Administrative records consist of general and committee minutes, 1902-1972, annual reports, 1902-1964, personnel files, 1937-1947, files of correspondence and memoranda on individual sites as well as themes, e.g. water pollution, 1906-1972; and various surveys and studies, 1912-1967.

The C.O.T.C.’s administrative history is detailed in a series of Minutes and Reports which range from 1941-1959 (20.72 cm). In this series, information is preserved regarding regimental committee meetings, annual general meetings, and C.O.T.C. Association meetings, as well as mess reports. There is also a series of “Commissions for Lieutenants” signed by the Governor General/Surgeon General/Deputy Minister of Militias and Defence (1915-1916, 0.07 cm). The series Directories and Roll Calls details the names of C.O.T.C. members (1917-1946, 26.6 cm) and includes journal entries, orders and newspaper clippings. “Orders” records are comprised of three bound books and includes notices, marching routes, camp orders and newspaper clippings (1914-1929, 14 cm). Further to these more densely populated series regarding the administrative history of the C.O.T.C. are photographs (n.d., 0.01 cm) kept in an envelope and incorporated into directories, as well as a soldier’s handbook (1916, 0.5 cm), a letter to Lieutenant Colonel J.M. Morris from T.S. Morrisey addressing pay (1940, 0.01 cm), mess meetings, staff, publicity and the University of Toronto contingent of the C.O.T.C.’s records.

This series consists of all materials pertaining to Endre Farkas’ and other artists’ play company.

Anna Dawson Harrington's papers consist chiefly of incoming correspondence, including: 1.5 cm of letters from J. W. Dawson, 1868-1896; 3 cm from Margaret Mercer Dawson, 1870-1902; 10 cm from George Mercer Dawson, 1865-1901; 7 items from William Bell Dawson, 1868-1876; 5 items from Rankine Dawson, 1871-1899; 15 items from Eva Dawson Atkin, 1880-1896; 13 cm from her husband B. J. Harrington, 1876-1906; 2 cm from her children, 1892-1913; 1 cm of congratulatory letters at the time of her marriage, 1875-1876; 13 letters from friends and associates, 1867-1911; 4 cm of letters of sympathy on the death of her husband, 1907; 2 cm of letters concerning subscriptions for his portrait, a girlhood diary, 1866-1871 and some notes for biographies of J. W. Dawson and George Mercer Dawson. Earlier years contain substantial correspondence from her brother George during his education in London and early travels with the International Border Survey and then the Geological Survey of Canada. Substantial family correspondence with her children during their youth and her husband Bernard relates to domestic matters, such as the household, new house, the children's health and activities, with frequent passing mention of finances.

files 1230-1233, 1289, 1496

Series consists of seven subseries: P125/F1 Program, P125/F2 Correspondence, P125/F3 Accounting, P125/4 Abstracts and Presentations, P125/F5 Presidential Address, P125/F6 Final Report, P125/F7 Photographs.

In general documenting the annual conference and public accounting of activities held after the close of the fiscal year, this series consists of MCSA records only, i.e., those generated by or for the institution's central bureaucracy; and, in a single instance (file 1094), an address delivered at the annual meeting of a member agency, the John Howard Society. Where the MCSA was itself closely affiliated with, or a member of, an external organization but the latter was not a member of the MCSA -- for example, the Canadian Mental Health Association or the Canadian Welfare Council -- the foregoing's annual meetings are in the Conferences, Seminars, Workshops and Institute Proceedings Series. The annual reports of functionally farther removed external organizations -- for instance, the Arctic Institute of North America or the Canadian Research Centre for Anthropology -- are in the Subject Files Series.

In the early years a few gaps exist in the MCSA records of annual meetings and annual reports. However, extant holdings represent 1924-1925 and 1931-1972. Though sparse compared to later standards, annual reports from the first usually included statements to the public and the Council membership made at annual meetings by the President, Executive Director, Executive Secretary, and heads of the four major Divisions (later Sections); but sometimes not all of these features are present and if there was an annual meeting, it does not seem to have been recorded. Of particular interest to students of the Depression may be the 1931- 1933 Annual Report of the Special Committee on Unemployment (file 997).

By the early 1960s, however, reflecting an increase in the amount, complexity, and professionalization of MCSA activities, files in this series have substantially expanded. They contain: invitations to member delegates and non-member political figures and welfare officials; agendas; logistics; dinner menus; minutes of the last annual meeting; and reports by the President, Chairman, Executive Director and/or Associate Executive Director, and Honorary Treasurer. Also included are amendments to the Constitution and by-laws, the report of the Nominating Committee and the election of Directors, the appointment of auditors for the next fiscal year, and addresses by guest dignitaries or visiting officials of other welfare organizations. In later years these files invariably contain the minutes of the last general meeting, and often of the current year, too. As of 1969 the fall meeting and annual meeting become virtually the same thing, being held the same day and place, the annual meeting taking perhaps an hour in
the morning for the presentation of executive and administrative reports with the afternoon devoted to the fall conference's addresses, papers, panel discussions and workshops. Most of this series is understandably serious in style as well as subject, but a lighter note was hit by Constance Lethbridge at the 1956 annual meeting with her production of Progress Through Planning and Leadership: An Illustrative Musical Playlet (file 803).

Series consists of annual reports and annual meeting documents for the Parks and Playgrounds Association from 1902-1964 and the Community Garden League from 1933-1959.

Series consists of article reprints.

Series contains clippings related to projects executed by the firms, including the old Masonic Temple, the Engineers' Club house, the Windsor Hotel, a house for N. A. Timmins, and the École technique de Montréal.