A partial inventory of this collection reveals that it is largely composed of the scattered personal papers of the members of the Worthington Family, ca. 1833-1944, especially those of Edward Dragge Worthington and Arthur Norreys Worthington. The fonds also includes a few items pertaining to Edward Bruen Worthington and Asheton N. Worthington. It includes personal, business and professional correspondence; certificates, diplomas, tests, maps, sketchbooks, loose ledger sheets, testimonials, photographs and newspaper clippings. The greater part of the collection consists of the papers of Edward Dragge Worthington including correspondence related to his business affairs, medical career and family matters (1840-1883); medical certificates and diplomas, (1840-1847); two sketchbooks, (1840?); with caricatures of John Goodsir, Alexander Munro, Robert Knox and William Robertson; testimonials (1865, 1867); a resume of his education covering 1833-1843; newspaper clippings and photographs. The papers of Arthur Norreys Worthington are primarily correspondence describing his military activities in South Africa, 1900.

This fonds consists of the working documents of the Workmen's Circle of Montreal including correspondence, membership management and programming from specific branches, as well as financial reports, conference participation, historical publications and documentation on the Abraham Reisen Schools. The fonds is organized under ten distinct series: Series Series I : Committees Series II : Branches Series III : History and Organizational Papers Series IV : Publications Series V : Abraham Reisen Schools Series VI : Workmen's Circle Loan Syndicate Series VII : Workmen's Circle Choir Series VIII : Workmen's Circle, New York Series IX : Correspondence Series X : Scrapbooks and Artefacts

Donation list. Minutes. Correspondence (mostly to and from chairwoman Irene Korda). Newsletters and bulletins. Publicity materials. Invitations. Speech texts. Notices. Ephemera. Clippings (of I. Korda as well).

The fonds contains source material on the activities of the Women's Canadian Club of the Eastern Townships from 1949 to 2007. It consists mainly of minutes, by-laws, financial statements, reports, membership lists, executive member lists, speaker reports and information. The fonds consists of the following series: Administration (1949-2007), Financial Resources (1972-1995), Membership (1971-2005), Speakers (1997-2005), Photographs (1997)

Biographical press clippings in Yiddish. Correspondence about the trade with Poland and USSR. Letters in Hebrew from New York rabbis. Personal correspondence. Letter from Prime Minister R.B. Bennett on hate literature. Share certificate of Talmudic Literature Publishers Inc. "A Kehilah for Montreal" - Pamphlet in English and Yiddish proposing establishment of a Jewish Community Council.

The collection includes daily letters written by M. Wolff to his fiancee Irene Joseph (later Wolff), while he was in the Quebec bush working as a railway engineer, Transcontinental Railway, August 1907 to 1909. 2 letters from mother Sarah Wolff, 1908. 1 letter Ministry of Munitions, 1917

Corrected typescript <u>History of the Jews in Canada</u>. Biographical press clippings. Correspondence about the Canadian Jewish Congress, anti-Semitism, refugees, Cecil Roth. Typescripts of articles about Jews in Three Rivers, Jewish community occurrences. Reports on Jewish education in Montreal. Bound, photocopied diary (1903-1940) of Irene Wolff, edited by daughter Rosetta Elkin in 1994.

The collection includes Wolff and Joseph family correspondence, the earliest going back to the 1880s, photographs, including pre-1900 photos, biographical information, articles by Annette Wolff both published and handwritten, agenda books and daily diaries belonging to Annette Wolff, and various ephemera from a range of time periods. The collection requires further processing as of this time. Addition June 2006: Letters written and received by Annette Wolff while overseas during WWII, other family letters exchanged both before, during, and after the War, letters from soldiers to whom Annette wrote, from family friends, German Jewish refugees aided by family, wartime friends. Military ephemera (British), including ration book, censor stamps on envelopes, military stationery. Family pictures pre-War and photo of mother, Irene. A few news clippings, also some stories written by Annette.

The collection contains 7 cassette tapes, each 90 minutes in duration, of interviews of Annnette Wolff by Eiran Harris. Tape #1; Annette Wolff discusses the disposal of the de Sola papers, destruction of David David Diaries, Meldola de Sola's son pawning the De Sola papers. Also biographical narrative of the Wolff family. Tape #2; Home life while growing up. Social activities, games, music, art, communal work. Annette Wolff Biography. Tape #3; Wolff family history in Montreal. Isaac de la Penha's death. Tape #4; Continues parents biographies and beginning of A. Wolff's biography. Tape #5; A. Wolff's war time biography in the U.K. and Canada. Secret work in civil service. Tape #6; A. Wolff's biographical recollections continued. Tape #7; More recollections of her parents.

McGill hard cover notebook filled with handwritten Yiddish poems and stories. 3 ring binder of loose-leaf photocopies of poems with translations opposite for most of them, also table of contents. The unpublished poetry on mainly Jewish themes, in Yiddish, with translations. Themes are of a typical Jewish women of her time: World War II, poverty, the Holocaust, aging, Israel, her children. Also one portrait photograph of the poet (copy of 1920 original taken circa 1920.)