Most of the documents in the fonds are related to Michael Sheldon's career as a writer. They include copies of his fictional books; copies of magazines containing articles that he wrote, including some that were ghost-written by Michael Sheldon for executives of companies where he worked; manuscripts and articles on public relations practice; tear-sheets and clippings; and correspondence.
Sheldon, MichaelThe fonds provides information on English country houses and heraldry, which were topics of research conducted by David McKeen while he was a member of the English Department.
The fonds consists of correspondence, notes, excerpts from publications, and clippings.
McKeen, DavidThe Maury Kaye fonds consists of arrangements done by Maury Kaye in the 1950s and the 1960s, and contains 106 pieces for piano, bass, and drums. The fonds also contains five sound recordings featuring Maury Kaye playing some of his hit songs.
Kaye, MauryThe fonds provides information on Harry Clinch's teaching and on the administration of the Geography Department of Sir George Williams (after 1974, of Concordia University).
The fonds consists of agendas and minutes of meetings of the Geography Department's departmental, laboratory, and curriculum committees; correspondence; documentation concerning the allocation of office space; statistics on enrollment and grades, and information concerning the first year of the Geography Department summer school.
Clinch, HarryThe fonds has materials on the Santhanam Affair, on the debate over non-renewal of academic contracts, and on the pension plan for former Loyola College faculty and staff.
It consists of reports, press releases, clippings, and correspondence.
Waters, Katherine E.The fonds consists of textual documents related to Pauline Morier's participation in the exhibition "Pare-Chocs" at Vehicule Art gallery in 1981, and the following correspondence due to vandalizm on her works.
Morier, PaulineThe fonds is a valuable source of information on photographic work done in the late 1970s and early 1980s by anglophone and francophone photographers in Quebec.
The fonds consists of taped interviews done by Katherine Tweedie with Quebec photographers, including, among others:
- Louise Abbot
- Michel Campeau
- Roger Charbonneau
- Tim Clark (Concordia Faculty Member)
- Serge Clément
- Michael Flomen
- Pierre Gaudard
- Tom Gibson (Former Concordia University Faculty Member)
- Norman Grégoire
- Pierre Guimond
- Clara Gutsche (Concordia University Faculty Member)
- John Max
- David Miller
- Gabor Szilasi (Former Concordia University Faculty Member)
- Sam Tata (Recipient of an honorary doctorate from Concordia University)
The fonds also include typed transcripts of the interviews and a published transcript of a talk based on the interviews, which was given in 1979 by Katherine Tweedie at "Canadian Perspectives: a Conference on Photography in Canada".
Tweedie, KatherineThe fonds consists of a Loyola jacket worn by Harry Hemens as a student, and his chancellor's hood.
Hemens, Henry J.The fonds provides information on the history of ideological Anti-Semitism.
The fonds consists of the text of lectures on the history of ideological anti-Semitism given by Norman Cohn during his stay at Concordia University.
Cohn, NormanThe fonds consists of a letter of thanks from Henry F. Hall to his colleagues on the occasion of his retirement as principal of Sir George Williams University in 1962 and three photographs of Clifford Sparling.
Sparling, Clifford C.The fonds provides information on science, technology, and society.
The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, and various texts from Fred Knelman's teaching career at Concordia University and from his activities as a speaker and writer.
Knelman, Fred H.The fonds provides information on Margaret Stredder's family history.
The fonds consists of photographs and brief biographies of Anson Walt Young, Frederick Owen Stredder, and Margaret Stredder.
Stredder, MargaretThe fonds provides information on the Canadian roots of community psychology and William Line.
The fonds consists mainly of sound recordings of Paul Babarik's interviews with eminent psychologists. There are also copies of books he edited and wrote.
Babarik, PaulThe Gerry Hanson fonds contains documentation pertaining to Montreal's music scene during the big-band era, and illustrates Gerry Hanson’s life as a musician.
The fonds consists of 12 photographs showcasing Montreal orchestras in which Hanson performed, including the Westernaires, the Blue Serenaders, the Alouette Band, and Paul Beauregard’s Orchestra. The performers depicted in these photographs are mostly identified. The fonds also includes photocopies of press clippings.
Hanson, GerryFonds contain records relating to Marion Wagschal as an artist and Irving Layton’s friend. Material consists of drawings, slides, postcards, and handwritten letters from Irving Layton. The Marion Wagschal Fonds is part of the Irving Layton Collection.
The fonds has been divided into the following series:
F003/A Correspondence
F003/B Drawings and paintings
F003/C Poems.
The Nat Raider fonds documents the Montreal music scene from the 1950s until the 1970s, mostly by means of sheet music used in performances of the Nat Raider orchestra.
The fonds consists of materials used by the Nat Raider Orchestra, including sheet music and hand-written arrangements. Among these documents you will find “Le Caf’ Conc' Opening Theme” composed by Nat Raiser. Also included are song lyrics, performance notes, correspondence, and documents related to the performance of comedy.
Raider, NatThe fonds documents the activities of the Office of the Vice-Rector at Concordia for the period of 1974 to 1984 and some file document the activities of the Office of the Vice-Principal, Administration and Finance at Sir George Williams University. The latter files include some documents relating to the SGWU Computer Centre incident of 1969. The fonds also includes some files of André-Jean Laprade, Assistant Vice-Rector Relations and Audit.Those files mainly relate to "Groupe de recherche et d’élaboration d’un système d’informatique de gestion universitaire (GRESIGU)," 1968-1975 (A. J. Laprade being the responsible for the « SIGU-Recherche » group). There are also some Stirling Dorrance’s files who was first at Loyola College and then at Concordia, Assistant to the Rector, Development (these files were probably mixed up in storage space at some points - by error - with the files from the Vice-Rector, Administration and Finance).
The fonds manily consists of reports, correspondence, and some photographs.
Concordia University. Office of the Vice-Rector, Administration and FinanceThe fonds provides information on the evolution of Sir George Williams University and on the beginning of Concordia University. This fonds is mainly composed Dr. John W. O’Brien’s files as Principal of SGWU until 1974 and as Concordia University’s first Rector until May 1984. There are also some Michael Sheldon's files as Assistant to Principal of SGWU.
The fonds includes such textual records as correspondence, minutes, financial and other reports, clippings, and procedures and policies. It includes photographs, cartographic items, artifacts, and sound recordings. The fonds is divided into the following series:
I010/01 Associations
I010/02 Budget
I010/03 Budget control and accounting
I010/04 Buildings and properties
I010/05 Committees
I010/06 Computer facilities and operations
I010/07 Conferences, seminars, and special activities
I010/08 Cooperation and exchange activities
I010/09 Curriculum and programs
I010/10 Financing
I010/11 General correspondence
I010/12 Insurance
I010/13 Legal affairs and contracts
I010/14 Libraries and documentation centres
I010/15 Publications
I010/16 Publicity and public relations
I010/17 Relations /services, external
I010/18 Relations /services, internal
I010/19 Research activities
I010/20 Scholarships, awards and prizes
I010/21 Staff, general
I010/22 Staff, administrative and support
I010/23 Staff, teaching
I010/24 Statistics
I010/25 Student life
I010/26 Student records
I010/27 Teaching activities
I010/28 University organizations, policy and planning
I010/29 Photographs
Frederick Krantz edited the book History from Below: Studies in Popular Protest and Popular Ideology in Honour of George Rudé.
The fonds consists of a copy of the book, manuscript copies of the articles contributed for the book, correspondence with contributors and the publisher, a list of contributors, and curricula vitae.
Krantz, Frederick H.The fonds provides information on the QAAL's political and other activities in defence of the rights of adult students.
The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, conference documentation, financial records, and reports.
Quebec Association for Adult LearningThe fonds mainly provides information on his teaching activities at Concordia and administrative duties as Director of the SGW Art Galleries.
The fonds includes course outlines, reference materials on art, student exams and papers, committee minutes and correspondence.
Cooke, EdwyFonds provides information on the activities of the Academic Planning Office from 1967 to 1984, years for which J. H. Whitelaw was Curriculum Coordinator, Associate Vice-Rector and Vice-Rector (Academic). It also provides information on related activities in which J. H. Whitelaw was involved from 1961-1984.
Fonds contains mainly curriculum, statistics, textual records, correspondence, minutes, reports, press clippings, procedures and policies. The fonds is organized according to the following series:
I0038/01 Associations
I0038/02 Budget
I0038/03 Budget Control and Accounting
I0038/04 Committees
I0038/05 Computer Facilities and Operations
I0038/06 Cooperation and Exchange Activities
I0038/07 Curriculum & Programmes
I0038/08 Departmental Affairs
I0038/09 Financing
I0038/10 General Correspondence
I0038/11 Publications
I0038/12 Relations / Services External
I0038/13 Relations / Services Internal
I0038/14 Research Activities
I0038/15 Staff General
I0038/16 Staff Teaching
I0038/17 Statistics
I0038/18 Student Life
I0038/19 University Organizations, Policy and Planning
The fonds primarily gives details on the language debate in Quebec in the 1970s and on income levels of francophone and anglophone Quebeckers relative to their level of education, among other issues. The fonds also includes files related to the chemical industry in Canada.
The fonds consists of minutes, reports, surveys, correspondence, speeches, and articles.
Hall, Wilfred N.The fonds provides information on class reunions that took place in 1956, 1961, and 1986, and on the Loyola Alumni Association.
The fonds consists of class reunion booklets and press clippings.
Tobin, DonaldThe fonds provides information on the visual arts in Canada, particularly Montreal.
The fonds includes photocopies of numerous reviews and articles by Virginia Nixon on exhibits, artists, and other topics.
Nixon, VirginiaThe fonds provides information on jazz in Montreal, particularly on radio, during the 1950s and 1960s.
The fonds contains music that Johnny Holmes arranged and conducted, audiotapes of CBC radio broadcasts, photographs of performers, and press clippings.
Holmes, JohnnyThe fonds provides information about Clyde Duncan's career as a jazz musician.
The fonds contains musical engagement contracts (1939-1940), the Canadian Federation of Musicians by-laws (1930), concert programs, press clippings, photographs, and sound recordings.
Duncan, ClydeThe fonds provides information on the history of the Garnet Key Society of Concordia University and its founding institution Sir George Williams University.
The fonds consists of handbooks, minutes of meeting, correspondence, lists of nominations, and Garnet Key garments and objects.
Concordia University. Garnet Key SocietyThe fonds provides information on the teaching activities of Orson Shorey Wheeler and his work as sculptor. The fonds consists of clippings, term papers and exams, architectural sketches, invitations, correspondence, library addition listings, photographs, and minutes.
Wheeler, Orson ShoreyThe fonds provides information on activities of the Guinea Pig Graduating class. It also provides information on the foundation of the Alumni Association of Sir George Williams College and the Society of the Order of the Guinea Pig.
The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, and clippings.
Manson, Norman