Fonds consists primarily of originals and printed materials concerning courses Coughlin taught in the Library School (1952-1979), and her own graduate studies and research (1958-1975). Her teaching materials comprise lecture notes, supplemented by clippings, articles, and bibliographies, for courses on book selection (including class lists, marks (restricted), a student project and examinations), research methods, and library work with children. Material stemming from her graduate studies comprises two papers submitted for her M.A., and two unrevised copies of her D.L.S. thesis on Canadian public library services. Her continuing interest in public libraries in Canada generated a series of research files of notes, photocopies and clippings (1961-1975).
This collection consists of letters and documents collected by Smith while acting as correspondent of "The Standard" during the Russo-Japanese war, 1904. Included are several communications from the Japanese General Staff.
Fonds contains the notebook kept by Walker Herbert Drury of his bacteriology laboratories while a student at McGill University, from 1906 to 1908, but mainly 1906.
The fonds includes a copy of No. 3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill), 1914-1919 owned by Walter de M. Scriver and ephemera relating to Canadian General Hospital No. 3. It also contains a handwritten poem entitled "Tune of T'anks," composed by Scriver for his family and dated France, 1915.
The fonds derive from his active work in associations and at McGill University and consists of correspondence, minutes and agendas of meetings, reports and documents with various professional associations and committees, showing his involvement and interest in meteorology and physics. At the University, his correspondence is mainly for the University administration (1967-1969), the Physics Department, the McGill Associations of McGill Teachers (1968-1969) and the Visiting Committee (1967-1969). Included are his physics notes and laboratory reports as a student at the University of Toronto, student photographs, laboratory notebooks in Physics and Mathematics, teaching aids consisting of transparencies and notes for lectures, reprints and drafts of his writings mainly about hailstorms, the ozone and weather radar (1951-1986). The collection also contains group portraits of the Physics Department at McGill and University of Toronto. In addition, there are Dr. Hitschfeld's notes on experiments and observations, including photographs, on radar (1950's), tornadoes (1955) and the ozone (1960's). Films of scientific experiments also form part of the funds.
The fonds contains the personal and business papers of Walter H. Smith, 1849-1895. It includes diaries, poetry, accounts, and papers concerned with a variety of topics including transportation, immigration, and the Chicago Exhibition, 1893.
The fonds consists of one 9 x 12" (23 x 30.5 cm) envelope containing a box of lecture tickets, testimonials and receipts collected by Dr. Walter J. McInnes MD 1865. The cards were issues between 1862 and 1865 and as is customary, they contain certification of Dr. McInnes' attendance and his assistance in a number of courses.
Booth's autobiographical notes, ca 1949, apparently prepared for a Congregational Yearbook, are supplemented by sixteen photographs, printed notices of Booth's performances as an elocutionist, and diplomas.
"Architectural Drawings, 1910-1, 21 drawings." The drawings document, through plans and elevations, Painter's addition to Windsor Station in Montreal. Also included are copies of plans for the original building constructed between 1880 and 1890.
"Dessins architecturaux, 1910-1911, 21 dessins." Les dessins rendent compte, par des plans et des élévations, de l'annexe conçue par Painter à la gare Windsor de Montréal. Signalons également des copies des plans de l'immeuble original construit entre 1880 et 1890.
