The collection consists of lecture notes from Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, dated around 1873. The lecture is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the origins of textiles, with a particular emphasis on cotton. The second part explores the ribbon, detailing its uses and origins in Normandy, France. The third part addresses industrial progress and modern ribbon manufacturing, and it presents the biography of Jean Baptiste Masselin, the founder of the ribbon industry in France.

Fonds consists of a notebook kept by Louis Gagné of his physics and metaphysics class given by Abbot Demers at the Séminaire de Québec.

Correspondence 1921-1931 concerning Simon McTavish; official copies of legal documents including estate inventories, lawsuits over the McTavish estate, and Simon McTavish’s will; notes for Baylis’ study of McTavish; numerous petitions and newspaper clippings on the state of the McTavish monument and tomb (Peel St., Montreal), and a typescript of his text concerning Simon McTavish. Also two letters from Ignatius Donnelly, 1899, and a letter 1895, from J. Middleton to John Doyle about 19th century gardening in Montreal and the funeral of Judge James Reid.