McGill University Archives 

The establishment of the McGill University Archives was announced in 1962 along with the appointment of McGill’s first University Archivist, Mr. Alan Ridge. The initiative toward an archives programme can be traced to an exchange of correspondence in the late 1950s between Professor John Irwin Cooper (Department of History) and then Principal F. Cyril James regarding “…the necessity for a survey of McGill University records… the establishment of University Archives…” and the need to “better appraise the University’s records.” (MUA Records of the Principal RG 2 C246 F7401 “Archives and Records”).