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William Campbell James Meredith Fonds

  • CA MUA MG4057
  • Fonds
  • 1927-approximately 1950

Meredith's papers relate almost exclusively to his professional, philanthrophic and leisure activities prior to his appointment as Dean of Law. The largest series comprises correspondence files (1927-1945) dealing with his professional expenses, memberships, insurance, investments, and personal finances. Other professional papers include files on the survey of the Legal Profession in Canada 1945-1946, and an address to the Junior Bar Association on automobile accident law (1945). The philanthropic aspect of his work is documented by files on the Inns of Court Fund, 1947-1948; and particularly on Bishop's University, of which Meredith was a trustee, 1943-1950. Meredith was chairman of the Québec Committee, the Selwyn House School Association, 1945-1948. Correspondence regarding amateur radio licencing, transmission, and equipment reflects Meredith's favourite hobby, 1945-1947. The only material relating to his teaching career is an introductory lecture to first-year students entitled "The Legal Profession".

Meredith, William Campbell James, 1904-1960

William Abbott Fonds

  • CA MUA MG4042
  • Fonds
  • 1824-1825

Six manuscript sermons were composed by Abbott in 1824-1825 but, as annotations indicated, delivered on a number of occasions thereafter.

Abbott, William, 1799-1859

Walter Francis Hitschfeld Fonds

  • CA MUA MG4105
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1986

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.

Hitschfeld, Walter, 1922-1986

Vincent M. Jolivet Fonds

  • CA MUA MG4039
  • Fonds
  • 1950

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).

Jolivet, Vincent M., 1930-

University Club Fonds

  • CA MUA MG4035
  • Fonds
  • 1885-1889

The Club's minute book records special meetings, annual general meetings, monthly meetings and committee meetings.

University Club

Trenholme-Ward Family Fonds

  • CA MUA MG3066
  • Fonds
  • 1852, approximately 1907

These papers comprise Lydia Trenholme's Normal School diploma, and a manuscript map of Senneville (ca 1907) showing land-holdings. The lakeshore property marked 'JKW' probably belonged to J.K. Ward.

Trenholme-Ward family

Thomas Simpson Fonds

  • CA MUA MG3096
  • Fonds
  • 1849-1903

Simpson's papers contain personal records, student materials, and lectures delivered by him. The personal materials consist of a file of letters of appointment to the Indian Commission, Bishop's University, the Montreal General Hospital, and various insurance companies, as well as testimonial letters from Robert Craik and G.W. Campbell. Simpson's outgoing letterbook contains copies of correspondence from his Indian Commission period concerning salary, accomodation, medical supplies and other aspects of his work. Included are two diaries. One describes his trip to Europe, 1857-1858, giving quite full descriptions of hospitals and clinics, as well as sight-seeing, in Paris and the British Isles. The second diary, from 1865 to 1903 is less detailed. Finally, there is a file of personal documents, e.g. his birth certificate and instructions concerning his funeral, 1897. Apart from lecture attendance cards, materials from Simpson's student days consist of a notebook for a number of medical courses, 1853-1854. Simpson's teaching career is documented by a lecture on phlebitis, ten lectures on veneral disease, 1878, five on syphilis, 1881 and a convocation address, 1884.

Simpson, Thomas, 1833-1918

Thomas Patton Shaw Fonds

  • CA MUA MG3094
  • Fonds
  • approximately 1906

This typescript paper is entitled "A study of the absorption of fats in infants" by T.P. Shaw and A. Lorne C. Gilday, ca 1906.

Shaw, Thomas Patton, 1872-1929

Thomas Henry Clark Fonds

  • CA MUA MG3055
  • Fonds
  • 1931

Letter from the Royal Ontario Museum concerning J.W. Dawson's The Canadian Ice Age (1931).

Clark, Thomas Henry, 1893-

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