This series contains records of J.W. McConnell, and in some instances additional members of his immediate family, documenting their involvement in numerous fundraising and philanthropic works.

The records were divided into specific subseries (Hospitals and Health Care; Higher Education; War Efforts) to reflect the work of McConnell to meet the different needs of Montreal and communities abroad. The records consist of fundraising correspondence and requests from McConnell, photographs, artefacts, financial reports and statements from the McGill campaign and ephemera related to fundraising including a set of index cards that McConnell used to organize the McGill fundraising campaign. Specific fundraising inititatives include: McGill $5,000,000 Campaign, 1943/1944; Montreal Joint Hospital Campaign, 1927; Victoria Order of Nurses Pension Fund, 1944/1945; Victory Loan Campaign, 1917-1918; ‘Wings for Britain’ Campaign; and McConnell’s personal donation of $1,000,000 to create the McConnell Squadron of Royal Air Force Spitfires, 1941-1946.

This file contains an edition of The Forum, the bulletin for the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. The bulletin is stamped as coming from the office of the president which, during 1944, was J.W. McConnell. Also includes a donation form for the Princess Alice Million Dollar Fund which McConnell led from 1944-1946.

This item consists of negative copies of correspondence to J.W. McConnell and the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, from 1944-1945, during their endowment fundraising campaign, the Princess Alice Million Dollar Fund.

This item consists of negative copies of correspondence to J.W. McConnell and the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, from 1944-1945, during their endowment fundraising campaign, the Princess Alice Million Dollar Fund.

Scene including Mae McKay (wife of Gordon McKay) and Premier Jean Lesage at the opening of the Griffith-McConnell Home for Elderly People.

Scene including opening of the Griffith-McConnell Home for Elderly People, game and television room.

Scene including John G. McConnell in crowd at the dedication of the J.W. McConnell Memorial Wing at the Griffith-McConnell Home for Elderly People.

Scene including Dedication of the J.W. McConnell Memorial Wing at the Griffith-McConnell Home for Elderly People.

Scene including Mae McKay (wife of Gordon McKay), J.W. McConnell Memorial Wing at the Griffith-McConnell Home for Elderly People (John G. McConnell and Lily McConnell in background).