This subseries focuses on the unpublished memoir of Casey A. Wood, which consists of manuscripts, typescripts, notes, research project notes and publications, correspondence (1888-1939), photographs, clippings and printed material, and journals (1891, 1930-1931) from approximately 1850-1939. Wood had assistance from family members, professional connections, and friends to compile his biographical information for the memoir. Wood was living in Rome during the mid- to late-1930s, so much of the Canadian research was conducted by family members Samuel Casey Wood III, Alan Wood, and Edith Hayes. There is correspondence between Wood and his family on the progress of the memoir, their family, and personal lives. The subseries consists of approximately 110 letters and 1 telegram with additional correspondence, clippings, and other materials integrated into the memoir’s manuscript and typescripts.
Individuals addressed within the correspondence and other materials include Alan Wood, Samuel Casey Wood III, George Iles, H. Clay Evans, Dr. George H. Mathewson, Francis J. Shepherd, Harvey Cushing, Dr. George H. Simmons, Casey Hayes, Josephine Seymour, Dr. Charles P. Small, Ms. Slaughter, Major J. C. Dawson, Dr. J. C. Simpson, J. R. Slonaker, Irving S. Cutter, Dr. H. D. Birkett, Dr. Franck Brawley, Dr. Maude Abbott, Elizabeth E. Abbott, Dr. W. W. Francis, Harry Harris, G. R. Lomer, Dr. Harry Vanderbilt Wurdemann, Dr. C. F. Wylde, V. C. Wynne Edwards, Dr. Andreas Nell, Sir William Osler, C. F. Wylde, Frank Allport, and Norma Shearer.
Throughout the subseries common topics include providing information for the memoir, travel, careers, education, Italy during the late 1930s, politics, ornithology, zoology, donations of materials by Casey Wood, family, Emperor Frederick II and “the Art of Falconry,” Emma Shearer Wood and Blacker Library collections, aviculture, John III, the Feather book, animal protection, history of medicine, “Coloured Plates of the Birds of Ceylon,” Ali ibn Isa, and Wood’s research, career, and health.
The printed material includes a variety of leaflets, brochures, cards, invitations, tickets, bookplates, booklets, clippings etc. from or about various current events, travel experiences, publications, etc.. Within the subseries' photographs are images of Dr. Thomas Woodruff, Emma Shearer Wood, Casey Wood, Marjorie Fyfe, James Shearer, Eliza Shearer, Dr. Richmond, Dr. Ridgway, other family members and friends, and from research trips. Places related to Wood’s life mentioned in this subseries include the United States, Canada, Germany, Sri Lanka, England, Italy, Ethiopia, Vienna, France, Afghanistan, British Guiana, Australia, Fiji, McGill and Emma Shearer Wood Libraries, Bishops’ College, Western General Hospital, Stanford University, and the Chicago Ophthalmological Society.

[1934, Spring] Staff photograph of Department of Neurological and Neurosurgery, Royal Victoria Hospital and McGill University. [Printed in the N.M.A., p.325] Standing: Oland Hyndman, Jerzy Chorobski, Robert Hardwood, Theodore Erickson, Arne Torkildsen, John Kershman, William T. Grant, Ralph Stuck, Ginger Stavraky; Seated: Lyle Gage, Arthur Elvidge, Norman Peterson, Arthur Young, Colin Russel, Wilder Penfield, William V. Cone, Joseph Evans and Wilbur Sprong. Also photograph of Arthur Elvidge, Wilder Penfield, William Cone (seated) and Arne Torkildsen, Lyle Gage, Joseph Evans, Jerzy Chorobski [75-0670; 75-2322] [60-0001].

The fonds consists of correspondence regarding John Peters Humphrey and the Humphrey memorial stamp (1995-2004), Tamar Oppenheimer's Columbia M.A. thesis entitled, International Conventions on the Political Rights of Women, 1920-1948, correspondence pertaining to Air and Space Law (1999), as well as correspondence and pamphlets relating to the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (1999), between 1993 and 2004.

The collection consists of 287 negatives, 65 prints and 179 copy negatives from photographer Tappan Adney. The collection documents his passage in the Yukon, Alaska and British Columbia during the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1890s. The negatives depict various geographic landscapes, people and animals, settlements, and day-to-day mining activities in numerous locations, such as, Dawson, Skagway, Lower Yukon, Bonanza Creek, El Dorado, Chilkoot Trail, Nome, Dyea, Skookumchuck, Hunker Creek, Tagish and Dutch Harbor.

The fonds includes 27 drawings (1888-1896) of, notably, a house for George Drummond on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal and the Montreal Diocesan Theological College on University Street are documented in watercolour drawings of plans, elevations, and sections. In addition, there are measured drawings of the Hugh Allan house on Pine Avenue West in Montreal, designed by John William Hopkins (1825-1905) in 1861. These drawings were used for Taylor and Gordon's designs for additions to the Allan house. There is also an undated photograph of a measured drawing of the Hugh Allan house. In addition, there are also drawings by Andrew Taylor for the Montreal Maternity Hospital (Centre Hospitalier Ste-Jeanne-d'Arc), 1903. The fonds contains one published volume: Andrew T. Taylor, "The Crowns and Steeples Designed by Christopher Wren," (London: B.T. Batsford High Holborn, 1881)

This file contains material related to "The McGill College and its medals" by Alfred Sandham. Includes cards with Notman photos of McGill medals: Molson and Shakespeare, Logan and Torrance, Chapman and Prince of Wales; description of "The McGill College and its medals" by Alfred Sandham; unbound copy of "McGill College and its medals" by Alfred Sandham (1872).

The fonds consists of documents, ephemera, memorabilia, photographs, cassette tapes, video reels, and electronic media relevant to the personal and professional history of Timothy Porteous. The scope predominately covers the period from 1957 to 1987, and includes the speeches that he wrote for Prime Minister Trudeau, diaries and ephemera from his travels (both personal and professional), campaign memorabilia, personal diaries and scrapbooks, letters, photographs, My Fur Lady ephemera (including first drafts and other versions), and his work with the CC, CCA, and OCA.

This fonds is divided into four series. The first series contains his personal papers, the second materials related to his career, the third contains materials created when he was a student, and the fourth contains anything related to My Fur Lady.

Fonds includes plans, perspectives and details of the Maison Ultramar Building on Avenue McGill College in Montreal are found in the archive. It also includes 7 photographs documenting the Maison Ultramar Building is also documented by photographs.

Le fonds comprend des plans, des perspectives et des détails de la Maison Ultramar sur l'avenue McGill College à Montréal, ainsi que 7 photographs de la Maison Ultramar.

Collection consists of an album of travel photographs (chiefly black and white, with some colour). Captions date the photographs to between 1946-1956 and then to between 1989-1994. The captions also include information about the photographs themselves. The first portion of the album contains photographs taken in Niagara Falls, Manitoulin Island, northern Ontario, Bermuda, the Maritime provinces, and the United States, including Howe Caverns, Fort Williams, New York, Yellowstone National Park, Plymouth Rock, Washington, New Orleans, and Mackinac Island, dated between 1946 and 1956. The second portion contains photographs dated from 1898-1994 and documents travel to Israel, Albania, the former Yugoslavia, Russia, Estonia, England, Greece, Costa Rica, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Ukraine. The album is cloth bound in blue with the title "Snaps" in black with painted tulips.