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Archival description
General Associations
I0010/01A · Subseries · 1955-1983
Part of Office of the Principal fonds

The sub-series consists of records documenting the relations between the Principal or Rector's Office and external associations. The sub-series contains records of activity related to the following associations:
Alliance Quebec
American Association of University Administrators
Association des professeurs des universités de langue française du Québec
Association canadienne des éducateurs de langue française
Association for Higher Education
Association of Canadian Universities Active in Northern Research
Association of Commonwealth Universities
Canadian Association for Hebrew Education and Culture
Canadian Association of College and University Student Services
Canadian Association of Adult Education
Canadian Association of University Teachers
Canadian Mental Health Association Québec Division
Canadian Political Science Association
Canadian University Association (Hong Kong)
Canadian Universities Foundation
Canadian University Service Overseas
Fédération des associations de professeurs des universités du Québec
International Association of Universities
Positive Action Group
Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers of Québec
Québec Student Debating Association.

Acquisition
I0010/04A · Subseries · 1961-1983
Part of Office of the Principal fonds

The sub-series consists of records relating to the acquisition of land or property by S.G.W. It contains notes and correspondence.

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.

Loyola's Development Program
I0147/06D · Subseries · 1964-1973
Part of Office of the President fonds

The sub-series contains correspondence, assignment sheets, schedules, reports, an honour roll, lists of prospects, and other records related to Loyola's Development Program. Its goal was to raise $6,600,000 for capital needs.

P112/B3 · Subseries · 1970-2002
Part of Brian McKenna fonds

The sub-series presents McKenna’s contributions to magazines (The Gazette, The Last Post, Weekend Magazine, Literary Review of Canada, MacLean’s) and The Canadian Encyclopedia, including book reviews in The Gazette.

The sub-series contains newspaper articles, a magazine, and correspondence.

CBC documentaries
P112/G4 · Subseries · 1915-1919, 1963-1995, 1999-2016
Part of Brian McKenna fonds

The subseries provides information on documentaries Brian McKenna produced for the CBC. It includes research material, publications, work video, correspondence, notes, objects and other records related to the following documentaries:

And Then You Die
CBC-docudrama on the Montréal underworld, inspired by the true story of Irish gangsters in the West end of Montréal using Hell’s Angels as mercenaries to build a cocaine empire. It was broadcast internationally and won a pair of Gemini awards.

FLQ

The Great War

His Worship, Jean Drapeau

The Killing Ground
A two-hour film on the 59,000 Canadians who died in the First World War. For this production, McKenna teamed up with his youngest brother Terence. The film won the Anik award for best CBC documentary in 1988.

Trudeau Memoirs

P112/G5 · Subseries · 1936-2018
Part of Brian McKenna fonds

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.

P112/G6 · Subseries · 1944, 1950, 1956, 1963-2018
Part of Brian McKenna fonds

The subseries provides information on documentaries Brian McKenna worked on or produced as an independent producer.

The subseries contains interviews, research material, monographs, notes, publications, photographs, scripts, drafts of documentaries, correspondence, court records, financial records, posters, sound recordings, videos and other documents.

The subseries relates to the following documentaries :

  • Addiction for Sale
  • Battlefield Quebec (Plains of Abraham)
  • Big Sugar
    Documentary on the political history of the sugar industry
  • The Bribe or the Bullet
    Documentary on the impact of narcotics trafficking on Mexico
  • Chiefs
  • Famine and Shipwreck
  • La fin de la Nouvelle-France
  • Fire and Ice: The Rocket Richard Riot
  • Jean Drapeau
  • Korea : The Unfinished War
  • Little Viper
  • Migraine
  • Newfoundland at Armageddon
  • Nuclear War
  • Secret World of Gold
  • Theatre Schmeatre
  • Tycoon
  • The Valour and the Horror
    Directed and co-written with his brother Terence McKenna, The Valour and the Horror summarizes a three- year inquiry into three
    Second World War battles. The films were honoured with five Gemini Awards.
  • War of 1812
  • The War Reporters
    A Lauron Productions (Toronto) documentary on abuses suffered by journalists in Argentina, among them Jacobo Timmerman, as
    well as the danger and distress they face while covering war and revolution.
  • A Web of War
    A series of documentary films on the Second World War : The War at Sea (2 hours), a critical examination of Canadian naval
    leadership, A Web of War (1 h), an emotional tribute to the women of the Warsaw uprising, and the Polish division fighting under
    Canadian command,
  • A Battle Lost, story of how Nazi U-Boats blockaded the St. Lawrence River during WWII.
Histories
P0145/01B · Subseries · 1873-2002
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents the creation of histories of the Montreal YMCA. It holds research notes, manuscripts, correspondence, and other documents related to Harold C. Cross' book One Hundred years of Service with Youth: The Story of the Montreal Y.M.C.A. 1851-1951, published by the YMCA in 1951.

The sub-series includes timelines and historical sketches, research notes, correspondence, essays, press clippings, books, photographs, and other materials.

Annual Reports
P0145/02D · Subseries · 1856-2003
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series consists of annual reports issued by the Metropolitan Montreal YMCA and working documents used in their preparation.

P0145/04A · Subseries · 1891-1988
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The series holds documents created or received by senior employed officers of the Metropolitan Montreal YMCA, including correspondence, clippings, articles, photographs, and other materials. Other titles for the position have included general secretary, executive secretary, director general, and president and chief executive officer.

Policies, procedures
P0145/05D · Subseries · 1914, 1922, 1935, [194-]-1988
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents YMCA policy related to issues that span the whole Association. It also documents YMCA policies regarding matters in the environment in which it operates and on specific issues. The sub-series is arranged in sub-sub-series as follows:

P0145/05D01 - Manuals.
P0145/05D02 - Policies.
P0145/05D03 - Language policy.

Committees
P0145/08A · Subseries · 1958-1985
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents the Public Relations committees efforts to increase the YMCA visibility with marketing and communications initiatives and developing media contacts and partnerships.
The records include minutes of the Public Relations Committee and Marketing Committee.

Public Relations
P0145/08B · Subseries · 1924-1997
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The series documents the activities Public Relations department of the YMCA.
The records include promotional pamphlets and brochures, news releases, radio and television broadcasting contracts, public addresses for various events and correspondence.

Publications
P0145/08D · Subseries · 1884-2005
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series provides information on the YMCA’s activities through various printed materials.
The records include various internal newsletters and bulletins and issues of the YMCA News (1932-1950, incomplete), YMCA Pictorial News (1952-1965 incomplete).

Records management
P0145/08E · Subseries · 1982-1987
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series provides information on records related to the libraries, archives, and filing systems of the Metropolitan Montreal YMCA and its branches.
The records include grant applications, finding aids, classification plans, user guides and filing systems.

Environment
P0145/10I · Subseries · 1975-1987
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents the YMCA activities with environmental and recycling issues.
The records include minutes, reports, and project descriptions.

Immigrants, refugees
P0145/10L · Subseries · 1970-1989
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents Montreal YMCA programs related to immigrants, multiculturalism, and refugees, including YMCA collaboration with government and non-governmental organizations. It includes reports, correspondence, and other materials.

Religious Work
P0145/10S · Subseries · 1876-1987
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents the YMCA's religious programs. It includes publications, reports, notes, clippings, and other materials.

Social Recreation
P0145/10U · Subseries · 1932-1979
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents the activities of the YMCA Hi-Y social club for high school boys and girls and SO-ED, a program which combines social and educational activities through workshops and lectures. It also provides information on the Foremen’s Club, founded in 1942 to help foremen understand supervisory responsibilities and their administration through a series of lectures and conferences.
The records include minutes, correspondence, brochures, workshop and training materials.

P0145/11A · Subseries · 1909-1989
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents building and other committees that have been involved with the construction or renovation of Metropolitan Montreal YMCA facilities. The sub-series documents aspects of physical plant that cover more than one branch, requests from branches for major repairs and replacements, and calculations of space requirements sent from branches to the central administration. It includes correspondence, minutes, reports, statistical studies, contracts, and publicity materials for supplies and equipment.

P0145/11C · Subseries · 1912-2000
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents the development, administration, and programs of the du Parc Branch YMCA. It includes correspondence, annual and other reports, a historical sketch, minutes of meetings, specifications and other architectural records, and other materials.

Westmount
P0145/11H · Subseries · 1912-1989
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents the development, administration, and activities of the Westmount Branch YMCA. It includes minutes, annual reports, correspondence, studies, publicity materials, and other records.

Camp Otoreke
P0145/12C · Subseries · 1921-1983
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

Records in the sub-series document the administration, facilities, staff, campers, and program of Camp Otoreke. It includes correspondence, programs, financial records, publicity, and other materials. The sub-series is arranged in the following sub-sub-series:

P0145/12C01 - General administration.
P0145/12C02 - Financial administration.
P0145/12C03 - Land, facilities, equipment, supplies.
P0145/12C04 - Communications.
P0145/12C05 - Staff, counsellors.
P0145/12C06 - Campers.
P0145/12C07 - Program.