Series consists of correspondence, articles, speeches and pamphlets outlining Dale Thomson's Involvement with the Liberal Party of Canada as a candidate in the 1958 federal election in the Alberta riding of Jasper-Edson and his attempt to gain the party nomination in the federal riding of Westmount in 1978. The material also relates to his role as a policy and strategy advisor from the 1960s to the 1990s. Series arrangement is by subject.

James created two formal records of his life: an incomplete autobiography and approximately 95 cm of personal diaries for the years 1936-1962. From 1939 onwards, his diary is also a running office record of his activities as Principal. James' personal notes are handwritten, but the office copy was typed by his secretary, Dorothy McMurray. While working on his autobiography following his retirement, James interfiled the two. Apart from descriptions of his activities and reflections, the James diaries contain minutes,
memoranda, letters, essays on countries visited by James, speeches and poetry. There is a separate series of pocket appointment diaries from 1919 to 1972, and gardening diaries from 1949-1959 and 1963-1969.

Juvenalia and student materials consist of two albums (1905 and 1907) of postcards; a schoolboy commonplace-book of extracts, news clippings and reflexions on religious topics (possibly digests of sermons); six volumes of secondary school notes on economic history; approximately 24 cm of examination papers, essays and notes from James' London School of Economics days; and notes for a course on the Law of Prize from the University of Pennsylvania (1925). Three volumes of personal scrapbooks cover the period 1917-1939: the first (1919-1931) includes school and university reports of standing, while the remaining two consist of newspaper articles by and about James, invitations, letters concerning his speeches and publications, and telegrams and correspondence concerning James' appointment to the School of
Commerce at McGill.

Private financial records include two volumes of day-books (1952-1954), two ledgers (1962-1970), bank statements (1937-1962), correspondence concerning investments, pensions etc. (1941-1969), and papers relating to his real estate in England.

This series contains administrative, production and creative records, including scripts, business records, examples of production reports, daily reports, budgets, contracts, title clearances, agreements, applications and reporting related to certification and incentive programs. The series is organized by production title.

This is the largest series within the Scriver fonds, and consists of the geneticist’s professional activities within and beyond McGill. The textual materials in this series consist of myriad evidences of Scriver’s professional activities, including but not limited to: typewritten (1960-1998) and e-mail (2003-2008, copies) correspondence covering Scriver’s many accolades, including his entry into the Canadian Who’s Who? Database in 1997, speech transcripts, a transcript of the Nathaniel Comfort History Project interview (2007-8), plans and correspondence regarding the founding of the DeBelle Laboratory in the Montreal Children’s Hospital (1960-73), his participation on a number of MUHC committees (1976-98, with gaps), and his involvement in the Human Genome Project and Advisory Committee (1995-2005 with gaps), as well as records pertaining to Dr. Scriver’s extensive travels abroad for conferences and lectureships. This series also includes artworks and approximately 70 dated and undated black & white and color photographs (1955-2005) accumulated by Scriver over the course of his career, including headshots, contact sheets, staff photos, class photos, and candid images. Finally, the Professional Activities series includes a miscellany of graphic materials including awards and plaques awarded to Scriver (1975-2010), records pertaining to the Scriver Family M.D./Ph.D. Scholarship Symposium (2003), holiday cards and personal correspondence (circa 2000) included in the accrual from the McGill office

Papers documenting professional activities and interests, including associations and conferences. Included are files raised in connection with various writings (originally received with Accession 162).

• Each subject is indicated by capital letters. Where there is more than one file devoted to a subject, or where the subject is broken down into subdivisions, etc., the scope of each file is indicated and introduced by a dash (-) under the main capitalized heading. Each file has been kept intact and in the order received. The collection amounts to some 20 feet linear (6.lOm).

This series documents Alice Johannsen's activities as preservationist, conservationist, lecturer, member of various professional organizations and conservation groups, tour organizer, speaker and writer.

A large part of the series are files that document Alice's involvement in various conservation and interpretative associations (Association of Canadian Interpreters, that later changed its name into Interpretation Canada, Association quebecoise d'interpretation du patrimoine, Conseil consultatif de l'environnement, Conseil de la conservation de l'environnement and le conseil quebecois), (Files 281-353, 384). These files span from 1970 to 1990 and consist of information on annual workshops, minutes and agendas of meetings, reports, memoranda, Alice's notes, pamphlets, correspondence, financial statements, directories and membership lists, policies, bylaws and legislation, newsletters, journals, newspaper clippings, maps, and slides. This series also reflect Alice's interest in crafts (Files 354-355) and date between 1934 and 1976.

Alice participation in many naturalists societies is reflected in files from the following organizations; (Files 380, 383, 385-402) National Audubon Society, Morgan Arboretum Association, Nature Conservancy of Canada, Canadian Nature Federation, Catherine Trail Naturalist Club, Montreal Zoological Society and Friends of Rock Ridges Nature Trail. These files date between 1943 and 1989 and consist of correspondence, minutes and agendas of meetings, newsletters, reports, photographs and newspaper clippings. She was also involved in various interpretative plans for provincial parks, Lake Carmin (Lac Rouge) project from 1950 to 1982 (Files 403-415, 676), and outdoor folk museums in Scandinavia and Canada from 1936 to 1968 (Files 416-423). The files contain reports, brochures, correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, and some files are documented by slides.

Alice Johannsen also organized a number of educational tours (Files 424-434) in Norway as well as tours in South America, mainly Galapagos, and also Ecuador, Peru, Columbia and the Andes. Some of the tours are documented by slides (Files 683-701). These files date between 1968 and 1985 and contain Alice's notes, pamphlets, correspondence and itineraries.

These files document Alice's involvement giving courses in zoology, biology, library and museum training and environment as well as extension courses to high school and university students, museum and camp group leaders, and also to the public. The files date from 1920 to 1970 and consist of notes, correspondence, pamphlets, maps and slides. Educational programs she herself organized or information she collected on such programs elsewhere documents her education activities (Files 435-470), 647-650, 714). The files from the years 1929 to 1981 consist of Alice's notes, correspondence, pamphlets, handouts, and some contain slides.

Alice Johannsen's role as a popular speaker is shown by numerous lectures and speeches on a variety of subjects to a wide range of audiences from small children, to high school and university students, members of various associations and societies, women's clubs and conferences (Files 471-571, 674, 739). The files ranging from 1928 to 1985 contain mostly Alice's handwritten notes as well as correspondence, and some of her lectures are accompanied by slides.

Alice also wrote and published a number of articles. Some of her drafts and published work are shown in this series (Files 572-596) including notes and correspondence and covering the years between 1936 and 1987. Her articles deal mainly with museum related subjects.

These Gault Estate administrative files consist mainly of correspondence, memoranda, news release, projects, reports and surveys, and Alice's notes dating between 1957 and 1981 (Files 597-605).

Alice also collected material on various nature subjects and created information files, 1892 to 1984. (Files 606-629).

Also part of this series are Alice's reel-to-reel tapes and some transcript documenting her museum activities and training courses from 1956 to 1969 (Files 630-646). The transcripts do not, however, correspond to the titles on the tapes.

Alice's photographic activities are documented by color slides. Some of the titles clearly indicate to which files they relate. Some, however, are slides dealing with various topics but it is not evident to which files they correspond. There are a number ofslides documenting life and activities in Mont St. Hilaire (File 651-666) dating from 1964 to 1984. Some slides from years between 1969 and 1975 show nature scenes, animal and plant life that could also be used for Alice's numerous speeches and lectures (Files 667-670, 677). Alice also lectured on the life in the Andes and Galapagos, Iceland, volcanoes, glaciers and earth that are all accompanied by slides (Files 678-682, 702, 705) from 1965 to 1985. Some slides ranging from 1961 to 1978 show parks (Gatineau Park, Mont Tremblant Park, Iles de la Madeleine and Algonquin Park) and others are general views of nature settings, chiefly in Normal America. (Files 396, 428, 509, 516, 534, 542, 553, 559, 563, 621 and 738).

Includes correspondence from Pyper to publishers, grant applications, editors, literary colleagues and responses to fan mail.