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The fonds provides information on the development of the Health Education program. It includes curriculum development files, minutes of meetings, reports, statistics, promotional materials, some media coverage and correspondence.

The fonds provides information on Henry Beissel's professional life as a poet, playwright, essayist, editor and teacher. It is first comprised of records related to his teaching, including correspondence, evaluations administrative files, student works, meeting minutes and course notes. It also contains records related to his prolific writing of poetry, theater and essays: many annotated versions of manuscripts, notebooks and some correspondence with publishers. The translation notes and manuscripts found in the fonds testify of Beissel's work as a translator of many works of German, Spanish and Chinese language authors.

Are also comprised are records related to the many conferences, book tours and research trips around the world Beissel took part in: text for presentations, audio recordings, some correspondence and promotional material (posters, prospectus). His commitment to humanism and active involvement with his community is shown through more correspondence and meeting documents.

An extensive correspondence testifying of the ties he established with peers and other artists, professors, humanists is also included. The press clippings, reviews and other pieces of media coverage are proofs of Beissel's success and recognition, echoed with the distinctions he received throughout his career.

Finally, the fonds includes records related to Beissel's private life: journal, travel diaries as well as personal correspondence provide a peek into his family life. The records related to his education (course notes, syllabi and early writings) hint at a rich career in the making.

The fonds is reflective of Hall’s forty-year career as a counselor, instructor, and administrator at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, Quebec and leader in the field of Canadian education. Materials in this fonds also highlight Hall’s life-long work with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) of Montreal, his commitment to the growth of Sir George, his role as a respected public figure, his participation in the scientific and religious communities of Montreal, and his diverse personal interests including astronomy, biology, and the history of the Eastern Townships.

The fonds primarily consists of Hall’s teaching notes and course outlines, research, correspondence, his drafts of "The Georgian Spirit: The Story of Sir George Williams University," typed addresses and presentation notes, and conference materials, as well as personal documents such as notebooks, educational records, and gifts. Also included are awards, diplomas and certificates, photographic material, memorabilia, and materials collected and used by Hall such as reports, publications, manuscripts, and press clippings.

The fonds is arranged in the following nine series:

P0006/A Personal records
P0006/B Teaching materials and research
P0006/C Correspondence
P0006/D Addresses, records from special events, and conference materials
P0006/E "The Georgian Spirit" manuscripts
P0006/F YMCA
P0006/G Eastern Townships
P0006/H Photographs
P0006/I Collected press clippings

The fonds consists of a Loyola jacket worn by Harry Hemens as a student, and his chancellor's hood.

The fonds is a source of jazz history in the mid-20th century.

The fonds consists of 491 reel-to-reel audio tapes. Most of them contain interviews conducted by Henry Whiston with jazz personalities, in preparation for the show "Jazz at Its Best" and other radio shows. The interviews served as source material from which excerpts were edited into the program. A large part of the documents are related to Glenn Miller or the Duke Ellington orchestra.

The fonds consists of materials assembled by Herb Johnson. It reflects his career as a musical performer, combo and dance band/orchestra leader, and musicians' union member and executive, as well as his personal interests and personal life.

The fonds documents the dance band and jazz music scene from the 1930s through the 1980s, primarily in Montreal. It is a valuable source of documentation on the bebop style of jazz that emerged in the 1940s, and of documentation related to the Senior Musicians' Association and Orchestra.

The fonds consists of manuscript and print music, including arrangements by Herb Johnson; personal correspondence; saxophone and clarinet technique books and articles; books and articles on arranging, harmonizing, and other facets of music; photographs; notebooks; personal financial records; programs, clippings, and other memorabilia; and magazines. The fonds includes sound recordings as well as objects including music portfolios, pocket handkerchiefs, and a record carrying case. There are also union-related correspondence, financial documents, contracts and other documents related to musicians' pay and benefits, founding documents, constitutions and by-laws, questionnaires, ballot papers, agendas, minutes, and address books.

The fonds is arranged in the following series and sub-series:

P0088/1 Correspondents
P0088/1A Family and friends
P0088/1B Music colleagues
P0088/1C Personal business correspondents
P0088/2 Personal files
P0088/2A Personal interests and personal affairs
P0088/2B Music industry
P0088/2C Music technique
P0088/2D Photographs
P0088/3 Union activity
P0088/3A Musicians' Guild of Montreal
P0088/3B Senior Musicians' Association
P0088/4 Print and manuscript music
P0088/5 Technique books, manuals, tutors, methods
P0088/6 Magazines and promotional literature
P0088/7 Collection of sound recordings
P0088/7A Privately recorded sound recordings
P0088/7B Commercial sound recordings.

The fonds provides information on the teaching activities of Herbert Quinn at Sir George Williams. It gives information on the Sir George Williams College effort, in the late 1930s and 1940s, to promote understanding between English and French Canadians. There is also information on the Georgiantics musical revue.

The fonds includes clippings, seminar outlines, and caricatures by Don S. Quinn.

The fonds consists mainly of correspondence received by Sir William Hales Hingston and a few letters received by Mrs. Hingston and their sons William, Donald, and Harold.

There are also photographs, press clippings, brochures, invitations, manuscripts of Sir William's writings, business cards, maps and objects. The fonds includes a scrapbook of press clippings relating to Sir William Hingston's political and professional life, an official document appointing him to the Ottawa Improvement Commission in 1902, the original letters patent related to Sir William's knighthood, and a circa 1889 photograph of Sir William. Also included is an album containing 92 wedding and travel photographs of the Hingston family.

The fonds is organized into the following series:

P0134/A Sir William Hales Hingston
P0134/B Family correspondence
P0134/C Family history

Collections is composed of photographic reproductions of 12 prints and drawings of the City of Montreal. The original prints and drawings are dated between 1761 and 1871.

This fonds documents the administrative activities of Hospitality Concordia. This fonds also contains a number of ephemeral objects, including former Concordia blazer jackets. The fonds is organized in the following series:

2420 Support Services for Students (2007-2014)
4130 Organizational Charts and Mandates (2005-2010)
4210 University Policies (2004-2010)
5110 Administrative Planning (2006-2018)
5111 Meetings of Units (2004-2017)
5112 Reports, Studies and Analyses (2004-2013)
5160 University Events (2004-2017)
5170 External Relations (2009-2015)
5174 Supplier Files (2005-2015)
5420 Media Relations (2011)
5460 Marketing Campaigns (2004-2015)
6110 Staff and Position Management (2005-2010)
8100 Real Estate Management (2009-2013)
8121 Estate Inventories (2008-2009)
8134 Renovation - Unit Files (2008-2013)
8340 Sustainability Program (2010-2011)

The Hour collection is composed of 72 bound volumes of the Hour newspaper published between 1993 and 2011 and those issues published under the name Hour Community in 2011 and 2012. The bound volumes comprise almost every issue of Hour and Hour Community published between February 1993 and May 2012, with the exception of volume 2, numbers 18 to 35 (1994), which are missing from the collection. The collection also contains the prototype of Hour.

The fonds is organized in two series PRIVATE LIFE and PROFESSIONAL LIFE.

The PROFESSIONAL LIFE series contains a TEACHING sub-series with records on Howard Fink's career at Sir George Williams and Concordia University: an agenda, miscellaneous correspondence, course outlines, an honour student file, examination questionnaire samples. There's a sub-series titled COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT related to his involvement with the Canadian Association of Emeriti and Retired Academics (CAERA), the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) and the Association for the Study of Canadian Radio and Television (ASCRT). The POETRY READING SERIES and the FACE TO FACE CONFERENCE sub-series include correspondence, programmes, publicity and other records related to the logistics of those events. The RESEARCH sub-series contains record about a France-Quebec collaboration on the study radio-drama tradition. The fonds also contains records about the Centre for Broadcasting Studies Fink helped establishing and the CBC Radio Drama Bibliography.

The PRIVATE LIFE series contains personal correspondence.

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 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.

The fonds provides information on the activities of the Human Resources (HR) unit.

It consists of minutes of meetings, job vacancy notices, collective agreements, promotional material and some correspondence.

It includes the following series:

6131 Job Posting
6410 Benefit Programs
6430 Pension Plans
6540 Collective Agreements
9430 Information and Orientation Activities

The fonds illustrates the Montreal jazz scene in the 1940s by means of images of the Johnny Holmes band.

The fonds consists of 6 b&w photographs, of which one is an original, the other five are copies.

Collection composed of letters and postcards written by the founder of Jargon Press, Jonathan Williams, to Ida Hodes. The letters contain information about poetry and publications, about subscriptions, poetry and poetry circles in the United States, a discussion of career prospects, and publicity for recent publications by Jargon Press.

The fonds provides information on Ingrid Bachman's professional life as a contemporary artist and as a teacher at Concordia University and at the Art Institute of Chicago, her involvement with Design Cooperative and the Banff Art Residency Program. The CONFERENCE, LECTURES, TALKS subseries includes records related to the Conversations in Contemporary Art (CICA), the Studio Arts Visiting Artists Program as well as texts for presentations and lectures Bachmann gave at the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) conference and the Practice-Led Research Conference, to name a few. The PROJECTS subseries is comprised of notes, video scripts, promotional material and press clippings of reviews, and other records related to the logistics of coordinating and producing art installations such as Fault Lines, Digital Crustaceans, Nomad Web, Berlin Stories and 48 Hours/48 Rooms, among others. This subseries also includes the ProWeave software. The TEACHING subseries contains outlines and assignment directives of courses Bachman gave at the Art Institute of Chicago and Concordia University and the WRITINGS subseries records related to articles Bachmann published. The MEDIA COVERAGE subseries includes articles and reviews of Bachmann's works.

This fonds documents the administrative activities of the Institute for Cooperative Education. The following RCRP categories are contained within this fonds:

2430 Awards & Scholarships
5112 Reports, Studies & Analyses
5160 University Events
5430 Media Coverage
5450 University Publications
5461 Promotional Material

The following publications are included in this fonds:

• Hire Education Newsletter, 2003-2004 (PUB-335)
• Sco-op Newsletter, 1984

The fonds is mainly composed of promotional productions on university events and units, and class lectures made by IITS Technology Services, TV Studios or Creative Media Services, between 1998 and 2009.

The fonds mainly includes videocassettes on various formats, and a few DVD and digital audio cassettes.

The fonds provides information on the executive and administration of the International and Ethnic Association Council and its activities.
The fonds consists of IEAC administrative records such as minutes, budget allocations, correspondence, election documentation, membership lists, and activity reports. It also contains photographs and posters related to IEAC activities.

The fonds provides information on the administrative, curricular and marketing activities of the International Aviation MBA Program Office.

It includes promotional materials, records related to events organized by the office, some correspondence, course evaluations, program appraisal reports and photographs of graduating classes.

The fonds provides information on the administrative activities of the International Students Office (ISO).

The following series are included:
1220 Student Exchange Programs (1986-2007)
2410 Student Orientation Activities (1980-2017)
5110 Administrative Planning (2004-2015)
5113 Statistics (2012)
5450 University Publications (1983-2018)

The fonds is comprised of records related to the student orientations (handbooks, guides and other information packages), minutes of planning and debriefing meetings, some statistics (University Support to International Students Survey, 2012), numbers of The Concordia Mosaic (1985-1986), the International Student Newsletter (1983-1984), Cross Roads (1997-2001) and the ISO Bulletin (2013-2018).

Jazz Music; Canadian Jazz Scene; Montreal Nightlife

The fonds provides information about Ira Robinson’s research and teaching career.
The fonds is divided in 5 main series:

• ADMINISTRATION
• AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
• LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
• RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING
• TEACHING

It consists of course files, records on the many conferences, colloquiums and lectures Robinson took part in, records on the books and articles he published throughout the years. There are also records related to his involvement with the Jewish Public Library and his role as a leader in the field of Canadian Jewish Studies.

The fonds document the activities of the Irish Canadian Heritage Society, located in Montreal, from the foundation of the organization in 1965 until 1973. It reflects the needs and interests of Montreal citizens of Irish descent in the culture of their country of origin. It also contains information on other organizations related to Irish communities in North America, especially the Irish American Heritage Society, but also Action for Irish Distress and others.

The fonds consists of copies of the society’s constitution, meeting minutes, financial statements, annual reports, correspondence, invitations, announcements of events, speeches, photographs, membership forms, newspaper clippings, leaflets, newsletters, booklets and a rubber stamp.

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.

Irving Layton fonds consists of records relating to Layton’s life and activities as a writer. Records include correspondence between family members, professionals, friends, newspapers and periodicals, colleges and universities, reviews of Layton’s works, fan letters, published material, offprints of poems, transcripts of interviews, publicity for public appearances and readings, reviews of his works, foreign language articles, manuscripts and drafts of monographs and poems, transcripts of interviews, newspaper clippings, notebooks, journals, calendars, schedules, agendas, personal papers including bills, invoices, finances, awards and certificates, and audio visual material.

The fonds is divided into 16 series:
F001/A Objects
F001/B Audio recordings
F001/C Clippings
F001/D Conferences and festivals
F001/E Correspondence
F001/F Art works
F001/G Manuscripts, poems, articles, and essays
F001/H Notebooks and journals
F001/I Personal papers
F001/J Photographs
F001/K Public appearances
F001/L Reviews
F001/M Schedules
F001/N Scrapbooks
F001/O Transcripts and interviews
F001/P Video recordings

Collection of pamphlets, unpublished papers, manuscripts, and books relating to the 1963-71 Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. Also included are items dealing with bilingualism and multiculturalism with an emphasis on Ukrainian Quebec groups, as well as a collection of newspapers from Ukrainian communities all over the world, with a focus on North America.