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Archives populaires de Pointe-Saint-Charles Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4263
  • Fonds
  • 1968-2006

"The fonds consists of the records of the following groups:
Carrefour d’éducation populaire de Pointe Saint-Charles;
Clinique communautaire de Pointe Saint-Charles;
Regroupement Information Logement;
Archives populaires de Pointe Saint-Charles.
These records document the activities of these groups to improve the quality of life and living conditions for the inhabitants of Pointe Saint-Charles. They include administrative documents, minutes of meetings, records of general assemblies and committee meetings, records of demonstrations, position papers, community newspapers and related photographs."

Archives populaires de Pointe-Saint-Charles

Bruce G. Trigger Fonds

  • CA MUA MG4259
  • Fonds
  • 1936-2006

The fonds documents Bruce Trigger’s research and teaching activities as a professor at McGill University, his participation at international conferences, his correspondence with an international network of colleagues and researchers, as well as his writing,
publishing, and editorial work, and some aspects of his personal life, including his secondary and post-secondary education. Records include course materials, correspondence, publications and articles, conference papers and associated materials, speeches, research and reading notes, photographs and slides, and awards, including medals, plaques, and certificates, inclusive 1953-2006. Trigger’s work as a field archaeologist is reflected in scrapbooks documenting early archaeological expeditions.

The fonds consists of 20 boxes with some files arranged into subject categories while others have a chronological arrangement scheme. The series consist of 1) Conference Papers/ Publications; 2) Course Materials/Teaching; 3) Research/ Reading Notes/ Field Research; 4) Personal; 5) Slides.

Trigger, Bruce G.

Jeremy Walker Fonds

  • CA MUA MG4273
  • Fonds
  • 1911-2006

The fonds contains chiefly the writings of Jeremy Walker on a variety of issues in moral philosophy and related literary topics. These writings, including anthologies, drafts of books and lecture notes, demonstrate the range of his eclectic interests from his formal studies of Kierkegaard and moral philosophy to his more personal intellectual pursuits concerning the literature of Kipling, Jane Austen, and Dostoyevsky, as well as the poetry of Woodsworth and reflections on Englishness. There are also examples of his published and unpublished poetry.

His more personal writings are in diaries that cover more than 20 years of his adult life and in contrast to his erudite writings on grand philosophical topics reflect his feelings and at times his dreams, on the state of his health, relationships with women, and recount the day-to-day events of urban travel and socializing.

His personal and family relationships are reflected by correspondence with family, friends and students, photo albums of travels to England and Greece, travel diaries document his summer activities from 1947 -1950, including lists of books read, drawings and photographs. As well, in a file titled Personalia (3) Apologiai Walker provides some personal chronologies, and reflects upon his writings and his life.

Walker, Jeremy D. B.

William Moser Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4238
  • Fonds
  • 1935-2004

The Fonds consist of both personal and professional correspondence relating to his mathematical career. Colleagues and friends from the mathematical profession have provided letters (incoming/outgoing), publications, newspaper and magazine clippings, and CVs over the course of 66 years. Correspondence comes from H.S.M. Coxeter, Donald O.Hebb, Paul Erdos, Bela Bollobas, John Conway, Janos Komlos, J.A.H. Hunter, and other notables within the field of mathematics. In all, they comprise of 1.11 m of textual records, as well as 20 photographs depicting family and friends of Dr. Moser's and a painting; includes one audiotape and one CD.

Moser, W. O. J.

Gordon Edwards Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4246
  • Fonds
  • 1962-2004

The fonds chiefly reflects Gordon Edwards' professional practice, both in consortium with various firms and as an individual practitioner, and also reflects his teaching career at McGill University and the Université de Montreal, however there are some files of a personal nature. Correspondence, lighting design proposals, and their accompanying documentation (such as architectural plans) are included. A majority of the files representing his professional projects contain the same types of documents: architectural plans, lighting fixture schedules, illuminance grids, and manufacturer's literature and brochures. In addition, there are some miscellaneous photographs both of professional and personal nature, negatives, and fabric samples.

The correspondence is both personal and business-related; most of it deals with his practice and various projects and proposals, but there is also correspondence relating to legal and banking matters. There are letters from Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. There is also correspondence from noted architect Moshe Safdie and Canadian War Museum architect Raymond Moriyama.

Plans include lighting designs for the Supreme Court of Canada, the Outremont Library, and the McCord Museum expansion project.

Edwards, Gordon

Tamar Oppenheimer Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4267
  • Fonds
  • 1920-2004

The fonds consists of correspondence regarding John Peters Humphrey and the Humphrey memorial stamp (1995-2004), Tamar Oppenheimer's Columbia M.A. thesis entitled, International Conventions on the Political Rights of Women, 1920-1948, correspondence pertaining to Air and Space Law (1999), as well as correspondence and pamphlets relating to the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (1999), between 1993 and 2004.

Oppenheimer, Tamar

Vernon Brooks Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4229
  • Fonds
  • 1940-2002

The collection includes correspondence with Brooks’ foster family, his birth parents family, and scientific colleagues; and reminiscences about interment campus “A” including a class portrait, the “Khaki University”, the experience of writing McGill University matriculation exams, and academic life at McGill. While Brooks spent the majority of his academic career at the University of Western Ontario, this collection concerns his childhood and introduction to academic life shaped by the internment camp in Farnham, Quebec.

Brooks, Vernon B.

Howard A. Steppler Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4256
  • Fonds
  • 1934-2002

The Howard A. Steppler fonds chiefly reflects Steppler's long and distinguished career as an expert in agricultural research in the developing world and consists of the following:
-International organization directorship files including correspondence, minutes, planning and review documents, and board of trustee files
-International research and consulting activities records include his role as an advisor
-Conferences, workshops, attended or given by him on arid lands, forest management, agro-forestry, International Centres Week, 1975-1995

  • Correspondence, arranged chronologically or in subject files

Steppler’s role as a McGill professor and administrator is reflected in the minutes of the Macdonald College Soil Fertility Committee, 1934-1946, minutes of the course revision committee, 1965-1970, correspondence and reports of his chairmanship of the Macdonald 2000 Committee, minutes of staff meetings, 1980-1981, minutes of Senate sub-committee on development at Macdonald College, 1966-69; course lecture notes for statistics courses, 1951-1974 and agronomy course, ca.1959-ca.1969; and his writings on agro-forestry, plant science, agricultural technology in developing countries, presidential addresses and international agricultural development, 1951-1990. There are also Canadian professional associations and committees records, including his files as president of the Agricultural Institute of Canada, 1953-1966.

His personal records include notes from Glenn Steppler’s history thesis (undated) and membership records in the Montreal Rotary Club (1980-1987).

Steppler, Howard A.

Hans Möller Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4288
  • Fonds
  • approximately 1952-2002, predominant 1980-1997

The fonds consists of documents, photographs and audio media relevant to the professional history of Dr. Hans Möller. The scope predominately covers the period of 1980 to 1997 and includes Dr. Möller’s published works, personal and professional correspondence, research articles, and documents related to his professional activities and associations within and outside McGill University.

Möller, Hans, 1918-

Senior Family Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4266
  • Fonds
  • 1918-2002

The bulk of this fonds concerns the teaching and research activities of Elinor Senior. Her professional activities are documented by files on her career as an academic at Acadia, including correspondence and reports, 1986-1989; professional correspondence, including publishers and book reviews,1978-1988; correspondence and research notes concerning the Rebellions in Lower Canada, 1986-1987, undated, the Montreal garrison, 1969-1978 including criticisms of thesis, and the history of Cornwall project, 1978-1982. Also included loyalist research notes including papers by Hereward and Elinor Senior, 1977-1983 as well as editor’s files and issues of the Cannon’s Mouth, 1984-1986; course lectures and materials chiefly for Canadian history courses, at Acadia, St. Francois Xavier and McGill, 1977-1987 and Marianopolis College on police institutions, 1976, 1979. Her writings include manuscripts for her history publications including the Rebellions in Lower Canada, 1837-38, undated, and the history of Cornwall, 1981-1987. The manuscripts also include her literary writings, poetry, 1944, short stories and articles including publisher’s correspondence, 1951,1953, undated, and a draft of Nellie’s Irish Novel, n.d. Her community activities are reflected by membership files in pro-life groups, 1966-1978 and subject files on abortion, 1973 and sex education, 1974. Her student and family life is reflected by life is reflected through Girl Guide training notebooks, 1943-1947, McGill Daily handbook, approximately 1948, scrapbook on British royalty, 1935-1937, McGill term papers, approximately 1950 and diplomas; correspondence, 1940-1948, 1966-1973 and 1979-1987 and photographs chiefly concerning family events such as weddings and vacations, approximately 1950’s to approximately 1980’s with some professional portraits for her publications, approximately 1980’s.

Hereward Senior’s records, chiefly reflect his research and writing activities, with lesser amounts devoted to community, teaching and family life. There are PhD research notebooks and notes, approximately 1952 as well as later notes on Canadian Orangeism, notes on Loyalist history, 1982-1983; notes and partial drafts on Fenianism: the Canadian phase, 1975. There are drafts for Orangeism in Ireland and Britain, Fenianism and Canadian Orangeism, undated ,1959. There are also drafts of many shorter works such as the Foundation of Canadian Conservatism and In Defense of Tradition and Authority. He also gave speeches to various organizations on the Russian monarchy, the permissive society, Orthodox Christianity and Charles I Martyr.

His professional life is reflected by correspondence, 1950-1992, some with publishers and concerning books reviews but the bulk is made up of correspondence with McGill University, 1966-1973, 1985-1987 and his brother John Senior,1962-1978. He also kept a diary at Memorial University, approximately 1957-1959 and one dated August 24, 1961.

His teaching activities consist of a few lectures, including his first lecture on the history of armies at Royal Roads, 1961 and the historiography course at McGill in 1966. There are other course materials for McGill, 1965-2002 including a course pack on police institutions, 1998.

The bulk of his community activities revolved around the Monarchist League, the records include correspondence, newsletters, clippings, 1974-1987 including a compilation of articles written for Monarchy Canada by Hereward and Elinor Senior, 1974-1993. He also has correspondence with the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada, 1987-1988.

His family life is reflected by correspondence, 1945-1969, chiefly with his mother and aunt, 1976, 1978, 1983-1988, inheritance issues, 1973-74, 1985 and his Russian language training, 1978.

Hereward White’s papers are almost all related to his Red Cross career and include correspondence, 1922-1929, notebooks, undated, diary, 1919 and photographs of Red Cross workers and soldiers in Russia, approximately 1920.

Senior Family

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