This item consists of scrapbook pages from ca1939 to ca1945 . Articles concern the ‘Wings for Britain’ fundraising campaign efforts and additional allied efforts during World War II.

This file contains the seating list and menu for the R.M.S. Queen Mary for a 1936 cruise that was taken by the Lily McConnell.

This file contains a wedding invitation to the marriage of Kathleen Griffith McConnell, J.W. McConnell’s third child and only daughter, to Peter Marshall Laing on May 12, 1945.

This file contains a wedding planning book used by Kathleen McConnell to record gifts received for her May 12, 1945 wedding to Peter Marshall Laing.

This file contains one memorabilia menu from the R.M.S. Empress of Canada dinner celebrating the reinstitution of trans-Atlantic Ocean crossings after the end of World War II.

This file contains the auction list of paintings on exhibit for the 1953 ‘Painting is a Pleasure’ Exhibition. All of the exhibitors were amateur artists and members of high society, including Lily May (née Griffith) McConnell, Mrs. Ian Fleming, The Duke of Marlborough and La Baronne Guy de Rothschild.

This file contains five passports belonging to John Wilson McConnell and Lily McConnell with dates of issuance from 1942-1962. All the passports save one were issued by the Dominion of Canada government. The last passport was issued by the Government of the Bahama Islands for J.W. McConnell in 1946.

This file contains a schedule of household expenses, mainly groceries, for the McConnell’s Val David home for February 1943.

This file contains receipts and bills from Holt, Renfrew and Co. for the 1940s for items or services purchased by the McConnell family (mainly Lily McConnell). Receipts within the files reflect the nature of household accounts within the McConnell family.

This file contains receipts, bills and invoices concerned with the purchase of various items from pharmacists or chemists during the 1930s by the McConnell family. The majority of the bills reflect visits in London, England during the late 1930s.