This file contains a legal agreement between Sir Herbert Holt et al and J.W. McConnell dated 1917. The agreement is in regard to the release and discharge of payments made against a sale made by R.H. Barron in 1917.

Heavy cotton dinner cards with attached pencil. Embossed with “McC[?], November Nineteenth 1937”. From Birks. All blank inside. Blue and silver on ivory.

This item consists of the minutes of the general meetings of the St. Lawrence Sugar Refineries, Ltd. for 1912-1941.

This file contains a typed and signed copy of the convocation address written by Stanley B. Frost to present Peter Marshall Laing an honorary doctorate in Law from McGill University.

This file contains information and income tax returns for the 1948 year on the Gift Trusts established for the children of John Wilson McConnell (Wilson Griffith, John Griffith, Kathleen Griffith, and David Griffith). The statements include gross and net incomes as well as any allowable deductions and statements of investments. Also contains audited statements produced by Creak, Cushing and Hodgson accountants.

This file contains one interim report on the teaching hospitals of McGill University 1949. The report was prepared at the request of the Joint Hospital Committee in order to examine the hospital programme needs of English Montreal. The report also includes diagrams illustrating possible services and population distribution.

Cartoon satirizing the members of the 1918 Victory Loan Committee. Includes a frame of J.W. McConnell procuring loan funds from the City of Montreal.

This item consists of handwritten tallies of company shares promoted by McConnell. Companies promoted include the Winnipeg Paint and Glass Company, Wood Products Company of Canada Limited, and the British Canadian Asbestos Company.

This bundle contains miscellaneous correspondence from friends and business associates dated from 1898-1901 as well as one letter from Rev. Thomas Griffith, J.W. McConnell’s father-in-law, to his daughters Agnes and Lily, McConnell’s future wife.

This diary contains an account of the European tour taken by J.W. McConnell’s father-in-law, Reverend Thomas Griffith in 1887. Rev. Griffith’s descriptions cover the ocean crossing on the Dominion as well as travels in Preston, Ulverston, Glasgow and Edinburgh, Brussels, Cologne, Paris and then again London.