The collection consists of a one-page typewritten poem titled "Armistice," signed by the author, Mary Wallace Brooks.

The collection consists of a typescript of the author's book "Salon sketches" and a copy of the 1938 edition titled "Salon sketches: biographical studies of Berlin salons of the emancipation," published by Bloch Publishing Company in New York. It also contains newspaper clippings featuring reviews of the book from 1938 and 1939, as well as two articles from 1966 commemorating Professor Bertha Meyer's 50 years of teaching at McGill University.

The collection consists of Prevost’s school certificate from Le Conseil d'État de la République et Canton de Neuchatel en Suisse, dated June 17, 1870, along with a collection of handwritten essays and poems. It contains newspaper clippings featuring published poems, an article titled “The French Congregational Church,” and the original handwritten essay “Our Educational Work” by J. A. Derome, accompanied by a note from Prevost. The collection also features the booklets “Le Canada français à la lumière de l'histoire” (1913) and "Le vrai contre-poison pour faire disparaître la confession auriculaire" by Chiniquy (1878), as well as a booklet “Annuaire de l'Église evangélique française de Torrington, Connecticut, 1902-3” and a 50-leaf handwritten notes of the speeches given at the conferences on Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857), held in Montreal (1878), Springfield (1887), Torrington (1903) and Norfork (1909). A biography of Joseph Provost is pasted on the front pastedown of the book covers (content missing), alongside a black-and-white photograph of students on the cover, titled “École des garçons et école des filles à Chapelle, 1846-1904.”

The collection consists of 38 letters written by a small group of French Canadian Protestant friends living in the villages of St. Philippe, Grande Ligne, and Ste. Philomène in southern Quebec, as well as in the city of Montreal. Among the letters are those by Samuel Perrier, a Quebec farmer and dedicated letter writer, primarily addressed to his future wife, Eugenie Molleur (1862–1948), and to one of his daughters, Aline, who attended L'Institut Méthodiste Français.

These letters provide a vivid depiction of the challenging rural life faced by Quebec farmers, highlighting issues such as fatigue, poor crop yields, a shortage of farm labour, harsh winters, health struggles, and local news. They also reflect the parents' determination to improve their children's futures by sending them to school to learn English, accounting, music, and teaching. The collection additionally includes a small selection of poems and songs.

The collection consists of a journal kept sporadically from 3 August 1835 to 4 July 1839 as well as a notebook titled "Mathematics, 1835;" a handwritten synopsis of the lives of Sir Herbert Taylor and Sir Charles Forbes; and a letter from Sir Charles Forbes to Lord John Russell, 1848, concerning Charles J. Briscoe and his family. It includes two black-and-white photographs of Charles J. Briscoe, a typewritten list of the "Loan collection of Mr. John Kerr", and a list of the lectures of the Philosophical and Geological Society by S. Frye, President, dated November 7, 1841.

The collection consists of seven leaves of typewritten poems, with a few handwritten annotations, possibly made by the author, as well as a typewritten copy of the poem collection "Svendborger G[r]dichte."

The collection consists of an inventory list; a volume labelled "Equipment. Steamer Relief / Pontoons & Wrecking Plant / Lower St. Lawrence / 19 May 1882 - 22 February 1883," containing 22 used pages.; a volume labeled " Wrecks & Disasters," a scrapbook of clippings and printed documents, 1882-1884, with 39 used pages; a blank "Share Subscribers Register" consisting of 6 pages; and a "Winter Navigation of River St. Lawrence / Copy of Log of Steamer 'Folger,' of the Dominion Salvage and Wrecking Co., Montreal, 1883, containing 12 pages.

The collection consists of an illustrated and annotated edition of a monograph titled "The English Cathedral of Quebec, read before the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, 10th March, 1891," an ordinary copy of the monograph, various documents, black and white photographs of both the cathedral's exterior and interior, as well as portraits of its bishops and canons. The collection also features newspaper clippings related to the history of the cathedral and church discussions, published by the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec and various local newspapers, along with handwritten memos concerning church disputes. It includes an original watercolour drawing of the diocese's coat of arms, ordered by the first Lord Bishop, Dr. Jacob Mountain.

The collection consists of programs and recordings of ensemble performances (including opera) by students, faculty members, and guest artists associated with the Schulich School of Music at McGill University and performed at one of the School's halls (Pollack Hall, Redpath Hall, Tanna Schulich Hall, and Clara Lichtenstein Hall), as well as some performances at venues outside McGill.

The collection consists of 287 negatives, 65 prints and 179 copy negatives from photographer Tappan Adney. The collection documents his passage in the Yukon, Alaska and British Columbia during the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1890s. The negatives depict various geographic landscapes, people and animals, settlements, and day-to-day mining activities in numerous locations, such as, Dawson, Skagway, Lower Yukon, Bonanza Creek, El Dorado, Chilkoot Trail, Nome, Dyea, Skookumchuck, Hunker Creek, Tagish and Dutch Harbor.