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Charles James Fleet Fonds

  • CA MUA MG3017
  • Fonds
  • [1891?]-1896

Fonds consists of a scrapbook largely devoted to McGill affairs. It contains correspondence addressed both to Fleet and to other members of the McGill community such as B.J. Harrington, C.H. McLeod and A.F. Gault, largely on administrative and ceremonial business of the university. There are a few communications from J.W. Dawson, including Dawson's draft for the Peter Redpath memorial tablet. Also included are newsclippings on McGill events including numerous invitations, announcements,
addresses, programs and memorabilia from convocations, university dinners, athletic meets and musical performances.

Fleet, Charles James

David Nathan Solomon Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 3022
  • Fonds
  • 1974-1976

Fonds contains copies of two essays, “My Life as a Student and Teacher at McGill: 1934-1974 (1974)”, and “Innovation and Personal Strategies: A Study of Work in a New Outpatient Clinic”, co-authored with Anita Heller (1976).

Solomon, David N.

Russel R. Merifield Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4313
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1964

The fonds consists of McGill published materials and memorabilia owned by Russel R. Merifield and Helen Kydd and includes a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings mostly related to football at McGill (1935-1939); annotdated Kappa Alpha Theta Pledge Book (1936); 5 Old McGill yearbooks (1904, 1905, 1907, 1938, 1941); Women Graduates of McGill University, 1888-1939; McGill, a Portal to Greatness by J.W. Jeakins; My Old College by Stephen Leacock; 3 issues of McGill News (vol. 2 no. 4, 1921; vol. 25, no. 1, 1943; vol 31, no. 4, 1950); 2 reunion dinner programmes (1921, 1964); 1 Intercollegiate Football Champions dinner programme (1938); and 2 convocation programmes (1903, 1907).

Merifield, Russel R.

Basil C. MacLean Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4311
  • Fonds
  • undated

The fonds contains memorabilia from Basil C. MacLean's years at McGill University, including Old McGill yearbooks (1925, 1929), McGill knitted button-up sweater, a silverware set with the McGill crest, a small oval silver tray, a silver tureen with lid, 2 pennants and 8 photographs which include the Montreal General Hospital 1927-30, Faculty of Medicine 1926, Alpha Delta Chapter Fraternity, 1924-25 and the McGill Student's Executive Council, 1924-26.

MacLean, Basil C., 1895-1963

Donald J. Beauprie Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4296
  • Fonds
  • approximately 1940-1967

The fonds consists of material related to Donald J. Beauprie's life as a student and alumnus of McGill's Faculty of Dentistry. The records include receipts, correspondence and newspaper clippings related to dentistry (1954-1957); McGill memorabilia and ephemera; correspondence; articles and publications (issues of McGill Daily, Dawson Weekly, McGill News, McGill Dental Review); photographs; and objects (Scarlett Key Crest and Sweater, McGill University Crest, Dawson College T-Shirt, McGill Student Society Award Mug (1955-56), and a McGill Freshie button)

Beauprie, Donald J.

Robert Vogel Fonds

  • CA MUA MG4217
  • Fonds
  • 1934-1994; predominant 1960-1994

Professor Robert Vogel's fonds presents a mixture of his administrative, teaching and research activities from 1952 to 1994. Beside his professorial as well as administrative papers, he collected many supporting documents which helped him carry out different tasks. The series are arranged according to his position as a professor and his different administrative positions at McGill.

The series consist of:

Professor's Papers
Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Science Papers
Chairman of the History Department Papers
Vice-Dean's Papers
Dean's Papers

Vogel, Robert

Howard Irwin Ross Fonds

  • CA MUA MG1012
  • Fonds
  • 1927-1979

Fonds consists of papers (originals and printed materials) falling into three series: speeches; files relating to McGill committees before Ross was Chancellor; and personal and biographical materials.

Apart from formal speeches delivered as Chancellor at the opening of buildings and convocations, Ross's addresses and articles reveal his interest in professional development and research in accountancy and questions of national economic policy. These were written for, or delivered to McGill conferences, meetings of professional organizations of chartered accountants, financial analysts and business executives.

Files on McGill committees contain minutes of the Committee on Fraternities (1959-1962) and of the Committee on Chartered Accountants at McGill (1950-1951).

Ross's biographical files contain degrees and certificates (1927-1977), programmes and other memorabilia from Oxford (ca 1930-1932), news clippings about Ross (ca 1963-1968) and a few items of personal correspondence (1964-1974). His trip to Russia is documented by correspondence, notes and printed materials (1967-1969), and he wrote formal accounts of his journeys to South America and the Far East. A personal financial account book covers the years 1964-1969. These materials are supplemented by obituary clippings and letters about Ross written to his wife after his death (1974-1979).

Ross, Howard Irwin, 1907-

Dorothy Graham McCaig Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4242
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1939

The fonds consists of a Strathcona Prize Plaque from 1939 and a scrapbook compiled by Dorothy Graham McCaig during her time at McGill, 1936-1937. Notably the scrapbook includes news clippings and memorabilia of the Student Peace Protests.

McCaig, Dorothy Graham

Earl Francis Beach Fonds

  • CA MUA MG1018
  • Fonds
  • 1962-1969

These papers concern the work of the committees on which Beach served from 1962 to 1969, and contain correspondence, memoranda, proposals, and reports, mostly for the Academic Policy Committee and the University Libraries Committee.

Beach, Earl Francis

William Massey Birks Fonds

  • CA MUA MG1019
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1948

Three scrapbooks document Birks' involvement with McGill, particularly with the Theological Colleges and the Faculty of Divinity. One contains newspaper clippings and correspondence (1912-1913) concerning the United College of Theology. The second scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and correspondence (1912-1948) on the establishment of the Faculty of Divinity at McGill. The third contains telegrams concerning the appointment of Sir Auckland Geddes as Principal in 1919, as well as newspaper clippings regarding the McGill Fund Campaign (1911) and the Patriotic Fund, (1914-1917). There is also correspondence about church matters and the Joint Theological Colleges and brief accounts of the establishment of the latter, correspondence, minutes, reports, reminiscences and notes document the establishment of the Faculty of Divinity in 1948. There is also a builder's contract and accounts for the Birks building on University Street and a draft fragment of a historical story or novel set in the 14th century about a Richard Birks.

Birks, William Massey, 1868-1950

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