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Taras Grescoe fonds
P223 · Fonds · 1982-2005, predominant 1998-2004

Fonds consists of a record of the research Taras Grescoe conducted during the process of writing his books Sacré Blues, The Devil's Picnic, and The End of Elsewhere. They document Quebec Society, global tourism, and the prohibited food and substance business.

The records include sound recordings and transcripts of interviews, research materials, drafts of book chapters and articles, travel note books, and correspondence.

Grescoe, Taras
Société du 5 avril fonds
P170 · Fonds · 1990-1997

The fonds relates to the management and activities of the Société du 5 avril of Montreal, from its inception in 1990 through the cessation of operations in 1997. It primarily documents the Société's efforts to launch a self-managed artist's centre and the plan to acquire a building for that purpose.

The fonds is composed of feasibility studies, working files, correspondence, and promotional documents.

The fonds is arranged in the following series:

P170/A Administration
P170/A,1 Founding documents and histories
P170/A,2 General meetings

P170/B Financial administration
P170/B,1 Fund-raising
P170/B,2 Accounting
P170/B,3 Banking
P170/B,4 Taxes
P170/B,5 Financial statements

P170/C Buildings, equipment and supplies
P170/C,1 Equipment and supplies
P170/C,2 Buildings

P170/D Communications and public relations

P170/E Feasibility studies
P170/E,1 Working documents
P170/E,2 Reference documentation
P170/E,3 Member files
P170/E,4 Lists of equipment required
P170/E,5 Reports

La Société du 5 avril
Overdale collection
P169 · Collection · 1986-1988

The collection documents the events which occurred in 1987 and 1988 in the Overdale neighbourhood. It witnesses to the efforts made not only by the local residents but also architects, planners, and others to influence the City of Montreal to avoid demolishing historic buildings and established neighborhoods, and to preserve the city’s built heritage.

The collection includes photographs, moving images, sound recordings, press releases, clippings, meeting notices, correspondence, reports, newsletters and statements on the Overdale resistance prepared by former residents.

Overdale
Corridart collection
P119 · Collection · 1976-1981

The collection consists of materials assembled by the plaintiffs' lawyers and deposited with the Quebec Superior Court in connection with the Corridart case. The collection documents the conception and execution of Corridart, as well as its abrupt dismantling and the legal proceedings that followed. There are materials related to the careers of the artists who participated in the court case, and information about related legal precedents.

The collection includes an inventory by Melvin Charney of the sites along Sherbrooke Street, explaining the conception of Corridart as a rue-musée qu'on visite à pied. There is also a comprehensive set of photographs of Corridart, documenting the common elements (the continuous assemblage), as well as the works exhibited along Sherbrooke Street, the panels of text, and the sites of activities. These photographs trace the entire Corridart route from east to west. There are photographs documenting the dismantling. Others show impounded works and several illustrate damage to works. The collection includes project proposals, planning documents, contracts between artists and COJO, correspondence, articles from legal journals, reports of meetings, blueprints, and sketches. There are also artists' curricula vitae, photographs, brochures, and other documents related to the artists' careers that were assembled to establish their status as professional artists.

The collection is arranged into the following two series:

P0119/1 Textual and related documents
P0119/2 Photographs of Corridart installations

Corridart dans la rue Sherbrooke
Al Palmer fonds
P084 · Fonds · [19--] ; 1936-1971

The Al Palmer Fonds provides information on Montreal and other cities, as gathered by Al Palmer through his journalistic career between 1940 and 1971.

The fonds includes thematic files on people and topics that Al Palmer covered in his columns and police chronicles. It contains notes, copies of court records, clippings, programs, brochures, and photographs.

Palmer, Alan Douglas
Quebec YMCA fonds
P0202 · Fonds · 1858 - 2001

The fonds documents the mission, structure, administration, programs, activities, facilities, and evolution of the Quebec YMCA (as of 2009, Le Y du Québec) from its founding in 1854 to the late 20th century.

The records include founding documents, annual reports, committee minutes, financial statements and other financial records, employee files, files on buildings and facilities, and administrative files and correspondence relating to programs such as summer camps and courses.

The fonds also includes architectural drawings, scrapbooks of press clippings, brochures, and other promotional materials, photographs of Quebec YMCA events and activities from the late 19th century until the late 20th century, and objects such as flags, signs, plaques, pins and medals.

The fonds is organized in the following series:

P0202/1 Founding Documents, Constitution, By-Laws, Histories
P0202/2 Reports and Minutes
P0202/3 Financial Administration
P0202/4 Human Resources Administration
P0202/5 Branches, Buildings, Facilities
P0202/6 Programs
P0202/7 External Relations
P0202/8 Photographs

Quebec YMCA
Myron Sutton fonds
P019 · Fonds · 1908-1945

The fonds provides an overview of Myron Sutton's musical career in the United States and Canada, particularly Montreal. It documents the careers of the various bands with which Myron Sutton was affiliated, and those he led, including the Royal Ambassadors and the Canadian Ambassadors. It also provides general information on the jazz music scene and Montreal night life during the 1930s.

The fonds consists of sound recordings and a scrapbook containing correspondence, contracts, programs, press clippings, and photographs.

Sutton, Myron
Varennes house
P0134-02-39 · Item · [n.d.]
Part of Hingston Family fonds

A house at Varennes that has been taken down ; a photograph can be found in "The French Canadians"

Varennes house
P0134-02-38 · Item · [n.d.]
Part of Hingston Family fonds

A house at Varennes that has been taken down ; a photograph can be found in "The French Canadians"

Hingston Family fonds
P0134 · Fonds · 1848-1994

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

Hingston Family
François Brault fonds
P0110 · Fonds · 1961-1995

The fonds consists primarily of slides on liturgical art in Quebec. It includes slides on the production of films and books on art.

Brault, François
Group at Loyola
P0049-02-01 · Item · 1914
Part of James J. McGarry, S.J. fonds

Group of people at Loyola, 68 Drummond street, Montreal.
Left to right: W. Miller, E. Callery, Spike O'Flaherty, G. Murphy, J. Tellier, G. McGary s.j., C. Phelan, F. Moore, C. Carpenter, F. Grant, B. Kelly, A. Weitekamp.

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
P0013-02-29 · Item · 1908-1909
Part of Jesuit Archives collection

Jesuit Community of Loyola College, 68 Drummond Street, Montreal. Included: Brother John Clancy, J. B. Plante, A. Fontaine, Father Martin Fox, Father John Cox, Brother Richard Beazley, Joseph Primeau, Lawrence Drummond, William Hingston, Father Joseph McCarthy, Henry Cormier, Moses Malone, Father V. Hudon, Father Isodore Kavanagh, Father Alexander Gagnieur (Rector), Father F. Wafer Doyle (Minister), Father Nicholas Quirk.

Loyola Class
P0013-02-21 · Item · 1906-07
Part of Jesuit Archives collection

Students from Latin Rudiments class, with absent students edited manually afterward. Centre: Father T. J. MacMahon. Included: Henry Authier, Lewis Bagnall, Paul Bauset, H. Bordeau, B. Burns, M. Burns, J. Burke, P. Carrier, W. Caven, D. Clarke, N. Collins, E. Conroy, M. Crossan, L. Frawley, M. Frawley, K. Lachance, F. Langan, I, Lantry, L. Leblanc, F. Macdonald, P. H. Martin, R. W. J. McGaffrey, Y. McCarthy, H. McDonald, A. McKenna, P. McKenna, F. McKenzie, N. Murphy, H. Panet, Eugene Pion, R. Quain, A. Robinson, P. Thornton, S. S. Toddings, S. G. P. Urguhar, V. Walsh, L. Wilkins, E. Steven

Loyola Class
P0013-02-20 · Item · ca. 1914
Part of Jesuit Archives collection

Mr. Joseph A. Keating S. J. and class, exterior of 68 Drummond street, Montreal. Second row, fourth from left: James McGarry (later Father James McGarry, S. J.

Loyola Class
P0013-02-19 · Item · ca. 1915
Part of Jesuit Archives collection

Mr. Joseph A. Keating, S. J. and class, outside of Loyola College Drummond Street, Montreal. Second row, seventh from left: Father J. J. McGarry S. J.