Apple season is here! Try your hand at making a scrumptious Apple Dumpling or a custard! You’ll give yourself a chance to time-travel back to 1944. This recipe comes Mrs. Finley McLeod from the Saguenay Cook Book, published by the …
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McGill Lends Medieval Treasures to Pointe-à-Callière’s Chevaliers/Knights Exhibit
La version française suit. McGill Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections is proud to contribute to Pointe-à-Callière Museum’s latest exhibition, Chevaliers/Knights, currently on view in the Old Port of Montreal until October 19, 2025. Two exquisite 15th-century manuscript leaves from …
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Personal and Colourful
By Angela Mortimer, Master of Information Studies (MISt) student at McGill University. Angela is passionate about material culture, public libraries, and social history, and getting people interested in the same. While working at Rare Books and Special Collections, I …
Imprimé à Montréal: Montreal and McGill in the history of print
By Chelsea Thompson Quartz, SIS Practicum Student, Book Arts Lab (RBSC). This blog post is complemented by a physical exhibition in the Rare Books & Special Collections reading room, April – September 2025. Fleury Mesplet Montreal formally enters the history …
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McGill University Libraries’ Roundup for Black History Month
The McGill University Libraries are celebrating Black History Month at McGill by showcasing research and creative work of Black scholars and artists from our collection. Find all these resources and more in your Libraries. *Please note that access to some …
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The Rhodes Hours: female devotional culture in early Renaissance France
Iris Bednarski is a fourth-year Honours Art History student and the Editor-in-Chief of Canvas: McGill’s Undergraduate Journal of Art History & Communications. Against the blue-tiled floor of a cavernous hall, a noblewoman kneels to pray. She clasps her hands …
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Chris Burns appointed Director of Rare Books and Special Collections
La version française suit. McGill University Libraries are delighted to welcome Chris Burns as the new Director of Rare Books and Special Collections. Burns has served at the University of Vermont’s Silver Special Collections Library since 2001, where he held …
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Commemorating Remembrance Day at McGill Libraries
To mark Remembrance Day, take in this selection of historical materials, poems, newspapers, diaries, artworks, and artifacts from our extensive collections. Handwritten poem of McCrae’s “In Flanders fields” John McCrae’s poem remains one of the most influential pieces of Canadian …
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T is for Turn-up Book
By Prof. Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Penn State, Video by Jacquelyn Sundberg, McGill Libraries What is a turn-up book? A brief history A turn-up book is an interactive booklet that has been engaged with by children and adults from the mid-17th century …
A Few of Our Favourite Things
Lire la version française A happy cohort of undergraduate students were hired last term to devote their energies to systematically comb through a portion of the stacks in Rare Books and Special Collections in order to stabilize books most in …
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