This subseries contains records related to J.W. McConnell and Lil McConnell’s participation in fundraising and philanthropy related to health care and hospitals, primarily between 1922 and 1965.

Material in this subseries includes reports, pamphlets and programmes, correspondence, and photographs.

This subseries contains records related to J.W. McConnell’s philanthropic and fundraising efforts on behalf of higher education institutions, dating between 1931 and 1960.

Material in this subseries includes addresses, programs and other ephemera, correspondence, reports, commemorative awards, portraits, and mementos.

This subseries contains records related to J.W. McConnell’s fundraising efforts related to the First and Second World Wars, dating between 1917 and 1949.

Material in this subseries includes reports, an address, ephemera related to various campaigns, books, correspondence, and photographs.

This subseries contains records related to J.W. McConnell’s career between 1900-1930. The records in this subseries are scattered and do not necessarily reflect McConnell’s full role in the various companies he worked with during this period.

Material found in this subseries includes ledgers and record books of various companies in which McConnell was involved, personal ledgers used by McConnell for his finances, charter and minute extracts from the Standard Chemical Company, and financial and bank statements.

This subseries contains records related to J.W. McConnell’s involvement in the Commerical Trust Co., between roughly 1936 and 1972.

Material found in this subseries includes income tax and financial statements of trusts, memos and correspondence regarding taxation (interleaved with tax statements), ledgers, and minutes of the executives and minutes of the investment committee (from roughly 1939-1971).

This subseries contains records related to J.W. McConnell’s involvement in the Montreal Star, from between 1925 and 1971.

Material in this subseries includes federal and provincial income tax statements and annual statements, memos and correspondence regarding tax and editorial content (specifically political events and discourse such as the arrest of Mayor Camillien Houde in 1940 and the rise of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and F. R. Scott in Canadian politics), and minute books of the executive.

This subseries contains records related to J.W. McConnell’s involvement in St. Lawrence sugar refineries between 1912 and 1977.

Material in this subseries includes federal and provincial income tax statements and annual statements, and minute books of the executive and general meetings.

This subseries contains records related to properties owned by J.W. McConnell or by companies that he worked for.

Material in this subseries includes deeds of sale, correspondence, blueprints, indurance documents and other related documents.

The subseries contains manuscript essays and addresses on scientific subjects. Ten of Dawson's scientific notebooks are also represented in the subseries as well as some scientific scrapbooks compiled by Dawson.

Subseries consists of records kept while Dawson was Superintendent of Education in Nova Scotia, administrative materials, and other records related to his educational career. As Superintendent of Education in Nova Scotia, Dawson kept two notebooks of journal entries and general observations on Nova Scotia schools (box 39). About 35 cm of purely administrative materials (boxes 41-44) were retained by Dawson in his private papers. Most of the correspondence concerns routine matters of Corporation business, staff and student affairs, fund-raising and buildings, but there is a special file on the controversy with Prof. J. Clark Murray over co-education in 1888. Other materials include copies of documents on the early fortunes of McGill, Dawson's Normal School record book, with lists of students and some financial accounts (1859), an office memorandum book (1863-1878), and manuscripts of addresses delivered at university functions, including his resignation speech and a substantial address on the education of women. Dawson also assembled an "Educational and Biographical" scrapbook, largely of news clippings by him or about his principalship (box 39).