentration camps, including the Plage and Laskiewicz camp near Lublin, the labor camp in Budzyn, the labor camp near a big city of Radom, the labor camp in southern Germany in Wurtemberg, and the last camp in Hessental; shortage of food and medication in the camps; liberation on April 30, 1945 by American army near Munich; life after the war. Attached to the transcript of the first interview is a list of locations of Fenigstein from April 21, 1943 to April 30, 1945.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Millie Eisen conducted by Charles Roland in Grayslake, Illinois on June 10, 1985.
Topics cover: Eisen’s early life in Vilno, Poland before the war; life working in Warsaw ghetto hospitals during the war; conditions in the hospitals; the typhus epidemic in the ghetto and the experience of being quarantined; relocation with the hospital to the Leszno street; living conditions in Leszno and the persecution and murder of Warsaw Jews in the ghetto; experience of getting typhoid fever in the ghetto; escaping from the ghetto before the burning of the ghetto on April 17, 1943 and the Warsaw ghetto uprising; discussions about Dr. Fenigstein and Dr. Marek Balin; life after the war.
Also contained is a portrait of Eisen taken at time of the interview.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Bronislawa J. Wygodzka conducted by Charles Roland in New York City on January 8, 1988.
Topics cover Bronislawa’s life and family before the war; life in the ghetto in Sliska; the Roman Catholic Church and the pope in the ghetto; experience of being in a military division and her role as a sanitary nurse; experience in Zielaniak; experience of being sent to a transitory camp in Pruszkow after the Uprising broke out in August 1944; escaping from Pruszkow to Blonie; discussions about the underground medical school, including learning conditions, resources and equipment, courses, and chief professors in the school. Attached at the end of the transcript is a document about the Sanitary Preparatory Course for Combatting Epidemics approved by the Jewish council in Warsaw Board of Health.
Also contained is a portrait of Bronislawa taken at time of the interview.