Includes notes and observations on voyages in the South Atlantic and East Indies including directions for navigating the Straits of Banquey and other passages (1801), notes on the Cape of Good Hope (1796) and St.Helena (1805).

File contains manuscript (incomplete) by Captain George Vancouver, with correspondence from Henri Masson. The manuscript is titled, "Abridgement of part of a Voyage of Discovery round the World by Captain Vancouver Performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, & 1794 by order of his Majesty Regarding the North West Coast of America." Apparently copied by Duncan McGillivray, whose initials appear at the bottom of the Memorandum (page 2). This document is comprised of extracts of the original work titled, "A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world," published in 1798.

File consists of manuscript leaves previously bound with MSG 432-4, a letter book of correspondence signed alternately William Grant, William Grant & Co., Grant & Laframboise, or C. Laframboise. Leaves are of laid paper written in a variety of hands. Addressees of letters include Augustin Choteau, Stanbridge & Tagg, Brickwood & Daniell, John Blackwood, and McTavish, Fraser, & Co. Some letters include goods (for example, types of furs) and calculations. Dates of letters range from August 1798 to March 1800.

File consists of a bound manuscript letter book, missing preliminary leaves found in MSG 432-3. The letter book contains copies of correspondence signed alternately William Grant, William Grant & Co., Grant & Laframboise, or C. Laframboise. Leaves are of laid paper written in a variety of hands. Addressees of letters include Blackwood & Patterson, John Lean & Co., Brickwood & Daniell, and Thomas Coffin. Some letters include goods (for example, types of furs) and calculations. Dates of letters range from March 1800 to August 1801. The letter book was used also as a scrapbook, with transfer of ink and residue of printed pages stuck to leaves and four final leaves at end of letter book containing cut-out images pasted in. Two leaves towards the end contain accounting information and another two leaves contain a recipe for ginger beer, a poem, and a remedy for curing diseases of fruit and forest trees.

File contains a series of outgoing correspondence written by James McGill between 1802-1807. Several documents also feature the signature of Isaac Todd. These letters were sent to, among others:

• John Askin
• John Brickwood Jun.
• John Paterson
• Ann McGill (sister)
• Margaret McGill (sister)
• Isaac Todd

Agreement between Antoine Lefebvre dit Bellefeuille and Jacques-Philippe de Saint-Ours concerning claim by latter to succession rights in Cournoyer.

This file contains typed and handwritten documents. Includes handwritten note about the hearing of the charter of McGill College on June 24, 1829.

File contains six documents relating to the estate of Simon McTavish, for which Henry McKenzie was the executor

File includes 2 letters addressed to Jacob Oldham and Messrs. Mackenzie, Oldham & Co. from Pangman at his manor Grace Hall in Mascouche. In the letter dated 1804, Pangman orders goods from Oldham (green rave, bread and veal) and asks to have the amount put on his account. In the second letter, he denies accusations of "dispersions" and disrespects made by an unidentified individual as reported to him in a letter from Mackenzie, Oldham & Co. and briefly mentions losing an amount of money and wanting to deliberate on whether to pay another sum.

File contains 18 pages of the articles of agreement for the creation of the House of McTavish Frobisher & Company.