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.
This history of Dawson College from 1945 to 1950 was prepared in collaboration with David H. Kennedy (B.Eng. 1952, M.Eng. 1953, Dip.Man. and B.A. 1962).
The fonds consist of draft reports and texts of speeches given by Vincent de Pasciuto-Ponte as well as bound reports and promotional material related to projects that Ponte was involved in through his work with architect I.M. Pei including McGill College Avenue and Place Ville Marie in Montreal, Quebec. In addition, the fonds contains published materials such as periodicals related to art and architecture, maps, travel literature and guidebooks (mostly relating to travel to Rome, Italy). Six black and white photographs of Ponte are included.
Fonds consists primarily of originals and printed materials concerning courses Coughlin taught in the Library School (1952-1979), and her own graduate studies and research (1958-1975). Her teaching materials comprise lecture notes, supplemented by clippings, articles, and bibliographies, for courses on book selection (including class lists, marks (restricted), a student project and examinations), research methods, and library work with children. Material stemming from her graduate studies comprises two papers submitted for her M.A., and two unrevised copies of her D.L.S. thesis on Canadian public library services. Her continuing interest in public libraries in Canada generated a series of research files of notes, photocopies and clippings (1961-1975).
The fonds derive from his active work in associations and at McGill University and consists of correspondence, minutes and agendas of meetings, reports and documents with various professional associations and committees, showing his involvement and interest in meteorology and physics. At the University, his correspondence is mainly for the University administration (1967-1969), the Physics Department, the McGill Associations of McGill Teachers (1968-1969) and the Visiting Committee (1967-1969). Included are his physics notes and laboratory reports as a student at the University of Toronto, student photographs, laboratory notebooks in Physics and Mathematics, teaching aids consisting of transparencies and notes for lectures, reprints and drafts of his writings mainly about hailstorms, the ozone and weather radar (1951-1986). The collection also contains group portraits of the Physics Department at McGill and University of Toronto. In addition, there are Dr. Hitschfeld's notes on experiments and observations, including photographs, on radar (1950's), tornadoes (1955) and the ozone (1960's). Films of scientific experiments also form part of the funds.
The fonds consists of one 9 x 12" (23 x 30.5 cm) envelope containing a box of lecture tickets, testimonials and receipts collected by Dr. Walter J. McInnes MD 1865. The cards were issues between 1862 and 1865 and as is customary, they contain certification of Dr. McInnes' attendance and his assistance in a number of courses.
Booth's autobiographical notes, ca 1949, apparently prepared for a Congregational Yearbook, are supplemented by sixteen photographs, printed notices of Booth's performances as an elocutionist, and diplomas.
Most of this material concerns the last illness and death of Robert Harvey Warden, and comprises letters of sympathy to himself and his wife, and following his death, condolences to his wife and children. The letters are from personal friends as well as from Presbyterian bodies. Printed obituaries are also included. Letters of condolence to Mrs Warden on the death of her daughter Lila Dunton are likewise accompanied by newspaper obituaries, 1908.
The fonds consists of condolence letters on the occasion of Wayne Corse's death during active service in World War II; other textual records; convocation program, 1943; McGill Daily banquet, 1939, 1940; card from the Canadian government, 1927; pamphlet "My Son is Missing" broadcast on the CBC; business card; McGill handbook 1941-1942; photos of Wayne Corse, Rosamond Brown; certificate from McGill University approximately 1942; McGill pin; and military identification tags.
