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McGill University Detachment of the Canadian Red Cross Corps, inspection March 29, 1944

This file contains a photograph of women in uniform standing at attention, identified on the back of the photo as the McGill University Training Detachment of the Canadian Red Cross Corps undergoing an inspection in the Sir Arthur Currie Memorial Gymnasium-Armoury on March 29, 1944. Some figures in the photo are identified on the back.

Nobbs and Valentine

Subfonds contains twelve projects documented by 213 architectural drawings (1943-1950) including: additions and alterations to the McGill University Pathology Building, a Henry Birks and Sons store in Victoria, BC, a War Memorial Monument in Westmount, alterations to Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal and alterations to the Royal Montreal Curling Club. Non-architectural projects documented in drawings include the Carlisle Memorial Sedilia, a processional cross and war names inscription panels for Christ Church Cathedral (1946-1948).
"Photographs, 1947, 2 photographs." The Birks store in Victoria is documented by photographs of the finished exterior and interior (1947).. Three projects include correspondence files: War Memorial Monument in Westmount, alterations to St. George's Church in Drummondville, PQ and decorations for the University Club in Montreal (1947-1951).

Dessins architecturaux, 1943-1950, 213 dessins: Les douze projets illustrés par des dessins architecturaux comprennent, notamment : des annexes et rénovations apportées au pavillon de l'Institut de pathologie de l'Université McGill, un magasin de la compagnie Henry Birks and Sons à Victoria (Colombie-Britannique), un monument aux morts à Westmount, des réfections apportées à la cathédrale Christ Church de Montréal et au Royal Montreal Curling Club.
Autres dessins, 1946-1948, 12 dessins: Au nombre des projets non architecturaux illustrés par des dessins, signalons la Sedilia Carlisle Memorial, un crucifix de procession, et les panneaux d'inscription du nom des soldats morts au champ d'honneur réalisés pour la cathédrale Christ Church.
Photographies, 1947, 2 photographies: Le magasin Birks de Victoria est représenté par deux photographies qui en montrent la finition extérieure et intérieure.
Correspondance, 1947-1951, 12 cm: Trois projets sont assortis d'une correspondance.: le monument aux morts de Westmount, les rénovations apportées à l'église St. Georges de Drummondville (Québec) et des ornements pour le University Club de Montréal.

Nobbs and Valentine

Photograph of two women

This file contains a photograph of two women in Red Cross hats and fur coats. A note on the back of the photo reads: "Sir Arthur Currie Memorial Gymnasium, Montreal, February, 1943.)

McGill University War Records Collection

  • CA MUA RG 82, 0000-0481
  • Collection
  • 1942-1946

The collection documents the involvement of McGill faculty, students, alumni, and staff during the Second World War. It contains information on 5568 men and women on active service, including 295 women. It also provides information on the 298 dead, 52 prisoners of war, and 629 recipients of medals.

The greater portion consists of folders, index cards, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs of individual soldiers and civilians. Index cards, documents and photographs were created and accumulated by Fetherstonhaugh and placed in alphabetical order within specific categories. The collection contains four distinct series: index cards; textual documents, including newspaper clippings; correspondence and articles arranged by subject; and photographs. The first series contains subseries reflecting Fetherstonhaugh’s original subdivision categories.

The index cards are arranged in the following groupings:

-Subversive activities
-Killed
-Prisoners of war
-University staff
-Macdonald College
-Army course
-COTC
-US
-General list A-H
-General list I-Mc
-General list M-Z
-Returned from active service
-Photos in extension file
-Photos on loan
-Women
-Civil

Other files in the collection include correspondence and newspaper clippings arranged by particular subjects; correspondence and newspaper clippings concerning the McGill War Memorial Campaign, 1947-1949; Fetherstonhaugh's account book of income and expenditures, and some vouchers, 1942-1946; McGill News articles, 1942-1946; correspondence, memoranda, invoices, reviews, and newspaper clippings, 1947-1948, concerning the book McGill University at War, 1914-1918; 1939-1945.

McGill University War Records Office

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.

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