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Textual records
C011/A1 · Subseries · 1973-2014, predominantly 1973
Part of Margaret Griffin and Clara Gutsche collection

Sub-series contains documents concerning the foundation of Powerhouse Gallery, and various exhibitions at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse. Materials predominantly concern the Gallery’s first exhibition Windows: From the Inside Out: Painting, Photography, Ceramic and Sculpture (1973). Other exhibitions documented in this sub-series include Codpieces: Phallic Paraphernalia (1974), The Past to the Present (2001), and Powerhouse: Where Are We Now? (2001).This subseries also contains La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse publications, including Women’s Bookworks (1979) and Les Centrelles (2004).

Photographic materials
C011/A2 · Subseries · 1973
Part of Margaret Griffin and Clara Gutsche collection

Subseries contains photographic materials documenting Windows: From the Inside Out: Painting, Photography, Ceramic and Sculpture. This series is composed of slides of the exhibition taken by Margaret Griffin documenting the artworks and their placement in the Gallery.

Art Work and Objects
C011/A3 · Subseries · 1972-1973
Part of Margaret Griffin and Clara Gutsche collection

Subseries contains 2 original artworks from the exhibition Windows: From the Inside Out: Painting, Photography, Ceramic and Sculpture (1973), and a t-shirt with a photograph of the founding members of Powerhouse Gallery.

Education
C025/A1 · Subseries · 1950 ; 1962-1996
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries documents Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge’s post-secondary studies in Canada.

Subseries includes, among other documents, diplomas, certificates, student records, course notes, notebooks, course outlines, assignments, essays, handwritten notes, course readings, drawings, photographs and correspondence.

The subseries is organized into the following two sub-subseries:
C025/A1.1 Alfie Roberts post-secondary education
C025/A1.2 Patricia Cambridge post-secondary education

Essays and Notes
C025/A2 · Subseries · 1963-1997
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries documents Alfie Roberts’ essays and notes on several topics related to socialism, police brutality, imperialism, history of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, politics, and Black history among others. Subseries also includes short notes on several pieces of scrap paper and loose pages. Some notes may have been written by Patricia Cambridge and other people.

Series includes typed and handwritten essays, reports, notebooks, notepads, planners, some research documentation, and several pieces of scrap paper and loose pages with handwritten notes.

Correspondence
C025/A3 · Subseries · 1963-1996 ; 2004-2005
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries consists of correspondence sent to Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge from family and friends, cultural and community organizations, from their employers, the government and educational institutions. It also contains photocopies of letters written by Alfie to several people, including to his father Theodore Roberts and mother Naomi Walker Roberts.

Subseries includes typed and handwritten letters, postcards, Christmas and greeting cards, brochures, leaflets, invitation cards, emails, photocopies of correspondence and photographs.

Family Records
C025/A4 · Subseries · 1961 - 2000
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries provides information about Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge's family and includes documentation on their parents' immigration to Canada. Subseries also contains documents pertaining to Roberts and Cambridge’s friends, including funeral service programs, photographs and other documents.

Subseries includes correspondence, photographs, genealogy of the Roberts family, notebooks, school documents, invoices, and travel permits, photographs and other documents.

Employment
C025/A5 · Subseries · 1966-1993
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries provides information about Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge professional work experience in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Montreal.

Subseries includes, among others, business cards, handwritten notes, inventories, communiques, correspondence, annual reports, collective agreements, data reports, job postings, application letters, curriculum vitae, research projects, clippings, research documentation, map.

The subseries is organized into the following two sub-subseries:
C025/A5.1 Alfie Roberts career
C025/A5.2 Patricia Cambridge career

C025/A6 · Subseries · 1961-1976 ; 1993-1997
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries provides information related to Alfie Roberts immigration to Canada, his Canadian citizenship and some identification documents from St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Subseries includes correspondence, driver’s license, copies of citizenship certificate, government documents and one photograph.

Awards
C025/A7 · Subseries · 1984 ; 1996 ; 2000
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries provides information on the awards given to Alfie Roberts from different community and cultural organizations.

Subseries contains award plaques from the Muhammad Mosque of Montreal in honor of Alfie’s lifelong work and contribution to the community. Award plaque for Elder of the Year from Also Known As X (A.K.A.X), Award plaque given to Alfie Roberts for his significant achievement and outstanding contribution to the St. Vincent and the Grenadines community and Canada from the National Council of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Associations in Canada Incs., and Cricket certificate of award.

Travel
C025/A8 · Subseries · 1973-1974 ; 1982-1995
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries provides information on Alfie Roberts’ travel outside Canada. It is unclear if Patricia Cambridge was present during these trips and whether travel was done for personal reasons, conferences or work.

Subseries includes flight tickets, photographs of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ghana, Libya, Moscow, and unidentified places.

C025/B1 · Subseries · 1966-1998
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries documents Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge's involvement with the St. Vincent and Grenadines Association of Montreal, of which Roberts was a founding member and Cambridge was the coordinator of the annual Pageant and Dance. The subseries also provides information related to the administration, finances, and programming of the association.

Subseries includes, among other documents, budget estimations, income statements, balance sheets, correspondence, newsletters, agendas and meeting minutes, flyers, leaflets, event programs, invitation cards, legal documents, handwritten notes, photographs, posters, anniversary magazine, newsletters, grant applications, reports, membership forms, clippings, constitution, essays, brochures, calendar of events, and press releases.

Emancipation 150 Committee
C025/B2 · Subseries · 1976 ; 1983-1987
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries provides information related to Alfie Roberts involvement with the Emancipation 150 Committee as well as the activities the committee organized to commemorate the 150 years of the abolition of slavery.

Subseries includes certificates to those who made contributions during the 1983-1984 150 anniversary of the ending of slavery, emancipation committee programs, Emancipation 150 Conference program, speech transcripts, agendas, essays, publication Emancipation 150 vol. 1, correspondence, clippings, proposals for financial support, handwritten notes, 1984 conference budget, brochures, leaflets, invitation cards, press releases and wall banner.

C025/B3 · Subseries · 1986-1996
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries provides information about the activities of the National Council of St. Vincent and Grenadines Associations in Canada.

Subseries includes correspondence, constitution and by-laws, meeting minutes, agendas, financial documents, fund-raising proposals, newsletters, events and conference programs, list of activities, flyers.

C025/B4 · Subseries · 1977-1978
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries documents Alfie Roberts’ trip to Cuba for the 11th World Festival of Youth and Students in 1978.

Subseries contains Roberts’ application form to attend the congress, activity reports, leaflets, flyers, photographs, promotional material, festival schedule, festival information documents, Cuba information guides, posters, magazines, and festival souvenir bag.

Project Genesis
C025/B5 · Subseries · 1982-1985 ; 2002
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries provides information on Patricia Cambridge’s involvement with the the Project Genesis, a community organization that assists individuals affected by social inequalities.

Subseries includes documentation about the activities of Project Genesis, clippings, handwritten notes, reports, agendas, meeting minutes, staff policy and project proposals.

Alfie Roberts Institute
C025/B6 · Subseries · 2001-2008
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries documents some of the activities of the Alfie Roberts Institute related to their finances, administration and programming.

Subseries includes notebooks, financial plans and statements, agendas, meeting minutes, mission, vision and objectives of the institute, flyers, posters, description of workshops, account for tenancy, balance sheets, invoices of books published by the Alfie Roberts Institute and sold to several bookstores, workshop proposals, correspondence, Alfie Roberts domain registry, leaflets, handwritten notes and sound recording of meeting.

C025/B7 · Subseries · 1996-2010
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries provides information related to the activities and programming of several community organizations from Montreal and the rest of Canada, including the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, The Black Community Council of Quebec, the Black Theatre Workshop, the Negro Community Centre, and The South Shore Black Community Association, among others.

Subseries includes, among other documents, correspondence, newsletters, financial documents, agendas, meeting minutes, flyers, invitations to events, posters, brochures, communiques, releases and event programs.

Conferences
C025/B8 · Subseries · 1945 ; 1959-1999
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries provides information related to the programming and content of several conferences, congresses, colloquiums, seminars and symposiums. Topics of conferences cover numerous topics such as pan-Africanism, politics, the Caribbean, labour, women, communism, Black youth, and racism. The subseries mostly documents the Sixth Pan-African Congress in Tanzania which Alfie Roberts attended and photographed. It is unclear if Roberts or Cambridge attended all the events listed in the series.

Subseries includes correspondence, program schedules, leaflets, flyers, brochures, photographs, speech transcripts, reports, booklets, bulletins, public releases, newsletters, and posters.

Books
C025/C1 · Subseries · 1916 ; 1958-1984
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries covers topics related to race, politics, socialism, communism, and history published in North America and the Caribbean.

Subseries includes paperbacks, hardbacks and unbound copies of books.

Booklets
C025/C2 · Subseries · 1929 ; 1940-1996 ; predominant 1970-1989
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries provides information on the socio-political climate of several countries in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. It covers subjects related to black history, the Grenada and Cuban revolutions, imperialism, slavery, liberation, racism, labour, the history of St. Vincent, capitalism, communism, fascism, and human rights, among other topics.

Subseries includes speech transcripts, government publications, pamphlets, and booklets published in North America, Africa and the Caribbean.

Periodicals
C025/C3 · Subseries · 1927-2010
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries covers a wide range of publications from the Black community in Montreal and the rest of North America as well as from the Caribbean, Latin American and Africa. Subseries includes, among others, issues of the following newspapers: Gramma, The Vincentian, Vanguard, Free West Indian, Free Press Black Spark Edition, Afro-Can, Uhuru, The Black Voice, The Star, The Trinidad Guardian, The Trinidad and Tobago Review, TAPIA, Caribbean Contact, The Afro Canadian, The New Jewel, The Militant, Moscow News, The Struggle, Caribbean Express, Journal Cote-des-Neiges, Community Contact, The Georgian, Montreal Daily News, Outlet, and The Link. Subseries also includes several community publications such as Focus Umoja, Justice, The Crusader, Nam Speaks, Thunder, The Black Liberator, Unity, Speak Out, Intercontinental Press, The Vincy Quebeker, Caribbean Perspective, Blacknews, Freedom, Day Clean, Forum, New Beginning, New Times, Power of Women, Workers Monthly, Race Today, Abeng, Fourth International, The Gaither, and Focus, among others.

Subseries contains newspapers, journals, newsletters, magazines and bulletins.

Research Documentation
C025/C4 · Subseries · 1940-2008
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries provides information on a variety of subjects pertaining to communism, socialism, Marxism, the US-Grenada invasion, economics, politics, sociology, slavery, racism, colonialism, imperialism, police brutality, Caribbean history, Black history, Africa, Pan-Africanism, the Computer Centre Incident, Maurice Bishop murder, Walter Rodney’s assassination, the Soviet Union and the Cuban revolution.

Series includes copies of articles and book chapters, newspaper clippings, booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, periodicals, reports, flyers, news releases, government publications, press releases, bulletins, newsletters, speeches and interview transcripts, poems, songs lyrics, books and records catalogues, documents with annotations and some handwritten notes, postcards and photographs.

Business Cards
C025/C5 · Subseries · [19--]-[199- ?]
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries covers a collection of business cards, possibly owned by Roberts and Cambridge. The subseries includes business cards of black-owned businesses, including restaurants, hair salons, financial advisors, hotels and housing, government, records and book shops, and travel agencies, among others.

Plays
F025/ C1 · Subseries · 1969-2009
Part of Peter Madden fonds

The sub-series documents Peter Madden’s work as a playwright.

The sub-series includes Peter Madden’s theatre plays, screenplays as well as radio dramas. It contains drafts and final versions, photographs, newspaper clippings, ephemera and an audio reel.

Poems
F025/ C2 · Subseries · 1971-2006
Part of Peter Madden fonds

The sub-series documents Peter Madden’s work as a poet.

The sub-series contains drafts and final versions of poems as well as some paintings used as illustrations.

Stories
F025/ C3 · Subseries · 1961-2002
Part of Peter Madden fonds

The sub-series documents Peter Madden’s work as a storyteller.

The sub-series includes drafts and final versions of stories for adults as well as for children.

History and constitution
F034/A1 · Subseries · 1942 ; 1964-2003 ; 2012 ; 2016
Part of Black Theater Workshop fonds

This sub-series documents the historical development of the Black Theatre Workshop (BTW), from its beginnings in 1965 as the Trinidad & Tobago Association (TTA) Drama group, through its incorporation as the BTW in 1972, to today. It also contains material pertaining to the Negro Theatre Guild, formed by members of the Montreal Black community in the early 1940s.

The sub-series contains, among other documents, letters patent, programs, newspaper clippings, a constitution, historical outlines, photographs, notes, play scripts, letterheads, logos, poster, studies, a newsletter, membership lists, briefs, mission statements, and correspondence.

Meetings and committees
F034/A2 · Subseries · 1974-2008
Part of Black Theater Workshop fonds

This sub-series provides insight into the administration and organizational structure of the Black Theatre Workshop (BTW). The BTW is governed by a Board of directors, to which all committees and directors report. It includes documents related to meetings of the Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Management Committee; and the Planning and Priorities committee. It also contains documents concerning General meetings and meetings of temporary committees.

This sub-series contains, among other documents, meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, lists of board members, organizational charts, job descriptions, meeting notes, and various documents presented or discussed at the meetings, as well as newspaper clippings, and grant applications.

Human resources
F034/A3 · Subseries · 1983-2000, 2009-2012
Part of Black Theater Workshop fonds

This sub-series documents the management of human resources, including the rights and duties of staff working at the Black Theatre Workshop (BTW) in the 1980s and 1990s. It also provides insight into summer employment programs in which the BTW participated, including the Work Orientation Workshop, organized by the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Black Community Association.

This sub-series contains, among other documents, contracts, agreements, and correspondence.