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Archival description
Henry J. Hemens fonds
P0140 · Fonds · 1930 - 1982

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

Hemens, Henry J.
Norman Cohn fonds
P0051 · Fonds · 1982

The fonds provides information on the history of ideological Anti-Semitism.

The fonds consists of the text of lectures on the history of ideological anti-Semitism given by Norman Cohn during his stay at Concordia University.

Cohn, Norman
Clifford C. Sparling fonds
P0059 · Fonds · 1982

The fonds consists of a letter of thanks from Henry F. Hall to his colleagues on the occasion of his retirement as principal of Sir George Williams University in 1962 and three photographs of Clifford Sparling.

Sparling, Clifford C.
Fred H. Knelman fonds
P0045 · Fonds · 1954-1983

The fonds provides information on science, technology, and society.

The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, and various texts from Fred Knelman's teaching career at Concordia University and from his activities as a speaker and writer.

Knelman, Fred H.
Margaret Stredder fonds
P0052 · Fonds · [ca. 1928]-1983

The fonds provides information on Margaret Stredder's family history.

The fonds consists of photographs and brief biographies of Anson Walt Young, Frederick Owen Stredder, and Margaret Stredder.

Stredder, Margaret
Paul Babarik fonds
P0085 · Fonds · 197?-1983

The fonds provides information on the Canadian roots of community psychology and William Line.

The fonds consists mainly of sound recordings of Paul Babarik's interviews with eminent psychologists. There are also copies of books he edited and wrote.

Babarik, Paul
Gerry Hanson fonds
P0175 · Fonds · [194-]-1983

The Gerry Hanson fonds contains documentation pertaining to Montreal's music scene during the big-band era, and illustrates Gerry Hanson’s life as a musician.

The fonds consists of 12 photographs showcasing Montreal orchestras in which Hanson performed, including the Westernaires, the Blue Serenaders, the Alouette Band, and Paul Beauregard’s Orchestra. The performers depicted in these photographs are mostly identified. The fonds also includes photocopies of press clippings.

Hanson, Gerry
Joseph F. Bernard collection
P0008 · Collection · 1921 - 1984

The collection held by Concordia Records Management and Archives provides information on an important collection of ethnographical and archeological objects, mainly from the Cooper Inuits of Coronation Gulf, that Captain Joseph F. Bernard had gathered between 1916 and 1920. The assemblage was known as the Bernard Arctic Collection, but also as Bernard Eskimo Collection, Bernard Collection, or Bernard Inuit Collection. In 1921, Captain Bernard loaned his collection to Loyola College. He donated it in 1924 for a proposed College museum. The museum never materialized, and in 1947 Loyola College donated part of the collection to the Arctic Institute of North America in Montreal (the Institute moved to Calgary in 1976) and part to Cambridge University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Other parts of the Bernard Arctic Collection were donated in 1991 to the Canadian Museum of Civilization (now the Canadian Museum of History) and in 1993 to Loyola High School.
The material includes a photograph of Captain Joseph Bernard and photocopies of the following documents:

The Loyola College file on the Bernard Arctic Collection, 1921–1947 (12 documents totalling 15 pp.),
Joseph F. Bernard’s correspondence to Father Edward Devine, S. J. and Father William H. Hingston, S. J, 1924–1959 (15 documents totalling 32 pp.),
“Bernard Eskimo Collection,” a copy of a history attributed to Father William H. Hingston, S. J., ca. 1940 (9 pp.),
Report on the Bernard Arctic Collection by Susan Moogk [for the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology] (16 pp.) 1984.

Concordia University. Records Management and Archives
Marion Wagschal fonds
F003 · Fonds · [196-] – 1984

Fonds contain records relating to Marion Wagschal as an artist and Irving Layton’s friend. Material consists of drawings, slides, postcards, and handwritten letters from Irving Layton. The Marion Wagschal Fonds is part of the Irving Layton Collection.

The fonds has been divided into the following series:
F003/A Correspondence
F003/B Drawings and paintings
F003/C Poems.

Wagschal, Marion
Nat Raider fonds
P0171 · Fonds · 1939 - 1984

The Nat Raider fonds documents the Montreal music scene from the 1950s until the 1970s, mostly by means of sheet music used in performances of the Nat Raider orchestra.

The fonds consists of materials used by the Nat Raider Orchestra, including sheet music and hand-written arrangements. Among these documents you will find “Le Caf’ Conc' Opening Theme” composed by Nat Raiser. Also included are song lyrics, performance notes, correspondence, and documents related to the performance of comedy.

Raider, Nat
I0074 · Fonds · 1966-1984

The fonds documents the activities of the Office of the Vice-Rector at Concordia for the period of 1974 to 1984 and some file document the activities of the Office of the Vice-Principal, Administration and Finance at Sir George Williams University. The latter files include some documents relating to the SGWU Computer Centre incident of 1969. The fonds also includes some files of André-Jean Laprade, Assistant Vice-Rector Relations and Audit.Those files mainly relate to "Groupe de recherche et d’élaboration d’un système d’informatique de gestion universitaire (GRESIGU)," 1968-1975 (A. J. Laprade being the responsible for the « SIGU-Recherche » group). There are also some Stirling Dorrance’s files who was first at Loyola College and then at Concordia, Assistant to the Rector, Development (these files were probably mixed up in storage space at some points - by error - with the files from the Vice-Rector, Administration and Finance).

The fonds manily consists of reports, correspondence, and some photographs.

Concordia University. Office of the Vice-Rector, Administration and Finance
I0010 · Fonds · [ca. 1924] - 1985

The fonds provides information on the evolution of Sir George Williams University and on the beginning of Concordia University. This fonds is mainly composed Dr. John W. O’Brien’s files as Principal of SGWU until 1974 and as Concordia University’s first Rector until May 1984. There are also some Michael Sheldon's files as Assistant to Principal of SGWU.

The fonds includes such textual records as correspondence, minutes, financial and other reports, clippings, and procedures and policies. It includes photographs, cartographic items, artifacts, and sound recordings. The fonds is divided into the following series:

I010/01 Associations
I010/02 Budget
I010/03 Budget control and accounting
I010/04 Buildings and properties
I010/05 Committees
I010/06 Computer facilities and operations
I010/07 Conferences, seminars, and special activities
I010/08 Cooperation and exchange activities
I010/09 Curriculum and programs
I010/10 Financing
I010/11 General correspondence
I010/12 Insurance
I010/13 Legal affairs and contracts
I010/14 Libraries and documentation centres
I010/15 Publications
I010/16 Publicity and public relations
I010/17 Relations /services, external
I010/18 Relations /services, internal
I010/19 Research activities
I010/20 Scholarships, awards and prizes
I010/21 Staff, general
I010/22 Staff, administrative and support
I010/23 Staff, teaching
I010/24 Statistics
I010/25 Student life
I010/26 Student records
I010/27 Teaching activities
I010/28 University organizations, policy and planning
I010/29 Photographs

Sir George Williams University. Office of the Principal
Frederick Krantz fonds
P0044 · Fonds · 1981-1985

Frederick Krantz edited the book History from Below: Studies in Popular Protest and Popular Ideology in Honour of George Rudé.

The fonds consists of a copy of the book, manuscript copies of the articles contributed for the book, correspondence with contributors and the publisher, a list of contributors, and curricula vitae.

Krantz, Frederick H.
Quinn collection
C001 · Collection · 1931-1985

The Quinn collection was gathered by Herbert Furlong Quinn between the 1930s and 1970s to support his research of political sciences.
The collection mainly presents a dozen Canadian political parties as well as several foreign parties using brochures and political newspapers covering the period from the 1930s to the early 1980s. The Canadian political parties represented are the Parti libéral du Québec, the Liberal Party of Canada, the New Democratic Party, the Progressive Labor Union, the Commonwealth Co-operative Federation, the Progressive Conservative Party, the Confederation of Catholic Workers in Canada, the National Union, the Social Credit Party of Canada, the Bloc Populaire, the Canadian Student Assembly, among others. The foreign parties covered by the collection are mainly the German Christlich Demokratische Union (CDU / CSU), but also the Socialist Workers' Party of America and the League for Industrial Democracy as well as the Republicans and Democrats during the American presidential campaign of 1964. In addition, the collection includes several years of the "Bulletin" (English version), published by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as brochures of the Portuguese government of the 1930s.
The collection also includes complementary material: First, there are articles and publications written by Herbert F. Quinn on multiple political subjects, including a manuscript of the book "L'Union nationale: le nationalisme québécois de Duplessis à Lévesque", published in 1979. Second, there is a selection of Canadian newspapers and clippings, covering the 1949 Canadian federal election campaign on the one hand, and the fascist movement around the world during the 1930s on the other.
Finally, the collection includes court transcripts relating to the occupation of the Sir George Williams University Computer Center in 1969, known as the Sir George Williams Affair.

The Quinn collection contains pamphlets, brochures, statements, newsletters, addresses, policy statements, transcripts, manifests, newspapers and newspaper clippings. An index of brochures is available.

The collection is organized in the following series:

C001/A Political Pamphlet Collection
C001/B Politics in the Media
C001/C Publications by Herbert F. Quinn
C001/D Sir George Williams Affair

Quinn, Herbert Furlong
P0014 · Fonds · 1978-1985

The fonds provides information on the QAAL's political and other activities in defence of the rights of adult students.

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, conference documentation, financial records, and reports.

Quebec Association for Adult Learning
Edwy Cooke fonds
P0190 · Fonds · 1951 - 1985

The fonds mainly provides information on his teaching activities at Concordia and administrative duties as Director of the SGW Art Galleries.

The fonds includes course outlines, reference materials on art, student exams and papers, committee minutes and correspondence.

Cooke, Edwy
I0038 · Fonds · 1936 - 1986, mainly 1961 - 1984

Fonds provides information on the activities of the Academic Planning Office from 1967 to 1984, years for which J. H. Whitelaw was Curriculum Coordinator, Associate Vice-Rector and Vice-Rector (Academic). It also provides information on related activities in which J. H. Whitelaw was involved from 1961-1984.

Fonds contains mainly curriculum, statistics, textual records, correspondence, minutes, reports, press clippings, procedures and policies. The fonds is organized according to the following series:

I0038/01 Associations
I0038/02 Budget
I0038/03 Budget Control and Accounting
I0038/04 Committees
I0038/05 Computer Facilities and Operations
I0038/06 Cooperation and Exchange Activities
I0038/07 Curriculum & Programmes
I0038/08 Departmental Affairs
I0038/09 Financing
I0038/10 General Correspondence
I0038/11 Publications
I0038/12 Relations / Services External
I0038/13 Relations / Services Internal
I0038/14 Research Activities
I0038/15 Staff General
I0038/16 Staff Teaching
I0038/17 Statistics
I0038/18 Student Life
I0038/19 University Organizations, Policy and Planning

Concordia University. Academic Planning Office
Wilfred N. Hall fonds
P0040 · Fonds · 1949-1986

The fonds primarily gives details on the language debate in Quebec in the 1970s and on income levels of francophone and anglophone Quebeckers relative to their level of education, among other issues. The fonds also includes files related to the chemical industry in Canada.

The fonds consists of minutes, reports, surveys, correspondence, speeches, and articles.

Hall, Wilfred N.
Donald Tobin fonds
P0060 · Fonds · [ca. 1949]-1986

The fonds provides information on class reunions that took place in 1956, 1961, and 1986, and on the Loyola Alumni Association.

The fonds consists of class reunion booklets and press clippings.

Tobin, Donald
Virginia Nixon fonds
P0090 · Fonds · 1966-1986

The fonds provides information on the visual arts in Canada, particularly Montreal.

The fonds includes photocopies of numerous reviews and articles by Virginia Nixon on exhibits, artists, and other topics.

Nixon, Virginia
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
Clyde Duncan Fonds
P018 · Fonds · [193-]-1986

The fonds provides information about Clyde Duncan's career as a jazz musician.

The fonds contains musical engagement contracts (1939-1940), the Canadian Federation of Musicians by-laws (1930), concert programs, press clippings, photographs, and sound recordings.

Duncan, Clyde
P0061 · Fonds · 1957-1987, predominant 1957-1968

The fonds provides information on the history of the Garnet Key Society of Concordia University and its founding institution Sir George Williams University.

The fonds consists of handbooks, minutes of meeting, correspondence, lists of nominations, and Garnet Key garments and objects.

Concordia University. Garnet Key Society
Orson Shorey Wheeler fonds
P0067 · Fonds · 1949-1987, predominant 1961-1967

The fonds provides information on the teaching activities of Orson Shorey Wheeler and his work as sculptor. The fonds consists of clippings, term papers and exams, architectural sketches, invitations, correspondence, library addition listings, photographs, and minutes.

Wheeler, Orson Shorey
Norman Manson fonds
P0053 · Fonds · 1937-1987

The fonds provides information on activities of the Guinea Pig Graduating class. It also provides information on the foundation of the Alumni Association of Sir George Williams College and the Society of the Order of the Guinea Pig.

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, and clippings.

Manson, Norman
Susan Hudson fonds
P0094 · Fonds · 1987

The fonds consists of storyboards, on foam core and paper, and illustrations done by Susan Hudson for the book The Eternal Peter Pan: Selections from Peter Pan and Wendy by James M. Barrie, published by Montreal's Tundra Books in 1987.

Hudson, Susan
Herb Johnson fonds
P0088 · Fonds · 1898-1987

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.

Johnson, Herb
Alex Robertson fonds
P023 · Fonds · 1853-1988

Between 1940 and 1986, Alex Robertson collected records. Most of the recordings in the fonds are 78 rpm's pressed in Montreal by Berliner and Compo: Berliner was the first Canadian company to produce records, and Compo was the first to record Canadian Black musicians. The fonds contains a large number of sound recordings that have never had commercial or widespread distribution. The fonds includes about 3,000 pieces of sheet music of various genres, dating from ca 1885 to 1970; about 1,000 pieces have Canadian content. The fonds includes numerous catalogues and promotional pamphlets from record and sheet-music publishing companies, dealers, clubs, and radio stations. Also included are books annotated by Alex Robertson in the course of his disco-graphical research. Alex Robertson's research materials on record labels and series, as well as on Montreal musical activity between 1913 and 1970 are included in the fonds. His extensive correspondence and related newsletters are included. The fonds includes photographs of Alex Robertson with his family; there is also a photograph of Alex Robertson with jazz author George Martin, and several of a reception held in his honor in the Concordia University Archives reading room in 1988.

The fonds is organized into the following series:
P0023/A Correspondence
P0023/B Research on record labels and series
P0023/C Research on Montreal music activity
P0023/D Photographs

Robertson, Alex
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
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