Basil C. MacLean was a student at McGill University in the 1920s. The fonds contains memorabilia from MacLean’s years at McGill, including old McGill yearbooks (1925 and 1929), a McGill knitted button-up sweater, a silverware set with the McGill crest, a small oval silver tray, a silver tureen with a lid, 2 pennants and 8 photographs which include the Montreal General Hospital from 1927-30, the Faculty of Medicine from 1926, Alpha Delta Chapter Fraternity from 1924-25, and the McGill Student's Executive Council from 1924-26.

Oliver Richard Macklem was born on November 18, 1854, in Chippawa, Niagara, Ontario. He was a barrister in Toronto. In 1881, he married Elizabeth MacKlem. He died on 15 July 15, 1933, in Toronto, Ontario.