Report on 2013 membership survey for CHLA.

The series consists of records created in the fulfilment of the Zoological Society’s mandate and goals to host events, trips, speakers, and to donate to and support worthy causes. This includes event and project planning records with related financial documents and reports, guest lists, communications to members, and correspondence. A large part of this series is concerned with the Society’s whale watching excursions and their whale conservation efforts. These files include an annual pamphlet called Whales Alive! = les Baleines!, flyers, newspaper advertisements and published articles, all promoting whale watching field trips. Others include donations, correspondence, and financial documents relating to issues surrounding conservation. Other types of activities covered in this series are field trips (primarily around Quebec but also a few internationally), film screenings (known as theatre nights), art shows, fundraisers and lectures. The field trips and some events of the Society are documented in 5193 photographs stored in 24 photo albums (1989-2009). Apart from events, projects undertaken by the Society are included, such as their efforts to build a wildlife park in Montreal’s West Island, the conservation of owls, lynxes, birds, turtles and flowers, and their wildlife pavilion at Man and His World.
There are large gaps in the Activities series. The Society’s founding project, the Montreal Aquarium and Dolphin Arena, and their proposal for an ark at Expo ’67 are only included briefly in these records. For more information on these projects, see the Administration series files MSG1164.c5.f11, f12, f13. Also, there are few photos documenting the Society’s activities before 1989.

Copies of newspaper and journal articles and books recognizing Boyd's contributions. Also contains publications highlighting Boyd's work from the Centerline journal of the Governor's Traffic Safety Coordinating Committee for the State of Illinois, the American College of Surgeons, and the McGill Faculty of Medicine. Includes 3 photographs and a handwritten card relating Boyd's recognition by the Faculty of Medicine at McGill.

File consists chiefly of handwritten and typescript speaking notes and lectures for talks on historical Quebec cuisine given to, among others, the Northern Bounty conference. Talk titles include "The Quebec sweet tooth" and "The rise of the printed word." Also included are research materials (including clippings) for talks and some correspondence.

File related to the Bewick Society and the Coles' membership, including yearly membership cards, annual general meeting agendas and reports, the Society's constitution, event programmes, correspondence with Society secretary and other members, and other ephemera related to Society events.