Series

This series focusses on the nursing program Murielle Mailloux took at Notre-Dame de l'Espérance hospital, located in Ville Saint-Laurent (today the Montreal borough of St. Laurent). It is composed of a yearbook, two brochures and a collection of songs.

The Notre-Dame de l'Espérance hospital nursing school yearbook chronicles the completion of Murielle Mailloux's nursing studies in 1966. It also provides information about the staff and her classmates. A brochure published by the school offers aspiring nurses information about studying and living there. It contains numerous details about admission requirements, the duration of the program, certifications awarded, classes offered, hands-on training, the discipline demanded, required hours of study and work, and rules with regard to vacations, absences and sick days. The document also indicates the costs involved, including registration fees, books and uniforms, and the medical exams that aspiring nurses must take before and during training. In an appendix, the brochure explains that aspiring students must also submit to psychological and personality assessments. In addition, the document notes the compensation paid for hours worked and describes the facilities and equipment available to students, who must live on-site during training: furnished room, access to an automatic washing machine and dryer, and a sewing room equipped with a sewing machine. The brochure relates the history of the institution, its Christian philosophy and the principles behind its implementation, the religious, educational and professional training objectives, as well as the job prospects of future graduates.

The series also contains a collection of songs from the Notre-Dame de l'Espérance hospital nursing school. Created for the year 1963-1964, it is a compilation of typewritten or handwritten transcriptions of popular song lyrics composed or popularized by Félix Leclerc (Comme Abraham), Gilbert Bécaud (La ballade des baladins, Pilou Pilou eh), Jean-Pierre Ferland (Un côté de la lune, Les immortelles), Jeanne Moreau (Le tourbillon), Gilles Vigneault (J'ai pour toi un lac) and Aimé Duval (Ma p'tite tête). The collection also includes the lyrics of Oui, j'ai rêvé, a song associated with the Scouting movement, the protest song Le Chant des marais, and two Christmas carols.

A brochure from the Saint-Jean-de-Dieu mental hospital (1964) (now known as the Montreal Mental Health University Institute), where Murielle Mailloux worked for a time as a nurse, contains information about the history and good works of the Sisters of Providence community that ran the institution as well as the hospital's organization, departments, staff and volunteers who visited patients.