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This includes notes on a dictionary of Chinook Jargon (Chinook Wawa) extracted from a report of H-L. Langevin and a Frisian dictionary and grammar. There is also a volume of marriage certificates 1878-1880.

The James Mallory fonds consists of McGill files (1958-1977), external files (1963-1961) and personal files (1949-1968). The McGill files comprise of correspondence, reports, minutes and memoranda for university committees reflecting Mallory's involvement in the Canadian Studies Seminar, the Department of Economics and Political Science, and the Faculty of Graduate Studies. External files consist of correspondence, reports and documents relating to professional associations and committees, and they reflect Mallory's involvement with the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Personal files contain correspondence, documents relating to Mallory's writings, manuscripts and reviews of books and articles. Arranged by subject.

This is a collection poems of Jaffier, 1810-1858. A signed note by Bertram Dobell on the covering leaf identifying Jaffier as James St.Aubyn.

The James S. Thomson fonds consists of handwritten sermons, lecture and teaching notes, prayers, lectures, addresses, photographs, clippings and book drafts reflecting Thomson's diverse career in administration, academic and church life. While most of the material concerns Thomson's work at McGiII's Faculty of Divinity and the Lay School of Theology, there is some material relating to his tenure at the University of Saskatchewan, the United Church of Canada and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Many of the sermons, lectures and addresses are not dated and could have been written in Scotland prior to his arrival in Canada.

A speech delivered by Taylor at McGill in 1971 outlines the history and work of the Royal Society of Arts.

This diary written at Rome, 1848-1855, is in English, French and Italian.

This collection consists of 90 letters most of which were written to Sir John Philippart and to Mr. George Virtue.

Paper entitled "Analysis and Discussion of the Incidence of Death Among the English Population of Montreal from the years 1869-1873", written for a history course in 1976.

The fonds reflects Agnes Honoria Wrong's career as a columnist and mainly consists of scrapbooks containing food columns published in different Canadian newspapers chiefly under the pen name Janet March. Janet March's real name was Agnes Honoria Armstrong Wrong, and she wrote under many pen names. The earliest columns (1931-1933) are signed "Suzette" and were published in the Saturday Night Magazine (Toronto) Some other food-related columns published in the Junior League Magazine (1933-1935) are signed "Epicure". Later columns in the Saturday Night Magazine (1939-1946) are ordered more or less by year in specific scrapbooks. Articles about history of food, as well as recipe columns, were published monthly in the Globe & Mail (1956-1962), some of them under her real name. Part of the material is loose in envelopes or within already filled scrapbooks, including pre-publication typed articles. Also are included a few letters addressed to the creator (reader's mail).

The collection documents the experiences of Japanese Canadians in Montréal and in Canada, as well as Japanese Canadian cultural and social contributions, over an approximately 60 year period, mainly 1940-2000.

The collection contains records reflecting the activities of the JCCCM organization and often related to individuals and/or families, and includes correspondence, photographs, and a variety of printed materials. The collection also contains detailed biographical records, compiled during the 1980s, related to the Issei, Nisei, and Sansei as well as other non-Japanese individuals active in the community. In addition, there are approximately 150 tape recordings, transcripts, and oral histories; art work and cultural contributions done by members of the Japanese community; directories, newspapers, publications, pamphlets, and records; administrative records of the NAJC chapter in Montréal; as well as local and national NAJC and JCCS records.

The series consist of 1) publications; 2) biographical files; 3) general subject files; 4) Japanese Canadian Centennial Society (JCCS) files; and 5) NAJC/ Redress files; 6) Exhibits; 7) Photographs. Many of the files are arranged alphabetically or by subject.