La collection Ralph Whims contient de la documentation sur l'histoire des Noirs à Montréal; le Negro Community Centre; Union United Church, le Colored Women’s Club; The Red Feather et la Welfare Federation; Porteurs de wagons-lits; les Elks; le film documentaire Show Girls; et Jazz à Montréal.

La collection comprend des articles et des coupures de presse; photographies; affiches, brochures et programmes; livres et magazines; et une vidéocassette.

La collection Ralph Whims est divisée en 4 séries :
C012 / A Documents textuels
C012 / B Photographies
C012 / C Livres
C012 / D Images en mouvement

The Black Theater Workshop fonds is composed of materials created and compiled by the Black Theater Workshop (BTW) and contains materials documenting the activities and operations of the BTW from its founding in 1972 to 2016. Textual records and other materials document the BTW's administration, finances, awards, plays, programming, promotional activities, communications, and facilities, among other things. Documents are also reflective of the BTW's contributions to Montreal’s Black communities and to theater in Canada.

The fonds is divided into the following series :
F034/A Administration
F034/B Financial records
F034/C External relations
F034/D Productions / Programming

The fonds is composed of financial documents, grant applications, board meeting minutes, reports, play scripts, newspapers and newspaper clippings, promotional material, correspondence; graphic materials such as photographs, posters, logos, drawings, sound recordings, moving images, and some objects, among others.

Le fonds documente la scène des orchestres de danse et de musique de jazz des années 1930 aux années 1980, surtout à Montréal. C'est une source de documentation de grande valeur sur le bebop, style musical de jazz qui emergeat dans les années 1940 et sur l'Association des musiciens séniors et de l'orchestre qui en est issu.

Le fonds comprend de la musique publiée et manuscrite, incluant les arrangements de Herb Johnson; de la correspondance personnelle; des livres et des articles sur les techniques du saxophone et de la clarinette; des livres et des articles sur les arrangements, les harmonies et d'autres facettes de la musique; des photographies; des carnets de notes; des documents financiers personnels; des programmes, des coupures de presse et d'autres souvenirs; des magazines. Le fonds inlcut des enregistrements sonores ainsi que des objets comme des cartables de musique, des mouchoirs de poche et une valise pour les disques. Il y a aussi des documents liés aux activités syndicales du musicien comme de la correspondance, des documents financiers, des documents de fondation, la constitution, les règlements, des questionnaires, des bulletins de vote, des agendas, des procès-verbaux et des carnets d'adresse.

Le fonds est organisé selon les séries et sous-séries suivantes:

P088/1 Correspondents
P088/1A Family and friends
P088/1B Music colleagues
P088/1C Personal business correspondents
P088/2 Personal files
P088/2A Personal interests and personal affairs
P088/2B Music industry
P088/2C Music technique
P088/2D Photographs
P088/3 Union activity
P088/3A Musicians' Guild of Montreal
P088/3B Senior Musicians' Association
P088/4 Print and manuscript music
P088/5 Technique books, manuals, tutors, methods
P088/6 Magazines and promotional literature
P088/7 Collection of sound recordings
P088/7A Privately recorded sound recordings
P088/7B Commercial sound recordings

Le fonds Leon Llewellyn documents la vie et la carrière de Leon Llewellyn. De manière significative, le fonds est composé de documentation relative à la communauté noire anglophone de Montréal, incluant les activités et les fonctions de diverses organisations communautaires noires, y compris, mais sans s'y limiter, le Negro Community Centre/Charles H. Este Cultural Centre; le Centre d'études noires; le Conseil québécois des éducateurs noirs; la Black Community Central Administration of Quebec; le Conseil de la communauté noire du Québec; la Coalition nationale des Noirs du Canada; l’Association de la communauté noire de Côte-des-Neiges; l’Association de la communauté noire de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce; le Projet de développement de la communauté noire de Côte-des-Neiges; le Black Theater Workshop ; l’Association des artistes noirs ; la Société de photographie noire de Montréal; Union United Church; la Black Action Party; le National Black Coalition Institute of Research in the Black Experience; le Congrès national des femmes noires ; le Black Community Communications Media; Black Is! ; le Negro Theater Arts Club; le Revue Théâtre; l’Association des travailleurs noirs ; Black Youth Radio; et le Black Youth Television Workshop. Des documents liés à la Concordia Student Union; le Concordia University's Black Student Union; le McGill Black Student Union, la Caribbean Students' Society of McGill University; et le Black Students' Association du Collège Champlain se retrouvent également dans ce fonds. De plus, ce fonds contient divers numéros d'importants journaux et magazines communautaires, y compris, mais sans s'y limiter, Uhuru; Focus Umoja ; Focus Magazine; Afro-Can ; Afro-canadien; Contrast; The Black Voice; Montréal Camera; Community Contact; The Montreal Challenger; The Montreal Oracle; African Awakener; Canadian Tribune; Voice of Montreal; et The Black : A Canadian Journal of Self Expression. Le fonds contient également des documents liés à la publication du livre "Journey into Our Caribbean Past" d'Eric Llewellyn.
Le fonds Leon Llewellyn est composé d'une grande variété de documents textuels et graphiques, y compris des photographies, des négatifs, des planches-contacts, des croquis et des dessins, des cartes de souhaits, des journaux, des magazines, de la correspondance, des rapports, des procès-verbaux et des ordres du jour, des bulletins, des invitations, des dépliants, des brochures, des affiches, des documents financiers, des programmes et des programmes d'études, parmi beaucoup d'autres. Le fonds contient également quelques objets.
Le fonds Leon Llewellyn est divisé en trois séries :
F032/A Organismes et événements communautaires
F032/B Journaux et magazines communautaires
F032/C Documents personnels

Le fonds Maurice Tynes contient du matériel iconographique et textuel documentant le service de Maurice Tynes dans les Forces armées canadiennes.

Le fonds contient quatre photographies en noir et blanc et deux documents textuels.

Le fonds se compose de documents recueillis ou créés durant la production du documentaire Show Girls de l'Office national du film du Canada. Il porte sur la scène du jazz montréalaise des années 1920 aux années 1960 et fait la chronique de la vie de trois femmes, Tina Baines Brereton, Bernice Jordan Whims et Olga Spencer Foderingham, qui ont fait partie de chorus lines dans des boîtes de nuit comme Rockhead's Paradise, The Terminal et le Café St-Michel.

Le fonds comprend des notes de recherche, des séquences inédites, des vidéocassettes, des transcriptions d'entrevues avec les protagonistes du film, des enregistrements sonores d'entrevues de différentes sources, des plans d'archives, des listes de plans, des coupures de presse de publicités des boîtes de nuit, des livres de référence et des copies VHS du documentaire.

Le fonds Norman Marshall Villeneuve documente la carrière de Norman Marshall Villeneuve en tant que musicien de jazz. Il contient également des documents relatifs à d'autres musiciens de jazz canadiens et américains. Les documents de ce fonds sont datés entre 1946 et 2016, la majorité des documents datant des années 1960 aux années 1980. La plupart du matériel a été créé à Toronto, en Ontario, et à Montréal, au Québec.

Le fonds comprend des coupures de journaux, des photographies, des affiches, des programmes, des magazines, des dessins et des notes.

Le fonds est organisé selon les séries suivantes :
F022/A Coupures de journaux et magazines
F022/B Photographies
F022/C Affiches
F022/D Correspondance
F022/E Notes

Le fonds est constitué de photographies évoquant les moments où Tina Brereton dansait dans des spectacles accompagnés de musique de jazz au Café St-Michel, à Montréal durant les années 1940.

The materials in the fonds document Vernon Isaac’s life as a jazz musician and the Canadian jazz scene of the 1970s to 1990s. The fonds also contains information about Vernon Isaac’s family.

The fonds includes personal documents, photographs of Vernon Isaac’s family, friends and other performers, press clippings, programs, posters, commemorative plaques, and sound and audiovisual recordings of Vernon Isaac.

The fonds is organized into the following series:
P0228/A. Textual records
P0228/B. Scrapbooks, photo albums and other graphic material
P0228/C Audio-visual material
P0228/D Objects

Le fonds du Black Community Resource Centre (BCRC) fournit des informations sur l'administration, les finances, les projets, les services et les activités du BCRC depuis sa création en 1992 jusqu'en 2021. Le fonds comprend également une vaste documentation sur plusieurs partenariats entre le BCRC et d'autres organisations avec lesquelles il s'est associé dans le cadre de divers programmes et ateliers.

Le fonds du Black Community Resource Centre se compose principalement de documents textuels qui détaillent le processus administratif de l'organisation et les activités quotidiennes du BCRC. Le fonds contient des accords de partenariat, des procès-verbaux, des ordres du jour, des bulletins d'information, de la correspondance, des rapports annuels, des documents financiers, des évaluations de projets, des diapositives de présentations et des descriptions de postes de travail, entre autres documents administratifs. Aussi, le fonds comprend des photographies, des affiches et du matériel promotionnel pour plusieurs événements et programmes offerts par le BCRC et d'autres organisations, y compris aussi le Programme de préparation à l'école, le Bureau des bénévoles, House of King and Queens, et le festival A Taste of the Caribbean (Goût des Caraïbes). Il contient également de la documentation de recherche et d'autres documents conservés par le BCRC pour être utilisés dans son centre de ressources.

The Graeme Clyke fonds consists of materials created and accumulated by Graeme Baxter Clyke related to the Negro Community Centre (NCC), Union United Church, Royal Arthur School, Little Burgundy, and Saint-Henri. Photographs showcase programs and activities offered at NCC, including dance and music lessons, arts and crafts, wood working, sports, summer camps, and games. They also depict NCC staff, including but not limited to Stanley Clyke, Emily Clyke, Lawrence Sitahal, Daisy Peterson Sweeney, Martha Griffiths, and Mrs. Palmas. Photographs also show the interior and exterior of the NCC, Union United Church, Royal Arthur School, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A.). They also depict many other buildings around Little Burgundy and Saint-Henri. Students and teachers at the NCC and Royal Arthur School appear throughout the photographs, as do members of the Union United Church. Textual records in the fonds consist of those documenting the administration of the NCC, including its programs, activities, and services, and the memorial service of Roy States.

The Graeme Clyke fonds is divided into 4 series:
• F027/A Negro Community Centre
• F027/B Union United Church
• F027/C Royal Arthur School
• F027/D Little Burgundy and Saint-Henri

The Black Studies Centre fonds contains materials documenting the administration, services, and activities of the Black Studies Centre from its beginnings as the National Black Coalition Quebec Institute of Research until 2014. The fonds also documents the Centre’s role within Montreal’s Black communities, as well as its relationships to other organizations working within and outside Montreal. In addition, the Black Studies Centre fonds is an important source of reference documentation pertaining to the history, culture, and contributions of Black communities in Canada: it contains a rich collection of newspapers, periodicals, and books, dating from 1969 to 2012, including but not limited to copies of Contrast (1969-1999), Community Contact (1998-2008), Afro-Can (1981-1984), Focus Umoja (1974-1978), Uhuru (1969-1970), and Umoja (1969-1970, 1990), as well as books that were previously held in the collection of the Black Studies Centre’s Library.

The fonds is divided into the following series:
F034/A Administration
F034/B Financial records
F034/C External relations
F035/D Programming and Services
F035/E Research
F035/F Reference documentation

The Black Studies Centre fonds contains, among other documents, meeting minutes, agendas, reports, policies, correspondence, letters patent, statistics, photographs, architectural plans, deeds of sale, insurance policies, permits, contracts, agreements, organizational charts, resumes, job descriptions, lists, financial documents, grant applications, brochures, by-laws, directories, newspapers and newspaper articles, press releases, newsletters, leaflets, flyers, invitations, catalogs, notes, index cards, moving images, sound recordings, posters, biographies, schedules, attendance records, stories, poems, song texts, drawings, forms, costumes, research papers, bibliographies, bibliographic records, interview transcripts, reproductions of historical documents, speeches, summaries of newspaper articles, accession records, subscriptions, a guest book, books, magazines, periodicals, and a musical instrument.

The Desmond Rupert Adams fonds consists of personal, family, and studio photographs including studio portraits, commercial assignments and personal explorations. The majority of the photographs are portraits. Some photographs depict Expo '67, the Olympic games in Montreal 1976, and street life in Montreal.

The fonds contains a variety of photographic formats, art works, and exhibition prints. There are photo albums, some audio-visual documents and some studio client files.

The Negro Community Centre/Charles H. Este Cultural Centre fonds contains records relating to the operation of the Negro Community Centre/Charles H. Este Cultural Centre. It contains textual records and other materials documenting the mission; structure; administration; building and facilities; and programs and services offered at the Centre, dating from its founding in the late 1920s until it ceased its operations. The fonds also contains materials dating to after the closure of the Centre.

The fonds documents the history of the Negro Community Centre/Charles H. Este Cultural Centre, its role in Little Burgundy and the greater Montreal area, and its relationships to other organizations, including but not limited to the Coloured Women's Club of Montreal; Union United Church; Red Feather Services; Federated Appeal of Greater Montreal; and Centraide. The fonds also includes documentation related to the Walker Credit Union and Afro-Can. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is also mentioned in the documentation.

The Negro Community Centre/Charles H. Este Cultural Centre fonds includes a wide variety of textual records, including but not limited to administrative records; ledgers and other financial records; correspondence; board and committee meeting minutes and related records; reports; calendars, flyers, posters, descriptions and other documentation relating to programs, services, and events taking place at the Centre; photographic materials, including prints and negatives; architectural drawings and plans; clothing; and ephemera.

The Velma Weeks Barker collection contains materials related to the life and contributions of Velma Weeks Barker.

This collection contains photographs and textual records. The personal photographs that comprise the collection show Weeks Barker and her family and include photographs taken in Little Burgundy and inside community spaces, including Union United Church. Many of the images were also taken in family spaces. The textual records include newspaper clippings referring to activities occurring at the Negro Community Centre and the Negro Theater Guild. This collection also contains materials related to her husband, Darnley Cecil Barker, including information about his participation in the Canadian Army and his immigration from Barbados to Canada to serve.

The Velma Weeks Barker collection includes the following items:

• 35 photographs
• 1 honorary degree certificate (Concordia University)
• 1 marriage certificate (Union United Church)
• 6 newspaper clippings
• 1 letter

It also includes the following material, which belonged to her husband Darnley Cecil Barker:

• 1 army discharge certificate
• 3 soldier's pay book
• 1 certificate of Canadian citizenship
• 1 tradesman qualifications certificate
• 1 discharge certificate from the Canadian Army