With surviving records dating from 1936, Administrative Records reveals much of the practical functioning of the MCSA at the executive level as to day-to-day business and to some extent also in matters of longer term policy. In files typically spanning anything from a year to a decade or more, it documents executive supervision of the four Sections -- Case Work; Group Work and Recreation; Health; and Older Persons -- and the standing and special committees appointed by the Board of Directors (formerly Governors) and their Executive Committee. The heaviest of any series in correspondence, Administrative Records contain a high percentage of the communications of the President (who also served as the Chairman of the Board), the Executive and Assistant Executive Director, the Secretary and the Board of Directors variously with other officials, committees, and member organizations and their delegates to the Council.

It also holds reports, briefs, and minutes generated by external welfare agencies or internally by MCSA members and submitted to the executive (i.e., the Directors). But the Board of Directors also produced their own minutes, memoranda and reports, some of which survive in this series. The correspondence, policy statements and working papers in Administrative Records reveal the MCSA's over-all direction, perhaps never more so than in the late 1960s and early 1970s wherein along with the Committees Series they detail connections and merger negotiations with the Conseil des Oeuvres and then the Conseil de Developpement Social. In thus chronicling the transformation of an established, autonomous English-speaking institution into, first, an increasingly bilingual and then a French-as-official-language one (albeit with a provision for other language service to anglophone or allophone agencies and clientele), they reflect QueQec nationalist pressures in the wider society about them.

The series provides a main link with universities (most signally the long-standing affiliation with the McGill School of Social Work); Montreal, Canadian and Quebec governments; and such varied bodies as the Canadian Welfare Council, Association Cooperative d'Economie Familiale, Conseil de Bien-Etre du Quebec, Canadian Mental Health Association, and United Community Funds and Councils of America. Administrative Records likewise act as the medium of liaison with Welfare Federation and United Red Feather Services in regard to pensions, benefits and conditions of employment for paid personnel.

Series consists of minute books for meetings held between 1991 and 2010.

This series is composed of photographs relating to Sharma and other prominent figures in his life, which include Ingeleier Kemp Asen and Caroline Coombes. Most of the photographs of Sharma are from his academic endeavours.

Series consists of Sharma’s personal correspondence (to friends, acquaintances, family); professional correspondence (to universities, publishers, journals, academics, critics); and correspondence of an ephemeral nature (letters of thanks, invitation, seasonal greetings). This series also includes several untranslated letters which did not have identifiable handwriting or dates.

This series documents Sharma’s public addresses such as speeches and includes, but is not limited to, confirmations of participation, promotional pieces used to inform the participation of Arvind Sharma in the panel of participants, schedules, questions to be answered by Sharma, program booklets, promotional material of events Sharma participated in, interviews, and inaugural addresses.

This series documents Sharma’s teaching activities and contains courses, syllabuses and reviews for courses given at the University of Sidney (1980), McGill University (1992, 2008-2009).

This series documents the writing activities of Sharma between 1962 and 2015. It includes published works, unpublished works and working material, used as background.

This series documents Sharma’s personal life including academic pursuits, recommendation letters, objects, gifts, travel records, financial records, personal documentation and a selection of miscellaneous items.

Series consists of other files related to research, including correspondence and maps.

The series consists of research files on studies in social evolution with special reference to the Hebrews.