The fonds consists of material pertaining to the life of Gertrude George including notices, correspondence, appeals, and forms regarding the Wartime Prices and Trade Board; correspondence to tenants of Gertrude George's boarding house dating from the 1920s to the 1940s; insurance policies, correspondence, and receipts dating from the 1920s and the 1940s; death certificates of Gertrude George's first husband John Phelan MacDonald and her son, John Wilfred Earl Carlyle MacDonald; and twelve photographs featuring scenes of Norway dating from 1933.