The materials in the sub-series document the Montreal YMCA's relationships with organizations such as the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and the Montreal Council of Social Agencies. The first joint YM-YWCA was opened in Windsor, Ontario in 1926. The sub-series also documents relations with the Student Christian Movement (which grew out of the YMCA's university branches in the 1920s), the Montreal Young Men's Hebrew Association, and other organizations.
The sub-series documents the spiritual, mental, social, educational and physical welfare and improvement of young men, boys, young women and girls through a variety of youth-oriented programs such as the Detached Youth Work (street work), a program designed to serve young people in the neighbourhood where they lived.
The records include minutes, correspondence, reports, brochures and other materials.
Young man standing at the door of the Youth Clinic/Clinique des jeunes.
Montreal YMCA Young People's Conferecne. Group photo of several people in front of building.
The sub-series consists of materials generated by local YMCAs in the United States as well as the American National Council of YMCAs and its precursors. The sub-series documents American YMCA activity at the national, international, and local levels.
The sub-series consists of materials generated by YMCA bodies in the United Kingdom that were kept by Montreal YMCA staff members or held in the library of the Montreal YMCA.
YMCA promotion for French radio
Several children and instructor holding hands in a circle.
Group of young people advertising their services for household chores.
YMCA promotional video on the theme of ''Buildings for Brotherhood'' focusing on branches in Hiroshima, Formosa (Taiwan), Nazareth, Eastern Java, Indonesia, and Korea.
Corner of Sherbrooke & Arlington
People getting into a bus in front of the a building.
Lobby
Several people on the street in front of the Australian YMCA Club.
Several wounded in a field in front of a straw hut.
People resting in a field.
First Montreal YMCA Building, Victoria Square.
Old Verdun Branch, Wellington Street
Officers and ladies drinking tea by the YMCA Tea Car truck.
YMCA Tea Car Truck
People in uniforms drinking tea by the YMCA Tea Car Truck.
Soldier drinking tea and eating cookie by the YMCA Tea Car.
Athlete posing.