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The Mary-Jacques Cambay Collection is the result of Mary-Jacques Cambay‘s research into stained-glass in Quebec, and the contributions of artists working in stained-glass to the Province's artistic heritage. The collection documents stained-glass windows existing in Quebec churches during the 1970s and 1980s. It also includes information pertaining to select churches. In addition, the collection documents the works of a number of stained glass artists, including Guido Nincheri, Charles William Kelsey, and Flavien St. Pierre, and the stained-glass studio "Canadian Pittsburgh Industries Limited" (C.P.I.). Importantly, it contains oral history interviews conducted by Cambay with artists working in stained glass.

The Mary-Jacques Cambay collection is composed mostly of photographic materials in form of prints and slides, but also audio cassettes and textual records. As textual materials, the collection consists in pamphlets, newspaper clippings, correspondence, extracts from reference works, and handwritten notes. An index of Quebec churches with stained glass windows completes the collection.

The fonds documents the arts and crafts in Montreal and elsewhere between the late 1940s and the 1980s. The fonds covers the evolution of Lucien Desmarais' career from its beginnings at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts until his death in 1988, including his activities in theatre and his travels. The fonds also reveals his diverse interests in theatre, entertainment, and general culture. The fonds is based on the professional activities of Lucien Desmarais, tisserand concepteur (weaver-designer) and gives information on his creations for high fashion and interior decoration and the annual exhibitions in which he participated. The fonds also gives information on his involvement in numerous associations and cultural organizations as founder, director, and jury member. The fonds gives information on his teaching activities and the courses he gave at various colleges, as well as his speeches.

The fonds includes correspondence, textile samples, course notes, theatre programs, posters, invitations to openings and exhibits, photographs, clippings, drawings, albums, and a scrapbook of clippings of fashion photographs with swatches of the fabrics used in the garments shown. It includes a major collection of documents on the history of textiles and the artists and craftspersons who made them.

The fonds is organized into the following series:
P063/A Biography
P063/B Education
P063/C Administration
P063/D Financial records
P063/E Theatrical properties man
P063/F Weaver-designer
P063/G Consultant
P063/H Teaching and speeches
P063/I External relations
P063/J Travels
P063/K Awards and honours
P063/L Writings and publications
P063/M Research documents
P063/N Shows
P063/O Graphic materials

The fonds provides information on the administration and activities of the Faculty Club.

The fonds includes minutes, correspondence, financial records, agreements, menus, and other records. It also includes the seal of the Faculty Club.

The fonds provides information on the evolution of Patricia Morley's relationship with Canadian critic / journalist Kenneth Shorey. Shorey knew the artist William Kurelek, subject of a biography by Patricia Morley published in 1986, and some of the letters give details about Kurelek.

The fonds consists of approximately 250 pieces of outgoing and incoming correspondence, arranged chronologically.

The African Government Documents Collection is comprised of government documents dating from 1888 until 1988. The documents are predominantly from the period between 1950 and 1975. The documents primarily concern the following areas: Republic of Botswana, East Africa, Republic of The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nyasaland, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

The Jack Litchfield Fonds consists of typewritten manuscripts for A Chronology of Five Montreal Record-Collectors' Clubs and A Chronology of Six Montreal Record-Collectors' Clubs (1989).

The collection is composed of images taken by François Lachapelle for the book "Répertoire des gravures conservées au Monastère des ursulines de Québec" (1982), created in collaboration with Mario Béland. The collection includes 465 slides, both black and white and colour, showing engravings, paintings, and embroidery from the collection of the Monastère des Ursulines de Québec. It also contains a handwritten inventory, which provides details about the items in the collection of the Ursulines de Québec.

The Monastère des Ursulines de Québec collection is divided into 2 series:
• C020/A. Textual material
• C020/B. Photographic material

The fonds mostly provides provides information on Rudé's professional life. The professional life series is divided in 5 main sub-series:

• CONFERENCES & SEMINARS
• TEACHING
• RESEARCH
• WRITINGS
• CORRESPONDENCE

The material focuses primarily on the study of the crowd in history, European revolutions and protests, crime and punishment in Britain and Australia. The fonds consists of research notes, correspondence, course outlines, notes for presentations given at different conferences and seminars, manuscripts, press clippings of articles on Rudé or reviews of his many publications. It includes microfilmed documents from other archives and other reference documentation: photocopies of different articles and publications.

The fonds also contains some information about his private life.

The fonds consists of ten series, many of them subdivided into sub-series. The documents cover the period 1972 to 1982, however, the great majority of the documents were created between 1973 and 1976.

This finding aid deals with the administrative, financial files of this organization as well as the artist and exhibition files, the publicity material (posters, art catalogues), and photographs.

There is little documentation for the activities of the Véhicule Art Inc. gallery from 1976 to 1982. During this time the gallery experienced both administrative and financial difficulties. Frequent changes of staff and insufficient funding contributed to the weakening of the gallery and its activities.

The original order of the documents quite faithfully reflected the internal organization of the gallery. Thus, the documents dating from 1972 to 1975, were relatively well organized and required no further arrangement; on the other hand, those covering the 1976-1982 period needed complete reorganization.

The fonds is organized into the following series:
P0027/01 Organization
P0027/02 Personnel
P0027/03 Finances
P0027/04 Programming
P0027/05 Artists, exhibitions and performances
P0027/06 Associations
P0027/07 Correspondence
P0027/08 Photographs
P0027/09 Sound recordings
P0027/10 Posters

The fonds provides information on Hugh P. Illsley's military service, his travel to Europe with his family, and his work as a Montreal architect.

The fonds consists of correspondence, a photograph album, sets of photographs, ledgers, and scrapbooks.

Fonds consists of a manuscript of the musical score The Upper Neighbours Suitewhich. The Upper Neighbours Suitewhich was commissioned by the Association, composed and arranged by Jimmy Heath, and performed by Jimmy Heath and Richard Parris at its world premiere on October 6, 1990, at the Concordia University Concert Hall.

The PROFESSIONNAL LIFE series is comprised of 2 sub-series: the RESEARCH AND REFERENCE DOCUMENTATION sub-series is comprised of typed transcripts of interviews, curriculum vitae, promotional materials and press clippings of the photographers.

The research documentation includes files for the following photographers:

• Louise Abbott
• Raymonde April
• Michel Campeau
• Serge Clément
• Sorel Cohen
• Robert Del Tredici
• Michael Flomen
• Pierre Gaudard
• Tom Gibson
• Pierre Guimond
• Clara Gutsche
• Holly King
• John Max
• David Miller
• Denis Plain
• Gabor Szilasi
• Sam Tata
• Serge Tousignant

The AUDIO INTERVIEWS sub-series is comprised of taped interviews done by Katherine Tweedie with Quebec photographers.

The interviewed photographers include:

• Louise Abbott
• Michel Campeau
• Roger Charbonneau
• Tim Clark (Concordia Faculty Member)
• Serge Clément
• Michael Flomen
• Pierre Gaudard
• Normand Grégoire
• Pierre Guimond
• Clara Gutsche (Concordia University Faculty Member)
• Tom Gibson (Former Concordia University Faculty Member)
• John Max
• David Miller
• Denis Plain
• Gabor Sziliasi (Former Concordia University Faculty Member)
• Sam Tata (Recipient of an honorary doctorate from Concordia University)

The PROFESSIONNAL LIFE subseries also includes articles written by Katherine Tweedie in different photography publications.

The fonds provides information on John Buell as an author and on the Loyola College Dramatic Society.

The fonds includes manuscripts of novels, plays and radio plays; Loyola Reviews for 1955, 1959, 1960, and 1961; and clippings, programs, correspondence, and photographs related to the Loyola College Dramatic Society.

The fonds provides information on the administration, awards, and activities of the Alumni Association of Sir George Williams University and its members.

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, constitutive documents, graduate and member lists, clippings, photographs, job descriptions, financial records, and documents related to fund-raising, homecoming and social activities.

The fonds provides information on the visual arts and on the administration and activities which occurred in and around Aubes 3935.

The fonds contains administrative and financial information, artist files, exhibition files, catalogues, postcards, invitations, posters, photographs, and videos.

The fonds also contains the documents of artist Denis Demers (1948-1987), primarily photographs of his work, correspondence, newspaper articles, and photocopies of publicity for La Biennale de dessins et d'estampes du Québec '83, in which he won first prize for his drawings.

The fonds relates to language and cultural policy in Quebec. First, it provides information on the implementation of bill 101, also known as Charter of the French Language, and the reactions of Anglophone publishers. Second, it provides information on the protest against the so-called Arpin-report, published 1991 under the title “Une politique de la culture et des arts”.

The fonds includes without limitation correspondence, newspaper clippings, government publications, newsletters, court documents

The fonds is organized into the following series:

P0197/A Quebec Publisher fight against Bill 101
P0197/B Fight against Arpin Report

The fonds provides information on Professor Verschingel’s teaching activities at SGW and Concordia University.

The fonds includes personal papers such as diplomas and student papers, and course materials for the courses he taught at SGW and Concordia University.

The fonds mainly provides information on Dennis Jones’ career as professor and chair of the Printmaking department at Concordia University.

The fonds includes minutes, course materials, correspondence and publications.

The fonds includes a sound recording and a transcript of an interview with John Bland, professor emeritus of the McGill University School of Architecture. It was done in 1991 as an oral history project by graduate students in a course entitled “Modern Architecture in Canada”, given by Howard Shubert at Concordia University in 1991. An edited selection from the interview was published as “An Interview with Professor John Bland” in John Bland at Eighty: A Tribute, ed by I. Murray and N. Schoenauer (Montreal: McGill University, 1991), p. 4-17.

The fonds provides information on the activities and events in which the LGFC was involved at Concordia University.

The fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda, a draft of a guidebook for gay students, event notices and schedules, financial records, and newsletters.

Fonds is composed of records relating to Russell Thornton, friend of Irving Layton. Material consists of thirty-one letters between Russell Thornton and Irving Layton, in which Layton offers advice and encouragement to the young poet. The letters also chronicle Layton’s personal and professional life. The fonds also contains signed typescript copies of Layton’s poems. The Russell Thornton Fonds is part of the Irving Layton Collection.

The fonds has been divided into 2 series:
F005/A Correspondence
F005/B Poems

The fonds provides information on French-language theatre and visual arts in Montreal and elsewhere from the late 1950s through the 1980s.

The fonds contains the manuscript of an unpublished history of French theatre in Quebec, manuscripts of articles and talks, theatre programs, theatre photographs, clippings, and other documents. For instance, there are files on Montreal theatre productions (e.g., Théâtre du Rideau Vert and Théâtre de Quat'sous), authors (e.g., Gratien Gélinas and Michel Tremblay), and actors (e.g., Denise Pelletier).

The fonds provides information on research in and the teaching of engineering.

The fonds consists of Matthew Douglass' course files, course notes, articles, and working documents and the files he gathered as departmental chair.

The fonds consists of Russell Breen’s personal records (mainly correspondence with individuals and organizations) between 1970 and 1991 and some administrative documents related to Saint-Patrick Basilica. The fonds also includes texts of speeches, homilies, and sermons delivered by Russell Breen, between 1973 and 1993.

The collection contains newspaper clippings relating to Irving Layton. These clippings review his work, comment on events held to honour Layton and his work, include interviews with the poet, document reviews by fans, and include articles about Irving Layton and Canadian poets in general. Clippings were taken from several large Canadian newspapers from Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, Regina, Saskatoon, and Vancouver and include newspapers and magazines such as the Gazette, the Toronto Star, the Georgian, Poetry Canadian Review, Saturday Night, The Canadian Forum, Sunday Star and the Telegram.

The fonds provides information on the executive and administration of the Commerce and Administration Students' Association and its activities.

The fonds consists of minutes, executive lists, memoranda, the association's policies and constitution, and the presidents' annual reports. It also contains copies of a student profile book and CASA publications, including its newsletter, as well as photographs, posters, and objects related to CASA activities.

The fonds provides information on Montreal Children's Theatre and its founders.

The fonds consists of five scrapbooks including press clippings and articles, as well as photographs, a video cassette of a media interviews with Dorothy Davis [ca. 1983, 1984] and of a report on her death in 1993, and the honourary degrees conferred by Concordia University on Dorothy Davis and Violet Walters in 1984.

The fonds provides information on the administration of the LSCC and the involvement of the LSCC in events and classes at Concordia University.

The fonds consists of correspondence, lesbian studies documentation, advertising for events, clippings, minutes, budgets, subsidy applications, a panel proposal, conference documentation, and buttons.

The fonds provides information on CPSA activities and events.

The fonds consists of photocopies of CPSA administrative records, including correspondence with visiting lecturers, memos, and tutorial materials. It includes a CPSA T-shirt and photographs of the first Astronomy and Astrophysics Workshop.

The fonds documents an oral history project of the Irish of Montreal made by Patricia Burns on behalf of the St. Patrick's Society of Montreal between 1990 and 1992. The materials were used by Patricia Burns for her book The Shamrock and the Shield : an oral history of the Irish in Montreal.

The fonds is mainly composed of sound recordings and transcriptions of 54 interviews conducted by Patricia Burns and some by Kevin O'Donnell, with people of Irish origin living in Montreal, and many having grown up in Griffintown.