The fonds contains fourteen notebooks kept by the Poisson family during their studies in medicine. The notebooks contain lecture notes and class notes on various topics in medicine taught by prominent professors such as, Jean Étienne and L. Landry, L. Simard, F.A.H. Larue, and J. Sewell.

Fonds consists of working files, office files, galley proofs, and other materials related to the operations of the Porcupine's Quill Press.

Fonds consists of an album of chiefly scenic postcards. Roughly half depict the western regions of Canada and the United States, including: Los Angeles, Pasadena, and San Francisco, California; Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia; the Rockies; and Medicine Hat, Alberta. Other Canadian locations are represented including Ontario and Saskatchewan. European postcards make up roughly the second half of the postcards and are mostly from England, with some from Paris. A couple postcards feature cartoons or humourous scenes. One photographic postcard features kittens and there is one Christmas-themed postcard. Some of the postcards appear to have been sent between members of the Francis family of Headingley, Manitoba, including Lester Francis, Etta Francis, and Russel Francis.

The Post-Graduate Students' Soceity of McGill University (PGSS) fonds consists of the corporate records, including correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, pamphlets, and other administrative records from 1960-2011.

Industrial laboratory. -- --1 Drawing: 1 pencil on paper -- --1 Development drawing: offices -- --

Ice house, wood shed, tool shed and potting room; wood; wall bearing. -- --9 Drawings: 2 ink on linen; 1 pencil on paper; 5 watercolour on paper; 1 blueprint -- --1 Survey drawing: site plan --5 Development drawings: floor plans, elevations --3 Working drawings: floor plans, elevations, sections -- -- --

These are the papers of the Secretary-Treasurer for the period 1892-1955. They cover his financial and administrative activities, but do not include the Commission's official minutes, or records of individual schools. Financial records include assessment rolls, 1903-1925, a ledger of tax assessments and payments, 1911-1914, statements of revenue and expenditures, 1900-1910, 1918-1924, and a cash book, 1936-1943. Administrative functions are documented by correspondence files. Correspondents include the provincial Department of Public Instruction, the City of Lachine, teachers, banks, commercial firms involved in school maintenance, suppliers, other school boards, and parents. The emphasis throughout is on financial matters, personnel, and school buildings, with some material on curriculum, use of schools by outside groups, and student activities.

This collection of original documents concerning Protestant education in Quebec was assembled by E.I. Rexford for his history of the High School of Montreal. The bulk of this material dates from the 1830s and 1840s, and includes a 300 page report on the Jesuit Estates, 1839, a summary of educational legislation, 1838, grammar school returns from Canada West, 1842, and a number of surveys and accounts.

The fonds documents Purdy A. MacDonald's activities as a medical student at McGill University. The fonds contains student notebooks, loose notes and hand-outs.

Two general orders of the British Army's Forces in North America that are related to two fires that occurred in Quebec City on 28 May 1945 and 28 June 1845. The general orders contain reports detailing the sequence of events leading up to and during the fires, as well as the actions of the soldiers fighting the fires, and the damaged caused by the flames. The orders also include messages of thanks to the soldiers and their commanding officers from community leaders. Major-General James A. Hope was in command of the soldiers at Quebec City and submitted the reports to the Commander-in-Chief, the Duke of Wellington.