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This fonds illustrates Bridget Moran’s careers as a writer, a social worker and a social activist primarily within the Prince George region of British Columbia. This fonds also contains records pertaining to her personal relationships with family and friends and her receipt of various honours and awards.

Types of records reflective of her career as a writer include: published articles and unpublished manuscripts, drafts and front cover mock-ups, correspondence with editors from Arsenal Pulp Press, grant applications, notebooks, background material, writer’s workshop invitations and overviews, photographs, oral history interviews and transcripts, and VHS recordings of classroom talks given by Bridget Moran, Mary John and Justa Monk re: her publications.

Types of records reflective of her career as a social worker and social activist include: annual reports, work journals, correspondence and published newspaper articles re: social policy, photographs, and general background material. Correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings highlight her personal relationships, while her receipt of honours and awards is demonstrated through copies of letters of recommendation, newspaper clippings, photographs, VHS recordings of award ceremonies, event itineraries, congratulatory correspondence, and invitations.

The Bridget Moran fonds has been divided into the following four series:

1. Published and Unpublished Materials
2. Career Related Materials
3. Personal Papers and Correspondence
4. Honours and Awards.

Series consists of annual reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, records of employment, a Retirement Party guest book, business cards, invitations, speeches, appointment announcements, pamphlets, Bridget Moran's "Oath of Allegiance; Office and Revenue to the Government of British Columbia", social work reports, contracts, copies of Employee Earnings Statements, background material on the case Hale vs. Her Majesty the Queen, and social work notebooks all pertaining to Bridget's career as a social worker with the Province of British Columbia and the Prince George School District, and as a member of the College of New Caledonia (CNC) Board, the Legal Services Society of B.C. and People on Welfare.

File consists of:

• Record of Employment with University of Victoria (1978)
• Christmas and Retirement cards
• Copy of front page of the New York Tribune newspaper, (Saturday, September 1, 1923)
• Transcript of "Song for John Stevens - Retiring from SD #57 - 1996"
• Autograph page for Bridget Moran (Jan. 20, 1947?)*Guest book (Dec. 18, --)
• Letter certifying University of Toronto Graduate School attendance by Bridget Moran (June 6, 1963) and University of Toronto Graduate Transcript, 1950
• Letter from Health and Welfare Canada Income Security Programs to Bridget Moran re: her receipt of Old Age Security pension (1988)
• Bridget Moran's Record of Employment with School District #57 (1988)
• Letter from Garry Hartley, Coordinator of Curriculum Development and Implementation with School District #57 to Bridget Moran re: credit in an upcoming publication (Nov. 30, 1990)
• Business card with School District 357
• Unsigned personal letter to Bridget Moran (Dec. 2, 1988)*Excerpt from School District newsletter re: retirement news
• 5 Photographs: Group photo of Quinson Elementary Staff, 1985-1986; Bridget Moran and two unidentified women sitting at a table: a pitcher of water and a large opened book lay in front of them; Group photo of Bridget and three other unidentified women; Group photo featuring Bridget Moran and nine other people posed in a living room; A camper parked at Miracle Beach, March 31, 1980*Invitation from Director of Personnel for School District #57 to Bridget to attend an "Employee Recognition Ceremony" to be held in her honour (April 14, 1989)
• Letter from Jo-Anne Brown, Personnel Supervisor for SD #57 acknowledging receipt of Bridget's letter of retirement. (April 19, 1989)
• Letter of thanks for Roy Stewart, Chairman of the Board of School Trustees to Bridget on the occasion of her retirement.
• Programme for College of New Caledonia's 1998 Convocation and Bridget's speech to this assembly in her role as Representative of the College Board.

Series consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, pamphlets, newsletters, advertisements, contracts, notebooks, audiocassettes of oral interviews and readings, transcripts, book launch announcements, front cover mock-ups, edited drafts, manuscripts, fact sheets, poems, catalogues, bookmarks, skits, conference events programme, poster, grant applications and related correspondence, a wooden placard, handwritten notes, book reviews, inquest reports, background material, VHS recordings of classroom talks given by Bridget Moran, Mary John and Justa Monk re: her publications, and ephemera. This series contains material from all five of her publications:

1. (1988) Stoney Creek Woman: The Story of Mary John. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.
2. (1990) Judgment at Stoney Creek. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press
3. (1992) A Little Rebellion. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.
4. (1994) Justa: A First Nations Leader. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.
5. (1996) Prince George Remembered. Prince George, British Columbia: Moran Publishing.
   This series also consists of, but is not limited to, a number of unpublished manuscripts and drafts and/or writing contest submissions also written by Bridget Moran, such as:
   • "Mary and Me" (ca. 1998)
   • "Where Winds Come Sweet" (ca. 1981)
   • "The Horizontal Land" (ca. 1992)
   • "The Summer of '81"
   • "The Relief Cheque" (ca. 1998)
   • "The Case of the Box of Matches" (ca. 1987)
   • "Unholy Deadlock" (ca. 1990)
   • "The Numbers Game"
   • "Reflections on Theme" (ca. 1967)
   • "Come Hell or High Water" (ca. 1976)
   • "Man Alive"
   • "The Deadbeat Mystique"
   • "Hell on Wheels"
   • "Backstairs at the Palace"
   • "James MacCallum" (ca. 1984)
   • "Hushaby, Baby" (ca. 1981)
   • "The Decline and Fall of Mr. Sullivan"
   • "Case History of a Gadfly"
   • "Welfare and the Good Life"
   • "Childhood Memories" (ca. 1976)
   • "The Three Musketeers" (ca. 1974-75)
   • "A Child's Christmas in Saskatchewan" (ca. 1979)
   • "Diary of Success Homecoming"
   • "My Old Flame" (ca. 1992)
   • "O Ye Dry Bones" (ca. 1996)
   • "Supper, Little Children" (ca. 1983).