Osler Library Archival Collection

Osler Library Archival Collection
Stained glass window in Osler Library of the History of Medicine, 2013
45°30'11.34"N, 73°34'56.93"W
Alternative name	Osler Library of the History of Medicine Archival Collection
Location	Third Floor, 3655 Promenade Sir William Osler Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Montreal, Canada
Type	Medical archives
Established	1929
Affiliation	Osler Library of the History of Medicine
Collection size	More than 200 archival fonds
Period covered	From the XIXth century
Building information
Building	McIntyre Medical Sciences Building
Website	https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/osler-library

The Osler Library Archival Collection is an ensemble of more than 200 archival fonds held at the Osler Library of the History of the Medicine, at the third floor of the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in Montreal.

Description

Amongst the special collections of the library, there are archives of well-known Canadian doctors such as the Wilder Penfield Archives, which contains documents about the foundation and history of the Montreal Neurological Institute, and traces the career of neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield. It also contains the Sir William Osler Collection, an archival fonds regrouping the personal writings of Osler.

The collection contains other fonds donated by McGill and other graduates, documenting the history of medicine and its teaching at McGill University, through correspondence, notebooks of case studies, diaries, lecture notes and photographs.