Fonds consists of records relating to Francis Chisholm's educational and professional activities as a minister while employed at Chedoke Hospital (formerly Mountain Sanatorium) from 1964-1991, as well as a small amount of material pertaining to Chisholms services at the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital as well as the Hamilton General Hospital from 1988-2000. Included is brochures, correspondence, invitations, leaflets, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, reports, sermon notes, a business card, a certificate, and a proposal document. Records cover such topics as pastoral care and services, chapel inductions and operations, pastoral training, and includes material related to the topic of spiritual care for patients afflicted with tuberculosis.

File consists of a letter, an audio recording on cassette, and an edited transcript of an oral history interview conducted by Mary Tremblay with Leonard Agnew on Oct 13, 1995.

Topics covered in the interview include: early life growing up in Fredericton, New Brunswick; joining the armed forces as part of the First Division headquarters protection platoon and experiences during the Second World War in Italy and England from 1940-1945 ; experiences with living as a paraplegic after an industrial accident which occurred in 1949; and family life.