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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.

The sub-series contains correspondence, vouchers, cheque requisitions, financial statements, agendas, minutes, clippings, and other records relating to a 1937-1938 fundraising campaign to raise $300,000 for Loyola College.

Subseries contains first drafts of Swinging in Paradise: The Story of Jazz in Montreal.

Subseries composed of drafts of Swinging in Paradise: The Story of Jazz in Montreal.

La sous-série témoigne des recommandations à l’égard de Lucien Desmarais ainsi que celles qu’il a produites pour d’autres artistes dont principalement Véronique Hamelin, Yves Trudeau et Valentin Shabaeff. Elle témoigne également des évaluations monétaires que Lucien Desmarais effectuait pour les oeuvres de certains artistes.

La sous-série comprend principalement des lettres de recommandations et de la correspondance, des notes, des coupures de presse, une photographie et un dessin.

La sous-série témoigne des projets de Lucien Desmarais qui sont ceux de créer un centre de conservation des techniques artisanales à St-Césaire, d’assurer la coordination d’une exposition d’artisanat à l’occasion de l’Exposition universelle de 1967, de projets d’émissions télévisées et de projets de tapisseries.

La sous-série contient le devis technique et des plans d’aménagement du Centre de conservation, des photographies, des dessins, des lettres, des échantillons de tissus. Il comprend aussi un rapport de mission de projet de Jacques Anquetil relatif au métiers d’art en France.

La sous-série témoigne des différentes expositions auxquelles Lucien Desmarais a participé en tant qu’exposant au cours de sa carrière de 1942 à 1986. Elle permet de connaître ses différentes formes de participation aux expositions.

La sous-série contient le livre d’or de l’une de ses premières participations à une exposition, des coupures de presse, des lettres, des cartons d’invitation. Les dossiers sont classés en ordre chronologique.

La sous-série témoigne des relations entretenues par Lucien Desmarais avec divers organismes d’artisanat. Elle témoigne également de son implication dans l’administration de certains d’entre eux.

La sous-série contient principalement des procès-verbaux, des comptes rendus de réunions, de la correspondance, des documents financiers, des documents constitutifs, des historiques, des dossiers d’organisation de biennales, des coupures de presse et des photographies.

La sous-série témoigne des relations que Lucien Desmarais entretenait avec les milieux artistiques montréalais et québécois en général, en plus de donner une image de l’évolution des expositions à Montréal des années 1940 à 1988. Elle témoigne également des collaborations plus particulières que Lucien Demarais avait avec certaines galeries d’art, dont la galerie Le Tournesol, la Galerie Denyse Delrue, la Galerie du Siècle, la Galerie Libre et avec des ateliers.

Elle témoigne également des nombreuses invitations à des vernissages et expositions auxquels était convié Lucien Desmarais. Elle comprend de la correspondance et de nombreux cartons d’invitation, ainsi que des calendriers d’activités de galeries d’art. On y retrouve également des dossiers d’artistes et un spicilège comprenant des coupures de presse relatives à des expositions de la Galerie le Tournesol.

La sous-série porte sur des différents techniques artistiques, des matériaux et catégories des métiers-d‘art.

Elle comprend des documents textuels et des photographies.

Subseries provides information about Zaire project.

Subseries includes newspaper clippings, handwritten notes and correspondence.

Subseries provides information about the film Union Trouble.

Subseries includes clippings, photographs, flyers, handwritten notes, synopsis and French and English version of the film.

Subseries provides information about an unfunded project titled MI'KMAQ Science.

Subseries includes handwritten notes, research documents, correspondence, greeting card, clippings, and videocassettes.

Subseries documents the production process and provides information about the film Waiting for Martin.

Subseries includes clippings, budget, production schedule, script, application for project, staff contact list, list of shooting dates, research material and documentation on Paul Martin, correspondence, handwritten notes, screening notes, and script with annotations.

Subseries provides information about the project Yul-Lab.

Subseries includes project description, newspaper clippings, notes, correspondence and business card.

Subseries documents the production process and provides information about the project the film Ma vie réelle.

Subseries includes contracts, handwritten notes, articles, leaflet and brochures, research documentation, film summary, budget and notes.

Subseries contains reference articles that document the history of jazz used by John Gilmore for research purposes.

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

Textual records relating to the Drapeau book.

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

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.