File is an audio reel containing an episode of Women's Time. This episode is in memory of the 14 Montreal women killed in the École Polytechnique massacre of December 6, 1989.
File contains negatives of photographs taken during a trip taken by Barbara Hinds to northern Quebec in September of 1965. The photographs were taken in Fort Chimo, Povungnituk, Sugluk, and Wakeham Bay. Most of the photographs are of people from these towns. The photographs also show churches, houses, other buildings, construction sites, cars, and boats.
File contains a clipping of an article by Philip Cook from the Montreal Daily Star entitled "Contemporary Music is not Given a Chance." The article includes mention of Ellen Ballon and Heitor Villa-Lobos' Piano Concerto No. 1.
File contains newspaper clippings that mention Ellen Ballon. Topics range from concert reviews, her favourite recipes, lifestyle, the death of her mother (Charlotte Ballon, nee Klein), and her contributions during the Second World War. One of the articles reports on her premiere performance in Rio de Janeiro of Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto.
File also includes a clipping about Ellen Ballon's agent, Andrew Schulhof, and a ticket for a performance at Plateau Hall in Montreal featuring Ellen Ballon performing Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto with the CBC Symphony Orchestra.
File consists of records related to the exhibition entitled 'The Non-Figurative Artists' Association of Montreal,' organized and circulated by the Sir George Williams Art Galleries of Concordia University. The exhibition was presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery from August 23 - September 30, 1984.
Records consist of correspondence, exhibition itinerary, C.V. for the curator (at Sir George Williams Art Gallerie), and shipping/handling instructions.
File contains a map of Port Burwell and approaches, including Forbes Sound, Killinek Island, and Jackson Island. The map shows the soundings in fathoms for this area.
File contains a copy of the 1906 publication of Anna Magdalena's 1725 Notebook with various short piano compositions, edited by Dr. Richard Batka. The book is inscribed to Ellen Ballon by Clara Lichtenstein, her teacher at McGill Conservatorium of Music, and dated April 7, 1910 in Montreal.
File contains documents related to Jenny Munday's visit to Playwrights' Workshop Montreal with her play, "Battle Fatigue." The documents include handwritten notes about the trip; a letter from Munday to Paula Dankhurst; and a passenger itinerary and invoice from Fraser and Hoyt Travel.
File also contains handwritten notes for talks given at the OSA conference, the Montreal Reading Council, and CCTE [Churches' Council on Theological Education?].
File contains correspondence with Department of Finance and Treasury Board of Canada, Government of Canada Privy Council Office, and the Canadian International Development Agency. Correspondents include Karen O'Brien; Douglas Patriquin (attached are government documents); C.G. Penney; Nicholas Polunin (attached are EMB's comments on an editorial); George Post (attached are government documents); Francois Pouliot; Victor Prescott; Sharon Proctor.
File includes "Concerning ore-shoot," by G. Vibert Douglas and C. K. Howse; "Further notes concerning ore-shoots," by G. Vibert Douglas and E.P. Sheppard; "Thirty-fourth annual report of the Ontario Department of Mines: the Whiskey Lake Area (District of Algoma) and La Cloche Area (District of Sudbury," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Topography and geology of South Georgia," by George Vibert Douglas; "Zavodovskii Island and notes on rock fragments dredged in the Weddell Sea," by George Vibert Douglas and W. Campbell Smith; "Topography and geology of the Tristan Da Cunha group," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Ore-shoots in the gold fields of Nova Scotia," by G. Vibert Douglas, C.O. Campbell, and N.R. Goodman; "On an occurrence of nickeliferous pyrrhotite in Nova Scotia," by G. Vibert Douglas and R. L. Milner; "Further notes on a field-test for gold," by G. Vibert Douglas and R.E. Pearce; "A field test for gold," by G. Vibert Douglas and Norman B. Gillies; "On the theory of continental drift," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Some features of mining geology," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Province of Quebec, Department of Mines and Fisheries: advance report on the geology of Bruneau Township and surrounding area," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Preliminary experiments in mountain-building," by G. Vibert Douglas and Geddes Webster; "Province of Quebec, Department of Mines and Maritime Fisheries: geological report no. 8, Eustis-mine area Ascot Township," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Prospecting," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Xenoliths and contacts near Halifax, Nova Scota," by G. Vibert Douglas and Elizabeth Wellington; "Note on the origin of the Gut of Canso and the Bras d'Or Lakes," by G. Vibert Douglas and J. W. D. Johnston; "Vein filling," by G. Vibert Douglas; "The structure of Ungava," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Recent ideas on mountain-building," by George Vibert Douglas; "An analysis of downpunching," by H.S. Heaps, presented by G. Vibert Douglas; and "Mineralization in Northern Rhodesia," by G. Vibert Douglas.
File contains papers of the SS Corfu Island, including a survey of the vessel from March 4, 1953, a list of crew members from July 11, 1957 to May 14, 1960, and miscellaneous papers from 1956, 1961, and 1962.
File contains a photograph of Alacee Qingalik, who was a co-star of the film Nanook of the North. The photograph shows Qingalik smoking and holding an ulu knife. The photograph was taken in Povungnituk, Quebec.
File is a photograph of Mrs. Norah Michener, Roland Michener (Governor General of Canada), Alive Girard (President, International Council of Nurses) and Sister Sister Mary Felicitas (President, Canadian Nurses Association).
Lt. Colonel Sidney Oland is 5th from left in the front row. Lt. Colonel Oland commanded the 66th Field Artillery unit in WW1. The photograph was taken by Victor Trower, Montreal.
File contains a photograph of "The Three Bares" sculpture (also known as the "Friendship Fountain"), which was given to McGill University by its creator, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, as a show of goodwill between the United States and Canada. Ellen Ballon met Whitney while in New York and reportedly suggested the donation of the sculpture. It was presented to the university in 1931 by New York Times editor John Finley in 1931.
File is a photograph of an unidentified graduating class from the McGill Medical School. Identified by the photograph of the McGill Medical Building (1880-1900) in the background of the shot. http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/VIEW-1479
File contains prints and proofs of photographs taken during a trip to northern Quebec taken by Barbara Hinds in 1965. The photographs were taken in Fort Chimo, Wakeham Bay, Sugluk, and Povungnituk. The photographs include portraits, people at work, children playing, buildings, and scenery.
File contains photographs of sleds, dogs, George Koneak, and four other unidentified men. The photographs were taken during trips to the eastern Canadian Arctic taken by Barbara Hinds around 1960 and 1961.
File contains photographs taken by Rosemary Gilliat during a trip to the eastern Arctic with Barbara Hinds. The photographs were taken in Ungava Bay, Koksoak River, Ikaluk, Frobisher Bay, Port Burwell, and Cape Dorset. They include photographs of Barbara Hinds, Rosemary Gilliat, Bill Lamour, Eetuk, Pitsolak, Stan Annanak, hunters, and a polar bear. There are captions written on the backs of the photographs.
File contains 11 photographs taken by Bill Freedman, Luc Foisy, Todd Keith, and J. Pleau, between 1990 and 1997. Photographs show forest fire damage at the "Aire G" site at La Mauricie National Park in the Laurentians, Quebec, and near Dawson City, Yukon, as well as burn recovery at Banff National Park and northern New Brunswick.
File contains three photographs of the opera singer Christie MacDonald of the Montreal Opera Company. One of the photographs shows her in costume for "The Spring Maid" by Heinrich Reinhardt, and another in costume as Marguerite for the "Jewel Song" in "Faust" by Charles Gounod for the Montreal Opera Company.
File contains 13 photographs taken by Todd Keith (and collected by Bill Freedman) between 1984 and 1990. Photographs show devegetation near smelter plants in Flin Flon, Manitoba and Sturgeon Lake, Ontario (Cu-Zn), Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec (Cu-Zn and SO2), and acidification of quartzite at Killarney, Ontario. Also includes a photograph by Keith of Kilauea Crater (Hawaii) and three photos of New Zealand scenery.
File contains two photographs of the operatic soprano Esther Ferrobini of the Montreal Opera Company that John Daniel Logan used for a press release about her performance in the title role of the opera "Zoza."
File contains 73 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at locations in Newfoundland and Montreal in 2002. Photographs show shrubs of the east coast of Canada, as well people and street scenes in Montreal.
File contains 12 photographs taken by Bill Freedman and Annette Lutterman in Quebec and Ontario between 1996 and 1999. Photographs show hydroelectric power scenes, including the dams and diversion channels of La Grande River dam, and Niagara Falls.
File contains an autographed photograph of the Montreal-born opera singer Louise Edvina Edwardes (nee Martin), known by her stage name "Madame Edvina." File also contains a print of Louise Edvina in costume from the opera "Tosca" by Giacomo Puccini. Logan's notes on the reverse side of the print and at the bottom of the photograph indicate that she was known for her creation of the title role of Louise in an opera by Gustave Charpentier.
File contains 11 photographs taken by Bill Freedman during protests at the Summit of the Americas conference in Quebec City in April 2001. Photographs show crowds of protesters carrying signs, as well as two photos of the Raging Grannies.
File contains 20 photographic negatives of the 1967 International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67, as it was commonly known, held in Montreal, Quebec.