Correspondence written between Forbes family members and friends, predominately George Alexander Forbes, Millicent Lyall Forbes, Betty Forbes, and Peg Forbes.

Two scrapbooks containing correspondence, press clippings, ephemera, and photographs related to the Forbes family. The scrapbooks were likely created by Betty Forbes.

Photographs and photograph albums containing pictures of Forbes, Buck, Land, Wilson, and Kaufman family members as well as their friends. Many of the photographs capture family events, holiday celebrations, family trips, camping, cottages, family homes in Kitchener and Hespeler, Ontario, Betty and Peg Forbes's school experience and nursing career, individuals and battalions connected to the First World War and Second World War, and more. The photograph albums were primarily created by Betty Forbes.

Press clippings accumulated by the Forbes family documenting news and family events.

Press clippings, notes, and programs created and accumulated by the Forbes family.

Diaries belonging to Betty Forbes containing daily journal entries accompanied by photographs, letters, drawings, telegrams, press clippings, and cards. The diaries are primarily written during Betty's time as a student at the School for Nurses at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario and during the early years of her career as a nurse.

A wedding planner and two notebooks created by Betty Forbes, George Alexander Forbes, and Peg Forbes.