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Benefits
P0145/07E · Subseries · 1921 - 1989
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series provides information on the benefits provided to YMCA employees.
The records include YMCA Retirement Fund documentation and annual reports, group insurance plans and correspondence.

Booklets
C025/C2 · Subseries · 1929 ; 1940-1996 ; predominant 1970-1989
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries provides information on the socio-political climate of several countries in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. It covers subjects related to black history, the Grenada and Cuban revolutions, imperialism, slavery, liberation, racism, labour, the history of St. Vincent, capitalism, communism, fascism, and human rights, among other topics.

Subseries includes speech transcripts, government publications, pamphlets, and booklets published in North America, Africa and the Caribbean.

Books
C025/C1 · Subseries · 1916 ; 1958-1984
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries covers topics related to race, politics, socialism, communism, and history published in North America and the Caribbean.

Subseries includes paperbacks, hardbacks and unbound copies of books.

P0145/11A · Subseries · 1909-1989
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents building and other committees that have been involved with the construction or renovation of Metropolitan Montreal YMCA facilities. The sub-series documents aspects of physical plant that cover more than one branch, requests from branches for major repairs and replacements, and calculations of space requirements sent from branches to the central administration. It includes correspondence, minutes, reports, statistical studies, contracts, and publicity materials for supplies and equipment.

BSC Library collection
F035/F1 · Subseries · 1926, 1928, 1938, 1946-2006
Part of Black Studies Centre fonds

The subseries documents the Black Studies Centre’s endeavors to make information about Black history, culture, and contributions available to the community through a vast collection of books and other textual material, slides, audio recordings and films. This documentation is represented not only through the original card catalog, lists and bibliographies, but also through a wide array of publications collected by the Center that are available as part of the fonds. In addition, the series contains documents pertaining to the organization of the Black Studies Centre library and the work of its employees.
The subseries contains, among other documents, bibliographies, reviews, notes, poems, essays, speeches, lists, leaflets, brochures, newsletters, pamphlets, booklets, studies, accession records, photographs, thesis, reports, periodicals, magazine and newspaper articles, correspondence, subscriptions, a poster, and a map.

BSC Newspaper collection
F035/F2 · Subseries · 1947, 1952, 1967-2012
Part of Black Studies Centre fonds

The subseries documents Black life, culture and contributions in Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean by the means of community newspapers and magazines published mostly by Black organizations.
The collection includes, among others, issues of the following newspapers:

• A pleine voix (1992-1993, 3 issues)
• The African (1 issue, 1947)
• African Affairs (2005-2006, 7 issues)
• African Times (2004) (5 issues)
• Afrikan Awakener (1974, 4 issues)
• AFRO-CAN (1981-1987)
• The Afro News 92003-2005, 9 issues)
• Black Enterprise (1972-1976, 5 issues)
• The Black I (1972-1973, 2 issues)
• Black Liberation News (1969) (2 issues)
• Black News (1970-1973, 10 issues)
• The Black Panther (1969-1972),
• Black Reflections (1969),
• The Black Scholar (1973, 1 issue)
• Black Thoughts (1975), (2 issues)
• The Black Voice (1972-1974, 20 issues)
• Black World (1970-1976, 18 issues)
• Caribbean Camera (2001-2005, 5 issues)
• Caribbean Dialogue (1975-1978, 8 issues)
• Caribbean Quarterly (1952, 1 issue)
• Cible Carrières et Professions (1978) (5 issues)
• Co-Action Montreal (1982) (3 issues)
• Contrast (1969-1981, 1989-1990)
• Cotopaxi (Vol. 1, no. 1 (Fall 1968))
• Dialogue (1973-1978, 15 issues),
• Direction One ([1969?]) (1 issue)
• Montreal Downtowner (1983-1984), 4 issues
• Ebony (1974, 1 issue)
• Ebony Jr. (1976-1977) (10 issues)
• Expression (1966-1969, 7 issues),
• Flambeau (September 1967)
• Festival (1975-1976) (5 issues)
• Focus (1982-1983) (4 issues)
• Focus Umoja (1974-1978) (23 issues)
• Georgian (1969-1975) (6 issues)
• Golden Legacy (1967-1972) (10 issues)
• Grasp (1971-1974, 13 issues)
• Il Ponte (1978) (6 issues)
• The Internationalist (1971-1972, 5 issues)
• The Islander (1974-1977), (43 issues)
• Jamaica News (1981-1983)(5 issues)
• JET (1971, 1974, 1995-1997) (29 issues)
• Kola (2004-2010, 7 issues)
• Link (1981-1993) (4 issues)
• Le Militant (1970) (9 issues)
• Montreal Camera (2005, 9 issues)
• Montreal Community Contact (1998-2012)
• Montreal Oracle (1976-1978) (8 issues)
• Muhammad Speaks (1969-1973) (37 issues)
• NBESEE (April 1979)
• New World Quarterly (1963-1968, 6 issues)
• The Paper (1969) (6 issues)
• People's Canada Daily News (1974-1975, 21 issues)
• Sechaba (1970-1971, 8 issues)
• Share (1979-1986, 2007-2009),
• Spark (1973-1974) (4 issues)
• Speak Out (April 1968)
• Spear (1971-1976, 17 issues)
• Spektrum (1981) (4 issues)
• Statement (1969) (5 issues)
• Tapia (1970-1973) (7 issues)
• Uhuru (1969-1970) (27 issues)
• Umoja (1969-1971) (4 issues)
• The Vanguard (February – April 1970) (3 issues)
• West Africa (1982-1983, 11 issues)
• Women's Collective Press (1975) (2 issues)
• The Zimbabwe Review (1973-1979)

Business Cards
C025/C5 · Subseries · [19--]-[199- ?]
Part of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge collection

Subseries covers a collection of business cards, possibly owned by Roberts and Cambridge. The subseries includes business cards of black-owned businesses, including restaurants, hair salons, financial advisors, hotels and housing, government, records and book shops, and travel agencies, among others.

Camp Otoreke
P0145/12C · Subseries · 1921-1983
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

Records in the sub-series document the administration, facilities, staff, campers, and program of Camp Otoreke. It includes correspondence, programs, financial records, publicity, and other materials. The sub-series is arranged in the following sub-sub-series:

P0145/12C01 - General administration.
P0145/12C02 - Financial administration.
P0145/12C03 - Land, facilities, equipment, supplies.
P0145/12C04 - Communications.
P0145/12C05 - Staff, counsellors.
P0145/12C06 - Campers.
P0145/12C07 - Program.

Camp Thunderbird
P0145/12I · Subseries · 1942-1943
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series contains a file of correspondence and other materials documenting Camp Thunderbird.

Camping associations
P0145/12N · Subseries · 1929-1981
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents the founding and operations of the camping associations. It includes correspondence, reports, articles, minutes, and other materials. It is organized in the following sub-sub-series:

P0145/12N01 - American Camping Association.
P0145/12N02 - Canadian Camping Association.
P0145/12N03 - Quebec Section, Canadian Camping Association.
P0145/12N04 - Quebec Camping Association/Association des camps du Québec.

Canadian Auto Workers (2008)
F038/A29 · Subseries · 2008
Part of Magnus Isacsson fonds

Subseries provides information about the project Canadian Auto Workers and Luc Desnoyers.

Subseries includes shooting tapes and English and French audio mixes.

Canadian local YMCAs
P0145/14H · Subseries · 1870-1994
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The materials in the sub-sub-series include annual reports and other documents published or created by Canadian YMCAs or YM-YWCAs other than the Montreal YMCA, materials gathered in preparation for histories of the YMCA in Canada, and correspondence.

Casino
F038/A40 · Subseries · [199- ?]-2001
Part of Magnus Isacsson fonds

Subseries contains photographs of incomplete project, possibly about anti-casino and anti-casino manifestations.

P112/G5 · Subseries · 1936-2018
Part of Brian McKenna fonds

The subseries provides information on documentaries Brian McKenna worked on or produced for The Fifth Estate.
The subseries contains research materials, monographs, notes, scripts, drafts of documentaries and correspondence, court records, work copies of videos, a sound recording, and other documents.

The subseries includes the following documentaries:

Apparitions
In January 1988 McKenna travelled to Yugoslavia to investigate the claims of six peasant children that they were experiencing apparitions of the Virgin Mary every day at 6:45 pm, and the impact on their small Serbian village.

Arnold Expedition Reenactment

Belugas
This film documents attempts to save the small white whales from massive pollution of their St. Lawrence River habitat.

Bismark

Bourrassa and Lévesque

Car Rackets
This investigation into corruption and cover-up in the auto industry was produced by McKenna in his first season at The Fifth Estate.

The Cardinal
Profile of Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger as he travelled to the Thai-Cambodian border to draw attention to the terrible plight of refugees fleeing the killing fields.

CBW

Children of the Lost
The story of two Argentine doctors attempting to heal the trauma in children whose parents were killed or disappeared during the so-called dirty war.

Collaborators
With researcher and associate producer Oleh Rumak, McKenna investigated how top Slovak officials from the Nazi Collaborationist government ended up in Canada. The film, code-named Slovaks II has not been shown to the public.

A Cruel Place
The film documents the state-sponsored terrorism during the Civil War in El Salvador.

Death Squad

Death in Tripoli
Film on the violent and mysterious death of Canadian Christopher Halens, a young Southam journalist in Libya.

Empress of Ireland
Documentary on the Empress of Ireland, a Titanic -size steamship which sank in the St. Lawrence River

Fallen Star
The history of the final days of the century-old newspaper, The Montreal Star.

Gypsies (never produced)

Heroin

The Hooded Men
In 1982, when Argentina returned to democracy, McKenna took newspaper publisher Jacobo Timmerman back to the jail on the outskirts of Buenos Aires where he had been held and tortured.

Iran Drug Film

A Journey Back
Investigation on Nazi collaborators hiding in Canada, focusing on the story of New York off-Broadway producer Jack Garfein, brought back to his hometown in Slovakia for the first time and then to the Auschwitz and Birkenhau death camps to discover his past. In the film Garfein confronts the gauleiter who had killed his family.

Lévesque in New York
Quebec’s newly elected and first separatist premier’s trip to New York to try to reassure nervous investors.

McGarr
Examination of the stress that creates among police the highest rate of alcoholism, divorce and suicide of any profession, seen through the eyes of a Montréal police officer.

Making of a Saint

Marathon Man Jerome Drayton

Mirabel

The Money Pit
Investigation of attempts made to find buried treasure in the mysterious and secret man-made passages of Nova Scotia’s Oak Island

Murder of Hilda Murrer
Investigation of the murder of this eccentric English country woman whose death may have been linked to secrets surrounding the sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands war.

Noah's Ark
Astronaut James Irwin was leading an expedition of Christian fundamentalist Americans in search of the remains of Noah’s Ark at Turkey’s Mount Ararat, to prove that the Bible and Creation story are literally true.

The Old Man and the C
A profile of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling and his claims for the healing properties of Vitamin C.

Olympic Connection
In his first season at The Fifth Estate, McKenna did investigations of corruption during the construction for the 1976 Montréal
Olympic Games

Olympic Tower

Panzers on the Prairies
Story of German Army building tanks in Alberta

Papa Plouffe
A profile of a character in Roger Lemelin’s Les Plouffe series (CBC).

Peroff Mounties

Pipe Major

The Plot

Political Corruption

The Power and the Glory
Inquiry into the politics surrounding the building of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project.

Referendums
A documentary looking at referendums, including the 1948 vote that brought Newfoundland into Canadian Confederation and leading up to the 1980 referendum on Québec independence and sovereignty association and the “Yvette” women’s movement, as well as the slick methods used in California referendums.

René Lévesque

Richard Blass
In his first season at The Fifth Estate, McKenna started with a film about a mobster named Richard Blass.

Robert F. Kennedy

The Rocket at 50
In his first season at The Fifth Estate McKenna made a feature on hockey star Maurice “The Rocket” Richard as he turned 50.

Rosie Douglas
A look at mobster Rosie Douglas.

Secret Cargo
Documentary on allegations that Pakistan was attempting to smuggle and import through Canada and the United States key components for the construction of an Islamic atomic bomb.

Secret Test
Film on the CIA-sponsored brainwashing experiments in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s on unsuspecting psychiatric patients at the Royal Victoria Hospital / Allen Memorial Psychiatric Institute in Montréal.

Shooting the Messenger
Film on the torture and murder of Latin American journalists and the occasional foreign correspondent.

State of Siege
Inquiry into communist and fascist terrorism in Italy including the infamous Red Brigade.

Sunshine Soldiers

Veliotis

VIP

Who Shot JFK?
In 1978, McKenna wrote and directed the first national television documentary challenging the conclusions of the official report into the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963, Dallas and After. It was followed by three more documentaries on new evidence: In 1979, Crossfire reported the conclusion of a Congressional Committee that Kennedy was probably killed as the result of a conspiracy. The Coffin was Empty (198?) is a testimony that medical evidence was tampered with during and after the autopsy of Kennedy. McKenna produced Who Shot JFK?, a program summarizing the evidence, on the 20th anniversary of the assassination.

CBC documentaries
P112/G4 · Subseries · 1915-1919, 1963-1995, 1999-2016
Part of Brian McKenna fonds

The subseries provides information on documentaries Brian McKenna produced for the CBC. It includes research material, publications, work video, correspondence, notes, objects and other records related to the following documentaries:

And Then You Die
CBC-docudrama on the Montréal underworld, inspired by the true story of Irish gangsters in the West end of Montréal using Hell’s Angels as mercenaries to build a cocaine empire. It was broadcast internationally and won a pair of Gemini awards.

FLQ

The Great War

His Worship, Jean Drapeau

The Killing Ground
A two-hour film on the 59,000 Canadians who died in the First World War. For this production, McKenna teamed up with his youngest brother Terence. The film won the Anik award for best CBC documentary in 1988.

Trudeau Memoirs

CBC radio scripts
P112/G2 · Subseries · 1971
Part of Brian McKenna fonds

The subseries provides information on Brian McKenna's contribution to CBC radio in 1971. It contains scripts of news coverage of political activities at the time when McKenna was parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa.

CBC The City at 6
P112/G3 · Subseries · 1972-1974
Part of Brian McKenna fonds

The subseries provides information on two short documentaries Brian McKenna produced between 1972 and 1974. It contains incomplete scripts for The 1974 Municipal Election and Thomas D'Arcy McGee.
Thomas D’Arcy McGee was McKenna’s first film, that he wrote and directed for CBC City at 6 in 1973, a thirteen- minutes documentary on the assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee.

C.E.G.E.P Curriculum
I0038/07F · Subseries · 1964-1983
Part of Academic Planning Office fonds

Sub-series consists of records documenting the creation and evolution of the programmes within the new post-secondary institutions, now referred to as CEGEPs. Sub-series contains minutes, programme proposals, working documents and correspondence.

Churches
P0145/14K · Subseries · 1916-1972
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The materials in the sub-series document the Montreal YMCA's relations with Protestant churches and with the Roman Catholic Church.

The sub-series consists of correspondence, reports, news items, and other materials.

Citizenship Training
P0145/10D · Subseries · 1895-1970
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents the development of education on public affairs to encourage youth to develop intelligent citizenship and to accept the challenge to public service.

The records include lectures, addresses, and reports. It also contains the minutes of YMCA Mock City Council, a citizenship training venture, introduced in 1895 and documentation on the holding of several Model United Nations Assemblies in the 1950s.

Collaboration Colleagues
F038/C5 · Subseries · 1987 ; 1995-2007
Part of Magnus Isacsson fonds

Subseries contains photographs of Magnus Isacsson with colleagues and friends he collaborated with in several projects. Personalities include staff from Alter Cine, Robert Marcel Lepage and Jean Pierre Lefevre, among others.

Commercial sound recordings
P0088/7B · Subseries · [193-]-[197-]
Part of Herb Johnson fonds

The sub-series contains audiocassettes and audio discs, including 78 rpm, 45 rpm, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph recordings collected by Herb Johnson. The majority are 78 rpm recordings of jazz and big band performances.

Some of the 10-inch 78 rpm audio discs are in files, organized by Herb Johnson. Many of the audio discs are undated. A good number were pressed in Montreal.

Committees
P0145/12A · Subseries · 1893-1989
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents the various bodies that have had responsibility for the Montreal YMCA's camping and outdoor programs. The sub-series documents the general organization and management of the YMCA's camping and outdoor programs. It documents research programs related to camp leadership and to other aspects of the theory of camping.

It includes committee minutes, correspondence, membership lists, rosters, reports, questionnaires, and other materials.

Committees
P0145/08A · Subseries · 1958-1985
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents the Public Relations committees efforts to increase the YMCA visibility with marketing and communications initiatives and developing media contacts and partnerships.
The records include minutes of the Public Relations Committee and Marketing Committee.

Committees and Policies
P0145/06A · Subseries · 1874 - 1990
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents the activities of the YMCA financial committees and the development of financial-related policies.

The records include mainly minutes of the Finance and Property Committee, correspondence, accounting reports, purchasing policies and procedures.

Committees and Policies
P0145/07A · Subseries · 1954 - 1985
Part of YMCA of Montreal Fonds

The sub-series documents the activities of the YMCA personnel committees and the development of human resources-related policies.

The records include minutes of the Personnel Committee, Staff Development Committee, task forces and personnel policies.