The fonds consists of textual records related to the operations and administration of the Percé Handicrafts Guild, the Black Whale Shop, as well other community initiatives sponsored by Percé Handicrafts Guild such as the the Black Whale Dental Clinic, and photographs of the shop and its volunteers. Operational and administrative files are intermingled with a range of informal correspondence, in particular many letters between Ethel Renouf and Phyllis Birks, and files of anecdotal notes and clips related to the Black Whale shop as well as to the history, flora, and geology of the Gaspé region.

Formal administrative records consist of letters patent for the Percé Handicrafts Guild, full minutes for 1939, and brief annual summaries of activities from 1933 to 1975. Legal documents comprise licence and registration papers, together with pertinent correspondence, 1938-1953, and a correspondence file relating to rental of the shop building. The financial side is illustrated by a cash book, 1934, and files of miscellaneous receipts, inventories, balance sheets and bookkeeping instructions, 1935-1971. Almost half the records of the Black Whale are informal in nature, for example, letters from Ethel Renouf to Phyllis Birks mixing personal news with accounts of shop operations and craft production, 1934-1937. Files of anecdotal notes and clippings relate the shop and to the history of the Gaspé, as well as on the flora and geology of the region. The fonds includes a copy of The Black Whale cookbook and some related records.. Some correspondence, budget notes and flyers pertain to the work of the Dental Clinic, 1939-1940. Sixty photographs featuring different views of the Black Whale handicrafts shop in Percé, Quebec, are also included. A number of photographs are individual and group portraits of the volunteers who created and ran the shop, including Ethel Renouf. A few photographs document a Black Whale Shop stand at the University of Montreal.

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

This file contains a print of a Notman photo of the McGill lower campus looking over green towards Redpath library, Morrice Hall, Redpath Museum, and McGill Arts Building. The print was taken from a publication and is on page 10. The verso has a print of a H.W. Macdonald photograph entitled "The fourth of June at Eton."

This file contains a black and white photos of the McGill Physics Building (now the Macdonald Stewart Library Building).

This file contains photographs and prints of drawings of McGill buildings and architectural details. Buildings represented include F. Cyril James Administrative Building, Allan Memorial Institute, Arts Building, Athletics Building, Birks Building, Bronfman Building, and Burnside Hall.

This file contains photos and prints of drawings of McGill buildings and related subjects. Buildings represented include Otto Maas Chemistry building, Macdonald Campus, Macdonald Engineering building, Macdonald-Harrington building, Macdonald Physics building, Macdonald Stewart library, McConnell Engineering building, McCord Museum, McIntyre Medical Sciences building, McLennan library, Molson Stadium, Montreal General Hospital Research Institute, Montreal Neurological Institute and Morrice Hall. Also includes an envelope of portraits of “McGill medical luminaries” and several empty envelopes.

"Architectural Drawings, 1968-72, 138 drawings." Four projects include drawings, the majority document the design for offices and laboratories for the Bell Northern Research Company in Ottawa (1971-2); other drawings concern a proposal for the Canadian Chancery Building in Accra, Ghana (1969), a proposal for the Government of Canada's official residence in Dakar, Senegal (1970) and a new entrance to Redpath Hall, McGill University (1968).
"Photographs, 1971-2, 32 photographs." The project for offices and laboratories for Bell Northern Research contains photographs.
"Professional Papers, 1970, 6 cm." A project for the campus of the University of Windsor contains a planning report and a proposed extension to the Faculty Club of McGill University also contains a report.

"Dessins architecturaux, 1968-1972, 138 dessins." Quatre projets sont documentés par des dessins, dont la plupart se rapportent au projet de bureaux et de laboratoires commandés par la société Bell Northern Research à Ottawa (1971-1972); d'autres dessins se rapportent à une proposition d'immeuble pour la chancellerie canadienne à Accra, Ghana (1969), à une proposition de résidence officielle du gouvernement canadien à Dakar, Sénégal (1970), et à une nouvelle entrée pour la salle Redpath de l'Université McGill (1964).
"Photographies, 1971-1972, 32 photos." Le projet de bureaux et de laboratoires de Bell Northern Research est documenté par des photos.
"Documents professionnels, 1970, 6 an." Un projet pour le campus de l'Université de Windsor s'assortit d'un rapport de planification et une proposition d'annexe au Cercle universitaire de l'Université McGill est aussi assorti d'un rapport.

[1934, Spring] Staff photograph of Department of Neurological and Neurosurgery, Royal Victoria Hospital and McGill University. [Printed in the N.M.A., p.325] Standing: Oland Hyndman, Jerzy Chorobski, Robert Hardwood, Theodore Erickson, Arne Torkildsen, John Kershman, William T. Grant, Ralph Stuck, Ginger Stavraky; Seated: Lyle Gage, Arthur Elvidge, Norman Peterson, Arthur Young, Colin Russel, Wilder Penfield, William V. Cone, Joseph Evans and Wilbur Sprong. Also photograph of Arthur Elvidge, Wilder Penfield, William Cone (seated) and Arne Torkildsen, Lyle Gage, Joseph Evans, Jerzy Chorobski [75-0670; 75-2322] [60-0001].