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Fonds consists of materials related to the life and work of Taras Grescoe and documents the research conducted during the process of writing the following publications: Sacré Blues (2000), The End of Elsewhere (2003), The Devil's Picnic (2005), Bottomfeeder: How to Ear Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood (2008), Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (2012), and Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World (2016). These publications document Quebec society, tourism, the environment, history, and the prohibited food and substance business, among other topics. The fonds includes audio interviews and transcripts and interview transcripts, research documentation, drafts of book chapters and articles, travel notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts.

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

The Freda Guttma fonds documents Guttman’s career as an activist visual artist. The fonds provides information about Guttman’s individual exhibitions such as Global Menu, Notes from the 20th, and Guatemala: The Road of War. The fonds also documents group shows where Freda Guttman was part of, including the Impakt Festival, Imprint ’76, European Media Art Festival, Cinema Femmes Montreal, and Canadian Printmakers Showcase, among others. The fonds also contains publications like magazines and books that use Guttman's works as covers or illustrations. The fonds also includes interviews, reviews, and documentation about Guttman’s artworks and research.

The Freda Guttman fonds consists of exhibition catalogues, programs, promotional materials such as postcards, leaflets, brochures and posters. It also contains clippings, photographs, moving images, sound recordings, and some periodicals.

The purpose of the Oral History-Montreal Studies program is to document the history of the Montreal metropolitan area. Sponsored by Shell Canada, the program funds projects which make accessible the oral history of Greater Montreal, through systematic interviewing of leaders and witnesses of the labour, industrial, cultural, social, religious, and ethnic scene since World War II. The project is administered by the Concordia University Library.

The collection provides information on the history of Greater Montreal. It consists of recorded interviews of individuals as well as some transcripts and application forms for some of the projects. The projects are:

Little Burgundy / La Petite Bourgogne
A Comparison of the Influence of Anne Savage and Arthur Lismer
Hugh Percival Illsley, Architect: 1896-198-
Rabbi Lavy Becker: Social Worker, Businessman, and Father-in-law
Interviews with John Bland
The Dutch of Quebec
The Montreal Chinese Community
The Children's Theatre in Montreal
Women and War Work in Montreal
The Montreal Art Community
Omer Heroux: French Canadian Journalist
Norma Springford
Black Montrealers: A Piece of the Multicultural Mosaic
The Rise of Consulting Engineering in Montreal
Women Scientists in Montreal, 1920-1960
The Contribution of Holocaust Survivors to the Cultural and Social Institutions of Montreal
Véhicule Art (Montreal) Inc. 1972-1983
Alfred Pinsky: Analysis of Great Works of Art (ART 460 course)
Female Academics at Concordia University (Sir George Williams and Loyola College): The First Generation, 1940-1975.

The collection documents the life, work, and interests of Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge. It includes documentation about their post-secondary studies, their work experience in different companies and organizations, their contribution to the black community and their affiliation with various community organizations such as the St. Vincent and Grenadines Association of Montreal, the Emancipation 150 Committee, the Black Community Council of Quebec and the Project Genesis. The collection provides information about several Black community organizations in Montreal, the rest of Canada and North America, including promotional material of events, which provide an overview of the cultural activities held between the 60s and 90s. In addition, the collection contains numerous publications such as periodicals, booklets and books that were part of Roberts and Cambridge’s personal library and the Alfie Roberts Institute. Some of the periodicals found in the collection include issues of The Vincentian, Afro-Can, Gramma, Uhuru, Caribbean Contact, The Afro Canadian, The Militant, The Struggle, Outlet, Focus Umoja, Justice, Freedom, The Crusader, Nam Speaks, Speak Out, Day Clean, Forum, and New Beginning, among others publications. The collection covers topics that are related but not limited to Black history, imperialism, slavery, racism, liberation, colonialism, Marxism, communism, socialism, housing and segregation, urban planning, labour, history of Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.

The Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge Collection is divided into four series:
C025/A Personal Records
C025/B Community relations
C025/C Library and Research Documentation
C025/D Biographies

The collection contains correspondence, handwritten notes, assignments, essays written by Alfie Roberts and Patricia Cambridge, reference and research documentation, books, periodicals, newspaper clippings, booklets, speech transcripts, flyers, drawings, conference documents, posters, objects, pamphlets, brochures, leaflets, newsletters, bulletins, meeting minutes, agendas, photographs, maps, sound recordings, and objects.

This collection is comprised of documents related to Concordia University and its founding institutions (Loyola College and Sir George Williams University) alumni and the activities they participated in during their student years. The first donation from this collection was received in October 1986.

It contains photographs, textual records, such as correspondence, school documentation (programs, promotional material, etc.), some meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, as well as some objects.

These records are arranged by their accession numbers.

These records document the academic career of Kenneth John Arthur at Sir George Williams College.

It contains textual records, graphic material and objects dating from 1952 to 1956. These includes student transcripts of Credit, correspondence from Sir George Williams College, the Charles E. Frosst medal awarded in 1956 as well as a patch of the Frosst medal crest.

This accession contains photographs relating to sports such as hockey and rugby at Loyola College.

This accession consists of a poster advertising the Spectrum show held by the Concordia Musiclub.

During the Spring and Fall semesters of 1978, Concordia University hosted fourteen lectures by Swiss and French New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (1930 – 2022). Serge Losique (1931– ), then a professor within Concordia’s French department, founder of the Montreal World Film Festival, and head of the Conservatory of Cinematic Art, invited Godard to present this series of lectures. These lectures were part of a larger project undertaken by Godard and collaborators such as film archivist Henri Langlois (1914 – 1977) that focused on the history of cinema and television and the function of film as a representation of history within the 20th century.

The lectures featured Godard and Losique discussing ideas and themes brought forth by films they had screened. These include television, women, revolution, films about filmmaking, music, and war. The works of many other directors are also discussed, including, but not limited to, Francois Truffaut, Martin Scorsese, and Jean-Pierre Gorin. The lectures were held at the theatre in Concordia University’s Hall building.

The fonds provides information on The Georgian and Loyola News, and on the activities of The Link.

The fonds consists of the publication The Link, minutes of staff meetings, letters to the editor, and other administrative files. The fonds includes photographs of a variety of subjects from The Georgian.

Interview with Rocky Frianetti by Dorothy Williams. Recorded February 7, 1982.

Interview with Mrs. Braithwaite by Dorothy Williams. Recorded February 5, 1982.

Interview with Ivy Simons by Dorothy Williams. Recorded January 20, 1982.

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

Subseries includes paperbacks, hardbacks and unbound copies of books.

Lecture Theme: Monsters

This video contains a long discussion on sub-titles and dubbing. Godard expresses his opinions on when dubbing or subtitles are appropriate, the technical facets of dubbing and dubbing films with Quebecois French. Some film figures that come up during the discussion include Roman Polanski, Fritz Lang, Francois Truffaut, Barbara Streisand, and the Marx brothers. Godard also frequently references the Birth (of the image) of a Nation project in which he worked with the government of Mozambique to establish a television channel following its independence from Portugal. There is also discussion of the American studio system with references specifically to Fox studios. There is some light-hearted discussion with the audience about the film The Birds and originality at roughly the 45-minute mark. Throughout this lecture there are references to socialism and later a brief discussion about societal power dynamics between men, women, children, and animals.

Screened Films: Week-end – Jean-Luc Godard (France-Italy, 1967)
Films Discussed: Dracula – Tod Browning (U.S.A., 1931) The Birds – Alfred Hitchcock (U.S.A., 1963), Germany, Year Zero (Germania anno zero) – Roberto Rossellini (Italy-France, 1948)

Lecture Theme: The People and Their Leaders

The relationship between war and cinema is the primary focus of this lecture. Godard speaks of Italian and German propaganda films, Vietnam and the Holocaust. Many figures of cinema come up throughout the conversations between the audience, Losique and Godard within this lecture such as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Steve McQueen and Barbara Streisand. At roughly seventeen minutes an audience member asks him about the role of women within his work which is brought up again later in the lecture. There is also a brief exchange about the changing technology of cinema. At around the 29-minute mark he discusses his relationship to film school and speaks candidly about the lack of financial success of his films and how his films have been self-funded.

Screened Films: Les Carabiniers – Jean-Luc Godard (1963)
Films discussed: Alexander Nevsky -Sergei Eisenstein (U.S.S.R., 1938), Rome, Open City (Roma, città aperta) – Roberto Rossellini (Italy, 1945), The Green Berets – Ray Kellogg and John Wayne (U.S.A, 1968)

The fonds provides information on rhythm and blues music in Montreal.

The fonds contains a Concordia University paper written in 2000, entitled Notes in Time: A Brief Oral History of Montreal's Rhythm and Blues Club Circuit, on the club circuit in Montreal 1967-1999. It includes video interviews with four rhythm and blues musicians and a laser copy of an exterior photograph of the Montreal night club Rockhead's Paradise.

The Canada Weekend Post collection consists of 14 issues of Canada Weekend Post, as well as clippings. The newspapers and clippings were published between 1986 and 1990. Some issues and clippings are reproductions of the originals.

The Negro Community Centre/Charles H. Este Cultural Centre fonds contains records relating to the operation of the Negro Community Centre/Charles H. Este Cultural Centre. It contains textual records and other materials documenting the mission; structure; administration; building and facilities; and programs and services offered at the Centre, dating from its founding in the late 1920s until it ceased its operations. The fonds also contains materials dating to after the closure of the Centre.

The fonds documents the history of the Negro Community Centre/Charles H. Este Cultural Centre, its role in Little Burgundy and the greater Montreal area, and its relationships to other organizations, including but not limited to the Coloured Women's Club of Montreal; Union United Church; Red Feather Services; Federated Appeal of Greater Montreal; and Centraide. The fonds also includes documentation related to the Walker Credit Union and Afro-Can. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is also mentioned in the documentation.

The Negro Community Centre/Charles H. Este Cultural Centre fonds includes a wide variety of textual records, including but not limited to administrative records; ledgers and other financial records; correspondence; board and committee meeting minutes and related records; reports; calendars, flyers, posters, descriptions and other documentation relating to programs, services, and events taking place at the Centre; photographic materials, including prints and negatives; architectural drawings and plans; clothing; and ephemera.

The Black Studies Centre fonds contains materials documenting the administration, services, and activities of the Black Studies Centre from its beginnings as the National Black Coalition Quebec Institute of Research until 2014. The fonds also documents the Centre’s role within Montreal’s Black communities, as well as its relationships to other organizations working within and outside Montreal. In addition, the Black Studies Centre fonds is an important source of reference documentation pertaining to the history, culture, and contributions of Black communities in Canada: it contains a rich collection of newspapers, periodicals, and books, dating from 1969 to 2012, including but not limited to copies of Contrast (1969-1999), Community Contact (1998-2008), Afro-Can (1981-1984), Focus Umoja (1974-1978), Uhuru (1969-1970), and Umoja (1969-1970, 1990), as well as books that were previously held in the collection of the Black Studies Centre’s Library.

The fonds is divided into the following series:
F034/A Administration
F034/B Financial records
F034/C External relations
F035/D Programming and Services
F035/E Research
F035/F Reference documentation

The Black Studies Centre fonds contains, among other documents, meeting minutes, agendas, reports, policies, correspondence, letters patent, statistics, photographs, architectural plans, deeds of sale, insurance policies, permits, contracts, agreements, organizational charts, resumes, job descriptions, lists, financial documents, grant applications, brochures, by-laws, directories, newspapers and newspaper articles, press releases, newsletters, leaflets, flyers, invitations, catalogs, notes, index cards, moving images, sound recordings, posters, biographies, schedules, attendance records, stories, poems, song texts, drawings, forms, costumes, research papers, bibliographies, bibliographic records, interview transcripts, reproductions of historical documents, speeches, summaries of newspaper articles, accession records, subscriptions, a guest book, books, magazines, periodicals, and a musical instrument.

This accession contains a framed graduating class mosaic and a mug received by the graduates of the Loyola College Faculty of Commerce in 1955.

The fonds documents the activities of the Concordia University Department of Political Science. This fonds consists mainly of curriculum development files, class schedules, publications and course outlines. The following RCRP categories are contained within this fonds:

1131 Curriculum Development (2004-2007)
1313 Course Outlines (1980-2009)
1410 Recruitment - Academic Appointment (1998-2009)
1430 CUPFA - Academic and Professional Dossier (2002-2014)
5111 Meetings of Units (1994)
5450 University Publications (1976-1990)
5461 Promotional Material (1975-1980)

The following publications are included in this fonds:

• PUB-040 Political Science Student Journal (1978-1983)
• PUB-056 Essays in Political Science (1977-1978)
• Course guides (1976-1990)
• Graduate Students Bulletin (1985)

This accession provides information on James McGarry as a student at the Loyola High School and Loyola College.

It is comprised of photographs of class activities and sports teams, mainly rugby and hockey, as well as some photos from the annual field day.

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

It consists of class reunion booklets, reunion correspondence, and press clippings mentioning Loyola College.

This accession provides information on activities, mainly sports, including rugby, tennis, and field day activities, that occurred at Loyola College in the 1910s.

The accession consists of a scrapbook, newspaper clippings related to Loyola (in particular sports like rugby, hockey, swimming, and lacrosse), event programs for the annual field day and the 1914 commencement, dance cards, an examination report, and photographs.

This accession provides information on various activities at Sir George between 1949 and 1953.

The contents consist of photographs taken on various occasions (freshman and graduation balls).

The accession provides information on various activities at Sir George in the 1950s (freshman parade, carnival, and a student exchange weekend at Cornell University, Ithaca NY).

These documents consist of photographs taken on various occasions.

These items represent his time as part of the athletic community at Loyola College.

The contents include a portrait of Harry Hyland, as well as 2 plaques given to him by Loyola College. One was received upon his induction into the Loyola Sports Hall of Fame in 1969, while the other was given to him during the Loyola Winter Carnival Sports Night in 1969, where he was the guest of honor.

Le sous-fonds est divisé en deux séries : VIE PERSONNELLE et VIE PROFESSIONNELLE. La série VIE PERSONNELLE comprend de la correspondance diverse dont une lettre de Fernand Léger. La correspondance inclut des lettres adressées à Laurette (dite Lola) Gagnon ainsi que Luc Gagnon. Y sont compris également des documents liés à l’éducation de Maurice Gagnon à Paris, des documents légaux ainsi que des dessins divers.

La série VIE PROFESSIONNELLE comprend une sous-série ENSEIGNEMENT qui inclut des notes de cours et documentation sur des thèmes liés à l’histoire de l’art : architecture, Le Corbusier, l’impressionnisme, la peinture italienne à la Renaissance, le réalisme/romantisme et la sculpture gothique, entre autres. La sous-série ÉCRITS comprend des copies du livre ‘Peinture moderne’ dont une version corrigée en 1944. La sous-série RECHERCHE ET MATÉRIEL DE RÉFÉRENCE comprend notamment une copie du livre ‘Projections libérantes’ de Paul-Émile Borduas.