Series 3 - Professional Activities Series

3 meters of textual records and other material.
(Note: Includes 1,500 slides, 11 audio tapes and 10 photographs)

This series documents Alice Johannsen's activities as preservationist, conservationist, lecturer, member of various professional organizations and conservation groups, tour organizer, speaker and writer.

A large part of the series are files that document Alice's involvement in various conservation and interpretative associations (Association of Canadian Interpreters, that later changed its name into Interpretation Canada, Association quebecoise d'interpretation du patrimoine, Conseil consultatif de l'environnement, Conseil de la conservation de l'environnement and le conseil quebecois), (Files 281-353, 384). These files span from 1970 to 1990 and consist of information on annual workshops, minutes and agendas of meetings, reports, memoranda, Alice's notes, pamphlets, correspondence, financial statements, directories and membership lists, policies, bylaws and legislation, newsletters, journals, newspaper clippings, maps, and slides. This series also reflect Alice's interest in crafts (Files 354-355) and date between 1934 and 1976.

Alice participation in many naturalists societies is reflected in files from the following organizations; (Files 380, 383, 385-402) National Audubon Society, Morgan Arboretum Association, Nature Conservancy of Canada, Canadian Nature Federation, Catherine Trail Naturalist Club, Montreal Zoological Society and Friends of Rock Ridges Nature Trail. These files date between 1943 and 1989 and consist of correspondence, minutes and agendas of meetings, newsletters, reports, photographs and newspaper clippings. She was also involved in various interpretative plans for provincial parks, Lake Carmin (Lac Rouge) project from 1950 to 1982 (Files 403-415, 676), and outdoor folk museums in Scandinavia and Canada from 1936 to 1968 (Files 416-423). The files contain reports, brochures, correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, and some files are documented by slides.

Alice Johannsen also organized a number of educational tours (Files 424-434) in Norway as well as tours in South America, mainly Galapagos, and also Ecuador, Peru, Columbia and the Andes. Some of the tours are documented by slides (Files 683-701). These files date between 1968 and 1985 and contain Alice's notes, pamphlets, correspondence and itineraries.

These files document Alice's involvement giving courses in zoology, biology, library and museum training and environment as well as extension courses to high school and university students, museum and camp group leaders, and also to the public. The files date from 1920 to 1970 and consist of notes, correspondence, pamphlets, maps and slides. Educational programs she herself organized or information she collected on such programs elsewhere documents her education activities (Files 435-470), 647-650, 714). The files from the years 1929 to 1981 consist of Alice's notes, correspondence, pamphlets, handouts, and some contain slides.

Alice Johannsen's role as a popular speaker is shown by numerous lectures and speeches on a variety of subjects to a wide range of audiences from small children, to high school and university students, members of various associations and societies, women's clubs and conferences (Files 471-571, 674, 739). The files ranging from 1928 to 1985 contain mostly Alice's handwritten notes as well as correspondence, and some of her lectures are accompanied by slides.

Alice also wrote and published a number of articles. Some of her drafts and published work are shown in this series (Files 572-596) including notes and correspondence and covering the years between 1936 and 1987. Her articles deal mainly with museum related subjects.

These Gault Estate administrative files consist mainly of correspondence, memoranda, news release, projects, reports and surveys, and Alice's notes dating between 1957 and 1981 (Files 597-605).

Alice also collected material on various nature subjects and created information files, 1892 to 1984. (Files 606-629).

Also part of this series are Alice's reel-to-reel tapes and some transcript documenting her museum activities and training courses from 1956 to 1969 (Files 630-646). The transcripts do not, however, correspond to the titles on the tapes.

Alice's photographic activities are documented by color slides. Some of the titles clearly indicate to which files they relate. Some, however, are slides dealing with various topics but it is not evident to which files they correspond. There are a number ofslides documenting life and activities in Mont St. Hilaire (File 651-666) dating from 1964 to 1984. Some slides from years between 1969 and 1975 show nature scenes, animal and plant life that could also be used for Alice's numerous speeches and lectures (Files 667-670, 677). Alice also lectured on the life in the Andes and Galapagos, Iceland, volcanoes, glaciers and earth that are all accompanied by slides (Files 678-682, 702, 705) from 1965 to 1985. Some slides ranging from 1961 to 1978 show parks (Gatineau Park, Mont Tremblant Park, Iles de la Madeleine and Algonquin Park) and others are general views of nature settings, chiefly in Normal America. (Files 396, 428, 509, 516, 534, 542, 553, 559, 563, 621 and 738).