The Type of Building series includes progress and "as finished" photographs of buildings constructed by Canada Cement. Usually there will be several photos (often as many as 20) showing the various phases of the project, both in details and in full. The projects include airports, churches, concrete masonry, homes, prestressed materials, and stadiums. Structures were built in most areas of Canada. Many of the projects, such as dams, include distance and aerial views. The majority of photos in this series appear to date from 1940 to 1980, although there are many from ca. 1915 to 1940. Nearly all photos are identified on the back or on the envelope containing them. Negatives and information sheets about the building are sometimes included. Occasionally there is correspondence, mainly of the Publicity and Sales Department of Canada Cement. (This series was called the "Old Photo" series by Company administration).

This series relates to William Feindel’s administrative roles at Acadia University where he served on the Board of Governors and as the University’s Chancellor (1991 and 1996). Materials include correspondence and minutes of the board.

This series contains records of J.W. McConnell, and in some instances additional members of his immediate family, documenting their involvement in numerous fundraising and philanthropic works.

The records were divided into specific subseries (Hospitals and Health Care; Higher Education; War Efforts) to reflect the work of McConnell to meet the different needs of Montreal and communities abroad. The records consist of fundraising correspondence and requests from McConnell, photographs, artefacts, financial reports and statements from the McGill campaign and ephemera related to fundraising including a set of index cards that McConnell used to organize the McGill fundraising campaign. Specific fundraising inititatives include: McGill $5,000,000 Campaign, 1943/1944; Montreal Joint Hospital Campaign, 1927; Victoria Order of Nurses Pension Fund, 1944/1945; Victory Loan Campaign, 1917-1918; ‘Wings for Britain’ Campaign; and McConnell’s personal donation of $1,000,000 to create the McConnell Squadron of Royal Air Force Spitfires, 1941-1946.

These papers concern two aspects of Sprenger's career: his school and college record, and his death and subsequent memorials. Sprenger's school records comprise reports from his school in England, 1918, and from Rothesay Collegiate School, Saint John, 1921-1926, together with a copy of the R.C.S. magazine recording his graduation, 1927, and a letter to his father, 1926. Two photographs of the Rothesay Football team, 1924, 1926, show Sprenger as captain. His McGill years are documented by matriculation, 1927, and graduation, 1931, certificates, convocation programmes, 1931 and 1934 and an official transcript of marks, 1933. His sports prowess is reflected by the programme of a Quebec Swimming Association competition organized by Sprenger in 1936 and by seven photographs of athletic and swimming teams in which Sprenger participated while at McGill. Various sports certificates, and Sprenger's amateur pilot's licence, 1939, also survive. His death in action is recorded by about eight letters of condolence to his parents from Air Force officers and chaplain, as well as his flying mates. They enclose Sprenger's 'Wings' and photographs of him and of his grave. Printed tributes to Sprenger from newspapers, and the house magazines of Canadian Industries, Ltd and of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association are supplemented by other periodical articles on the R.C.A.F. and the Battle of Britain.

The Redpath series are administrative records of the Redpath Museum during the time Alice Johannsen was assistant curator, assistant director and director of Redpath Museum.

This series consists of budgets and reports, as well as exhibits organized by Alice Johannsen, correspondence, publications by Redpath staff members, newspaper clippings and directories.

Correspondence occupies an important part of the series and ranges from 1919 to 1971 (Files 197-280). These files include correspondence with McGill University principals and vice-principals, board of governors, departments (accounting, bursar, comptroller, registrar, building and grounds, extension and), associations, museums, galleries, universities and various individuals. The correspondence deals with staff records, gifts to Redpath Museum, loans from the museum and problems. The correspondence files also contain letters to and from E. L. Judah, predecessor to Alice Johannsen. Included in the correspondence files are also handwritten notes, by Alice ranging from 1928 to 1971.

The budgets, budget applications, estimates and approvals for Redpath and McCord museums are from the years 1928 to 1971 and are mostly typed including a few handwritten notes by Alice (Files 170-178). Monthly and annual reports are typed and range from 1939 to 1969 (Files 179-183).

Minutes and agendas of meetings of McGill Museum Committee date from 1943 to 1949 (File 184).

Alice Johannsen also accumulated articles written by Redpath staff members dating from 1955 to 1970 (File 196).

Newspaper clippings relate to McGill University Museums and are from the years 1946 to 1970 (File 185).

Redpath Museum Docent's Manual from 1968 (File 186), curator lists from the years between 1962 and 1967 (File 187) and the Museums Directory of the United States and Canada from 1961 are part of this series. (File 188).

Files documenting exhibits organized by Redpath Museum contain Alice's handwritten notes, labels and exhibits plans, sketches and pamphlets. These files date from 1944 to 1966 (Files 189-195).

Second only to Projects and Task Forces in number of files, the Reports, Studies, Briefs and Surveys Series has the oldest document in M.G. 2076, the J.H.T. Falk inspired Social and Financial Survey of Protestant and Non-Sectarian Social Agencies of 1919 (file 11). Though after the mid-1960s Projects and Task Forces tended to appropriate records which previously would have gone to Reports, Studies, Briefs And Surveys, the latter series nonetheless remains a prime indicator of social welfare problems, policies and resources for most of the Council's history. With input from internal (especially committee and section) sources and external contributors alike, it features studies and reports by and, about particular MCSA agencies as well as the institution collectively, besides those addressing numerous other welfare issues. Content ranges from mundane questions of infrastructure - administrative organization and function, or Red Feather fundraising and personnel practices, for instance -- to Executive Director J.W. Frei's scholarly, theoretical paper on Research in Socio-Cultural Development (file 289).

Briefs to the federal and provincial governments are an important element of this series. Among the noteworthy are those to the 1968 Royal Commission on the Status of Women (file 861) and the 1964 Special Senate Committee on Aging (file 954), as well as that on Social Policy for Quebec (the 1967 Castonguay Commission, file 5). The two latter submissions indeed come complete with drafts and working papers (files 428, 560 and 936 respectively). Draft documents similarly figure with finished ones in the welfare planning study of Greater Montreal's English-speaking Protestant community conducted by the National Study Service of New York for the MCSA, and in J.W. Frei's response (files 986-988 and 166). While much of the material in this series relates to meeting physical and psychological needs in conventional social agency terms readily intelligible across Canada, a few items also deal with concerns like Quebec's constitutional position, and bilingualism and biculturalism, which have a special relevance for Montreal.

The Regional Series includes progress and "as finished" photographs of structures built across the country by Canada Cement. There are often up to 20 different photos per project, showing various details and phases. The majority date from 1940 to 1980, with some from 1920 to 1940. Identifications are on the photographs or on the envelopes containing them. Negatives, information sheets, and correspondence are included occasionally. The photographs document approximately the same range of projects as in the Type of Building series, such as apartment buildings, dams, motels, schools, etc. (This series was called the "Black and White" series by the Company administration).

Spanning the years 1920-1972, virtually the whole of the Council's existence, this series reflects the rather casual filing system which characterized much of its administration. It is not a listing of full-fledged member agencies exclusively, i.e., only those accredited to regularly send delegates to MCSA assemblies and other meetings. (Authoritative lists of such institutional members, however, dated 1949, 1966 and 1971 may be found, amongst other locations, in files 1136, 879 and 30 respectively). Rather, Member Organizations· presents records as they pragmatically accumulated in that series in the course of business and inclusion generally means that application for membership was made, though in a few instances not speedily or even ever endorsed by the Admissions Committee or accepted by the required two-thirds vote of the Board of Governors.

But again, the MCSA did not practice a rigid consistency in these matters. For instance, because of suspected irregularities in services and finances, Christian Homes for Children (file 643) never gained Council membership despite its wish to do so, and it indeed appears in Administrative Records rather than Member Organizations. So, too, does the Cecil Butters Memorial Horne (file 644), though it was a member in spirit and the MCSA and Welfare Federation worked on amiable and cooperative terms with the institution; there was, however, perhaps geographical logic in not formalizing its membership in view of the horne's far removed location at Austin, in the Eastern Townships. On the other hand, while the Association of Leisure Time Services was also omitted from printed membership lists, it occupied the same Red Feather Services Building (1040 Atwater Avenue) as the MCSA and operated under Red Feather-MCSA auspices. It is included in the Member Organization Series.

Member Organizations has one of the widest scope and content ranges of any series, with files holding anything from a single document, usually a membership application (for instance, the Eastern Association of Baptist Churches, file 32), to the more than fifty years' association revealed by the Montreal Diet Dispensary (file 85). Yet, while the Travellers' Aid Society covers something less than half the chronology of the Diet Dispensary, its six files provide one of the fullest looks at the actual-day-to-day operations of any member in the series. In general, a high proportion of Member Organizations not only feature such related basics as their constitutions, letters patent, by-laws and initial annual reports with financial statements (required to be submitted with applications to the Council); but also correspondence, MCSA special committee reports on the agency or its field of endeavour, and relevant newsletters, brochures or pamphlets. Some also provide copies of their own submissions to government, or Federation and Red Feather Budget Committees.

These are materials published by the Council as such, or independently by its members. With respect to the former, the MCSA issued numerous documents produced in the course of its operations (initially from the New Birks Building, 10 Cathcart Street, and sometimes, also in early days, from no stated location; then from 1421 Atwater Avenue and subsequently its long-standing 1040 Atwater Avenue address). Many of these it listed in a cumulative Index to Publications composed of four chronological·Series· (file 464), nominally starting in 1919 and ending in 1968, though the first actual entry in the Index is dated 1934. The contents of the Publications (MCSA and Member Organizations) Series, however, span 1920 - 1969; and, while they do not comprise every item published by headquarters or members, do reflect those in practice filed as the series title indicates. (The Council routinely published its Annual Reports and the proceedings of Annual Meetings, but these are classified together as a separate series) .

The materials contained in Publications (MCSA and Member Organizations) embrace a range of categories, but prominent are the Commentator and Comment newsletters; service directories and guides; briefs, reports, studies and surveys; and institute, conference and workshop proceedings. Following the Council's usage, many of these materials also appear in other series. While the large majority were published by the MCSA, a few, like Administration of a Chronic Disease Hospital: ' Maimonides Hospital and Home for the Aged (file 1132), Montreal Parks and Playgrounds Association Incorporated: A Half Century of Community Service, 1902-1952 (file 1133), or the collection of articles by the Royal Victoria Hospital's Social Service Department (file 1052), are productions of member organizations.

Series includes files on various McGill University committees from the 1940s to 1972, his notes taken as an undergraduate and graduate student at McGill in the 1930s and as Professor of Chemistry, 1936-1972.