- CA MUA MG 2085
- Fonds
- 1922-1966
The fonds consists of articles, article reprints, obituary notice for Foster, and memorial notices and biographies on Foster.
Foster, J. S. (John Stuart), 1890-1964
The fonds consists of articles, article reprints, obituary notice for Foster, and memorial notices and biographies on Foster.
Foster, J. S. (John Stuart), 1890-1964
Frederick Holland Mackay Fonds
Fonds contains Frederick Holland Mackay's lecture notes from several courses of medicine for the session 1910-1911. They are W.F. Hamilton on medicine, H.A. Lafleur on the respiratory system, C.F. Martin on neurology and F.G. Finlay on heart conditions. The fonds includes one student notebook with an inscription from W.W. Francis and Mackay to W.W. Francis.
Mackay, Frederick Holland, 1884-1947
The fonds contains the company's business correspondence related to the importation of food products, essences, and spices from international manufacturers, and other business expenditures, as well as some correspondence with government regulators regarding food labeling and quality. In addition, some letters are from charitable and cultural organizations to which the company donated. Some personal correspondence of Henri Jonas is included, as well as numerous restaurant bills and and menus, including for the Montreal Hunt Club.
Chiefly found is incoming correspondence with product suppliers and invoices for various services, including car repair, advertising, stationary, funeral arrangements, and photography. Suppliers include companies from France, Germany, Norway, UK, Italy, Sicily, Hungary, China, India, and Spain. Products include essential oils, soaps and luxury food products such as sardines, truffles, preserves, jam, Hungarian paprika, Chinese tea, olive oil, caviar, liqueurs, foie gras, sardines, and ketchup. Two Montreal-area manufacturers are represented, with a catalogue from Couvrette Sauriol Limitée (1937) and a brochure for the Stuart Brothers. Included is one letter from postwar France soliciting renewed a commercial relationship following the allied victory (Royal Champignon). There are also bulletins from and correspondence with, including one outgoing letter, the Canadian Department of Agriculture regarding quality and labelling of canned fruits and vegetables.
A few letters are personal in nature and addressed to Henri Jonas himself. There are also telegrams and letters from Canadian organizations such as the Pacific Railway Company, and Canadian societies and organizations to which the company donated money (Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Montreal Orchestra, Hospital for Sick Children London, Salvation Army, McGill University Centennial Endowment).
Some of the company's advertising materials are also found, as well as food labels for products including mushrooms, wine, truffles, olive oil, sardines, and lemonade).
Henri Jonas & Co.
George Edgeworth Fenwick Fonds
Fonds consists of Fenwick's scrapbook which contains newspaper clippings and some of his letters to the editor on topics ranging from medicine to general interest to humour. Five letters from medical conferences in Québec and Ontario, as well as some engraved portraits of medical men are also included.
Fenwick, George Edgeworth, 1825-1894
Apart from some personal and obituary materials, Kelly's papers concern his career as an infantry officer in Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry during World War I. A pocket diary records his experiences in 1918 and a copy of a photograph album shows scenes around Mons in 1914. Printed souvenirs, Christmas cards, certificates and medals supplement these documents. Other photographs show Kelly and his family, and the McGill Observatory.
Kelly, Albert John, 1888-1945
The company records consist of a scrapbook containing clippings of newspaper articles, advertisements, and photographs of houses built by A. Payne and Company.
A. Payne and Company
William Malcolm Drummond Fonds
These papers comprise the typescript of Drummond's Financing of land purchase in Canada.
Drummond, W. M. (William Malcolm), 1897-1965
Fonds shows A. R. Prendergast's 1902 work in histology course given by Professor George Wilkins and his Lecturer N.D. Gunn. It contains a histological sketching book with coloured pencil drawings from Prendergast.
Prendergast, A. R. (Archer Ross)
Fonds contains a notebook of G.B. Drayton of case records, autopsies, prescriptions, lecture notes and personal memoranda.
Drayton, George Box, 1784-1857
The fonds illustrates Dr. Gomery's work as a medical missionary and consists of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, a guestbook from the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Islamabad, maps of Kashmir, a Kashmiri hymn book, and a facsimile of her book "Neighbors in Kashmir." The fonds additionally contains an obituary and an detailed account of Gomery family history.
Gomery, Minnie, 1875-1967