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Series consists of research materials collected by Dr. Roland while researching Prisoners of War in the Second World War. Dr. Roland intended to write a book to match Long Night’s Journey, but it did not come to fruition prior to his passing. Included in this series are copies of contemporary documents, play scripts from POW camps, post-war accounts, copies of diaries, and translated articles. Translated articles include two from original German, and one from Russian.

Series consists of research materials collected by Dr. Roland during research for Long Night’s Journey into Day, 2001. It includes memoirs, copies of contemporary documents, articles, translations of documents in other languages, and drafts/summaries written by Dr. Roland. Translated articles include Japanese, German, and Dutch languages, and appear in four files.

Series consists of research materials collected by Dr. Roland during research for his book, Courage under Siege: Starvation, Disease, and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1992. The majority of materials pertain to the clandestine medical school and health in the Warsaw Ghetto. Included are first-hand accounts, memoirs, translated articles, and notes written by Roland. Translated articles are in Polish and German, appearing in six and two files respectively.

Series consists of Dr. Roland’s professional correspondence, including correspondence with oral history narrators and colleagues. Correspondence is predominantly dated to Dr. Roland’s time at McMaster University as Hannah Chair. Files and organization have been retained in received order.

Series consists of photographic and cartographic material created and collected by Dr. Roland throughout his career as an historian. Photographs include approximately 400 prints, 295 film negatives, 15 glass negatives, and 730 film slides. Themes found within this series include Canadian medical history and related historic sites, McMaster and Hamilton medical history, photographs and maps of POW camps and Hong Kong used in Dr. Roland’s book, Long Night’s Journey, Second World War photographs, photographs taken by Dr. Roland on various research trips, and photographs from Roland’s time at the Mayo Clinic. Series also contains correspondence related to some of the images in the series.

Series consists of former patient files from the Mountain Sanatorium, acquired by Dr. Roland post-1970. Bound volume is a single patient file.

Subseries consists of transcripts and cassettes documenting Dr. Roland’s oral history interviews with former members of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of Canadian volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. Interviews are arranged alphabetically according to surname.

Subseries consists of oral history interviews regarding the founding and early years of the Medical School at McMaster University (now part of the Faculty of Health Sciences). Included are transcripts and cassettes. Interviews were predominantly conducted by Mrs. Joan McAuley (the first archivist at the Health Sciences Library and wife of early faculty member, Dr. Ronald McAuley). The interviews were conducted under the auspices of the Hannah Institute of Medical History and with Dr. Roland’s assistance (as McMaster’s Hannah Chair). Interviews are arranged alphabetically according to surname.

File consists of a transcript and a cassette of an oral history interview with Harry Medovy conducted by Charles Roland on 17 June 1982. Topics cover: medical education and training in the University of Manitoba; influences on pediatric medical career; pediatric medicine and practice in the 1930’s; discussion of a “Head of Surgery” dispute at the University of Manitoba; polio care of children in the 30’s-50’s and polio immunization problems; discussion of diseases such as smallpox, acrodynia, and anorexia, problems and issues facing Jewish medical applicants and medical professionals in the 1930’s. Also included is a photocopy of a profile of Dr. Harry Medovy from the Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 129, August 15, 1983).

File consists of a transcript and two cassettes of an oral history interview with John Leslie King conducted by Charles Roland on 5 February 1982. Topics cover: Dr. King’s family history; his education, training, impressions of professors, and discussion of the facility at the University of Toronto; reminisces of being a classmate to Frederick Banting; medical practice in Alton; the First World War; involvement with the 16th Field Ambulance; treatment of influenza in the First World War; medical practice in Galt; economics of medical profession (what doctors made, what they charged, cost to buy a practice, typical earnings); a typical work day of a medical practice in the 1930’s; pressing medical problems from 1915-late 1930’s (diseases, treatments, changing landscape of medicine).

File consists of a transcript and a cassette of an oral history interview with John Edwin Hagmeier conducted by Charles Roland on 14 June 1979. Topics cover: Dr. Hagmeier’s family history; education at the University of Toronto from 1907-1911; internship at the Toronto General Hospital and Laying-In Hospital located in New York; the creation and operation of Preston Springs Hotel and Sanatorium/Spa; Dr. Hagmeier’s perceptions and distrust of German people during the First World War; medical practice in Kitchener 1914-1925, 1943-1969; contraceptive surgery- vasectomies in 1960’s; discussion of diseases (Typhoid, G.C Arthritis).

File consists of a transcript and a cassette of an oral history interview with Norman Miles Guiou conducted by Charles Roland on 2 June 1980. Topics cover: family history and early life in Ottawa from 1893-1910; education and training at McGill University from 1911-1916; medical practice during the First World War (blood transfusions, combat medicine, disease treatment, drugs, equipment, instruments, amputation, typhoid fever inoculations, appendicitis); discussion of the Robertson Doctors (The three Dr. Robertsons: Dr .D.E. Robertson, who did the first forward area transfusion in the main dressing station at Albert in the fall of 1916 during the Somme battle; Dr. Oswald H. Robertson, Capt. M.O.R.C .U.S.A. of the American base hospital at Boulogne, who developed the citrate bottles for blood transfusion; and a Dr. Bruce Robertson); discussion of Dr. Malcolm McKechnie, Red Cross blood donors in 1930’s, the role of nurses in blood donation and transfusion in the 1930’s; discussion of Dr. Best during the Second World War.

File consists of a transcript and a cassette of an oral history interview with Beverley B.R. Burns conducted by Charles Roland on 27 September 1982. Topics cover: stories of Dr. Burns’ childhood in Orillia; experience and life in Jarvis Collegiate; reminiscence of professors in the medical school at the University of Toronto (J. Playfair McMurrich, James Crawford Watt, etc.); reminiscence of Gurzon Campbell from Winnipeg; life in medical school; experience of serving in the British navy; experience of interning at the Western Hospital; discussion about R.D. Orok and the experience of practicing medicine in The Pas.

Also included is a photocopy of Toronto Argonaut Football all-time roster with Dr. Brun's name, a photocopy of Dr. Burns' academic record in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, a photocopy of Dr. Burns' application for admission to the Faculty of Medicine, a photocopy of Dr. Burns' record in the University of Toronto Roll of Service (1921), a news clip from Kingston Whig Standard (Sept. 13, 1983) about the Queen's team of 1922-24 and the players who performed with the teams, and two portraits of Dr. Burns taken in October 1982, Hamilton, Ontario.

File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Mark Brodsky conducted by Charles Roland in March 1983. Topics cover: admissions to university and institutes in the Soviet Union; Student life in the Soviet Union; medical practice and theory in the Soviet Union; rehabilitation science - particularly of athletes in the Soviet Union; nursing in the Soviet Union; tuberculosis and venereal disease treatment and care in the Soviet Union; medical research in the Soviet Union; the role of the Physician in the Soviet Union; comparison of the Canadian healthcare system to the one in the Soviet Union.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Arthur Riley Armstrong conducted by Charles Roland on 25 November 1981.Topics cover: Dr. Armstrong’s educational experience in medicine; the development of the King-Armstrong method; the publication and usage of the method; discussion of Bodansky’s method; Discussion of the wide use of the King-Armstrong method; recollection of Dr. Banting and Dr. Best; experience of working in the army during the Second World War and recollection of the Belsen concentration camp; experience of working in the sanitorium and discussion of the treatment of tuberculosis in the 1930s; discussion of Dr. Holbrook; discussion of the model Dr. Armstrong had devised for deciding the dosage for tuberculosis treatment.

File consists of a transcript and three audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Louis Backer Jaques conducted by Charles Roland on 30 October 1981. Topics cover: discussion of Dr. Jaques’ book collecting interests (George A. Henty, his novels and personal life); recollection of the early years of teaching and research in the department of Physiology at the University of Saskatchewan in the late 1940’s; research activities from 1950-1960; research in the 1960’s and 1970’s; personal life during the years in Saskatoon and extra interests external to heparin.

File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Louis Backer Jaques conducted by Charles Roland on 16 January 1981. Topics cover: discussion of his anxiety to contribute to the war effort in the beginning of the Second World War; his role in teaching during the war time; recollection of the staff in the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto after the war (Tom Waters, Jacob Markowitz); anecdotes about the war; stories about Gallie and Gordon Murray; research on the effectiveness of dicumarol in thrombosis starting from 1941 and the study on the application of silicone in handling blood coagulation; his appointment as professor of physiology at the University of Saskatchewan and the early years in Saskatchewan (relationships with the local medical profession in Saskatoon, the appointment of Jack Millar as an instructor; equipment and facilities in the department, the acceleration of the medical class in 1940-41, the family’s arriving in Saskatchewan, collaboration within the faculty, experiments and research work, research grant, the story of getting the Physiology Act passed in Regina).

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Louis Backer Jaques conducted by Charles Roland on 9 January 1981. Topics cover: the story of his career in the mid-1930’s; discussion of expenditure for research in the 1930’s in Canada; his study on blood coagulation and heparin in the mid-1930’s; the study of protamine conducted by A.F. Charles, C.H. Best and himself in 1937; his research on heparin in the anaphylactic shock in 1937; his teaching experience in physiology as a demonstrator for the class labs in physiology; his experience of supervising the commercial production of heparin in 1939; discussion of Arthur Charles’ work on the chemistry of heparin in late 1930’s; the beginning of the Second World War in 1939; his memory of Banting; recollections and stories of Gordon Murray.

File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Dr. Clifford Armitage conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on November 19, 1980, and December 11, 1980, in Brampton. Topics cover: Family members and early life in London and Blaine Lake; life in University of Saskatchewan (financial situations, sports, social life, jobs, etc.); financial situations after graduation and experience of working with different companies; experience of studying in the medical school at University of Toronto; experience of getting started in medical practice; life in England as a house physician at Radcliffe infirmary in Oxford; practicing medicine in Schumacher (setting up the office, medical situations, common diseases, mining accidents, economic situations, the prepaid medical plan, etc.); recollection of outstanding things regarding medical changes (tuberculosis, pasteurized milk and clean water, immunization programmes, general attitude towards sex, the advent of antibiotics, the delivery of medical health care).

File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Louis Backer Jaques conducted by Charles Roland on 23 October 1980. Topics cover: recollection of university years at the University of Toronto (programs, teachers, subjects, and projects); experience as a graduate student and relations with his supervisor, Charles Best; discussion of the discovery of heparin (the original heparin team in Toronto, Jay McLean, etc.), the formation of his research group studying various aspects of blood clotting in the mid-1930’s.