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John Gilmore fonds
P004 · Fonds · [ca. 1912?]-2021, predominantly 1981-1983

The fonds provides information on jazz in Montreal between 1916 and 2007.

The fonds contains the material John Gilmore gathered for his two books. It contains research notes, sound recordings including interviews with musicians and others, photographs, posters, correspondence, and a manuscript of Swinging in Paradise: The Story of Jazz in Montreal.

The fonds is organized in the following series:
P0004/A Research material
P0004/B Manuscripts
P0004/C Reviews
P0004/D Lectures and interviews

Gilmore, John
John Joseph Curran fonds
P108 · Fonds · 1882

The fonds consists of a gold watch inscribed J.J. Curran Q.C.L.L.D. on his 40th birthday by the Irishmen of Montreal, February 22, 1882.

Curran, John Joseph
John Laffey fonds
P0143 · Fonds · 1959-1996

The fonds mainly documents the professional activities of John F. Laffey as a History Department faculty member at Sir George Williams University and Concordia University.

The fonds consists of correspondence, course and lecture notes, clippings, and a few personal documents.

Laffey, John
John Loye fonds
P072 · Fonds · 1819-1949

The fonds provides information on the Irish community of Montreal in the 19th and early 20th century, and its view of Ireland and Irish culture. Some documents relate to the United Irish Societies (U.I.S.) of Montreal and the Saint Patrick’s Society of Montreal, as well as to Thomas d’Arcy McGee and John Loye, whereas others are standing in connection to James McAran, a Montreal merchant. The fonds also gives information on the Irish Question and reactions to it in Canada, through an album of newspaper clippings collected by James Albert Whittaker during 1920 to 1923, augmented by correspondence and small brochures from the same time period.

The fonds consists of four albums and several separate documents. The albums contain collections of greeting cards, Irish songs and poetry, family photographs, and newspaper clippings on the Irish Question. Furthermore, the fonds includes without limitations newspapers, sheet music, brochures, correspondence, a map of Ireland, drawings (including original artwork for the United Irish Societies of Montreal logo), and the text of an address on Irish-Canadian history given at the St. Patrick's Society Ball in 1872 by John O'Farrell, president of the Hibernian Benevolent Society of Quebec.

Loye, John
John O'Neill Gallery fonds
P0136 · Fonds · 1913-1919

The fonds provides information on sports at Loyola College and McGill University, real-estate transactions in Montreal, and Canadian history.

The fonds consists of a scrapbook of press clippings documenting student sports activities at Loyola College; the clippings were gathered by John O'Neill Gallery while he was a student. Also included are early 20th-century legal documents, primarily related to real estate transactions conducted by the O'Neill / Gallery families; nine late 19th- / early 20th-century books on Montreal and Canadian history; a 1904 book entitled Irish Literature, and a photograph of the 1919 McGill University rugby team .

Gallery, John O'Neill
John W. O’Brien fonds
P0047 · Fonds · 1961-1978

The fonds provides information on economics and John W. O'Brien's career.

The fonds consists primarily of correspondence, an undated manuscript entitled A History of Banking in the United States and Canada.

O'Brien, John W.
Johnny Holmes fonds
P0016 · Fonds · [194-]-1989

The 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, Johnny
Johnny Reno fonds
P0065 · Fonds · 1943

The Johnny Reno fonds consists of two photographs of Percy Ferguson's Victory Serenadors, including Oscar Peterson, at Canadian Pacific's Rosemont Hall in Montreal in 1943.

Reno, Johnny
Joseph Roizen fonds
P0244 · Fonds · 1938-1945

The fonds mainly provides visual information on some Sir George Williams College social and cultural activities at the beginning of the 1940s. For instance, there are images of the preview performance of the March 1942 Giorgantics (the SGW Annual musical review), held in Brownsburg (now Brownsburg-Chatham) in the Laurentians area. There are also photos of friends, a few in Ste. Agathe, and photos in Saint-Hubert and Dorval airports. The photos subjects include SGW Georgiantics, SGW Winter carnival, SGW sports; SGW students and Staff, as well as aircrafts and radio equipment.

Roizen, Joseph
P0062 · Fonds · 1972-1999

The fonds provides information on art in Canada and on the publication of the journal.

The fonds consists of manuscripts, correspondence, reviews, a logbook of manuscripts received, published issues, financial records, minutes, copies of grant applications, and subscription and advertising files.

Journal of Canadian Art History
Katherine Tweedie fonds
P0126 · Fonds · 1978-1982

The 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, Katherine
Katherine Waters fonds
P0161 · Fonds · 1969-1982

The 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.
Kathryn Lipke fonds
P0206 · Fonds

The description of this fonds is not yet available. Please contact Concordia University Records Management and Archives for more information: archives@concordia.ca.

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
Ken Whittingham fonds
P0253 · Fonds · 1967 - 2005

The fonds provides information on Ken Whittingham’s student life at Loyola College, his work as a journalist and his professional career in the field of public relations at Concordia University.

The EDUCATION subseries is comprised of student records including a Loyola College commemorative degree Whittingham received in 2005, some student papers produced during his studies, a file on the controversy about the Loyola of Montreal Students' Association (LMSA) Gamut Magazine and records related to his involvement with the Loyola News.

The JOURNALISM subseries includes records related to Whittingham's employment at the Montreal Star. It contains press clippings of articles he wrote between June 1970 and May 1979, including an activity summary in the form of an index produced by his father John Hurst Whittingham, a notebook and a file about the closing of the newspaper in 1979. The subseries also includes a sample of articles Whittingham wrote for various publications, including the Chronicle of Higher Education, the University of Waterloo Gazette, among others.

The PUBLIC RELATIONS subseries includes a file testifying of Whittingham's work as a Public Relations Officer at McGill University between 1980 and 1982 but mostly records related to his position as Interim Director and then Director of the Public relations Department of Concordia University. They include correspondence, press clippings, event brochures and transcriptions of radio interviews, materials related to the tragic events of August 24, 1992, the Concordia institutional marketing campaign of 1995 and Whittingham's work as an external consultant.

The CONFERENCE, SEMINARS, TALKS subseries is comprised of records related to presentations or workshops given by Whittingham to the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE), the Conférence des recteurs et principaux des universités du Québec (CREPUQ) and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in between 1993 and 1994.

The DISTINCTIONS series includes a file on the Distinguished Service Award Whittingham received from the Concordia University Alumni Association (CUAA) in 1997.

Whittingham, Ken
Kenneth D. Adams fonds
P0105 · Fonds · 1942-[195-]

The fonds contains photographs of Sir George Williams students involved in a 1944 artillery reserve training camp, musical activities at Sir George Williams, students participating in the Saskatchewan wheat harvest in 1942, and staff, sports, and student life.

Adams, Kenneth D.
Kenneth E. Norris fonds
P0118 · Fonds · 1931

The fonds provides information on the studies Kenneth E. Norris did at McGill for his master's degree.

The fonds consists of a copy of his master's thesis: Characteristics and Abilities of Evening High School Students (1931).

Norris, Kenneth E.
Kina Reusch fonds
P162 · Fonds · 1976-1988

The documents relate to the artistic career of Kina Reusch and her participation in Corridart dans la rue Sherbrooke and the subsequent legal proceedings known as L'Affaire Corridart.

Included are photographs (slides,prints and negatives), textual documents including articles, clippings, and personal records, and a video of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation program "Kina Reusch: the New Penelope". The fonds includes a 151-page brief (Mémoire des appellants) for the Corridart hearings at the Appeal Court and a copy of the July-August 1976 issue of ArtsCanada which has a feature on Corridart.

Reusch, Kina
Kurt Jonassohn fonds
P0264 · Fonds · 1962-1970

The fonds provides information on Kurt Jonassohn's teaching career as a professor at Sir George Williams University and Concordia University as well as a researcher in the field of the history and sociology of genocides.

The ADMINISTRATION subseries includes records related to Jonassohn's involvement in the Association of University Teachers Planning Committee (SGWAUT) and the Student's Undergraduate Society. It is comprised of meeting minutes, correspondence, notes and a honorary degree nomination form for Norman Cohn.
The TEACHING subseries consists of teaching material, course outlines, course notes, readings lists as well as some promotional material (posters and brochures) related to the Summer Session in Sociology Project held at Sir George Williams University in the 1960's and 1970's.
The CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, TALKS subseries includes speaking notes, programs and correspondence related to the many conferences, symposiums and talks Jonassohn's took part in, often in collaboration with fellow Frank Chalk, such as 'Culture, Persecution, Perpetrator Intent and Their Effects on the Human Rights Agenda' presented to the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Anthropological Association in 1984 or 'Conceptualizations of Genocide and Ethnocide' presented at Famine Ukraine 1933 Symposium held in Montreal, in August 1983.
The WRITINGS subseries is comprised of some correspondence and texts and written by Jonassohn or in collaboration with Frank Chalk such as 'A Typology of Genocide and Some Implications for the Human Rights Agenda' in 1984.
The MONTREAL INSTITUTE FOR GENOCIDE STUDIES subseries includes records related to the development of the Audio-visual Collection and the Azrieli Collection of the institute as well as 'Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust', a lecture by Frank Chalk from 1995.
The CORRESPONDENCE subseries consists of communications exchanged with organizations such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies and with other scholars, most notably Helen Fein, Jack Porter and Norman Cohn.
The RESEARCH AND REFERENCE DOCUMENTATION subseries is comprised of articles, papers, reports and press clippings on subjects close to history and sociology of genocides: the holocaust, the Armenian people, ethnic minorities, history revisionism and gypsy communities name a few.

Jonassohn, Kurt
La Centrale fonds
P128 · Fonds · 1971-2013

The fonds provides information on the administration, programming, and activities of La Centrale. It covers the gallery’s development from its beginnings in 1973 until 2013. The fonds documents the gallery’s history, as well as its role in the Montreal art scene. In addition to events and exhibitions, the fonds includes documentation concerning the Mois de la performance, Viva!, the Mois de la photographie, and HTMlles, and other Montreal-based events. It also contains biographical information on a significant number of artists based around the world.

The fonds contains a wide variety of documents, including but not limited to, meeting minutes, newsletters, reports, press clippings, publications, artists’ CVs, correspondence, photographs, posters and other publicity, programs, audio recordings and moving images, contracts, financial records, and objects.

The fonds is organized into the following series:

P128/A. Administration
P128/B. Financial Records
P128/C. Programming
P128/D. Communications
P128/E. Artists and Events
P128/F. Publications
P128/G. External Relations
P128/H. Facilities Management
P128/I. Legal Affairs
P128/J. Membership
P128/K. Human Resources
P128/L. Surveys

La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse
Lawrence Sabbath fonds
P0138 · Fonds · 1960-1992

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).

Sabbath, Lawrence
Leah Sherman fonds
P0229 · Fonds · 1980 - 1998

The fonds mainly provides information on Leah Sherman’s teaching activities.

The fonds includes research and teaching materials, visiting artist and lectures files, correspondence and exhibition catalogues

Sherman, Leah
Leila Sujir fonds
P0277 · Fonds · 1972 - 2008

The fonds provides information on the Sujir’s art projects and professional activities as an artist researcher and faculty member at Concordia for the period between 1972 and 2008.

The fonds consists of project administrative records, research materials and video and audio recordings of her film productions.

Sujir, Leila
Leon Llewellyn fonds
F032 · Fonds · [19--] ; 1966-2018, predominant 1969-1979

The Leon Llewellyn fonds documents the life and career of Leon Llewellyn. Significantly, the fonds is composed of documentation pertaining to Montreal's English-speaking Black Community. These materials document the activities and functions of various Black community organizations, including but not limited to, the Negro Community Centre/Charles H. Este Cultural Centre; Black Studies Centre; Quebec Board of Black Educators; Black Community Central Administration of Quebec; Black Community Council of Quebec; National Black Coalition of Canada; Côte-des-Neiges Black Community Association; Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Black Community Association; Côte-des-Neiges Black Community Development Project; Black Theater Workshop; Association of Black Artists; Montreal Black Photography Society; Union United Church; Black Action Party; National Black Coalition Institute of Research in the Black Experience; National Congress of Black Women; Black Community Communications Media; Black Is!; Negro Theater Arts Club; Revue Theater; Black Workers Association; Black Youth Radio; and the Black Youth Television Workshop. Materials related to the Concordia Student Union; Concordia University's Black Student Union; McGill Black Student Union, Caribbean Students' Society of McGill University; and the Black Students' Association of Champlain College are also found in this fonds. Additionally, this fonds contains various issues of prominent community newspapers and magazines, including but not limited to, Uhuru; Focus Umoja; Focus Magazine; Afro-Can; Afro Canadian; Contrast; The Black Voice; Montréal Camera; Community Contact; The Montreal Challenger; The Montreal Oracle; African Awakener; Canadian Tribune; Voice of Montreal; and The Black: A Canadian Journal of Self Expression. It also contains materials related to the publication of the book "Journey into Our Caribbean Past" by Eric Llewellyn.

The Leon Llewellyn fonds is composed of a wide variety of textual and graphic materials, including photographs, negatives, contact sheets, sketches and drawings, greeting cards, newspapers, magazines, correspondence, reports, meeting minutes and agenda, bulletins, invitations, newsletters, pamphlets, flyers, booklets, posters, financial documents, programs, and curricula, among many others. The fonds also contains a few objects.

The Leon Llewellyn fonds is divided into three series:
F032/A Community organizations and events
F032/B Community newspapers and magazines
F032/C Personal papers

Llewellyn, Leon
P0107 · Fonds · 1987-1993

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.

Concordia University. Lesbian Studies Coalition
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.
Lewis Thomas Drummond fonds
P0081 · Fonds · 1848

The fonds consists of an original parchment appointing Drummond as Queen's Counsel in 1848.

Drummond, Lewis Thomas
Linda Kay fonds
P0265 · Fonds · [193-]-2017, predominant 2004-2016

The fonds mainly provides information on Linda Kay’s research on the pioneering female journalists who travelled together to cover St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904 and on the Canadian Women’s Press Club (CWPC).

The fonds includes research materials mainly composed of correspondence, articles, and photocopies of various documents (mainly 1887-1904) related to the pioneering female journalists. It also contains interviews with CWPC members during the Centennial anniversary of the Club in 2004 and recordings of the entire event which includes a re-enactment of the original Sweet Sixteen trip to the World’s Fair in St. Louis in 1904. There are also original documents related to one of the 1904 pioneering female journalist, Alice Asselin (nee LeBoutillier): five photographs (1930s-1950s), and a few textual records on the history of the LeBoutillier family.

Kay, Linda
Linda Leith fonds
P227 · Fonds · 1944-2008

The description of this fonds is not available. Please contact Concordia University Libraries Special Collections for more information.

Leith, Linda