The fonds consists of a small black three-ringed binder composed of five sections (Quotations, Humor, Nonsense, Political, Information) which contain handwritten and typewritten quotations of prose and poetry (notably Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Yeats, among others), and news clippings of articles, cartoons and art, intermingled together on the pages. The last section, Information, contains lists of Latin, words and definitions and signs of the zodiac to name a few.
Fonds shows Thomas Gibson's interest in history of medicine. It contains papers on John Palmer Litchfield and on the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of Upper Canada. Dr. Gibson's notes on the translation of Theodore Turquet de Mayerne of the Opera Medica of Joseph Brown, ed. 1700. Correspondence.
Fonds shows T.F. Cotton's activities as a student at McGill University, 1903-1909. The fonds contains 24 bound notebooks with lectures notes taken by Cotton, 1903-1909, for courses in Medicine, Political Science, History, French Literature, English Composition and Literature. There is also a case book containing electrocardiograms and a volume of ophthalmology lecture notes bearing the name George C. Hale.
The collection consists of T.E. Montgomery's annoted copy of Notes on the Practice of Medicine (lectures by Dr. George Ross of McGill's Medical College), 1891-1892.
The collection contains thirteen documents concerning Lord Selkirk's conflict with the North West Company at the Red River Colony and Fort William. There is also a letter to Colonel Benjamin Walker, 1816.
Typed transcriptions of Charles McKenzie’s narratives about the Indigenous people of MIssouri, draft and revised draft before publication; Alexander Henry’s account entitled: “Account of a visit to the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians in 1806”; and John Macdonell’s “The Red River”. Also includes drafts for work entitled, "Early fur trade on the Northern Plains : Canadian traders among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, 1738-1818 : the narratives of John Macdonell, David Thompson, Franc̦ois-Antoine Larocque, and Charles McKenzie" / edited and with an introduction by W. Raymond Wood and Thomas D. Thiessen. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.
Fonds shows Dr. Thomas C. Brainerd as a surgeon with the US Army during the Civil War. The fonds contains an invoice issued by the US Army, a form for examining a recruit and a report on sick and wounded.
This collection consists of contemporary copies of letters written by T. Blackwood from Michilimackinac to James and Andrew McGill & Co., to Ch. Chaboillez, and to T. and J. McGregor.
