Subseries

This subseries documents the club's members and their creative activities. In addition to lists of members, it contains files of texts (prose and poetry) and musical compositions, several of which are original works produced for club meetings.

The subseries preserves the files of 51 members presented in alphabetical order: Professor Edward Westhead Arthy, Leslie Gordon Barnard, H. P. Bell, R. W. Boodle, E. B. Brownlow, Thomas Joseph Workman Burgess, Warwick F. Chipman, Britton B. Cook, Leslie Coppold, Leo Cox, industrial designer James Crockart, Ben Deacon, Frank L. Flight, John Murray Gibbon, Robert Harris, John F. Hayes, William Herrick, J. E. Hoare, Kenneth Holdmen, Dr. William Boyman Howell, Maxime Ingres, Professor Paul Lafleur, John Langdon, architect Harold Lawson, Montreal courthouse archivist Jean-Jacques Lefebvre, John E. Logan, Sir Andrew MacPhail, Lt. Col. John McCrae, William McLennan, Kenneth Ross MacPherson, George Murray, Carl Niderost, Hall Ross Perrigard, Robert W. Pilot, B. K. Sandwell, George Saunders, archdeacon Frederick George Scott, David Shennan, Leslie H. Smith, Edouard Fabre-Surveyer, Alvin D. Thiessen, D. L. Thomson, John L. Todd, Thurstan Topham, Forbes Torrance, Professor Ramsay Traquair, Captain J. Try-Davies, Professor F. P. Walton, Professor W. T. Waugh, Professor W. D. Woodhead and Ivan Wotherspoon.

The subseries includes various genres of writing, including numerous poems, epitaphs, political, philosophical and scientific essays, narrative texts (short stories, fables, biographical accounts) and song lyrics. There is also a travel story and several historical studies. These works -- some serious in tone, others lighter -- focus on a variety of themes, such as politics, art and madness, death, exile, nostalgia, nature, poverty and perversity. Some texts and musical compositions feature patriotic topics, while others take on subjects of current interest to their authors, like international politics, war or communism. The club's spirit and atmosphere are illustrated in several works focussing on its history or members.

In addition, the subseries contains copies of some of its members' published work. For example, there is Warwick F. Chipman's review of the Salon des Indépendants at the Paris spring exhibition, published in the Journal of the Canadian Bankers' Association. Leo Cox wrote a Quebec Tourism and Publicity Bureau publication (1943) about the war effort as well as a promotional tourist guide published by the Clarke Steamship Co. about the regions served by the shipping company. There is also a copy of a play with an historical theme inspired by the medical practice of its author, William Boyman Howell, published in the Annals of Medical History. Finally, the subseries includes several press clippings, greeting cards, illustrated menus and correspondence.