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Jacques Trépanier fonds
P246 · Fonds · 1947-1954

The fonds consists of materials documenting the journalistic career of Jacques Trépanier and primarily concern the Montreal arts scene.

The fonds is primarily composed of press clippings from "La Patrie," organized in two scrapbooks. These scrapbooks contain a variety of clippings, including several articles documenting Montreal nightclubs during the period between 1950 and 1954. These articles were published under the headline "La Ronde des cabarets." This fonds also contains some correspondence and 45 press photographs.

Trépanier, Jacques
Lewis J. Poteet fonds
P0269 · Fonds · 1948-2017

The fonds provides information on Lewis Poteet’s research on language, dialect and slang. The fonds also gives genealogical information on the Poteet family.

The fonds contains research materials, drafts, correspondence with other lexicographers and writers, and notes. The fonds also includes materials on Poteet’s latest literary project: Voetsek – Revisiting Swasiland and Soweto, a narrative non-fiction memory of his childhood in South Africa.

Poteet, Lewis J.
Boyce Richardson fonds
P231 · Fonds · 1948-2003

The fonds documents the professional life of Boyce Richardson.

It includes manuscripts of articles, research materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, film proposals and scripts, and photographs of the James Bay Cree community.

Richardson, Boyce
David Stanger fonds
P0017 · Fonds · 1948 - 1951

The fonds provides information on David Stanger's activities as photographer for various Sir George Williams campus activities such as the carnival and ski meet. The fonds documents student life.

The fonds consists of pictures taken on various occasions.

Stanger, David
P0046 · Fonds · 1948-1960

The fonds provides information on academic activities and policies.

The fonds consists of proceedings of conferences and a guide to academic policies and practices.

MacGuigan S.J., J. Gerald
Robert A. Fraser fonds
P0033 · Fonds · 1949 - 1973

The fonds provides information on Robert A. Fraser's activities on various committees and external bodies and on his classes.

The fonds consists of correspondence, student papers, course files, and examinations.

Fraser, Robert A.
Orson Shorey Wheeler fonds
P0067 · Fonds · 1949-1987, predominant 1961-1967

The 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 Shorey
Wilfred N. Hall fonds
P0040 · Fonds · 1949-1986

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.
Donald Tobin fonds
P0060 · Fonds · [ca. 1949]-1986

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, Donald
P0260 · Fonds · 1949-1953

The fonds provides information on student activities at Sir George between 1949 and 1953 such as freshman and graduation balls.

The fonds consists of photographs taken on various occasions.

Steinberg Friedman, Florence
Gordie Fleming fonds
P178 · Fonds · [195-]-[197-]

The fonds consists mainly of recordings of radio broadcasts featuring musical performances by Gordie Fleming and his group. Most were broadcast on Radio-Canada and CBC on Lower Canada Swing, Saturday Set, Les joyeux troubadours, Jazz en liberté and Les fantaisistes.

Fleming, Gordie
Wynne Francis fonds
F006 · Fonds · 1950-1997

The fonds documents Wynne Francis’ friendship with Irving Layton. It consists of letters, sound recordings, research material and notes for Francis’ unfinished biography of Irving Layton, photographs, promotional material, written works, poems, and teaching notes. The Wynne Francis Fonds is part of the Irving Layton Collection.

The fonds has been divided into 9 series:
F006/A Sound Recordings
F006/B Clippings
F006/C Correspondence
F006/D Manuscripts, Articles, and Drafts
F006/E Photographs
F006/F Poems
F006/G Promotional Material
F006/H Research Material
F006/I Teaching Material

Francis, Wynne
Walter Boudreau fonds
P021 · Fonds · [195-?]- 2016

The fonds provides information on the career of Walter Boudreau and on L'Infonie and the Quatuor de Jazz Libre du Québec, as well as Raoul Duguay, musicians Pierre Leduc and Jean Préfontaine, and the Société de Musique contemporaine du Quebec (SMCQ).

The fonds consists of musical scores and composition notes for Walter Boudreau's compositions and arrangements, press clippings, photographs, posters, sound recordings, and a robe worn by Boudreau in L'Infonie.

Boudreau, Walter
Edith Mather fonds
F012 · Fonds · [195- ?] ; 1957-1981, predominant 1957-1969

Fonds consists of materials accumulated by Edith Mather resulting from her friendship with Irving Layton. This fonds is predominantly composed of photographic prints, negatives, and slides of Irving Layton, Betty (Sutherland) Layton, Aviva (Cantor) Layton, and children Max Layton, Naomi Layton, and David Layton. It also contains a painting of Irving Layton by Edith Mather.

Collection is divided into 2 series:
C010/A. Photographs
C010/B. Artwork

Mather, Edith
Russell (Russ) Dufort fonds
F020 · Fonds · [195-] ; [199-]

The fonds documents the career of drummer Russell (Russ) Dufort. It includes materials related to Dufort's time with the Johnny Holmes Orchestra, the Stardusters, and the Royal Canadian Airforce band. The fonds also includes arrangements purchased from Russell Dufort from the Escorts.

The fonds is composed of annotated scores, set lists, photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, a business card, a membership card, swizzle sticks from Montreal clubs, and a wooden box used by the Escorts to transport their music, among other materials.

Dufort, Russell
Maury Kaye fonds
P0031 · Fonds · [195-]-[198-]

The 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, Maury
P0111 · Fonds · 1950-1968

The fonds gives information on university-based military training. It includes correspondence, minutes, reports, training notes, financial records, a visitors' register, and photographs of commanding officers, members of the contingent, the training grounds, and Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip.

The fonds organized into the following series:

P111/1 Administrative records
P111/2 Accounting records
P111/3 Photographs
P111/4 Objects.
Sir George Williams University. Contingent of the COTC
Harold Shaffer fonds
P0005 · Fonds · 1950 - 1979

The fonds provides information on the retail environment in Canada from the 1950s through the 1970s, on Harold Shaffer's activities as a teacher, retail consultant, and writer, and on the Shaffer family.

The fonds contains correspondence, texts for speeches and lectures, articles, research material, and family papers. It includes acetates used in classroom teaching, and photographs.

The fonds is organized in the following series:

P0005/1 Publications and related case files, 1956-1978
P0005/2 Research project and related files, no date
P0005/3 Teaching materials, 1960s
P0005/4 General correspondence, 1950-1977
P0005/5 Addresses / speeches, 1957-1977
P0005/6 Business seminar materials, 1962-1969
P0005/7 Family papers

Shaffer, Harold
Keith White fonds
P0243 · Fonds · [195?]-[199-?]

The fonds mainly provides information on Keith White’s life as musician and on Jazz music in Montreal, in the 1950s and 1960s. There is also information on Keith White’s various working and teaching experiences, and his friendships.

The fonds is composed of more than 500 music recordings; music scores; five unpublished texts of reminescence such as Noting the Scene [1989]; six texts on mathematics; and around 200 photographs (prints, slides, and digital).

White, Keith
Michael Sheldon fonds
P0172 · Fonds · 1950-1980

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, Michael
Rytsa Helene Tobias fonds
P0242 · Fonds · 1951

The fonds documents Rytsa Tobias’s Graduation at Sir George Williams College, in June 1951.
It is composed of her diploma, medal certificates, graduation picture and a photograph showing her receiving the Birks medal from Mr. Victor M. Birks.

Tobias, Rytsa Helene
Haralds Grants family fonds
P0185 · Fonds · 1951-1972

The fonds is related to Montreal nightlife in the 1950s and 60s. It gives an impression of the nightlife in a Montreal Downtown restaurant with its waiters and guests, remembered in photographs and autographs, the latter covering Canadian and international celebrities from sports and entertainment business.

The fonds includes autograph albums, photographs, brochures and postcards.

Haralds Grants family
Edwy Cooke fonds
P0190 · Fonds · 1951 - 1985

The 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, Edwy
Rose Sheinin fonds
P0245 · Fonds · 1952 - 2007

The fonds provides mainly information on Dr. Rose Sheinin’s research and teaching activities at the University of Toronto and on her career as a university administrator at Concordia University.

The fonds includes course material, lectures, research files, reports, articles, press clippings and correspondence.

Sheinin, Rose
Donald L. Peets fonds
P0261 · Fonds · 1952-1967

The fonds is composed of a text book, a few photographs and newspaper clippings related to Professor Peets’s career as Registrar in the 1960s.

Peets, Donald L.
Daniel Feist fonds
P203 · Fonds · 1953-2005, predominant [199-]-2004

The fonds documents Daniel Feist’s work as a freelance broadcaster, journalist, musician and teacher, including his travels and participation in events such as Montreal’s Nuits d’Afrique festival, the United Nations Conference on Racism, music awards, and others. The material mainly covers the genre of world-beat music (also known as world music) in the period from 1990 to 2005. Some sound recordings of music performances include interviews with the artists.

The fonds includes without limitations biographies of artists, drafts of articles, consulting reports, teaching material, correspondence, books, sound recordings (digital audio tapes, reel-to-reel tapes, cassette tapes, and CDs), newspaper clippings, notes, and photographs (on CD-ROM and printed out in black and white).

The fonds is organized in the following series:

P0203/A. – Personal life.

P0203/B. – Broadcasting.

P0203/C. – Radio consulting.

P0203/D. – Print journalism.

P0203/E. – Teaching.

P0203/F. – Resource materials.

Feist, Daniel
Pnina Gagnon fonds
P0282 · Fonds · 1953 - 2021

The fonds provides information on Pnina Gagnon’s professional life as an artist. It consists of records on her creative works, exhibitions, writings and publications, media coverage, correspondence and conferences or talks she took part in.

The fonds also contains records about her private life. It consists mainly of personal correspondence, journals and agendas, records on her education, family, travels and spirituality.

Gagnon, Pnina Cohen
Mari-Lin Smith Miller fonds
P0259 · Fonds · 1953 – [195-?]

The fonds provides information on student activities at Sir George in the 1950s such as freshman parade, carnival, and student exchange weekend at Cornell University, Ithaca NY.

The fonds consists of photographs taken on various occasions.

Smith Miller, Mari-Lin
P0091 · Fonds · 1954 - 1971

The fonds provides information on Students' Association activities and relations with the educational structures of the University.

The fonds consists of correspondence, conference proceedings, minutes, Georgian Film Society files, and a visitors golden book.

Sir George Williams University. Day Students' Association
Ann Charney fonds
P0237 · Fonds · 1954-2009

The Ann Charney fonds provides information on Ann Charney’s journalistic and literary career as well as her personal life. It documents both Charney's fiction and non-fiction writings from the 1960s until 2009, and provides insight into the process of publishing from the author’s point of view. The fonds also includes information on the Blue Metropolis foundation, a not-for-profit organization located in Montreal, Quebec, responsible for the annual Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival. Finally, the fonds provides a glimpse into the life of Jewish emigrants. It also contains information about Canadian and international artists working during the second half of the 20th century.

The fonds contains drafts and final versions of novels and short stories written by Ann Charney; personal and professional correspondence; newspaper articles; publicity material; meeting minutes; agreements; financial documents; photographs; reports; and magazines, among other documents.

The fonds is organized into the following series:

P0237/A Fiction
P0237/B Non-fiction
P0237/C Correspondence
P0237/D Blue Metropolis

Charney, Ann