La collection Paul Monty contient des documents liés à l'histoire et aux décisions du Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes (CRTC) dès sa création le 1er avril 1968 jusqu'en 2019. Les documents sont classés par sujet et par question pour faciliter la recherche sur l'histoire de la Politique et réglementation canadiennes de la radiodiffusion.
La collection contient du matériel analogique et numérique concernant la radiodiffusion; les entreprises de distribution de radiodiffusion; la radio; télévision et télécommunications; et les services discrétionnaires.
Les documents comprennent des rapports annuels et d'autres rapports; publications officielles; lois, règlements et décisions; déclarations de politique et politiques; bibliographies; listes; articles de journaux; et discours, entre autres documents.

Le fonds Brian McKenna témoigne d'une grande panoplie d'événements, de personnages et d'actualités du deuxième moitié du vingtième siècle.

Le fonds consiste des matériaux en formats variés accumulés par Brian McKenna au cours de son travail sur des films documentaires et sur d'autres projets pour The Fifth Estate. Le fonds comprend son travail comme réalisateur indépendant de films. Le fonds couvre ses articles et ses livres, et son implication de professeur invité de la bourse Max Bell à l'École de journalisme de l'Université de Regina et son implication avec le Comité pour le Journalisme d'enquête. Le fonds fournit également des informations sur la McKenna Purcell Productions Inc.

Le fonds contient des notes de recherche, des scripts, des manuscrits, des épreuves, du matériel vidéo de base et final, des transcriptions d'entrevues et d'auditions juridiques et des coupures de presse pour la majorité des documentaires et projets de films.

Le fonds est organisé selon les séries suivantes:

P112/A Dossiers personnel et activités étudiantes
P112/B Journaliste
P112/C Implication dans la communauté journalistique
P112/D Communications
P112/E Prix
P112/F Administration et personnel
P112/G Documentaires

La série la plus importante est celle des documentaires P112/G; elle s'organise en ordre alphabétique selon le nom du programme pour lequel chaque film était destiné.

Le fonds témoigne de la gestion et de la croissance d'une poste radiophonique AM et FM à Montréal dès les années 1930 jusqu'aux années 1990, ainsi qu'aux activités professionnelles du propriétaire, Jack Tietolman. Il porte surtout sur l'administration et sur le fonctionnement de la société de portefeuille Radio Futura et des stations radiophoniques CKVL et CKOI. Le fonds témoigne également de l'engagement sociale et communautaire de Jack Tietolman dans de nombreuses associations.

Le fonds comprend principalement des documents administratifs et financiers, des documents portant sur la vente de publicité, et d'autres portant sur la radiodiffusion. Il contient aussi des documents et des objets personnels.

Le fonds regroupe les séries suivantes:

P113/A Documents personnels
P113/B Administration de stations radiophoniques

Le fonds couvre la carrière journalistique de Jacques Trépanier au début des années 1950 et documente principalement la scène artistique montréalaise. Le fonds se compose surtout de coupures de presse de La Patrie, conservées dans deux spicilèges. Plusieurs articles sont des chroniques portant sur les clubs de nuit à Montréal de 1950 à 1954, publiés sous une rubrique intitulée « La Ronde des cabarets ». Le fonds inclut également une quarantaine de photos de presse et quelques pièces de correspondance.

Le fonds porte sur le théâtre de langue française et sur les arts visuels à Montréal entre les années 1950 et les 1980.

Il contient le manuscrit d'un livre non publié sur l'histoire du théâtre francophone au Québec, des manuscrits d'articles et de conférences, des programmes de théâtre, des photographies de théâtre, des coupures de presse et d'autres documents. Par exemple, il y a des dossiers sur des productions théâtrales à Montréal (ex. : Théâtre du Rideau Vert et Théâtre de Quat'sous), sur des auteurs (ex. : Gratien Gélinas et Michel Tremblay) et sur des comédiens (ex. : Denise Pellettier).

Le fonds Magnus Isacsson documente la vie et l'œuvre de Magnus Isacsson de 1971 à 2014. Il contient des documents couvrant son début de carrière comme producteur de télévision, son expérience comme journaliste indépendant et éducateur ainsi que des nombreuses années qu'il a travaillé comme cinéaste indépendant. Le fonds donne un aperçu des projets d'Isacsson et comprend des œuvres complétés, inachevées et inédites. Le fonds inclut également de la documentation sur la sortie, la projection et la réception critique de ses films.

Le fonds Magnus Isacsson contient des documents sur divers supports et formats qui détaillent les processus administratifs et créatifs de son travail à la télévision, au cinéma et comme éducateur. Entre autres types de documents, le fonds contient la recherche et les notes d'Isacsson; des bandes de tournage, des séquences brutes et des bandes maîtresses dans plusieurs formats; des enregistrements sonores; des photographies; du matériel promotionnel; des contrats; de la correspondance; des propositions de projets; des articles et coupures de journaux; des dossiers financiers; et du matériel pédagogique.

Le Fonds Magnus Isacsson est organisé selon les séries suivantes:
• F038/A Projets documentaires
• F038/B Journalisme et écriture
• F038/C Papiers personnels
• F038/D Travail à la télévision

Le fonds contient des documents relatifs à la recherche et à la rédaction de la monographie de Peter Desbarats, intitule « René Lévesque ou le projet inachevé », publié dans la version originale anglaise en 1976.
Le fond comprend des transcriptions, des notes, des brouillons manuscrits et dactylographiés, ainsi que de la correspondance entre Desbarats et René Levesque et Desbarats et Dick Brown de Canadian Magazine.

Le fonds est divisé en trois séries :
F009 / A Entretiens
F009 / B Manuscrits
F009 / C Correspondance

The Gerald Clark fonds contains documents pertaining to the Gerald Cohen's professional life and documents current events occuring in the period that he was active as a newspaper correspondent.

The fonds is composed of research materials, notes, drafts of articles and books, clippings of articles, correspondence, and speeches, among other materials. It also includes recorded interviews with world figures.

The fonds documents the personal and professional life of Don Bell, his work as a magazine journalist and used and rare book dealer and many features of life in Montreal and elsewhere during his working life.

It includes personal and family documents, correspondence, manuscripts, research materials, notebooks, and photographs.

The sub-series contains information about administrative aspects of the Fifth Estate.

The sub-series contains, among others, budgets, newspaper articles, correspondence, an ID- and a business card.

The fonds provides information on the editing and publishing work of Véhicule Press.

The fonds consists of manuscripts, published and bound books, and publicity materials; production materials including correspondence, pamphlets, layouts and sketches for covers, printing templates, printing quotes, typescripts, page proofs with corrections, editors' and authors' notes, biographies of authors, curricula vitae, pictures of various authors and agendas; and posters and post cards that were printed for the Véhicule Art gallery.

The Ann Charney fonds provides information on Ann Charney’s journalistic and literary career as well as her personal life. It documents both Charney's fiction and non-fiction writings from the 1960s until 2009, and provides insight into the process of publishing from the author’s point of view. The fonds also includes information on the Blue Metropolis foundation, a not-for-profit organization located in Montreal, Quebec, responsible for the annual Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival. Finally, the fonds provides a glimpse into the life of Jewish emigrants. It also contains information about Canadian and international artists working during the second half of the 20th century.

The fonds contains drafts and final versions of novels and short stories written by Ann Charney; personal and professional correspondence; newspaper articles; publicity material; meeting minutes; agreements; financial documents; photographs; reports; and magazines, among other documents.

The fonds is organized into the following series:

P0237/A Fiction
P0237/B Non-fiction
P0237/C Correspondence
P0237/D Blue Metropolis

The fonds relates to language and cultural policy in Quebec. First, it provides information on the implementation of bill 101, also known as Charter of the French Language, and the reactions of Anglophone publishers. Second, it provides information on the protest against the so-called Arpin-report, published 1991 under the title “Une politique de la culture et des arts”.

The fonds includes without limitation correspondence, newspaper clippings, government publications, newsletters, court documents

The fonds is organized into the following series:

P0197/A Quebec Publisher fight against Bill 101
P0197/B Fight against Arpin Report

The Hour collection is composed of 72 bound volumes of the Hour newspaper published between 1993 and 2011 and those issues published under the name Hour Community in 2011 and 2012. The bound volumes comprise almost every issue of Hour and Hour Community published between February 1993 and May 2012, with the exception of volume 2, numbers 18 to 35 (1994), which are missing from the collection. The collection also contains the prototype of Hour.

The Logos collection contains 27 issues of Logos, published between 1967 and 1972. It also contains three issues of The Local Rag, also published in Montreal, which date to 1969, and one issue of The Astral Projection (published in the 1960s or 1970s).

The collection provides information on the careers of Peter McDonald and Frances Belfrage. It is focused on McDonald’s work as a writer, producer, and director for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation between 1942 and 1958. It includes scripts written and/or produced by Peter McDonald, and scripts written by Frances Belfrage for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

The Peter McDonald and Frances B. McDonald (Belfrage) collection contains photographs, scripts, newspaper clippings, correspondence, press releases, one audio cassette, and one VHS tape.

The Peter McDonald and Frances B. McDonald (Belfrage) collection is divided into two series:

• C036/A Peter McDonald Career
• C036/B Frances Belfrage Scripts

The subseries provides information on documentaries Brian McKenna worked on or produced for The Fifth Estate.
The subseries contains research materials, monographs, notes, scripts, drafts of documentaries and correspondence, court records, work copies of videos, a sound recording, and other documents.

The subseries includes the following documentaries:

Apparitions
In January 1988 McKenna travelled to Yugoslavia to investigate the claims of six peasant children that they were experiencing apparitions of the Virgin Mary every day at 6:45 pm, and the impact on their small Serbian village.

Arnold Expedition Reenactment

Belugas
This film documents attempts to save the small white whales from massive pollution of their St. Lawrence River habitat.

Bismark

Bourrassa and Lévesque

Car Rackets
This investigation into corruption and cover-up in the auto industry was produced by McKenna in his first season at The Fifth Estate.

The Cardinal
Profile of Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger as he travelled to the Thai-Cambodian border to draw attention to the terrible plight of refugees fleeing the killing fields.

CBW

Children of the Lost
The story of two Argentine doctors attempting to heal the trauma in children whose parents were killed or disappeared during the so-called dirty war.

Collaborators
With researcher and associate producer Oleh Rumak, McKenna investigated how top Slovak officials from the Nazi Collaborationist government ended up in Canada. The film, code-named Slovaks II has not been shown to the public.

A Cruel Place
The film documents the state-sponsored terrorism during the Civil War in El Salvador.

Death Squad

Death in Tripoli
Film on the violent and mysterious death of Canadian Christopher Halens, a young Southam journalist in Libya.

Empress of Ireland
Documentary on the Empress of Ireland, a Titanic -size steamship which sank in the St. Lawrence River

Fallen Star
The history of the final days of the century-old newspaper, The Montreal Star.

Gypsies (never produced)

Heroin

The Hooded Men
In 1982, when Argentina returned to democracy, McKenna took newspaper publisher Jacobo Timmerman back to the jail on the outskirts of Buenos Aires where he had been held and tortured.

Iran Drug Film

A Journey Back
Investigation on Nazi collaborators hiding in Canada, focusing on the story of New York off-Broadway producer Jack Garfein, brought back to his hometown in Slovakia for the first time and then to the Auschwitz and Birkenhau death camps to discover his past. In the film Garfein confronts the gauleiter who had killed his family.

Lévesque in New York
Quebec’s newly elected and first separatist premier’s trip to New York to try to reassure nervous investors.

McGarr
Examination of the stress that creates among police the highest rate of alcoholism, divorce and suicide of any profession, seen through the eyes of a Montréal police officer.

Making of a Saint

Marathon Man Jerome Drayton

Mirabel

The Money Pit
Investigation of attempts made to find buried treasure in the mysterious and secret man-made passages of Nova Scotia’s Oak Island

Murder of Hilda Murrer
Investigation of the murder of this eccentric English country woman whose death may have been linked to secrets surrounding the sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands war.

Noah's Ark
Astronaut James Irwin was leading an expedition of Christian fundamentalist Americans in search of the remains of Noah’s Ark at Turkey’s Mount Ararat, to prove that the Bible and Creation story are literally true.

The Old Man and the C
A profile of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling and his claims for the healing properties of Vitamin C.

Olympic Connection
In his first season at The Fifth Estate, McKenna did investigations of corruption during the construction for the 1976 Montréal
Olympic Games

Olympic Tower

Panzers on the Prairies
Story of German Army building tanks in Alberta

Papa Plouffe
A profile of a character in Roger Lemelin’s Les Plouffe series (CBC).

Peroff Mounties

Pipe Major

The Plot

Political Corruption

The Power and the Glory
Inquiry into the politics surrounding the building of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project.

Referendums
A documentary looking at referendums, including the 1948 vote that brought Newfoundland into Canadian Confederation and leading up to the 1980 referendum on Québec independence and sovereignty association and the “Yvette” women’s movement, as well as the slick methods used in California referendums.

René Lévesque

Richard Blass
In his first season at The Fifth Estate, McKenna started with a film about a mobster named Richard Blass.

Robert F. Kennedy

The Rocket at 50
In his first season at The Fifth Estate McKenna made a feature on hockey star Maurice “The Rocket” Richard as he turned 50.

Rosie Douglas
A look at mobster Rosie Douglas.

Secret Cargo
Documentary on allegations that Pakistan was attempting to smuggle and import through Canada and the United States key components for the construction of an Islamic atomic bomb.

Secret Test
Film on the CIA-sponsored brainwashing experiments in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s on unsuspecting psychiatric patients at the Royal Victoria Hospital / Allen Memorial Psychiatric Institute in Montréal.

Shooting the Messenger
Film on the torture and murder of Latin American journalists and the occasional foreign correspondent.

State of Siege
Inquiry into communist and fascist terrorism in Italy including the infamous Red Brigade.

Sunshine Soldiers

Veliotis

VIP

Who Shot JFK?
In 1978, McKenna wrote and directed the first national television documentary challenging the conclusions of the official report into the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963, Dallas and After. It was followed by three more documentaries on new evidence: In 1979, Crossfire reported the conclusion of a Congressional Committee that Kennedy was probably killed as the result of a conspiracy. The Coffin was Empty (198?) is a testimony that medical evidence was tampered with during and after the autopsy of Kennedy. McKenna produced Who Shot JFK?, a program summarizing the evidence, on the 20th anniversary of the assassination.

The fonds documents Daniel Feist’s work as a freelance broadcaster, journalist, musician and teacher, including his travels and participation in events such as Montreal’s Nuits d’Afrique festival, the United Nations Conference on Racism, music awards, and others. The material mainly covers the genre of world-beat music (also known as world music) in the period from 1990 to 2005. Some sound recordings of music performances include interviews with the artists.

The fonds includes without limitations biographies of artists, drafts of articles, consulting reports, teaching material, correspondence, books, sound recordings (digital audio tapes, reel-to-reel tapes, cassette tapes, and CDs), newspaper clippings, notes, and photographs (on CD-ROM and printed out in black and white).

The fonds is organized in the following series:

P0203/A. – Personal life.

P0203/B. – Broadcasting.

P0203/C. – Radio consulting.

P0203/D. – Print journalism.

P0203/E. – Teaching.

P0203/F. – Resource materials.

The Blue Metropolis Foundation fonds provides information on the Blue Metropolis Foundation from its beginnings in 1997 to 2005. The fonds documents not only the administrative organisation of the Foundation, but also includes materials related to the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival's held between 1999 and 2004. The Festival takes place annually in Montreal, Quebec. The fonds also contains information about the artists which participated in the festival in various years.

The fonds contains administrative records, minutes, correspondence, financial records, programs, publicity material, photographs, biographical information, and newspapers.

The fonds is organized in the following series:
P0232/A Administrative records
P0232/B Blue Metropolis Literary Festival
P0232/C Writers
P0232/D Year-round Literacy activities

The Underground Newspaper Collection is comprised of 178 copies of underground, alternative newspapers, newsletters, and journals, mostly published in Canada and the United States. These publications discuss both local and international issues of interest to the communities responsible for their creation. Among many other topics, the following subjects are represented throughout this collection: Vietnam war, defections, and the anti-war movement; anti-establishment and counterculture movements; Black power; poverty; socialism; music, art, and literature; and environmentalism.

The Underground Newspaper Collection contains copies of Up to the Neck, Old Mole, This Paper Belongs to the People, View from the Bottom, Rising up Angry, Berkeley Tribe, Move Speak, The Sea-Turtle and the Shark, Good times, Sabot, Broadside and the Free Press, Ann Arbor Argus, Freedom Anarchist Weekly, The Long Beach Free Press, The 4th Estate, Los Angeles Free Press, Quicksilver Times, The Bond – the Serviceman’s Newspaper, American Avatar, High Gauge, The Post-American, The Second Front, Free Ranger International News Service, Mobilizer, Guerilla, Your Military Left, Aboveground, The Rebel, Yankee Refugee, Yankee Refugee – West Coast Newsletter of American Exiles, Antithesis, Soul Force, Socialist Standard, Free Press, Hotcha!, Hapt, Athelstane, The Niagara Peninsula Free Press Aquarius, Orpheus, Bellicume, Bulldozer, Afterthrought, Carpe Diem, The Panic Button, and Alternate Society. The collection also contains other underground publications, including Black and Red – The Revolutionary Project, a Selective Service Memorandum on Channeling, and Niagara Liberation Front publications.

The fonds is related to Jack Gillmore’s work as an actor, writer, and director of Canada’s first radio plays in Vancouver, B.C. between 1925-1935. Gillmore was a member of the CNRV Players and performed over a hundred plays on the radio including but not limited to, “Peg O’ My Heart”, “R.U.R.”, and “The Zepplin’s Passenger” (Zeppelin's Passenger). Gillmore’s memoir includes his reminiscences on his career on the radio, his experiences as a car salesman in the 1920s, his marine equipment businesses in the 1930s and 1940s, and events he lived through between 1902 and 1977. The fonds also includes material relating to the deposit.

The fonds consists of photocopies of annotated scripts, essays, notes, production sheets, correspondence, and press clippings. It also includes a contact sheet, and Gillmore's memoirs.

The fonds is organized into the following series:

• F052/A Historical Information
• F052/B Scripts

The fonds documents the professional life of Boyce Richardson.

It includes manuscripts of articles, research materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, film proposals and scripts, and photographs of the James Bay Cree community.

The description of this fonds is not available. Please contact Concordia University Libraries Special Collections for more information.

The fonds consists of interviews conducted by Harriet Eisenkraft.

Fonds consists of a record of the research Taras Grescoe conducted during the process of writing his books Sacré Blues, The Devil's Picnic, and The End of Elsewhere. They document Quebec Society, global tourism, and the prohibited food and substance business.

The records include sound recordings and transcripts of interviews, research materials, drafts of book chapters and articles, travel note books, and correspondence.

The fonds provides information on Hugh P. Illsley's military service, his travel to Europe with his family, and his work as a Montreal architect.

The fonds consists of correspondence, a photograph album, sets of photographs, ledgers, and scrapbooks.

The collection provides visual information on World War II. The pictures were taken in Europe, Japan, China, the Philippines, and the Arctic. The collection also includes National Film Board photojournalism on uranium mining for nuclear power in Canada, and other topics.

The collection consists of pictures, many of them produced under the auspices of the War Records Office of International News Agencies. The Collection contains news service photographs as well as photographs from the Canadian Armed Forces. Also included are original identifying captions that accompanied their transmission by news media wire services. Most of the photographers remain unidentified. They made their photographs while on assignment for international news agencies or the War Records Office for distribution to the news media.

The fonds documents William Stewart's early life, his family, his work as a World War II war correspondent, his later work as a journalist and executive with Canadian Press, and his activities in retirement. The fonds also documents the history of Canadian Press/La Presse Canadienne, Canadian politics, journalism, French-English relations in Canada, figures such as Roger Lemelin, J.W. Pickersgill, Claude Ryan, Clyde Gilmour, and other subjects.

The fonds includes news and feature articles by William Stewart in various forms (drafts, wire copy, clippings), correspondence received and sent, photographs, artwork, reports, newsletters, family documents, articles by other writers, and a small number of objects related to his work as a war correspondent and his later activity.

The materials are arranged in the following series:
P0195/1 Early life, family, visual art, diaries, personal documents, honors and awards
P0195/2 Correspondence with friends and colleagues
P0195/3 Canadian Press
P0195/4 Retirement, freelance activity
P0195/5 Canadian Press War Correspondents' Association
P0195/6 Canadian War Correspondents Association
P0195/7 Research materials