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Scene including Float “Girls National Service Fermerettes” at a Montreal Victory Loan Parade.

Scene including “The Three Pages” Saran Chai, Val David.

This file contains editions of the ‘Information Bulletin’ from August to November 1944 published by the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Each edition is designed to emphasize the importance of victory by Soviet and allied forces against Germany. Includes black and white images of soldiers at the front and in Russia.

Scene including A. Sidney Dawes, Lily McConnell, J.W. McConnell, Gyneth McLennan at Saran Chai, Val David.

This bundle contains correspondence from Princess Alice Mary, Countess of Athlone (1941-1960), Rt. Hon. Malcolm McDonald, O.M. (1941-1970) High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Ottawa and Commissioner-General for the United Kingdom in South-East Asia, the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, and the Duchess of Kent. Also included is additional correspondence of various persons from a 1936 trip that took the McConnells to South Africa and India as well as a thank-you letter from then Princess Elizabeth regarding HRH and Prince Philip’s stay at the McConnell’s Laurentian home, Saran Chai, in 1951.

Address and daily journal for 1957 courtesy of the WM. B. Joyce & Co. Insurance Company and inscribed with “Mr. J.W. McConnell”. Book was actually used by Lily McConnell as a scrap paper for writing Christmas present lists for family, friends and staff. Lists dated for 1963, 1964 and 1967 but are very random and unorganized.

Address and telephone book belonging to J.W. McConnell, contains very few addresses and two pages of miscellaneous notes discussing paper quality (possibly for the Montreal Star) and a list of calls to make on the back pages. Date unknown.

Address and telephone book belonging to Lily McConnell. Names, addresses and telephone numbers are both typed and handwritten. Some entries also have additional information such as the title of the person (e.g. night nurse). Notes scribbled inside book by researcher has indicated that the book is circa 1970s however it was most likely in use earlier as it contains phone numbers of persons who died prior to 1970.

This item consists of an address book used by J.W. McConnell most likely in the early 1900s.

This item consists of an address book used by J.W. McConnell most likely in the early 1900s during McConnell’s first trip to England to promote the Standard Chemical Company of Canada.